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by pimlottc 48 days ago
Yep. This was in the mid-nineties. The fiber was already present from the initial effort to wire the campus starting in 1998 [0]. The move to ATM happened later and was in used for 6-7 years before they went to gigabit ethernet [1] (check the comments for more info on the ATM years).

0: https://www.networkworld.com/article/899168/lan-wan-universi...

1: https://science.slashdot.org/story/04/06/02/0038223/fiber-to...

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Oops, I meant the fiber was laid starting in 1988