Connectivity to NEARnet and to NSFNET

Information

• NSF Award
• 9013319

Owner

• FIVES

• Award Id

  9013319

• Award Effective Date

  9/1/1990 - 34 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  2/28/1993 - 31 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 148,000.00

• Award Instrument

  Continuing grant

This award enables four independent liberal arts colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith) to connect to NSFNET through a fractional T1 link (one-third T1, approximately 500,000 bits per second) to the mid-level network NEARnet, the New England Academic and Research Network. Access to NSFNET provides the faculty and students of the four colleges with increased opportunity for collaboration and use of a wide range of research tools such as supercomputing and shared databases. Five Colleges, Inc., consists of the four colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Responsibility for network operations and management is assumed by the computing centers of the participating colleges, each of which has established campus- wide local area networks. The new connectivity vastly improves the file transfer and remote login capabilities between these four institutions themselves, and with other institutions.

• Program Officer

  Priscilla Jane Huston

• Min Amd Letter Date

  8/28/1990 - 34 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  8/28/1990 - 34 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Five Colleges Inc

• City

  AMHERST

• State

  MA

• Country

  United States

• Address

  97 SPRING ST

• Postal Code

  010022324

• Phone Number

  4135424004

• First Name

  Duane

• Last Name

  Bailey

• Start Date

  9/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Michael

• Last Name

  Crowley

• Email Address

  mcrowley@mtholyoke.edu

• Start Date

  9/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Telecommunications

• Code

  206000

• Name

  Engineering-Electrical

• Code

  55

• Name

  Computer Science & Engineering

• Code

  31