LA MIRADA, Calif. – The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California has established five new 100 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) links between the California Research and Education Network and Internet2.
Two new 100G connections in Los Angeles will support a variety of research purposes, along with a third 100G connection at Sunnyvale that will also connect to Internet2’s Advanced Layer 2 Services. Along with these, two connections between CalREN and Internet2’s TR-CPS national peering infrastructure will be upgraded to 20 Gb/s and can scale to 100 Gb/s.
CENIC designs, implements, and operates CalREN, a high-bandwidth, high-capacity Internet network specially designed to meet the unique requirements of California’s K-20 research and education communities. CalREN consists of a 3,800-mile fiber-optic CENIC-operated backbone to which institutions in all 58 of the state’s counties connect via leased circuits obtained from telecom carriers or via CENIC owned fiber-optic cable. In total, nearly 11 million Californians use CalREN every day.
“Evaluating climate change over the complex ocean/air/land domain of the California region often requires remote calculations that involve a high volume of input and output,” said Dan Cayan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography climate researcher based at UC San Diego. “The development of this high-speed data connection between CENIC and Internet2 allows us to think about tackling a much higher level of regional modeling problems than we have before. More clarity on how climate change will unfold is vital to the needs of many stakeholders whose decisions affect developed and natural systems.”
CENIC and Internet2 serve some of the most advanced and innovative research institutions in the world, including universities, supercomputing centers and large-scale scientific facilities. These new ultra high bandwidth connections will enable more effective nationwide and global collaboration on pressing data-intensive scientific challenges, the solutions to which are heavily dependent on advanced networks.
