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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Special Features:
CENIC, PNWGP CREATE FIRST
EXTENSIBLE PEERING COLLABORATION
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 United States.
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.
"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 Los Angeles
and Seattle. Moreover, the the Pacific Wave project has great synergy with the
NLR project objectives.
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, 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 XPOPconnection point. Current participants of these two peering
locations will benefit from the advanced capabilities of the new Pacific Wave
international peering collaboration.
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