Cable & Wireless to Provide 'Distributed STAR TAP' Global Network Connectivity.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000 U.S.-based Education & Research Initiative Designates Cable & Wireless' Direct Connect and Global ATM to Link Collaborative Scientific Efforts Worldwide Cable & Wireless (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CWP CWP Coal workers' pneumoconiosis, see there ), the global telecommunications group, today announced it has been chosen as a preferred provider of network connectivity services for the STAR TAP(sm) (Science, Technology, and Research Transit Access Point) initiative. The STAR TAP initiative provides the premier global Next Generation Internet See Internet2. Exchange (NGIX NGIX Next Generation Internet Exchange ) point for advanced, networked science and engineering applications. STAR TAP is the primary peering location for international connectivity. It connects U.S. federal agency networks, including the National Science Foundation's vBNS, the Department of Energy's ESnet, The Department of Defense's DREN, and NASA's NREN NREN - National Research and Education Network , as well as the Internet2's Abilene network Abilene Network is the U.S. high-performance backbone network created by the Internet2 community. One of the project's aims was to achieve 100 megabit connectivity between every node by the end of 2006. , with their counterparts worldwide. International networks connected to STAR TAP include Canada's CA-net3, France's RENATER2, The Netherlands' SURFnet, Nordic countries' NORDUnet, Israel's IUCC IUCC Inter University Computation Center , the CERN CERN or European Organization for Nuclear Research, nuclear and particle physics research center straddling the French-Swiss border W of Geneva, Switzerland. European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Russia's MIRnet, the Asia-Pacific Rim (APAN APAN Asia Pacific Area Network APAN Acetone Peroxide Ammonium Nitrate (high-order explosive) APAN AEGIS Performance Assessment Network APAN Association of Professional Aerial Navigators ), Singapore's SingAREN and Taiwan's TANet. This connectivity enables researchers at more than 100 leading-edge American research universities, Federal research laboratories and supercomputer centers to work with collaborators on network-intensive applications, including real-time interactive computing and visualization, shared virtual spaces, remote instrument control, and streaming video. This infrastructure also enables networking researchers to develop and test emerging broadband services, such as resource control and reservation, new protocols, and high-bandwidth global grids. Because STAR TAP's Chicago location is not close to most transoceanic cable landings and satellite teleports, the high-bandwidth international connections typically needed to facilitate scientific ideas and conduct research online have been complex and generally inconvenient to build. The recent agreement between the two organizations allows Cable & Wireless to provide the world's academic communities with direct connections to STAR TAP -- called "Distributed STAR TAP(sm)" - over its global backbone network. "We're particularly pleased to be part of this initiative," said Todd Haven, vice president of IP Special Markets at Cable & Wireless. "STAR TAP is a resource unlike any other, and it is a vitally important one - as the marketplace becomes more and more globalized, making international connections is critical to intellectual growth and advancement. It's important to Cable & Wireless to assist organizations like STAR TAP to open new doors of opportunity." "We welcome Cable & Wireless's commitment to provide Distributed STAR TAP service. Our goal is to make it easier and more cost-effective for advanced research networks worldwide to connect to the STAR TAP infrastructure in Chicago to facilitate collaboration with American scientists," said Tom DeFanti, STAR TAP Principal Investigator. Earlier in 1999, Cable & Wireless announced it is investing $670 million in the U.S. to build the industry's fastest, high-capacity network that fully integrates Internet, data, voice and messaging communications. The company is also in the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of a three-year, $3 billion program to enhance the capacity and speed of its global network. About Cable & Wireless With customers in 70 countries, Cable & Wireless is a major global telecommunications business with revenue of around $14 billion in the year ended March 1999 and over 50,000 employees. Its businesses around the world offer a range of services spanning broadband data and Internet services, fixed and mobile voice, as well as interactive entertainment and information. Cable & Wireless' priority for expansion is the fast growing market of data and IP (Internet Protocol) services for business customers. Since November 1998, it has announced major investments in advanced networks in the US and Europe, the restructuring of Cable & Wireless Communications in the UK and has acquired full control of Cable & Wireless IDC in Japan to support this strategy. Cable & Wireless now holds a unique position in terms of global coverage and services to business customers. About STAR TAP STAR TAP, the Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point, is a persistent infrastructure to facilitate the long-term interconnection and interoperability of advanced international networking in support of applications, performance measuring, and technology evaluations. The STAR TAP anchors the international vBNS connections program. STAR TAP is made possible by major funding from the National Science Foundation, awards ANI-9712283 and ANI-9980480, to the University of Illinois at Chicago This article is about the University of Illinois at Chicago. For other uses, see University of Illinois at Chicago (disambiguation). UIC participates in NCAA Division I Horizon League competition as the UIC Flames in several sports, most notably Basketball. . For more information, see http://www.startap.net. STAR TAP and Distributed STAR TAP are service marks of the Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. 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