Recent History of the US-CERN Link
CERN/US/France/Canada/UN-WHO Consortium
October 1996 - August 1997
- Upgraded leased digital CERN-US line: 2.048 Mbps
- Set-up of monitoring tools and traffic control
- Start Deployment of VRVS a Web-based videoconferencing system
September 1997 - April 1999
- Upgraded leased CERN-US line to 2 X 2.048 Mbps; Addition of a backup and “overflow” leased line at 2.048 Mbps (total 6 Mbps) to avoid saturation in Fall 1998
- Production deployment of VRVS software in the US and Europe (to 1000 hosts by 4/99; Now 1300).
- Set-up of CERN-US consortium rack at Perryman to peer with ESnet and other international nets
- Test of QoS features using new Cisco software and hardware