WIDE Project

The WIDE Project ( Widely Integrated Distributed Environment) is a 1988 by Professor Murai June initiated at Keio University research project on computer networking. It became one of the pioneers of the Japanese Internet.

Its roots lay in the established in 1985, WIDE research group, whose aim was the networking of the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University. Although it was closely related to JUNET and can easily be confused, however, the organizational structures were different.

1994 was installed by the WIDE project NSPIXP1, the first Japanese Internet exchange (IX ) in the prefecture of Tokyo. In 1996, the second, NSPIXP2, also in Tokyo, and in 1997 NSPIXP3 in Osaka. In April 2003 NSPIXP2 was replaced by the distributed on six stations dix -ie nodes.

Currently (2005) operates the WIDE project to one with the M root servers, a DNS root name servers, and the mentioned node dix- ie and NSPIX3 an important part of Japan's Internet infrastructure, on the other hand, it conducts a large number of related research projects through.