A cell leader's view of the NREN revolution. (Institute for Academic Technology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C. in pilot program with IBM)(National Research and Educational Network)(IBM Higher Education supplement)

T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), March, 1992 by Graves, William H.

IBM enters into a five-year pilot project that will turn the University of North Carolina's Institute for Academic Technology into a pioneer demonstrator of the effectiveness of networked multimedia. The support of IBM, as well as such hardware and software vendors as Novell Inc and Intel Corp, will boost the integration of networks at the facility. The UNC facility is at the forefront of the national goal of developing high-bandwidth information networks that will be available on campuses, in offices, laboratories and homes across the US. This is the goal articulated in the High Performance Computing and Communications Bill of 1991, which envisions evolving the current Internet network, which is growing at a rate of 20 percent per year, into the National Research and Education...

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