Interagency ATM Connection at the San Diego Supercomputer Center

高性能计算和通信倡议包括四个组成部分，其中之一是国家研究和教育网络(NREN)。NREN倡议提供由联邦机构赞助的关于各种网络技术的研究。国家科学基金会资助了允许以每秒4500万比特的速度提供NSFnet主干服务的研究。能源部(DOE)正在资助对高速信元交换架构的调查，并与NASA合作部署了一个基于ATM的网络，以连接能源部和NASA的网站以及由这两个机构资助的学术和行业研究人员。该奖项为NSFnet和新的能源部/NASA互联网之间的连接提供资金。该奖项允许在分组交换NSFnet连接到信元交换ATM网络时对其进行评估，以及考虑ATM路由和寻址、管理工具和性能分析。

The High-Performance Computing and Communications initiativeincludes four components, one of which is the National Research and Education Network (NREN). The NREN initative provides for research sponsored by Federal agencies on a variety of networking technologies. The National Science Foundation has funded research allowing NSFNET backbone services to be provided at 45 million bits per second. The Department of Energy (DOE) is funding investigations into high-speed cell-switching architectures, and inconjunction with NASA is fielding an ATM-based network to connect DOE and NASA sites and academic and industry researchers funded by the two agencies. This award funds a link between the NSFNET and the new DOE/NASA internet. The award enables the evaluation of the packet-switched NSFNET as it connects to the cell-switched ATM network, as well as consideration of ATM routing and addressing,management tools, and performance analysis.