Los Nettos Regional Network - the T1 years
While most regionals were built as 56K networks, Los Nettos started with T1 (1.5 Mbps) links between all of its sites. When CERFNet was completed in 1989, it provided Los Nettos with a backup connection to the NSF Backbone and vice versa.
- 1988 - NSFNET upgraded to T1 backbone.
- 1988, June - First commitments made for funding for Los Nettos.
- 1988, October - First Cisco gear arrives at USC's Information Sciences Institute for testing and configuration.
- 1988, December - First four nodes are up and passing packets (Caltech, UCLA, ISI, USC), as the all-T1 regional network is realized.
- 1989 - Los Nettos adds nodes for RAND Corporation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), TRW, Trusted Information Systems (TIS), IBM, UNISYS, and Naval Ocean Systems Command (NOSC), completing the orginial network.
- 1989 - Los Nettos allows Associate connections via member connections.
- 1994 - Los Nettos upgrades its connection to the Internet backbone to DS3 (45Mbps).
Timeline
- 1988-1994 - The T1 years
- 1995-2000 - The DS3 years
- 2000-present - 10 gigabits and beyond