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List of past announcements
Announcements, Hot Topics, etc.
9/4/2013
How Africa will leapfrog wired networks, Slashdot
9/2/2013
Africa 'leapfrogs' to wider internet access, Al Jazeera
3/29/2012
Data cables downed not by terabytes but squirrel bites
3/27/2012
Happy Webiversary, from Symmetry
2/7/2012
Apple store: Facebook app makes $90,000 in a week. The app is from SWAM Tech founded by and with CEO Shahryar Muhammad Khan who spent a year and a half at SLAC working on the PingER project. Reported by the International Herald Tribune.
12/12/2011
First North American Website Launched at SLAC 20 Years Ago Today, from SLAC Today. Also reported in InMenlo site, and the Stanford Dish.
10/27/2011
SLAC Networking Team, Contractors Credited for Marathon Effort to Keep Work on Track
7/22/11
SLAC News center publishes Word of the Week: Ping
7/20/11
SLAC Today publishes interview with Pakistani Interns ,also published in Pakistani newspapers The NEWS and Pakistan Observer
3/18/11
Japanese Internet Survives the Earthquake<, from SlashDot.
Nov 2010
The Internet, Mobile Computing and Mobile Phones in Developing Countries, Les Cottrell prepared for book m-Science Sensing, Computing and Disseminaton
10/18 2010
Pioneers of China's First Internet Connection Recall Work, from PC World October 18, 2010, also on YouTube
10/1 2008
Mapping the Digital Divide in Symmetry Magazine, Sept 08
4/22/08
pingER service added to perfSONAR-PS suite
4/22 2008
Africa's Internet Drought, also on YouTube.
3/31/2008
End of Dialup Service
2/3 2008
Mediterranean fibre cuts, from Slashdot and also from Network World.
1/18/2008
Princess Sumaya of Jordan Visits SLAC
11/7 2007
Rector of NUST Visits SLAC
7/28 2007
Bridging the Digital Divide from the APS/FIP Newsletter July 2007.
6/18 2007
SLAC's Les Cottrell and Collaborator Awarded "Best Software" Prize from SLAC Today
6/14 2007
TULIP wins First Prize in All Asia Softec 2007
5/30 2007
Mapping the Digital Divide from SLAC Today.
11/29 2006
Rector of Pakistani University Visits SLAC from SLAC Today.
10/9 2006
Bandwidth Challenges and World Records audio, video synchronized slides (Quicktime, 128.5MB)
10/9 2006
Quantifying the Digital Divide from an Internet Point of View audio, video & synchronized slides (Quicktime, 88.8MB)
4/6 2006
Physics Online and Overseas from SLAC Today.
2/13 2006
A Better Internet" news story from ComputerWorld.
11/23 2005
Bandwidth Challenge Results from SlashDot
11/18 2005
Top Researchers, Projects in High Performance Computing Honored at SC/05 ...
11/18 2005
SC|05 Bandwidth Challenge, SLAC Interaction Point.
11 2005
Bringing the Internet to China Symmetry Magzine.
11/8 2005
Brit Boffins aim to Beat LAN speed record from vnunet.com
9/22 2005
PingER Quantifies the Digital Divide, Feature article in Science Grid This Week.Today
9/2 2005
SLAC's participation in the SC05 Bandwidth Challenge
7/5 2005
Our broadband "out of phase" from Australian IT
6/24 2005
Global Internet Analysis: Australia possibly out of phase UNE News and Events
6/22 2005
Pinger Quantifies the Digital Divide from Science Grid This Week.
5/17 2004
10th anniversary of SLAC/HENP bringing the Internet to China, also seeNetworking with China, SLAC-PUB-6478, 1994.
4/2 2004
Networking: The Next Generation
3/16 2004
Better TCP Invented at NCSU and evaluated by SLAC, see also Light Reading, Slashdot HPCwire
12/10/03
Caltech, SLAC, and LANL Set Network Performance Marks also see Web site
12/2/03
SLAC to display PingER project at SIS-Forum, Geneva under Fundamental Science and Enabling Technologies Theme. 9-13 Dec '03
8/4/03
High Speeds are good for Guinness, from DoE Pulse magazine
7/20 2003
Guinness World Record for Internet2 Land Speed Record
6/10 2003
State of Network Monitoring and Analysis in the US
4/21 2003
CENIC award :: CENIC "road to Ten Gigabit" Award to Caltech, CERN, SLAC and LANL
3/29 2003
Internet2 Land Speed Record broken again by team from Caltech, CERN, SLAC and LANL
3/27 2003
Software breaks data transfer record from Nature
3/19 2003
Caltech computer scientists develop FAST protocol to speed up Internet
1/21 2003
New Intercontinental Internet Performance Records Set in Internet2 Land Speed Record Competition
10/02 2001
Appletalk Routing has been shutdown as of 10/01/01
12/17 2000
Wireless Networking at SLAC
10/31 2000
SLAC Phone Switch Upgrade - October 2000
08/18 2000
SLAC ISDN Service, phase out 09/30/01.
06/06 2000
RIP to be removed
05/23 2000
Central VMS support to terminate at end of 2001
03/23 2000
SLAC Phone System Upgrade
 
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