EaStMAN: The Edinburgh and Stirling Metropolitan Area Network History Pages

Welcome to the history pages for the project. General information, documents etc are held here, relating to the earlier phases of the EaStMAN project.

Latest change (October 2002): This hisory section created.

EaStMAN wins award in the Bangemann Challenge - pictures and short writeup.

EaStMAN Documents:

• Project Overview.
• August 2000 report of the EaStMAN Applications Group.
• Early paper and a press release on the EaStMAN project.
  
• EaStMAN effects on applications.
• Issues of Edinburgh Bits have articles on the MAN at various stages:
  • February 1997: Bangemann Prize announcement
    
  • August 1996: Linking EaStMAN to the other Scottish MANs
    
  • December 1995: the Phase II announcement
    
  • June 1995: progress report during Phase I
    
  • March 1995: project announcement.
• MAN Applications: there is a description of EaStMAN projects under SHEFC's Use of MANs Initiative.
• Addressing and routing plan describes the Phase I and II configuration requirements of the EaStMAN routers. Modified from time to time to reflect changes in router and routing configuration. (Contact George H for password information - this has been excised from the Web copies of the documents.)
• Interim private ATM addressing scheme for EaStMAN.

EaStMAN Phase II and III. Maps, Diagrams and implementation (operational) detail:

• Proposed EaStMAN network after August 2002
• Phase III (resilience) and Phase II technology diagrams showing the FDDI and ATM sites, routers and the SuperJANET Point of Presence.
• Structure of the resilient Scottish MANs Interconnect - showing ATM links to SuperJANET at Manchester and Leeds.
• Schematic fibre diagram showing the geography of the sites and extent of the fibre (postscript version 200K).
• Phase II Conventions for linking sites on EaStMAN ATM and FDDI rings and spurs.
• Optical attenuation:
  • FDDI Ring (diagram)
  • ATM Ring and Spurs (diagram)
  • Table of measurements
• Distances between sites (diagram).
• EaStMAN Phase I documents (historical).

Other information available:

• A paper on ATM addressing issues and the Interim Format for UK Academic Community.

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Historical Section on EaStMAN Phase I.
Maps, Diagrams and implementation (operational) detail:

• Geographical diagram showing the fibre connections etc. within the city.
• Technology diagram showing the FDDI and ATM sites, routers and the SuperJANET Point of Presence.
• Phase I Conventions for linking sites on EaStMAN ATM and FDDI rings.
• The overheads from the (GH's) presentation at LAN'95 EICC October 3rd/4th 1995 can be viewed. They include some early diagrams of the other Scottish MANs.
• Simple schematics showing the distances and optical attenuation between sites, and a physical ducting diagram.

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