April 21, 2000
High-Speed Network Will Serve Universities for 3 More Years
The National Science Foundation and MCI WorldCom last week agreed to a three-year extension of the very-high-performance Backbone Network Service, or vBNS, at no cost to the foundation.
The high-speed network, which is owned by MCI WorldCom, is used by 101 universities and other research institutions for network-intensive applications, such as transmitting high-quality video for distance education.
Over the past five years, the foundation has paid MCI
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