Connectivity to NEARnet and to NSFNET

这一奖项使四所独立的文理学院 （阿默斯特，汉普郡，霍利奥克山和史密斯）连接到NSFNET 通过分数T1链路（三分之一T1，约500，000 比特每秒）到中级网络NEARnet，新英格兰 学术和研究网络。 访问NSFNET提供了 四所学院的教师和学生增加了 合作和使用广泛研究的机会 超级计算和共享数据库等工具。 Five Colleges，Inc.，由四所书院组成， 马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学。 网络责任 操作和管理由计算中心承担， 参与计划的书院均设有校园， 广泛的局域网。 新的连通性极大地改善了 文件传输和远程登录功能， 机构本身，以及与其他机构。

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.