Ebone continues

[Frode Greisen <]

                                                    24 February 1994       
   
                       Press release
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                      Ebone continues.

At a meeting between the present partners in Ebone on 22 February a
proposal worked out by Renater, ACOnet and ECRC for continuing Ebone
after 1 July 1994 was discussed. 

The proposal is for a backbone with nodes in Paris and Vienna, and the
intitial backbone will have a 512 kbps line from Vienna to Paris and a
1.5 Mbps line from Paris to the GIX in Washington. Upgrades are planned
as the need arises. Ebone will continue to peer with NSFnet and other US
networks and Ebone is negotiating peering agreements with EUnet and EMPB
in order to secure good connectivity within Europe. 

Ebone will remain AUP free, ie. it will be open to all IP providers.
Partners may connect either to Paris or to Vienna and due to the
simplified backbone it is expected that the cost will be lower than for
the present Ebone.

At the meeting, research networks in nine countries stated their
intention to join the new Ebone and others are invited to contact Ebone
managements for more information.

Christian Michau, Renater                Frode Greisen, UNI-C
Ebone chairman                           Ebone general manager
michau@localhost                         <frode.greisen@localhost