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US research & education

networking history

1987 -- NSFnet

• NSFnet ended in 1995

• Universities told to connect to commercial ISPs

1996

• Internet2 founded

• US Government Next Generation Internet Initiative

– NSF provides funding to universities to connect to vBNS –

initial Internet2 backbone network

1999

• Internet2’s Abilene backbone network in production; not

centrally funded by US government

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