The Longwood Medical Area Network

The Longwood Medical Area Network (LMAnet) is a high speed fiber optic network that connects several patient care, research and educational organizations in Boston's Longwood medical area. The author describes the architecture of the network, current and potential future uses of the network, network costs and administration and management issues associated with the use of LMAnet. LMAnet is connected to the Harvard University campus network. This network provides a gateway NERNet, a subnet of Internet.<
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