Northwestnet

访问远程设施、数据库、超级计算资源和图书馆以及分布式合作者已成为波特兰州立大学多个学科的研究以及科学和工程教育的基本条件。这项提议通过将波特兰州立大学连接到中级网络NorthWestNet来提供这种远程访问，该网络具有中速电信线路(每秒56,000位)。NorthWestNet连接到NSFnet主干网络，而NSFnet主干网络又提供对所有NSF赞助的超级计算机中心和其他地区网络运营中心的高速访问(150万比特/秒)。网关/路由设备和通信线路将由西部州际高等教育委员会(WICHE)通过对其目前管理NorthWestNet的奖励的补充赠款提供。他们将提供网络信息服务和培训以及网络操作和管理服务，将波特兰州立大学与中级主干上的其他大学和NSFnet国家主干网络连接起来。大学将为校园网关节点的运行和维护提供必要的支持和技术专长，并为大学的科学用户提供信息服务。//

Access to remote facilities, data bases, supercomputing resources, and libraries and to distributed collaborators has become essential to research in a variety of disciplines and to science and engineering education at Portland State University. This proposal provides for this remote access by linking Portland State University to a midlevel network, NorthWestNet, with medium speed telecommunication lines (56,000 bits per second). NorthWestNet is connected to the NSFNET Backbone Network which in turn provides high speed access (1.5 million bits per second) to all NSF sponsored Supercomputer Centers and to other Regional Network Operation Centers. The gateway/routing equipment and the communication lines will be provided by the Western Interstate Council on Higher Education (WICHE) through a supplemental grant to their current award for the management of NorthWestNet. They will provide network information services and training as well as network operation and management services in linking Portland State to other universities on the midlevel backbone and to the NSFNET National Backbone Network. The university will provide necessary support and technical expertise for the operation and maintenance of the gateway node on campus as well as information services for the scientific users at the university.//