From: Jeremy Mineweaser <gt4436c@prism.gatech.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:48:54 +0800
To: combee@sso-austin.sps.mot.com (Ben Combee)
Subject: Re: [NOISE] Geek Apartments
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960813234024.00c5ebcc@glc20.residence.gatech.edu>
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At 10:41 AM 8/13/96 -0500, you wrote:
>* I can see it now. Apartments full of geeks because the apartments 
>* were originally built with 100BaseX to each place and a T3 in the 
>* basement going direct to the local ISP.
>
>Yes, it has already happened, although in a slightly different
>context.  The Georgia Tech campus dormatories got wired with Ethernet
>back in 1994, and there was quite a rush by the sizable geek
>population to get dorm rooms in the buildings slated to get
>installation first.  It worked out quite well, especially the privacy
>aspects, as the dorm routers encrypted all packets so only the
>intended Ethernet node could receive it (at least that is what they
>said).  
>
>So, in this case it was only 10BaseT and gatech.edu as the ISP, but it
>still was very neat.

Thanks to the Olympics, Georgia Tech now has 100% Ethernet availability
in its dormitories.  Currently the system utilizes a fiber-optic campus backbone
with network hardware in each building providing a 10BaseT port to each
student.  Work is underway to install ATM hardware and upgrade ports to
100Mb/s networking technology.
  Jeremy L. Mineweaser   | GCS/E d->-- s:- a--- C++(+++)$ ULC++(++++)>$ P+>++$
gt4436c@prism.gatech.edu | L+>++ E-(---)  W++ N+  !o-- K+>++  w+(++++) O-  M--
                         | V-(--) PS+(--) PE++ Y++>$ PGP++>+++$ t+() 5 X+ R+()
    *ai*vr*vx*crypto*    | tv(+)  b++>+++ DI+(++)  D+  G++ e>+++  h-() r-@ !y-