tiger72
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Saint Louis, MO
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| reply to powerspec88
Re: Missouri all ready has a internet backbone.
MoreNet is never done. They just keep upgrading and adding on to it.
Back when I was in college, the backbone was OC3's. Now it's 10Gbps.
»merry.netsys.more.net/cgi-bin/Backbone.py
As stated, this is solely for government/educational/research use. That's why the usage is so low, too.
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powerspec88
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join:2007-03-11
Harrisonville, MO | I know its for government, schools, etc. But wouldn't it be nice if everyone in Missouri could all "connect" to each other w/o leaving the state? I would love to game with my friends in Rolla and have a ~5ms ping to them. |
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viper3431
join:2003-04-21
STL, MO
| reply to tiger72
While you're right about the specific use of the network, the usage is currently very low because of K-12 and many colleges not being in (mass) session. Also the NGN project is just being completed which includes the 10Gbps backbone. Just last year the network operated on a 2Gbps backbone. It also wasn't until recently that MOREnet went with Level3 as a provider. Before that it was ATT/Qwest. Status of the NGN project can be found here: »www.more.net/network/ngn/status.html.
As an employee of a MOREnet customer site I will agree that strides have been made over the past few years concerning network capacity. My site has been fiber fed for 4 years now, and we're considered rural. It would surprise many people to learn how much bandwidth can be consumed legitimately during a typical school/college day. |
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