Connection of IRCC Campus-Wide Network to NSFNET Via SURANET

9503413 O'Brien 该提案请求为印第安河社区学院提供资金，通过区域网络 SURANET 在其校园网络和 NSFNET 之间建立直接连接。 这些连接将提供运营管理和信息服务，并将为学院提供每秒 56,000 位的 NSFNET 连接，这是一个高速（每秒 1.5 - 4500 万位）的国家骨干网络。 这种 NSFNET 连接的好处包括本地和远程研究人员和教育工作者之间的电子邮件、文件传输功能以及使用远程计算机资源的能力。 学院还将有能力研究教育资源的创新并将其纳入课程中。

9503413 O'Brien This proposal requests funds for Indian River Community College to establish a direct connection between its campus wide network and NSFNET via SURANET, a regional network. These connections will provide operations management and information services and it will give the 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 benefits of this NSFNET connection include e-mail between local and remote researchers and educators, file transfer capability and the ability to use remote computer resources. Also the college will have the ability to investigate innovation in educational resources and incorporate them into their curricula.