SLAC Network
SLAC network top level page 1993-2012
Upgrade to SLAC core network March 2017.
SLAC's Off site bandwidth capacity 1983-2016
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
Network Case Studies 2000-2008
SLAC Network Architecture, 2007
SLAC network diagrams 2004
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's HEP Internet Monitoring 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.
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For diagrams earlier than 1995 one has to scan the transparencies.
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Telecom
2008 Guest House Phone System Upgrade
2010 presentation on phone upgrade
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
- SCS Pictures 2002-2008
- SCS Trip reports 1998-2008
- Email on end of dial up modem service Beb 7, 2008
- First US Web site at SLAC
- SLAC network announcements, news etc., 2000-2013
- SCS Managers meeting notes 2005-2008
- Trip reports 1996-2004
- China
- Networking with China, paper published at CHEP 1994
- Burt Richter, the director of SLAC at the time was very instrumental in convincing DoE of the importance of this project and that it should be funded. See extract from Burt's 1990 trip to China report.
- China Internet Connection
- YouTube, Les Cottrell interview
- YouTube China's first Internet connection, 1994,
- SLAC Archives document on Les' role by Jean Deken
- China celebrates 10 years of being connected to the Internet, PCWorld article, May 17, 2004
- Les Cottrell: Bringing the Internet to China, Symmetry Magazine, 11/1/2005
- How Stanford and China first Connected, Cisco Blog, 10/17/2010
- Pioneer's of China's first Internet connection recall work, PCWorld article, Oct 18, 2010
- 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
- HEPnet 1985, slide created from a DEC network management tool called NMCC that shows HEPnet. Just for orientation, FNAL is in the center, SLAC is out to the left, CalTech is below SLAC, with BNL, LBL, and ANL just sort of single points. There's also a number of universities attached, mostly to FNAL. This was just about the time that HEPnet began to act as a network, and not just a bunch of individual network connections directly to the experiment location a university was involved with. The links, of course, were all 9.6 or 4.8kb/s, and the network design was cobbled (vs architected...). But it was one of the earliest really distributed networks (I think Bitnet & Milnet were the only other ones around at that point...). Phil Demar.
- STATUS OF NETWORKING FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS IN THE UNITED STATES, SLAC PUB 3705 by Paul Kunz, SLAC, 1985