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<h2 id="hardware">Hardware</h2> <p>The <a href="/facts/X.25/yaGPqw2Y">X.25</a> network was based on hardware from Databit, Inc. consisting of three EDX-P Network Nodes that performed switching and were located in Hartford, New Haven and Stamford.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnNet#endnote_networkworld">[5]</a> Databit also supplied 23 ANP 2520 Advanced Network Processors each of which provided the system with a <a href="/facts/Point_of_presence/GIvoTNvx">point of presence</a>, a network control center and modems.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnNet#endnote_databit">[6]</a> Customers would order <a href="/facts/Leased_line/JzGppCIP">leased line</a> connections into the network for <a href="/facts/Host_computer/HPNcFXHk">host computers</a> running at 4,800 to 56,000 <a href="/facts/Bitrate/ppUNMmVd">bits per second</a> (bit/s). <a href="/facts/Computer_terminal/fSlx05qV">Terminals</a> would connect over a leased line from 1,200 to 9,600 bit/s synchronous, 300 to 2,400 bit/s asynchronous or using dial-up connections from 300 to 1,200 bit/s. The connection to Tymnet was established over an <a href="/facts/X.75/8xsJKxro">X.75</a> based 9,600 bit/s analog link from the ConnNet Hartford node to Tymnet's Bloomfield node.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnNet#endnote_datacomm">[7]</a> </p> <ol><li>^ Southern New England Telephone (Mar 13, 1985). <i>SNET; Offers its Connecticut customers the first local packet switched data network in the nation</i>. Press Release</li> <li>^ ConnNet Online Help. Accessed Jan 07, 1991</li> <li>^ AT&T (Jan 29, 1986). Untitled. Press Release</li> <li>^ SNET / Packet/PC (Nov 12, 1987). <i>PC users can link to IBM mainframes with Packet/ PC software and SNET's Connect</i>. Press Release</li> <li>^ Scully, Sharon (June 2, 1986). "Protocol Conversion; SNET heralds services". <i>Network World</i>, p 4.</li> <li>^ Databit (May 27, 1986). <i>DATABIT; Announces point-of-sale terminal application with Southern New England Telephone</i>. Press Release</li> <li>^ Strauss, Paul R. (Jan 1 1987). "Feature 1986: Information networking's quiet watershed year in review". <i>Data Communications</i>, p 169.</li></ol> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Rucker, Chauncy N.; And Others (1985). Establishing a Computer Network for Connecticut. <a href="https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED286327" target="_blank">https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED286327</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>