WIDE project
The WIDE Project ( W idely I ntegrated D istributed E nvironment ) is a 1988 by Professor Murai June at the Keio University initiated research project on computer networking. It became one of the forerunners of the Japanese internet .
Its roots lay in the WIDE research group set up in 1985, whose aim was to network the University of Tokyo , the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University. Although it was closely related to and easily confused with JUNET , the organizational structures were different.
In 1994 the WIDE project, NSPIXP1, installed the first Japanese Internet Node (IX) in Tokyo Prefecture . The second followed in 1996, NSPIXP2, also in Tokyo, and in 1997 NSPIXP3 in Osaka . In April 2003 NSPIXP2 was replaced by the dix-ie node distributed over six stations.
Currently (2005) the WIDE project is operating an important part of the Japanese Internet infrastructure on the one hand with the M-Root-Rerver, a DNS root name server , and the aforementioned nodes dix-ie and NSPIX3, on the other hand it runs a large part Number of related research projects.