Very High Speed Backbone Network Services Provider for NSFNET and the NREN (SM) Program

Information

• NSF Award
• 9321047

Owner

• MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION

• Award Id

  9321047

• Award Effective Date

  2/15/1995 - 29 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  3/31/2003 - 21 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 53,509,947.00

• Award Instrument

  Cooperative Agreement

9321047 Liebhaber MCI will provide the NSFNET very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) as defined in project solicitation NSF 93-52. This service will be operated from MCI's production telecommunications infrastructure based on SONET technology. Five supercomputer center (SCCs) and the NSF designated Network Access Points (NAPs) will be interconnected to the vBNS. Access to the vBNS will commence at SONET OC-3 data rates (155 Mbps) with Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) access and will increase to gigabit per second rates over the 5 year award period. OC-12 access (655 Mbps) is estimated to be available by 1996. By 1998 an OC-192 (9.6 Gbits/sec) SONET backbone with OC-48 (2.$ GBits/sec) access to SCCs is anticipated. MCI will make a Testnet available in support of experimentation with new telecommunications technologies.

• Program Officer

  Kevin L. Thompson

• Min Amd Letter Date

  3/31/1995 - 29 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  5/15/2000 - 24 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  MCI Telecommunication Corporations

• City

  McLean

• State

  VA

• Country

  United States

• Address

  7626 Jones Branch Drive

• Postal Code

  22102

• Phone Number

  7033566926

• First Name

  Vinton

• Last Name

  Cerf

• Email Address

  vcerf@mci.net

• Start Date

  3/31/1995 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Telecommunications

• Code

  206000

• Name

  Computer Science & Engineering

• Code

  31

• Text

  DOMAIN NAME FUNDS

• Code

  1083

• Text

  ADVANCED NET INFRA & RSCH

• Code

  4090

• Text

  NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

• Code

  4091

• Text

  ADVANCED NET INFRA & RSCH

• Code

  4090

• Text

  UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

• Code

  9178

• Text

  NATNL RESERCH & EDUCAT NETWORK

• Code

  9217

• Text

  RES EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD-SUPPLT

• Code

  9251

• Text

  HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING & COMM

• Text

  SCIENCE, MATH, ENG & TECH EDUCATION