The NC-REN meets the North Carolina Information Highway

Author

Stevenson, Daniel ; Morow, H. ; Blatecky, Alan ; Davis, Peggy Montgomery ; Richardson, Patrick ; Courter, Naomi L T

Author_Institution

Dept. of Adv. Networking Technol., MCNC, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

Volume

8

Issue

6

fYear

1994

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

38

Abstract

The North Carolina Research and Education Network (NC-REN), formerly known as CONCERT, is an existing video and data network, owned and operated by MCNC. NC-REN´s purpose has been to provide network-based support for collaboration in the research community within the state since 1985. The first major application planned for the North Carolina Information Highway (NCIH) is an interactive video distance learning system. A secondary application proposed is the use of Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS) as a means of providing data communications services over NCIH. The user community currently supported by NC-REN has come to expect high levels of service, reliability, interoperability and performance for data and video communications. MCNC is committed to see that NC-REN users receive service that is equal to or better than what is currently provided by the existing network. The prospect of migrating NC-REN-provided services to NCIH-provided transport has raised challenging technical and unique service issues.<>

Keywords

data communication; education; information networks; interactive video; visual communication; voice communication; CONCERT; MCNC; NC-REN; NCIH; North Carolina Information Highway; North Carolina Research and Education Network; SMDS; Switched Multimegabit Data Service; data communications; data communications services; data network; interactive video distance learning system; interoperability; performance; reliability; research collaboration; video communications; video network; Audio systems; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Circuits; Educational institutions; IP networks; Multimedia communication; Road transportation; Spine; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/65.336213

Filename

336213