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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA - October 1, 2001 - The Pacific
Northwest Gigapop has expanded and renamed its regional peering
service, formerly called Seattle-Network-to-Network Access Point,
or SNNAP. The expanded peering services will now be offered under
the name Pacific Wave. Pacific Wave will continue
to include peering services for entities within the Pacific Northwest,
but has expanded its offering to include research and education
networks from throughout the Pacific Rim and beyond.
"The Pacific Northwest Gigapop was established in part to support
state of the art networking infrastructure that would unite researchers
and educators in the Internet2 effort. The Pacific Wave service
extends this mission to entities beyond the United States by providing
a convenient, cost-effective peering service," said Ron Johnson,
Vice President and Vice Provost of the University of Washington.
(The University of Washington is the founder of the Pacific Northwest
Gigapop.)
"When looking at the Pacific Wave service, AARNet (Australian
Academic & Research Network) recognized a desirable congruence of
an easily accessible carrier-class facility near the western U.S.
coast, high bandwidth peering access to the Internet2 Abilene network,
as well as access to several U.S. Federal networks and the Canadian
research and education network, CANet*3. In addition, the peering
infrastructure will support our multicast needs and enable us to
more efficiently stream media between Australia and our peering
partners," said George McLaughlin Executive Director of AARNET.
"We are pleased that Pacific Wave is offering an effective
option for research and education networks around the Pacific Rim
to connect to members of the Internet2 community in the United States
and beyond," said Heather Boyles, director of international relations
for Internet2. "Pacific Wave is yet another example of how
Internet2 member institutions are making important contributions
to the rest of the Internet2 membership by facilitating high performance
international connectivity with research and education institutions
around the world."
Pacific Wave looks forward to the addition of two more Pacific
Rim research and education networks in the next few weeks.
In addition to those already mentioned, other peering partners
of Pacific Wave include Energy Sciences Network (ESNet), Defense
and Research Engineering Network (DREN), CANet*3, Microsoft Corporation,
and AT&T @Home.
About Pacific Wave
Pacific Wave is a peering service of the Pacific Northwest
Gigapop. Located in an internationally-recognized carrier facility
in downtown Seattle, Washington, USA, Pacific Wave supports
peering among international and national networks as well as among
organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest. Participants connect
to the Pacific Wave peering switches at either dual gigabit
ethernet or dual fast ethernet. At this time, the redundant Pacific
Wave switches have a switching capacity of 128Gbps. While each
Pacific Wave participant will peer with the Pacific Northwest
Gigapop and its affiliated networks, all other bilateral peerings
through Pacific Wave are self-selected and implemented by
the peering participants directly.
About Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP)
Pacific Northwest Gigapop is the Northwest's Next Generation Internet,
Internet2/Abilene applications cooperative, testbed, and point of
presence. PNWGP connects together high-performance international
and federal research networks with universities, research organizations,
and leading-edge R&D and new-media enterprises throughout Washington,
Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Canada, and Australia.
About the University of Washington
The University of Washington is one of the world's top research
universities. Perennially among the top three American institutions
in peer-reviewed research activities and related competitive contracts
and grants, and with numerous top-ranked programs, the UW is a university
which truly embodies the ideals of "Learning @ the Leading Edge".
(For more information see www.washington.edu.)
About AARNet
AARNet Pty Ltd is a not-for-profit company that operates the AARNet2
network, providing Internet services to 37 Australian universities,
CSIRO Australia and their research and education partners. AARNet
provides an incubator for development of advanced network infrastructure
and applications. It has a national and international focus with
access to the global research and education networks through the
Pacific Northwest Gigapop. AARNet is also a member of the GrangeNet
consortium that will build a multi-Gigabit backbone in Australia
and develop advanced network and grid services to support advanced
and innovative applications.
About Internet2
Led by over 180 US universities, working with industry and government,
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications
and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating
the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnerships
of academia, industry, and government that helped foster today's
Internet in its infancy.
Contact info:
Pacific Northwest Gigapop and Pacific Wave
Jan Eveleth, Manager
4545 15th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Tel: 206-934-5588
Email: info@pnw-gigapop.net
Web: www.pnw-gigapop.net
AARNet
George McLaughlin, Executive Director
AARNet Pty Ltd (ACN 084 540 518)
GPO Box 1142, Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
Tel: 61-2-6276-6900
Email: inquiries@aarnet.edu.au
Web: www.aarnet.edu.au
Internet2
Greg Wood,
Tel: 202-331-5360
Email: ghwood@internet2.edu
Web: www.internet2.edu
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