ESnet... A unique jewel

The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) has distinguished itself as one of the world's most effective and progressive science-related computer networks. ESnet has played a major part in the development of the worldwide Internet, as it is now known, and ESnet continues to contribute to the future of networking through its utilization of leading-edge technologies and participation in the Next Generation Internet (NGI), as well as other national and international enterprises. The advent of these initiatives brings ESnet and the entire Internet world to the threshold of major changes in technology, operations, and administration.