The Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development is a fiber-optic network directly connecting scientific and education communities in the United States with 10 partner nations and indirectly with almost every other nation in the world. When universities or federal agencies send huge files to sister organizations in partner nations, GLORIAD carries the files. The project had its beginnings in 1994 when UT researcher Greg Cole and a Russian colleague set up a website, a web-hosting service, e-mail, list servers, and chat rooms, calling the social networking project between the two countries Friends and Partners. The partner nations fund GLORIAD, and the National Science Foundation is the principal funder of the United States partnership.
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