 |
A history of international research networking : the people who made it happen / edited by Howard Davies and Beatrice Bressan. — Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2010. – (73.97/H673) |
Contents
Contents
Foreword
Preface
List of Contributors
Color Plates
1 Early Days 1
1.1 The Starting Point 1
1.2 Protocols and Standards 2
1.3 European Coordination 5
1.4 RARE: From Proposal to Reality 11
1.5 EARN， the First International Service in Europe
1.6 IXI 21
2 The Role of Funding Bodies 27
2.1 EUREKA and COSINE 27
2.2 EC and National Governments 31
3 Organized Cooperation 39
3.1 The Activities of RARE 39
3.2 The Gestation of DANTE 41
3.3 RARE and EARN: the Merger 52
3.4 RARE， EARN and TERENA 56
3.5 DANTE and TERENA 60
3.6 The Future of TERENA 62
3.7 The Value of COSINE 64
3.8 RIPE and the RIPE NCC 68
4 Different Approaches 73
4.1 HEPnet 73
4.2 DECnet 77
4.3 EUnet 78
4.4 Ebone 86
4.5 EMPB， European Multi-Protocol Backbone 93
4.6 EuropaNET 102
5 The Interviews 111
5.1 Dai Davies 111
5.2 Kees Neggers and Boudewijn Nederkoorn 118
5.3 Klaus Ullmann 126
6 The Bandwidth Breakthrough 135
6.1 TEN-34 135
6.2 TEN-155 and QUANTUM 142
6.3 Relations with Telecom Operators 152
6.4 Relations with Equipment Suppliers 154
7 Support for Applications 163
7.1 Security and CERTs 163
7.2 COSINE Sub-Projects 170
7.3 Grids 175
8 Regional Perspectives 179
8.1 NORDUnet 179
8.2 CEEC 189
8.3 Asia and Pacific 194
8.4 South East Europe and the Mediterranean 199
8.5 Latin America 204
8.6 Russia 215
9 Transatlantic Connections 221
9.1 The "Welcome Guest" Period 221
9.2 The Partnership Period 228
10 A European Achievement 235
10.1 GEANT 235
10.2 GEANT2， Creation of the First International Hybrid Network 242
10.3 The Impact of Research Networking 250
Further Reading 259
Appendix A: The People who Made it Happen 261
Appendix B: List of NREN Managers 273
Appendix C: List of Network Names 279
Appendix D: List of Acronyms 283
Appendix E: List of Terms 293
Appendix F: List of Units 303
Index of Names 305
Subject Index 307
Picture Credits 317
