On 21 Mar 2001, at 9:14, René Hatem wrote:
> What happened to Universities carrying the flame of innovation? Why is
> there so much bellhead talk coming from the Universities support people
> (oversubscription, throttling, preventing servers, blocking ports, ...)?
> Is anyone trying to find mid to long term solutions that will **enable**
> students to do more of what they want - not less?
>
> How about GigE over fiber to every room in every dorm? Maximize use of
> Internet2 bandwidth. Provide what you can in terms of commodity Internet
Rene:
Just what we, and lots of others, are doing. Our Resnet connections get
almost unlimited CA*net3/Internet2 bandwidth. The problem is the $$$$ of the
commodity Internet.
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