Quiz 1

Name : INDONET data Network

History:
Started in March 1986 by CMC Ltd.In phase I, an experimental INDONET Pilot Satellite Network (IPSN) incorporating all the features of the proposed INDONET was worked out. IPSN connects nodes in Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Vishakhapathnam, Ahmedabad and Pune with IBM 436 computers and MUXs/cluster controllers. The network uses IBM's Computers and Systems Net-work Architecture and 4800 bps leased lines, 9600 bps packet radio links for intra-city connection. In the second phase, the INDONET would operate as a Star Network with control point in Delhi using root top 3-m earth stations and packet switching. Beside SNA, it will also support X.25 protocols satellite and radio communication the INDONET is expected to cover 35 major cities of India. The CMC Ltd. is closely involved with NISSAT activities in library networking programmes in Calcutta and Delhi.


INDONET presently has an international gateway which provides access to world wide pocket switched networks like USA’s Global Networks Systems (GNS) and Internet.

Objective:
The INDONET aims to provide facility for distributed data processing on all India basis to large organizations in the network using the CMC computers for their data processing operations. It also plans for provision of data communications between its users in their respective locations in the network, even if the users are not accessing CMC's nodal computers.

Description:
India’s first data communication and computer network. It was launched as a solution to the growing need for providing timely well processed data to various institutions. The INDONET (Basu & Saxena, 1987) data network was engineered by CMC Limited for the computer user community in India. It is an integrated information management and distributed data processing facility. Distributed databases in various subjects and access to specialized applications software locally, or in remote locations obviate the need for duplication of software and hardware facilities at each location. The INDONET nodes at Bangalore, Bombay, Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune are connected to the GPSS of the Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, thereby facilitating entry to Public Data Networks of other countries.
-A directory of India-related sites on the internet
-it is a commercial computer network, applications are for ACME; file transfer, international gateway.

Name:BITNET

History :
Founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first BITNET connection was from CUNY to Yale University. By the end of 1982 the network included 20 institutions. By the end of the 80's it connected about 450 universities and research institutions and 3000 computers throughout North America and Europe. By the early 90's, BITNET was the most widely used research communications network in the world for email, mailing lists, file transfer, and real-time messaging.

The network was managed in the United States by the BITNET Network Information Center (BITNIC) and EDUCOM (later EDUCAUSE). In 1988, the managing boards of BITNET and CSNET voted to merge, thereby creating a a larger network managed by the new Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). The related networks elsewhere in the world were managed in Canada by NetNorth formed in 1984, in Europe by the European Academic and Research Network (EARN) formed in 1983, and in Japan by AsiaNet.
One of the most popular elements of BITNET was their mailing lists on every subject under the sun, from butterfly biology to theoretical physics, usually filtered and approved by a human moderator, and supported by the LISTSERV software. Because the two networks were similar in nature and used by many of the same institutions, BITNET began posting their mailing lists on the Usenet in the bit.* hierarchy by the end of the 1980's. A second network called BITNET II was created in 1987, in an effort to provide a higher bandwidth network similar to the NSFNET. However, by 1996, it was clear that the Internet was providing a range of communication capabilities that fulfilled BITNET's roles, so CREN ended their support and the network slowly faded away. By the year 2000, the remaining BITNET heritage mailing lists in regular use were a blues music discussion group at bit.listserv.blues-l and the new-list mailing list at bit.listserv.new-list.

Description:
Short for Because It's Time Network, BITNET is one of the oldest and largest wide-area networks, used extensively by universities. A new version of BITNET, called BITNET-II, relies on the Internet network to transfer messages and files.
BITNET was a "store-and-forward" network similar to the Usenet, and coincidentally invented at about the same time, in 1981, by Ira Fuchs and Greydon Freeman at the City University of New York (CUNY), and originally named for the phrase "Because It's There Net", later updated to "Because It's Time Net". The system was originally based on IBM's VNET email system and used the Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem (RSCS) and NJE/NJI protocols on the IBM Virtual Machine (VM) mainframe operating system. Later, RSCS was emulated on other popular operating systems like DEC VMS and Unix to extend BITNET to institutions that didn't run VM. The network was designed to be inexpensive and efficient, and so was built as a tree structure with only one path from one computer to another, and like the early Usenet with low bandwidth telephone connections, typically at 9600 bps or about 960 characters a second.
BITNET was an early world leader in network communications for the research and education communities, and helped lay the groundwork for the subsequent introduction of the Internet, especially outside the US.
BITNET was a cooperative U.S. university network The Filipinas Heritage Library, a division of the Ayala Foundation, Inc. (AFI), is a one-stop electronic research center on the Philippines. We provide access to the wealth of Filipino heritage through the latest in information technology and telecommunications.
The Library houses over 10,000 contemporary volumes on Philippine history, art, language, religion and the social sciences, and over 2,000 rare titles, rare books on microfiche, and an extensive library of slides and photographs.
It has also ventured into the digitization of its collection, CD-ROM publishing as well as the development of web pages and electronic databases.

Name: Filipinas Heritage

History:
The Filipinas Heritage Library began as part of the Ayala Museum. It began with a donation of materials from Ayala Corporation and the Zobel de Ayala family. The transfer of the collection to the Nielson Tower in 1996 marked the library’s commitment to become a knowledge network in the Philippines.

Mission:
The Filipinas Heritage Library aims to serve as a catalyst for culture. Through our projects, activities, and services, we shall grow a community whose lives are constantly enriched and recharged by a greater awareness of the relevance of Filipino culture to who they are and what they do. We shall uphold the highest professional standards of quality service, continuous improvement, resource stewardship, and care for our staff.

Name: Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

History:
Established on 1 April 1993 under the terms of letters of guidance from the Secretaries of State to the newly-established Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and Wales, inviting them to establish a Joint Committee to deal with networking and specialist information services.
1993 — Creation of JISC
1995 — Northern Ireland becomes funding partner
1996 — Five year strategy published
1999 — UK FE becomes funding partner
2000–2001 — Follett review of JISC
The funding bodies accepted most of the Follett report’s recommendations, and the new JISC structure was put in place from December 2001 together with a JISC five year strategy, 2001-2006.
2002 — New JISC structure implemented
2003–2004 — Mid-term strategy review
The JISC Board agreed to carry out a fundamental review of JISC’s activities producing a new strategy which covers a shorter three year period, 2004 - 06.
2004 — Professor Sir Ron Cooke- retired as Vice Chancellor of the University of York is appointed Chair of JISC.
2004 — Three year strategy published
2005 — Freedom of Information (FOI) Act
2005 — Learning & Skills Council (LSC) funding review
2005 — National e-Strategies published.
2005 — International partnerships agreed
2006 — JISC Capital programme launched
2006 — Second three year strategy commissioned
2007 — Three year strategy published.
2008 — Professor Sir Timothy O'Shea- the Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh is appointed Chair of JISC from 1st January 2009.

Objectives:
1. Innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and practice that support institutions in meeting their mission;
2. Promoting the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support learning;
3. Promoting the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support research;
4. Promoting the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support the management of institutions;
5. Developing and implementing a programme to support institutions’ engagement with the wider community; Continuing to improve its own working practices

Description:
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) supports United Kingdom post-16 and higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. JISC is funded by all of the UK post-16 and higher education funding councils.


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