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News: Category Archives: Press Release
Pacific Wave Announces World’s First Trans-Pacific 100-Gigabit R&E Network
Categories RENS & NRENS Press Release
Pacific Wave is pleased to announce that the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) has established the world’s first 100-Gigabit per second (Gbps) research and education (R&E) network link between Asia and the U.S., with related transit, peering, and exchange fabric. Pacific Wave will provide this 100Gbps capability to the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded International Research Network Connections (IRNC) TransPAC4 project, led by Indiana University. Pacific Wave recently received a five-year NSF IRNC award to serve as the U.S. Pacific Rim’s open and distributed interconnection, peering, and exchange fabric, including Software-Defined Exchange (SDX), Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and research DMZ capabilities.
CENIC Awarded International Networking Grant from NSF
Categories RENS & NRENS Press Release
CENIC announced today that it, along with the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP), has been awarded a grant of nearly $3.5M from the National Science Foundation’s International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program.
NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform-UC San Diego, UC Berkeley lead creation of West
Categories Cultural & Scientific RENS & NRENS Press Release
NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform- UC San Diego, UC Berkeley lead creation of West Coast big data freeway system.
Innovations in Public Libraries: The California Library Broadband Initiative
Categories Libraries Press Release
Tags digital divide libraries
With the California State Library, CENIC, and Califa’s Library Initiative underway, the timeliness and relevance of an examination of broadband in the state’s public libraries couldn’t be better. In this Monday session, a great perspective on where things stand now, where they are headed, and how California will get there was provided by Tom Fortin (San Mateo County Library), Derek Wolrfgram (Redwood City Public Library), and Cliff Frost (CENIC).
Science DMZ as a Security Architecture
Categories RENS & NRENS Security Press Release
Tags esnet science dmz security
ESnet's Mike Sinatra looks at how Science DMZ can solve -- and can't solve -- problems relating to network security
High-Performance Big-Science Pacific Research Platform Debuts at CENIC 2015 Annual Conference
Categories University of California RENS & NRENS Press Release
Tags esnet pacific wave
High-Performance Big-Science Pacific Research Platform Debuts at CENIC 2015 Annual Conference
100-Gigabit Upgrade for CENIC’s California Research & Education Network
Categories RENS & NRENS Press Release
Tags 100gigabit calren layer2
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced the completion of a 100-Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) upgrade for the core backbone of the California Research & Education Network (CalREN), the 3,800-mile fiber-based advanced network currently serving the Golden State’s research and education communities, including the California K-12 System, California’s Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, and many private universities including Caltech, Stanford, and USC, as well as a rapidly growing list of other institutions.
Pacific Wave Announces Diverse 40G TransPacific Capacity to Australia and New Zealand
Categories Press Release
Pacific Wave</a> today announced the completion of a second 40-Gigabit per second (Gb/s) connection from the US West Coast to Australia and New Zealand. Crossing the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles through the Big Island of Hawaii and on to Australia, this ultra-high-performance network link complements an existing 40 Gb/s link from Seattle through Oahu to Australia.
100-Gigabit Connectivity to Pacific Wave International Peering Exchange for ESnet
Categories CSU Press Release
Tags esnet
Pacific Wave announced the completion of a 100-Gigabit connection for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-speed computer network serving US Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories and scientific facilities. With the completion of this new connection in Sunnyvale, CA, ESnet has upgraded its peering capabilities to research networks in 40 countries throughout the Pacific Rim and beyond.
John Dundas III Appointed Vice President and CTO of CENIC
Categories Press Release
President & CEO Louis Fox is pleased to announce the appointment of John Dundas III as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of CENIC. Formerly the Director of Voice and Data Networks in the Information Management Systems and Services Department at the California Institute of Technology, Dundas has been part of CENIC since its inception in 1997.