I find it tacky in the extreme for any group to use the term "National

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

   SMCC Joins the National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT)


SunFLASH Vol 57 #18                                           September 1993
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57.18   SMCC Joins the National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT)
        (SMCC) has joined the announcement of the formation of the
        National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT). SMCC is a
        new member of the NIIT, a non-profit consortium of industry,
        government, and academic organizations.  The NIIT is chartered
        to develop a nationwide, high-speed information infrastructure
        testbed.  The testbed is scheduled to be on-line by November,
        1993 and will accelerate the practical implementation of the
        National Information Infrastructure concept.
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NIIT members to date include: AT&T; The College of Ocean and
Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University; Department of
Energy/Sandia National Laboratories; Digital Equipment Corporation; The
EUV Center for Astrophysics, University of California-Berkeley; Ellery
Systems, Inc.; Essential Communications; Hewlett-Packard; Institute for
the Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire; Network
Systems Corporation; Novell, Inc.; Ohio State University; Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory; Sprint; Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.; and
SynOptics Communications.