Westnet Networking Project - Renewal

西网是大约20个连接到NSFNET主干的中级网络之一。通过半山区，NSFNET连接了全国和世界各地一千多所大学和学院校园、商业和工业研究实验室以及政府研究中心。通过NSFNET，教育工作者和研究人员可以访问图书馆资源、超级计算中心、卫星数据、医学成像、科学仪器、视频应用、国家数据库以及世界各地的同事。西网覆盖的州包括亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州、新墨西哥州、犹他州和怀俄明州，以及爱达荷州的下游地区。该合同将资助将WESTNET通信线路在每个州的传输速度从每秒5.6万比特提升到每秒154.4万比特。它还提供电路和硬件冗余，以尽量减少任何停机时间，并增加网络运营中心的工作时间和服务

WESTNET is one of approximately 20 mid-level networks which connect to the NSFNET backbone. Through the mid-levels, the NSFNET links over a thousand university and college campuses, business and industrial research laboratories, and governmental research centers across the nation and around the world. Using NSFNET, educators and researchers access library resources, supercomputing centers, satellite data, medical imaging, scientific instruments, video applications, national data bases, and colleagues worldwide. The states covered by WESTNET are Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, and the lower part of Idaho. This award funds upgrading the speed of the WESTNET communication line into each state from 56,000 bits per second to 1.544 million bits per second. It also provides for circuit and hardware redundancy to minimize any downtime, and increased hours and services for the Network Operations Center.***