Westnet Networking Project - Renewal

WESTNET是大约20个中级网络之一， 连接到NSFNET主干网。 穿过中层， NSFNET连接了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 研究中心遍布全国和世界各地。 使用 NSFNET，教育工作者和研究人员访问图书馆资源， 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， 和世界各地的同事。 WESTNET覆盖的州有 亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州、新墨西哥州、犹他州和怀俄明州，以及下 爱达荷州的一部分。 该奖项资助升级西部网络的速度 从每秒56，000比特到每种状态的通信线路， 每秒154.4万比特。 它还提供了电路和 硬件冗余，以最大限度地减少任何停机时间和增加的工作时间 为网络运营中心提供服务。*

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.***