How did the NSF get involved?
1989 - upgrade to "T1", providing data transmissions at a rate of 1.5 million bits of data per second. This is roughly the equivalent of 50 pages of text per second.
1993 - upgrade to "T3", providing data transmissions at a rate of 45 million bits of data per second. This is roughly the equivalent of 1400 pages of text per second.
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