California network establishes 10-gigabit I2 connection

released July 15, 2003

Internet2 and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced recently that CalREN, California's high-performance research and education network, has established the first 10-gigabit-per-second connection to the Internet2 Abilene backbone network. In addition to providing greater bandwidth, this new connection will allow millions of researchers, faculty members and students at thousands of institutions connected to CalREN to take advantage of advanced networking capabilities such as line-speed native IPv6 and scalable multicasting. The connection was first established to support the Internet2 Member Meeting held in Los Angeles in October 2002.

CalREN is a high-speed, advanced services network that connects California research and education institutions more than 1000 times faster than the commodity Internet. The CalREN Optical Network Infrastructure (ONI) is multi-tiered and supplies the high-level network services needed to conduct high-performance research activities. It also provides network researchers in California with the infrastructure needed to investigate into optical networking technology.

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