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RIPS net: the impact of an optical communication network

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The new RIPS (Research Information Processing System), installed in the Tsukuba Research Center of AIST (Agency of Industrial Science and Technology) at Tsukuba Science New City in Japan, began operation in January 1981.
AIST thought of the RIPS plan for the purpose of more creative, more advanced research activities, taking advantage of the possibilities for centralization, since a number of national research organizations were gathered in Tsukuba.
RIPS is a distributed integral system, decentralized in regard to the individuality of the laboratories or the researchers, but centralized by its very large-scale computer system.
The RIPS network, using optical fiber, is composed of three kinds of networks taking into account cost performance and technical innovations of the future. One is the MultiPurpose Data Highway loop, handling a mix of coded data and voice data. Another is the star-pattern High Speed Dedicated Network to expand the distance between the computer channel and I/Os. The other is the star-pattern Video Distribution Network, through which users can observe the state of the two networks and the conditions of the RIPS center system. Overall length of optical fiber is about 360 km.

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AFIPS '82: Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference
June 1982
857 pages
ISBN:088283035X
DOI:10.1145/1500774
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