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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
15 Nov 1994
Information below was kindly supplied by toshio@info.anu.edu.au (Toshio Takagi):
NCFC's (National Computing/networking Facility of China) WWW server
(http://www.cnc.ac.cn) is available for internet users, providing
information about NCFC and many other networks which connected to NCFC
backbone. These networks are not only covering the Zhong Guan Cun area but
also the Beijing Metro area and many other cities. All WWW services
announced on CINET-L newsletters: IHEP and NCFC, can also be accessed via
http://www.cnd.org. (cinet-editor@cnd.org)
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After IHEP and NCFC got connected to the Internet, Beijing University of
Chemical Technology (BUCT) became the third institute that has full internet
connectivity in China. BUCT joined the Internet family on Sep 20, 1994
via Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Its domain name is BUCT.EDU.CN
(IP address: 192.112.36.5). (Heting Chu 06 Nov 94
22:21:31 EST)
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InfoLink announced on Nov. 2 a new WWW server (http://www.infolink.net).
This server is dedicated as an information hub for businesses and Internet
users in Hong Kong to exchange information, provide their home pages and
to provide a central place that leads to varies kinds of local and
international information resources. (otto@infolink.net)
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Guangdong Public Numerical Data Network was put into operation in Guangzhou
on Oct 27. The data network (DDN) has a capacity of over 14,000
terminals, and it is the largest provincial DDN in China at present. The
established network is divided into two parts: the backbone provincial
network and city/county network. 11 cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen,
Zhuhai were connected with the network. (info@asiainfo.com)
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The China section of the Eurasian land optical-fibre cable extending from
Shanghai at the east end to Frankfort at the west end, has been recently
finished, according to the Posts and Telecommunications Administration of
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyugr Autonomous Region. It is learned that
upon completion, the Eurasian land optical-fibre cable can be linked to the
Shanghai-Japan-U.S. submarine cable in the east, incorporated into the
European telecommunications network via Frankfort at the west end, and then
join the American telecommunications network. (info@asiainfo.com)
One of the big changes in HEPnet is the new establishment of the Japan-China
link. KEK (National Laboratory for High Energy Physics) in Tsukuba, Japan,
and IHEP (Institute of High Energy Physics) in Beijing, China, are connected
with a 64Kbps satellite circuit and Cisco routers.
The 64Kbps circuit itself was delivered from telecom companies to us in
March 1994, but it took some time to get approval from US DOC in using Cisco
routers in IHEP. Both DECnet and IP started to run over the KEK-IHEP link on
18 Jul 1994. In the DECnet Internet, IHEP belongs to Japan's area, area 40,
due to the shortness in address space in the DECnet PhaseIV. In the TCP/IP
Internet, IHEP has their own AS and is connected to KEK with BGP. From IHEP,
the link is extended to ITP (Institute of Theoritical Physics) and to ISTIC
(Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China) in China.
The satellite circuit will soon be replaced by a terrestrial circuit
(hopefully, before the APNG meeting in Nov 1994).
HEPnet-J and other networks in Japan including SINET, JOIN, TISN, and WIDE
who have their own link to the US are mutually connected at Tokyo. Some of
them are configured to work as a back-up of the KEK-US link. Thus, even in
case the KEK-US link happens to be down, not only HEPnet-J but also IHEP
won't lose the connectivity to the world. However the KEK-IHEP link
doesn't have any back-up for the present, though there exist several
international links terminated in Beijing. Coordination in the routing and
the back-up in Asia shall be needed in near future in some place (probably
in APNG).
KEK has a plan to extend the link to High Energy Physics institutes in
Russia from KEK. The KEK-US link was upgraded from 192Kbps to 512Kbps on 28
Aug 1994.
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