I'll chip in as well. On Oct 24, 15:49, Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
ACOnet
Austrian R&D net.
BTnet
BTs Internet offering.
Clinet
Low-end (BBS-style?) Finnish service provider.
DAXnet
Norwegian consulting company also offering Internet connectivity.
EU
Has nothing to do with us.
EUnet
Us (come on, Jon, don't say you've forgotten us?)
IBR
The "IBR-LAN" is where the Amsterdam Internet Exchange is currently living; don't know where the name comes from.
INRIA
French national research insitution/organisation; where EUnet France saw the light of day many years ago.
LanLink
Lan interconnect service offered by one of the Finnish PTTs, including Internet access via EUnet Finland.
NIKHEF
Dutch national nuclear and high energy physics research institute.
UUnet
The first commercial Internet provider in the US, brainchild of Rick Adams; AFAIK grew out of the USENIX environment to start with.
Unisource
Loosely organised PTT alliance between CH, ES, NL, SE PTTs (loosely organised means that we have had two Unisource lines down for over 22 hours now, still unresolved). -- ====== ___ === Per G. Bilse, Mgr Network Operations Ctr ===== / / / __ ___ _/_ ==== EUnet Communications Services B.V. ==== /--- / / / / /__/ / ===== Singel 540, 1017 AZ Amsterdam, NL === /___ /__/ / / /__ / ====== tel: +31 20 6233803, fax: +31 20 6224657 === ======= 24hr emergency number: +31 20 421 0865 === Connecting Europe since 1982 === http://www.EU.net; e-mail: bilse@EU.net