The Complete EBONE Up and Running !!!
To the European IP community, This is to inform you that today, Sunday 26 September 1992, the final link of the initially defined EBONE, the London-Montpellier link, was put in place. The EBONE is now complete as a resilient pan-European IP backbone. September 1, 1991, after an initiative by Kees Neggers, a small group of people gathered for the first time, in an office building outside Amsterdam, to see if it could be possible to build a pan-European IP backbone. Today, 390 days later, the full backbone is up and running. Without all the voluntary efforts put in this would never have been possible. As a result we today see one of the worlds technically most advanced backbones in Europe. I must admit I have never seen a group with so much expertise gathered around the table and with so much enthusiasm in making this knowledge serve the European networking user community. I will by this give my deep gratitude to all those people involved in the fulfillment of the first pan-European IP backbone. To make it short: WE MADE IT!!! ======================== There is some bottles of champaign waiting in Paris :-) See you there all of you, Bernhard Stockman. Chair of the EBONE Action Team.
This is to inform you that today, Sunday 26 September 1992, the final link of the initially defined EBONE, the London-Montpellier link, was put in place. The EBONE is now complete as a resilient pan-European IP backbone. Congratulations to you, Bernhard, and to all the others who worked so hard to make this happen! Phill Gross
WE MADE IT!!! There is some bottles of champaign waiting in Paris :-)
Bernhard, many congratulations and i hope its good champagne brilliant achievement! jon (sorry to clog the lists, but i think they deserve every praise openly!)
Bernhard: As a member of the Ebone Management Committee, and as its 'Production Service' 'godfather', I would like to offer my congratulations and thanks to all concerned. I agree with all your remarks. As I reported to the Management Committee, the individual and collective enthusiasm of those working to the success of Ebone is something the like of which I have never seen before. I have spoken to BT (as British Telecom like to be called) today, and thanked them too for their part in this success. I look forward to the celebrations in Paris. Well done everybody! Phil. (... of the JNT, P.Jones@jnt.ac.uk, +44 235 446618, Fax +44 235 446251) (... snail mail: JNT, RAL, Chilton, Didcot, OXON, OX11 0QX, England)
Bernhard, Skipper, EMC-Chair, and respected colleagues in the Ebone success, Please excuse belated reply, but I have just returned from glorious holiday on our Oregon coast (reminds me of the wonders of the central Portugese coast...only colder). This is wonderful news. First, and it seems so long ago in this fast-paced venture (the Internet), NORDUnet showed the world how to make a multi-national, multi-protocol backbone work for the benefit of the users. Now, Ebone promises to do this for all Europe. NSF is pleased to be able to cooperate with Ebone as regards intercontinental connectivity. We wish you the very best of luck, and we congratulate you on this major achievement. Steve G.
boss@ebone.net writes:
To the European IP community,
This is to inform you that today, Sunday 26 September 1992, the final link of the initially defined EBONE, the London-Montpellier link, was put in place. The EBONE is now complete as a resilient pan-European IP backbone.
September 1, 1991, after an initiative by Kees Neggers, a small group of people gathered for the first time, in an office building outside Amsterdam, to see if it could be possible to build a pan-European IP backbone. Today, 390 days later, the full backbone is up and running. Without all the voluntary efforts put in this would never have been possible. As a result we today see one of the worlds technically most advanced backbones in Europe.
I must admit I have never seen a group with so much expertise gathered around the table and with so much enthusiasm in making this knowledge serve the European networking user community. I will by this give my deep gratitude to all those people involved in the fulfillment of the first pan-European IP backbone.
To make it short:
WE MADE IT!!! ========================
There is some bottles of champaign waiting in Paris :-)
See you there all of you,
Bernhard Stockman. Chair of the EBONE Action Team.
Belated, but no less heartfelt, congratulations from NORDUnet. Regards, Peter V.
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Jon Crowcroft -
Mr P W Jones -
Peter Villemoes -
Phill Gross -
Steve Goldstein--Ph +1-202-357-9717