SLAC Network
SLAC's Off site bandwidth capacity 1983-2013
SLAC Computing Highlights, by Les Cottrell, after dinner talk to Silicon Valley Tour group, May 2011
Networking Restropective, Les Cottrell, presentation at 2011 HEPiX meeting
The Internet: where did it come from, what are the challenges? Les Cottrell, talk given at Helwan University in Cairo Egypt, 2010
SLAC Network Architecture, 2007
SLAC network diagrams 2003
SLAC switched network 2000
SLAC LAN/WAN description 1999
SLAC LAN size 1999
SLAC networking 1999
SLAC switched network 1999
SLAC network connectivity 1998
SLAC switched network 1997
The Internet and SLAC 1997
SLAC switched network 1996
SLAC WAN 1995
Some diagrams of the network are shown below. By 2003 it was no longer possible to show the network in a single drawing.
SLAC WAN 1995 | SLAC LAN 1996 | SLAC LAN 1997 | SLAC LAN 1999 | SLAC LAN 2000 |
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For diagrams earlier than 1995 one has to scan the transparencies.
SLAC VAXen 1982 | SLAC LAN 1988 | SLAC Ethernet 1988 | SLAC WAN 1990 | SLAC LAN 1992 |
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1988 SLAC DECnet ma`p | SLAC DECnet areas | HEPNET/DECnet map, Feb 1988 | HEPnet governance | HEPnet traffic | Other Nets |
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Other documents
Dick and Anna Johnson's recollections of SLAC computing
SLAC's Computing Highlights, 2011 talk by Les Cottrell
Happy Birthday, Dear Web, 2009
SLAC network announcements, news etc., 2000-2013
Future of Intersite Networking, Oct 1986 LBL, copies of viewgraphs etc presented at workshop, includes overview of multiple networks including BITNET (SLAC first national Lab Bitnet node 1983). 368 pages
STATUS OF NETWORKING FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS IN THE UNITED STATES, SLAC PUB 3705 by Paul Kunz, SLAC, 1985