






                                      Westnet


            _A_d_d_r_e_s_s_e_s:
            Administrative:
              Westnet c/o
              Patrick J. Burns
              Department of Mechanical Engineering
              Colorado State University
              Fort Collins, CO 80523

            Technical:
              Westnet c/o
              Carol Ward
              3645 Marine Street
              University of Colorado
              Boulder, C0 80309-0455

            _E-_m_a_i_l: westnet@SPOT.COLORADO.EDU

            _P_h_o_n_e: (303) 491-1575 [Pat  Burns],  (303)  492-5860  [Carol
            Ward]


            _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n

            Westnet is a regional network with nodes in  the  states  of
            Arizona,  Colorado,  southern  Idaho,  New  Mexico, Utah and
            Wyoming.

            Westnet is a Wide Area Network  operating  at  moderate  (56
            kbps)  and  high  (T-1,  i.e., 1.544 Mbps) data transmission
            capacities, providing connectivity from  end  nodes  to  the
            NSFNet  backbone.  Westnet has connections into the backbone
            at the National Center for Atmospheric  Research  (NCAR)  in
            Boulder,  Colorado,  and  at  the University of Utah in Salt
            Lake City, Utah.  The goal of  Westnet  is  to  provide  the
            regional  infrastructure  to  support research and scholarly
            activity.

            The member organizations are universities, research  labora-
            tories,  and  commercial organizations.  Westnet is governed
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            The information in this section is provided  in  accor-
            dance  with the copyright notice appearing at the front
            of this guide.




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            by the Westnet Steering Committee, with representation  from
            the  seventeen  primary  university  nodes  in the six-state
            region.

            A variety of organizations  already  participating  in  this
            network include: in Colorado: Ford Aerospace, the US Depart-
            ment of Agriculture, and US West Communications;  in  Idaho:
            the  Idaho  National  Engineering Laboratory; in New Mexico:
            the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, the Apache  Peak  Observa-
            tory,  the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Sun-
            spot Observatory, Rockwell International, and the  Santa  Fe
            Institute; and in Utah: the UMC Research Station.

            Westnet interoperates with the state networking agencies of:
            AriZona  Telecommunications Educational Cooperative (AZTEC),
            Colorado SuperNet  (CSN),  and  New  Mexico  Technet  (NMT).
            State  networking  organizations  are  presently  being con-
            sidered in Idaho and Utah.   Westnet  interacts  with  these
            state  networks  to provide access to special resources (for
            example, the NSF Phase  II  Supercomputer  Centers)  and  to
            other  regional  networks  (for example, Northwestnet in the
            northwestern region of the United States).

            _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _a_c_c_e_s_s

            Any IP host of any member organization may access Westnet.

            _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _N_e_t_w_o_r_k

            Any of the members  can  exchange  traffic  with  any  other
            member  in  the  support of research, education and/or scho-
            larly activity.  Any member may use  any  of  the  long-haul
            networks  Westnet  has  connections  to, subject only to the
            restrictions of the owner of the long-haul network.  Members
            within  the  states  of Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico may
            use the intra-state network for additional purposes particu-
            lar to those states.

            _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n

            See also, Colorado SuperNet and New Mexico Technet.










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