Internet Society Newsletter

Volume 1, Number 1 - January 1992

011.60 Argentina by John S. Quarterman <[email protected]>

Synopsis of Networks in Argentina

Argentina has connections to all the usual worldwide networks, including
the Internet, BITNET, UUCP, and USENET. In addition, there is much use
of Delphi and CompuServe. The main language used on all the Argentine
networks is Spanish, which may explain the apparent lack of traffic from
Argentina on the worldwide networks.

Several names are used for networks within Argentina: RAN (Red Academica
Nacional, or National Academic Network), RECYT (Red de Ciencia y
Tecnología, or Science and Technology Network), Red Argentina de Salud,
and ARNET (Argentine Science Network). These are all intertwined, and
there appears to be no consensus on the exact distincions among them.

ARNET, the Argentine Science Network, is a national science and research
network connected to the Internet as class B network 140.191. The link
is by satellite from the machine atina.ar in Buenos Aires through New
York City to the University of Maryland, connecting to SURANET, an
NSFNET regional. The effective bandwidth is 9600bps. This link is funded
under United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Project ARG-86-026.
Part of the costs are apparently also supported by the U.S. National
Science Foundation (NSF). The link is managed by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (MREC) and the Secretariat of Science and Technology (SECYT).
Most of the internal links for the other networks named above are by
UUCP, either over dialups or over the national X.25 network, ARPAC.
There are several BITNET nodes, accessible through a dialup RSCS
connection to Chile. RAN (Red Academica Nacional, or National Academic
Net- work) for the early UUCP star network centered around host dcfcen
at the Departamento de Computacion de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y
Naturales. RECYT is a name used by SECYT, the Secretariat of Science and
Technology, or Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología, for the current UUCP
network. For economic reasons, 60% of the machines on the network are
MS-DOS machines. Most connections are carried by UUCP over X.25 over
ARPAC. UUCP is used for all of UNIX, MS-DOS, and VMS. Effective link
speeds vary from 300bps to 9600bps. Red Argentina de Salud is the
Argentine Health Net, a UUCP network managed by several organizations,
particularly the Children's Hospital of Buenos Aires, Hospital de Niños
``Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez.'' There are about 160 connected institutions,
including hospitals and health centers, faculties of medicine, and
government offices. The traffic is about 10 Megabytes per day. All the
connections are by dialup telephone, or ARPAC.


There has been some confusion within the country about these different
networks. This is changing, as the various historical Argentine
networking projects coordinate more closely as they grow. Each has its
own goals and political issues, but all are finding ways to cooperate.
This is a synopsis of an article that appeared in the November 1991
issue of*Matrix News*, the monthly paper newsletter of Matrix
Information and Directory Services, Inc.

Copyright c 1991 November 29, 1991 Matrix, Inc.

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