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Circular, September 2002 |
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The Pacific
Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) Circular is an occasional update of news
for and about PNWGP and Pacific Wave participants. To subscribe
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PRICE REDUCTION ON COMMODITY INTERNET SERVICES
PNWGP UPGRADES COMMODITY INTERNET CIRCUITS
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SETS INTERNET2 LAND SPEED RECORD
PACIFIC WAVE JOINS APAN
PACIFIC WAVE AND IPv6
NEW INTERNET ROUTING REGISTRY POLICY IN EFFECT OCTOBER 1
PNWGP EXPANDS PEERING RELATIONSHIPS
INTERNET2 FALL MEMBER MEETING IN LOS ANGELES OCTOBER 2002
CURRENT PNWGP AND PACIFIC WAVE PARTICIPANTS
UPDATING YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION
PNWGP CONTACT LIST
PRICE REDUCTION ON COMMODITY INTERNET SERVICES
Effective October
1, 2002, the Pacific Northwest Gigapop will reduce its
fees for all commodity Internet services.
- Port fees for Abilene plus Commodity
Internet Services will sink from $7990/mo to $5995/mo (Usage
fees for this service remain at $275/Mbps)
- Usage fees for Commodity
Internet Services will drop from $400/Mbps to $325/Mbps
(Monthly port fees for this service remain unchanged at $2995/mo)
Additional savings are available to those organizations with monthly
use
levels
regularly at or above 50Mbps.
There are three contributing factors to this decrease in
PNWGP commodity service fees.
- The telecommunications industry
shakeup
of the past 18 months has
resulted in a lowering of IP transit fees.
- The PNWGP has
been an active member of The Quilt, a national
collaboration of
gigapops, and through The Quilt has been able to
participate in some lower-cost
aggregate IP transit purchases.
- An increase in peering
relationships by the PNWGP has diverted some
of the traffic that would
have gone
over commodity links through regional peering points.
To receive the PNWGP Service Catalog reflecting this
new pricing, please send email to gigapop-info@pnw-gigapop.net
PNWGP UPGRADES COMMODITY INTERNET CIRCUITS
The PNWGP estimates
that the collective monthly commodity Internet bandwidth needs
of its participants will reach 875Mbps by the end of this school
year. To accommodate this growth, commodity Internet services for
PNWGP have once again been expanded.
Last year, the PNWGP increased
commodity Internet bandwidth from 445Mbps to 1.45Gbps. This year,
the commodity capabilities have been expanded to 3Gbps. The new
commodity services configuration provides unprecedented redundancy
options, plus room to grow.
PNWGP will receive 1Gbps circuit from
each of the following vendors: Level3, Verio, and Cable & Wireless.
A failure or poor performance in any given circuit can easily be
absorbed by the remaining two circuits. The new configuration also
allows for simplified BGP configurations while continuing to offer
optimal IP packet routes to and from the Internet.
In addition
to retaining vendor diversity, these GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) commodity
circuits are made at two geographically diverse connections at
two separate nodes within Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Some of
the criteria used by the PNWGP in selection of IP transit providers
are
National backbone
Seattle ingress/egress
Overall technical competence
Multicast service capability
BGP support
Significant peering with Tier One providers at multiple locations
throughout the country
Response policies to security incidents
Engineering of their Point of Presence facilities
Backbone engineering
Corporate financial viability
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SETS INTERNET2 LAND SPEED RECORD
Congratulations
to the teams at the University of Alaska (led by Kerry Digou)
and the University of Amsterdam (led by Erik-Jan Bos) who blasted
the
Internet2 Land Speed Record last May! 625Megabytes of data
were transferred from Fairbanks to Amsterdam at a rate of 401
Mbps.
See the full press release at http://archives.internet2.edu/guest/archives/I2-NEWS/log200205/msg00003.html
PACIFIC WAVE JOINS APAN
In September, Pacific Wave was accepted
as an affiliate member of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
(APAN). This higher-profile role in the APAN community
will help the
PNWGP in structuring its Pacific Wave services to meet
the diverse and
changing needs of Pacific Rim research and education
partners, some of which are already active today at Pacific
Wave,
including AARNet and TANET2. APAN itself is also a Pacific
Wave participant
today through TransPAC.
Pacific Wave hopes to use this
opportunity to leverage large-scale research and education
projects between
our regions, particularly in the areas of the physical
sciences and health care.
PACIFIC WAVE AND IPV6
PNWGP regularly receive inquiries
about IPv6 capabilities at Pacific Wave. The Pacific
Wave switch
infrastructure is capable of passing IPv6 traffic so
long as each of the peering
parties supports IPv6 on their Pacific Wave connected
routers.
NEW INTERNET ROUTING REGISTRY POLICY IN EFFECT OCTOBER
1, 2002
Technical contacts at all PNWGP commodity
transit sites were notified
a few weeks ago of the upcoming implementation of
a new Internet Routing
Registry Policy by the PNWGP. In order to assure
that your commodity
routes are effectively and efficiently propagated
over the PNWGP commodity circuits, your site will need to
abide by this
new
policy. The full text can be found at http://www.pnw-gigapop.net/tech/irr.html
PNWGP EXPANDS PEERING RELATIONSHIPS
In the past six
months, PNWGP staff spent considerable resources
aimed at 'keeping
local traffic
local.' By becoming an active peer at strategic
locations, data not only reaches its destination more efficiently,
but money
is saved as well.
In May of this year, the PNWGP
joined
the Northwest Access Exchange (NWAX) in Portland,
Oregon (see http://www.nwax.org).
In August, the
PNWGP joined the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) in Seattle,
Washington (see http://www.seattleix.net).
Additional
peering opportunities will be opened within the
next few weeks for Pacific Wave participants, as well
as
the PNWGP.
Approximately
200Mbps (monthly 95th percentile) is being transmitted
through PNWGP peering relationships, exclusive
of Pacific Wave. Total
peering
traffic through Pacific Wave runs at about 500Mbps
(monthly 95th
percentile).
INTERNET2 FALL MEETING IN LOS ANGELES OCTOBER
2002
Internet2/UCAID will have its fall member
meeting
in Los Angeles, October
27-30th. For more information, see http://www.internet2.edu/activities/html/fall_02.html
CURRENT PNWGP AND PACIFIC WAVE PARTICIPANTS
Pacific Wave International
Peering Services Participants
AARNet
ATTBI
CA*net 4
Defense Research & Engineering Network (DREN)
Energy Sciences Network (ESNet)
Microsoft Corporation
Peer1.net
Pointshare
TransPAC
TANET2
Pacific Northwest Gigapop Transit Participants
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
AARNet (Australian Academic and Research Network)
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
City of Seattle
-- King County
-- Seattle Public Library
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Institute for Systems Biology
Microsoft Research
Montana State University
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Pacific Marine
-- Environmental Laboratory (NOAA/PMEL)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Portland Research and Education Network
-- Oregon Graduate Institute
-- Oregon Health & Sciences University
-- Portland State University
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Seattle Community College District
Seattle Pacific University
University of Alaska
University of Idaho
University of Montana
University of Washington
Washington State Dept. of Information Services
Washington State K-20 Network
Washington State University
UPDATING YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have changes in contact
info for administration, billing, technical, routing, tech backup,
or outages notifications, please email gigapop-info@pnw-gigapop.net or call 206-934-5588.
PNWGP CONTACT LIST
General Information & Circular
Subscriptions
1-206-934-5588 / 1-888-934-5588
gigapop-info@pnw-gigapop.net
www.pnw-gigapop.net
www.pacificwave.net
Network Operations Center (7x24)
1-206-934-5580 / 1-888-934-5580
noc@pnw-gigapop.net
Web Site Contact
webmaster@pnw-gigapop.net
PNWGP Services Manager
Jan Eveleth
1-206-221-2300
eveleth@cac.washington.edu
Network Engineering Manager
David Richardson
1-206-934-5580
Mailing Address
4545 15th Ave N.E.
Seattle, Washington 98105-4527
USA
Fax
1-206-934-5589 / 1-888-934-5589
More information about Internet2
can be found at
http://www.internet2.edu/
Circular 004 September 2002
Copyright (c) 2002 Pacific Northwest Gigapop
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