Harvard University
High-Performance Internet Connection Project

with support from the National Science Foundation

Harvard University will construct a high-performance Internet connection to support a number of network-intensive research projects. This connection will be of use to projects in fields including Atmospheric Chemistry, Astrophysics, High Energy Physics, Digital Libraries, Medicine, and Social Sciences, and to data network research at Harvard. The effort will also help create a Boston Area gigaPoP to provide next-generation Internet service to research and educational institutions in the Boston area and ultimately in New England.

Harvard High-Performance Internet Connection Proposal (postscript)

Meritorious Applications:

• Atmospheric Chemistry
• Applications by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Experimental High Energy Particle Physics
• Molecular Cellular Biology
• Whole-plant Physiology
• Digital Library Applications at Harvard
• Applications by the Harvard-MIT Data Center on Social Science
• Harvard Medical School Applications
• Department of Radiology
• Cell Biology
• The Human Brain

• Research in Network Design and Protocols
• Harvard Network Device Test Lab

Connection Architecture:

• Harvard Connection Diagram (tentative)

Project Contacts:

• Scott Bradner, Senior Technical Consultant, University Information Systems
• H. T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Related Harvard links:

• Harvard University

External links:

• NCRI/NSFNET Program for High Performance Connections
• The vBNS home page
• vBNS Acceptable Use Policy