Proposal for Support to the NSF by the Minnesota Regional Network

该提案描述了MRnet，明尼苏达州区域网络， 它目前连接了21个公立和私立教育机构， 研究机构和20个私人研究基金会，政府 公司和商业机构之间， NSFNET，高速（每秒150 - 4500万比特） 骨干网。 MRnet计划扩大其连接教育的能力 和研究机构，并扩大其教育和用户 进入国家的新领域。 这将鼓励更小的 各机构利用现有的信息资源 在MRnet上或通过NSFNET。 建议NSF支持的项目包括： - 增加技术和用户服务人员; - 在明尼苏达州罗切斯特建立一个新的网络中心; - 用于连接非常小的成员的终端服务器 以合理的成本提供服务; - 外联、营销和支持新的 成员

This proposal describes MRnet, the Minnesota Regional Network, which presently links twenty-one public and private educational institutions and twenty private research foundations, government agencies, and commercial businesses to each other and to the NSFNET, a high speed (1.5 - 45 million bits per second) National Backbone network. MRnet plans to expand its capacity for connecting education and research institutions and to expand its educational and user into new regions of the state. This should encourage smaller institutions to take advantage of information resources available on MRnet itself or through the NSFNET. The items proposed for NSF support include: -Expansion of technical and user services staff; -Creation of a new network hub in Rochester, MN; -Terminal servers for connecting very small member institutions at a reasonable cost; -Personnel for outreach, marketing, and support of new members.