St. Petersburg Junior College Connection to SURAnet

圣彼得堡初级学院请求美国国家科学基金会提供支持，将他们的校园网连接到SuRANet。SURAnet是位于美国东南部的中层网络。它将提供运营管理和信息服务，并将为圣彼得堡初级学院提供每秒56000比特的连接到NSFnet，这是一个高速(150-4500万比特每秒)的国家骨干网络。学院需要更高的功能和网络速度才能访问超级计算机、图书馆和进行文件传输，并能够实施更可靠的邮件系统。学生和教职员工的研究将从这种联系中受益。这也是学校探索创新教育资源的独特机会。

St. Petersburg Junior College requests support from NSF for connection of their campus networkds to SURANet. SURAnet is the midlevel network located in the southeastern United States. It will provide operations management and information services and it will give St. Petersburg Junior College a 56 thousand bits per second connection to the NSFNET, a high speed (1.5 - 45 million bits per second) National Backbone network. The Colleges needs greater functionality and network speed to be able to access supercomputers, libraries, and make file transfers along with being able to implement a more reliable mail system. Students and faculty research will benefit from the link. This is also a unique opportunity for the schools to explore innovative educational resources.