Network and Computing Infrastructure

MITnet, the primary campus network

Implemented in 1984 to meet the network needs of Project Athena, the foundation for our current Academic Computing Environment (Athena)

FDDI (100Mb/sec) spine, connecting approximately 125 (mostly) Ethernet subnets and over 13,000 machines to MITnet and, by extension, the Internet

Connections to every academic, administrative and residential building

Network Services based on Client-Server architecture

MITnet Daily Activity

over 100,000 email messages per day, over 7,000 discrete users using MIT authenticated services

Athena Computing Environment

Foundation for Academic Computing Environment

Centrally managed, distributed computing environment

Location independent, available 24/7/365

Predominantly UNIX

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