National Science Foundation director Rita Colwell will announce two awards which will give the Next Generation Internet a global reach. The Asia Pacific Rim and Russia will link into NSF's very high performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS) as a result of grants to Indiana University and the University of Tennessee. The connections will support worldwide scientific, research and educational collaborations which require high bandwidth communications.

Who:

NSF Director Rita Colwell

What:

Announcement of International Connections to vBNS

When:

11 a.m. Monday, September 21

Where:

Highway 1
601 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
North Building, Suite 250
(use entrance from Indiana Ave, near 7th St.)
Washington, D.C.