High Bandwidth for the National Archives The Challenge The United States National Archives include 21.5 million cubic feet of original text material, 300,000 reels of film, more than five million maps, charts, and architectural drawings, 200,000 sound and video recordings, more than nine million aerial photographs, 14 million still pictures and posters, and 7,600 computer data sets. With the addition of new technologies like videoconferencing and the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) that contains books, microforms, computer disks, and audiovisual materials; the Virtual Library with its links to full text books, pamphlets, newspapers and historical documents, plus interactive exhibits, the bandwidth provided by the National Archives’ Cat 5 cabling infrastructure couldn’t provid

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