Road network in Tamil Nadu June 2018, Tamil Nadu's road network has a total road length of . Tamil Nadu has about of highways which is designated as "National Highways" and "State Highways" on the basis of traffic intensity and connectivity. The various types of roads and their lengths are given below: Road stretches which have heavy traffic intensity of more than 30,000 Passenger Car Units (PCUs) connecting different state capitals, major ports, large industrial areas and tourist centers are designated National Highway by Government of India. In Tamil Nadu, "National Highways Wing" of Highways & Minor Ports Department was established in the year 1971
Merit Network new NSFNET backbone network. The new NSFNET backbone network service began 1 July 1988. It interconnected supercomputing centers around the country at 1.5 megabits per second (T1), 24 times faster than the 56 kilobits-per-second speed of the previous network. The NSFNET backbone grew to link scientists and educators on university campuses nationwide and connect them to their counterparts around the world. The NSFNET project caused substantial growth at Merit, nearly tripling the staff and leading to the establishment of a new 24-hour Network Operations Center at the U-M Computer Center. In September 1990 in anticipation of the NSFNET T3 upgrade