CERNET was founded in 1994. By the end of June 5438+February, 2003, the transmission rate of CERNET backbone network reached 2.5Gbps, and the transmission rate of local network reached 155Mbps, covering nearly 200 cities in 3/kloc-0 provinces and cities nationwide, with more than 20,000 kilometers of self-owned optical fiber and an independent international export bandwidth of over 800 mm.
At present, CERNET has 10 regional centers and 38 provincial nodes, and the national center is located in Tsinghua University. CERNET has more than 65,438+0,300 networked universities, educational institutions and scientific research units, with more than 65,438+0.5 million users. It is the basic platform of educational informatization in China.
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Background of education network construction:
Since the 1980s, almost all developed countries in the world have successively established national computer networks for education and scientific research, which are interconnected to form an international academic computer network Internet covering the whole world. The emergence of this global computer information network has accelerated the speed of information transmission and provided a brand-new network computing environment for teachers, students and researchers.
It has fundamentally changed and promoted their information exchange, resource sharing, scientific calculation and scientific research cooperation, and has become the most important infrastructure for education and scientific research in these countries, thus promoting the rapid development of education and scientific research in these countries.
In recent two years, many developed countries have put forward the "information superhighway plan" in order to further maintain their leading position in the fields of economy and science and technology, and are putting it into practice intensively.
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