This award enables four independent liberal arts colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith) to connect to NSFNET through a fractional T1 link (one-third T1, approximately 500,000 bits per second) to the mid-level network NEARnet, the New England Academic and Research Network. Access to NSFNET provides the faculty and students of the four colleges with increased opportunity for collaboration and use of a wide range of research tools such as supercomputing and shared databases. Five Colleges, Inc., consists of the four colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Responsibility for network operations and management is assumed by the computing centers of the participating colleges, each of which has established campus- wide local area networks. The new connectivity vastly improves the file transfer and remote login capabilities between these four institutions themselves, and with other institutions.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
Application #
9013319
Program Officer
Priscilla Jane Huston
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
1990-09-01
Budget End
1993-02-28
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1990
Total Cost
$148,000
Indirect Cost
Name
Five Colleges Inc
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Amherst
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
01002