Connection to NEARNET

9417365彭特杜拉本宁顿学院请求国家科学基金会支持其校园网络连接到新英格兰广域网，NEARnet。NEARnet将提供运营管理和信息服务，并将为该大学提供每秒5.6万比特的连接到NSFNET，这是一个高速（每秒150 - 4500万比特）的国家骨干网。本宁顿学院是苹果公司新媒体中心项目的国家级站点，因此，它是一个天然的伙伴，可以将各种当前技术带到自由教育中。学院的教学方法传统上是在所有科目上动手；上网将大大扩大本宁顿学院师生的直接接触范围。

9417365 Puentedura Bennington College requests support from NSF for connection of its campus network to the New England wide area network, NEARnet. NEARnet will provide operations management and information services and it will give the University a 56 thousand bits per second connection to the NSFNET, a high speed (1.5 - 45 million bits per second) National Backbone network. Bennington College is a national site in Apple Computer's New Media Center Program and as such it is a natural companion in bringing a full range of current technologies to bear on liberal education. The college's pedagogy is traditionally hands-on in all subjects; access to the Internet will greatly extend the direct reach of Bennington's faculty and students.