Proposal to NSF from Wellesley College for connection to NSFNET

该奖项使卫尔斯理学院能够通过每秒56,000比特的线路将其校园范围的网络连接到NSFnet，连接到新英格兰地区网络NEARNET。这种连接允许卫尔斯理的研究人员从他们自己的联网办公室和实验室计算机登录到超级计算机和其他远程通勤者，这样他们就可以访问科学统计、语言和其他专业数据库，卫尔斯理计算机上没有的专用软件，以及研究图书馆的在线目录。这些功能加上NSFnet的高速文件传输能力，促进了卫尔斯理学院和他们在学院和研究型大学的同事之间在互联网上的合作。

This award enables Wellesley College to attach its campus-wide network to NSFNET through a 56,000 bit per second line to NEARNET, the New England Regional Network. This connection allows Wellesley's researchers to login to supercomputers and other remote comuters from their own networked office and lab computers so they can access scientific statistical, linguistic and other specialized data bases, special purpose software not available on computers at Wellesley, and research library online catalogs. These features plus the high-speed file transfer capabilities of NSFNET facilitate collaboration between Wellesley faculty and their colleagues in colleges and research universities on the Internet.