Vice President Al Gore
Vice President Gore announced on May 20 that the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) will receive a grant of nearly $4 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will allow UCI and other California research universities (UC campuses, Cal Tech, Stanford and USC) to connect to the very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS). UCI will gain an “OC-12” (622 mega-bits/second) network connection to participating research institutions; this connection is expected to be in place during the summer of 1998. The award is part of the Federal Government’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative — a total of $12.3 million in grants to 35 research institutions across the United States was included in the May 20 announcement.
This grant will facilitate CENIC’s “CalREN-2” high-speed California network project, and will allow UCI to eventually take advantage of developments that result from “Internet-2”, NGI and other national initiatives. You may be interested in browsing some of the Web material cited below:
Network Initiative URLs:
May 20 Press release:
http://www.nacs.uci.edu/news/press-release-vbns.html
Federal Government NGI (Next Generation Internet):
http:://www.ngi.gov
CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California):
http://www.ucop.edu/irc/projects/CENIC.html
Very high speed backbone service:
http://www.vbns.net