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HONOLULU, HI - January 26, 2004 -– The
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC)
and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) have agreed to cooperate
in a joint project to create, deploy, and operate an advanced,
extensible peering facility along the entire Pacific Coast of the
U.S.
The implementation of this novel international peering facility
known as Pacific Wave creates a new peering paradigm by removing
the geographical barriers of traditional peering facilities. Pacific
Wave enables any U.S. or international network to connect at any
one location along this U.S. Pacific Coast facility, as well as
the option to peer with any other Pacific Wave participant regardless
of the site of their physical connection.
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By presenting a seamless, unified international peering exchange
facility at strategic Pacific Coast locations, the Pacific Wave
peering facility will be a magnet for research and education partners
throughout Canada, Mexico, South America and the Pacific Rim. It’s
an innovative network facility bound to enhance the robustness
of cyberinfrastructure for global collaborations,” noted
Douglas G. Gatchell, program director for International Networking
in the Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science
Foundation.
The Pacific Wave international peering exchange facility will initially
offer connection points in Los Angeles and Seattle, which are proximal
to submarine cable landing sites along the coast. A 10 Gig-E service
will interconnect the two Pacific Wave nodes. Plans for the Layer
2, Ethernet-based exchange facility include support for all IP
traffic types (IPv4, IPv6, and multicast) and jumbo frames. The
Pacific Wave 10 Gig-E facility from Los Angeles to Seattle is expected
to be deployed by the summer of 2004. The program will be jointly
managed by CENIC and PNWGP.
Both CENIC and the PNWGP work to enhance network services for research
and education in their regions, and each are actively engaged in
the collaborative deployment of the National LambdaRail (NLR).
The availability of the NLR facility made it simple to provision
the first connector between LA and Seattle.
PNWGP has operated an international peering facility in Seattle
since 1998, which has significant participation by federal and
Pacific Rim research and education entities. The University of
Southern California (USC), a founding member of CENIC, has operated
the Los Angeles Access Point (LAAP) since 1996 and is partnering
with CENIC to transition the LAAP to become the Pacific Wave Los
Angeles connection point. Current participants of these two peering
locations will benefit from the advanced capabilities of the new
Pacific Wave international peering collaboration.
Some of the organizations already participating in peering at these
locations
include AARNet (Australian Academic & Research Network), Boeing Research,
CA*Net4 (Canada's Research and Education Internet Backbone), Defense Research & Engineering
Network (DREN), Energy Sciences Network (ESNet), GEMnet, Internet2/Abilene, Microsoft
Corporation, SingAREN (Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network), and
TANET2 (Taiwan Academic Network).
For more information about Pacific Wave, visit www.pacificwave.net
CENIC is a not-for-profit corporation serving the California Institute of
Technology, California State University, Stanford University, University of California,
University
of Southern California, California Community Colleges and the statewide K-12
school system. CENIC’s mission is to facilitate and coordinate the development,
deployment and operation of a set of robust multi-tiered advanced network services
for this research and education community. For more information about CENIC,
visit www.cenic.org
PNWGP is the Northwest's Next Generation Internet, Internet2/Abilene applications
cooperative, testbed, point of presence, and home to the Pacific Wave International
Peering Service. PNWGP and Pacific Wave connect 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, Australia, and Japan. For more information about
PNWGP, visit www.pnw-gigapop.net
CONTACT:
Julie M. Van Fleet, President
Van Fleet & Associates
Voice: 619.276.0090
Email: julie@vanfleet.us
www.vanfleet.us
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