The New UIC ADN Network

The UIC ADN backbone network now has two parts: in addition to the original FDDI backbone, shown in black in the map, we now have a new ATM backbone network, which is shown in blue. The UIC ATM backbone network serves several campus groups doing high-end graphics (BVL, Biomedical Visulation, EVL, Electronic Visulation Lab, and LAC, Laboratory for Advanced Computing), and the ADN public labs in rooms 105 BGRC and 340 CCC, with more labs to come. (The labs are connecting using switched ethernet; see Using ATM with LANs.)

The ADN ATM backbone also provides the UIC campus with high-speed links to Ameritech's Chicago NAP(Network Access Point), the NSF's vBNS (very high-speed Backbone Network Service) research network, and MREN (Metropolitan Research and Education Network).

The "ISPs" at the NAP are commercial Internet providers; the "local ISPs" are ones that you use to provide your home Internet connection if you don't use the ADN dialin lines. The ADN itself also subscribes to an ISP -- a "national" one -- to provide our campus's Internet connection.

The links in gray are two leased DS-1 (T1) telephone lines that connect UIC to the UIC College of Medicine in Rockford and Peoria.

Check out the various groups' WWW home pages by clicking on their name or or initials in the map below.

(Thanks to Cliff Nelson and Mike Lanski of the ADN networking group and Chris Peterson of the ADN network applications group for this map.)