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Dubbed the Harvard High-Speed Data Network (HSDN), the project will enable students and faculty, for the price of a pair of in-line roller skates, to communicate with students from Thayer to Australia--without any messy modem cables or huge phone bills...
Such improvements will take the form ofspeedier feedback from instructors to students,because of HSDN's capacity for 24-hour access toe-mail messages...
...HSDN project is divided into three phasesof development, according to Steen...
Planning and bids for the HSDN started in thefall of 1992, says Martin. Parts of the work havebeen assigned to the lowest outside bidders tokeep the cost down, he adds...
Forming the backbone of the HSDN are tens ofthousands of feet of fiber optic cables,ultra-thin glass wires which transmit digital datain the form of laser-generated light. "Fiber isthe only vehicle that will support us for the longhaul," says Holmes...