[CAnet - news] New Western Hemisphere Connectivity - AtlanticWave, CAnet 4 and StarLight

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 AtlanticWave, CAnet 4 and StarLight Improve International Research
Collaboration

Washington, D.C. – The new AtlanticWave high performance digital
communications service has been interconnected with two additional
international networking facilities – CAnet 4 and StarLight – to complete
linking up the North American international exchange points. AtlanticWave,
officially launched by the Southeastern Universities Research Association
(SURA) and a group of collaborating not-for-profit organizations, is a 10
Gigabit per second (Gbps) distributed international research network
exchange and peering facility along the Atlantic coast of North and South
America. The main goal of AtlanticWave is to facilitate research and
education (R&E) collaborations between U.S. and Latin American institutions.


CAnet, Canada’s advanced national research and education network, with
facilities in the US, has established a 10 Gbps connection to the
AtlanticWave in New York City from the StarLight Global Optical Lambda
Exchange (GOLE), an international communications exchange in Chicago. The
CAnet 4 and StarLight organizations manage the StarLight GOLE to provide
interconnection services with advanced research networks world-wide.
AtlanticWave, CAnet 4, and StarLight support the GLIF (Global Lambda
Integrated Facility - www.glif.is) GOLE architectural and service model.
These GOLEs are implementing hybrid network multilayer services, instead of
the traditional single layer model based on packet routing.

StarLight has also connected to the AtlanticWave in Washington DC through
the CAVEwave, a specialized national 10 Gbps network designed and
implemented for advanced research managed by the Electronic Visualization
Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Chicago. At StarLight, both
CAnet 4 and CAVEwave also provide AtlanticWave traffic with connectivity to
the TransLight  circuit that connects StarLight to a GOLE in Seattle (the
Pacific Northwest Gigapop). This TransLight circuit is a 10 Gbps Cisco
Research Wave deployed on the National LambdaRail that interconnects two
National Science Foundation-funded International Research Network Connection
(IRNC) initiatives: TransLight/Pacific West and TransLight/StarLight.
Through the Seattle GOLE, this facility has extensions that reach
Asia-Pacific through the PacificWave, 2 x 10Gbps lightpaths in operation
between LA and Seattle. From LA to Tijuana, two additional circuits are
provided by the NSF IRNC Translight/PacificWave and WHREN-LILA projects.
>From Tijuana, connections exist to other Latin American and South American
research network connections. 

The advanced networking services to South America are made possible, in
part, through a third NSF IRNC funded project – the Western Hemisphere
Research and Education Networks - Links Interconnecting Latin America
(WHREN-LILA). Collectively, these projects are creating an integrated
exchange infrastructure that includes high performance circuits that link
the eastern coast of South America, the Atlantic coast of North America,
across the US and Canada through the Chicago StarLight, the Pacific coast of
North American, and the western coast of Mexico and South America. This
unique combined and leveraged infrastructure facilitates US, Canadian,
European, Pacific Rim and Latin American high performance network
connections, especially for large-scale global science. 

AtlanticWave, CAnet 4, StarLight and PacificWave are supporting a large
number of advanced technology demonstrations at the SC06, a national
supercomputing and high performance communications conference being held in
Tampa, Florida, November 13-17.


About AtlanticWave
AtlanticWave provides R&E network exchange and peering services for multiple
advanced networks that interconnect at key exchange points along the
Atlantic Coast of North and South America. AtlanticWave was proposed as an
integral component of the successful proposal submitted to the National
Science Foundation International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program
by Florida International University (FIU) and the Corporation for Education
Network Initiatives in California (CENIC).  SURA has played a vital role in
the actual creation of AtlanticWave, by providing the initial funds needed
to purchase a 10-Gigabit Ethernet wave on the National LambdaRail (NLR) and
the Florida LambdaRail (FLR) to interconnect the four east coast U.S.
exchange points, as well as facilitating the formation of the collaboration.
The organizations collaborating in establishing and operating AtlanticWave
include SURA, FIU, FLR, Southern Light Rail (SLR), MAX, Internet2, and the
International Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF). For more
information, visit www.atlanticwave.net. 

About CANARIE and CAnet 4
CANARIE, Canada’s advanced Internet development organization, is a
not-for-profit corporation supported by its members, project partners and
the Federal Government. Since 1993, CANARIE has received more than $350
million from the Government of Canada. That funding has been used for the
research and implementation of advanced networks and applications that
stimulate economic growth and increase Canada’s international
competitiveness. CAnet 4 is the fourth generation of Canada’s research and
education network.  CANARIE’s mission is to accelerate Canada’s advanced
Internet development and use by facilitating the widespread adoption of
faster, more efficient networks and by enabling the next generation of
advanced products, applications and services to run on them.  For more
information, visit www.canarie.ca.

About StarLight (sm)
StarLight is an advanced optical infrastructure and proving ground for
network services optimized for high-performance, large scale national and
global applications. Operational since summer 2001, StarLight has 1GE and
10GE switch/router facilities and true optical switching for wavelengths.
StarLight is being developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory
(EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the International
Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR) at Northwestern University,
and the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National
Laboratory, in partnership with Canada's CANARIE and the Netherlands'
SURFnet. StarLight receives major funding from the National Science
Foundation. 
For more information, visit www.startap.net/starlight. 

About Pacific Wave and TransLight/Pacific Wave
Pacific Wave is a joint project between the Corporation for Education
Network  Initiatives in California (CENIC) and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop
(PNWGP),  and is operated in collaboration with the University of Southern
California and the University of Washington. Pacific Wave enhances research
and education network capabilities by increasing network efficiency,
reducing latency, increasing throughput, and reducing costs. The USA
National Science Foundation provides support for Pacific Wave and research
connectivity from the U.S. West Coast to Australia through Hawaii in the
"TransLight/PacificWave" award to the University of Southern California. 
For more information, visit http://www.pacificwave.net and
http://www.pacificwave.net/participants/irnc.

About AMPATH and WHREN-LILA
Florida International University’s Center for Internet Augmented Research
and Assessment (CIARA) has developed the AMPATH (AMericasPATH)
international, high-performance research exchange point in Miami, Florida.
AMPATH’s goal is to enable a variety of U.S. research programs in the region
by acting as the major international exchange point (IXP) between the U.S.
and the international research and education networks in South America,
Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The AMPATH IXP is home to the
WHREN-LILA high-performance network link connecting Latin America to the
U.S., funded by the NSF (award #0441095) and the Academic Network of São
Paulo, Brazil (award #2003/13708-0).  
For more information, visit www.ampath.fiu.edu. 

About SURA
The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) is a consortium of
over 60 leading research institutions in the southern United States and the
District of Columbia established in 1980 as a non-stock, non-profit
corporation. SURA serves as an entity through which colleges, universities,
and other organizations may cooperate with one another, and with government
and industry in acquiring, developing, and using laboratories and other
research facilities, and in furthering knowledge and the application of that
knowledge in the physical, biological, and other natural sciences and
engineering. 
For more information, visit www.sura.org.

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