TransitRail on the Move: National Peering Program Announces East Coast Connection Point.Other Institutions Can Anticipate Savings Such as Those Enjoyed by Major Utah Institutions and Oklahoma Network CYPRESS, Calif. -- The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1996 to provide high-performance, high-bandwidth networking services to California universities and research institutions. (CENIC CENIC Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California CENIC Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas (Cuba) ) and Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) today announced the expansion of the TransitRail national commodity peering program with the activation of a connection point in Ashburn, VA. The first TransitRail node to be activated east of the Mississippi, the Ashburn node has been put into service ahead of schedule and will soon be joined by a fifth node in Chicago, IL. Together with the current nodes in Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , these two new connection points will give the TransitRail peering program a national footprint and enable research and education institutions to take advantage of low-cost network peering on a national scale. Already, the addition of the Ashburn node has enhanced the significant benefits available through participation in TransitRail. The University of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. and the Utah System of Higher Education The Utah State Board of Regents was formed in 1969 as a governing body for the Utah System of Higher Education. It is made up of the College of Eastern Utah, Dixie State College of Utah, Salt Lake Community College, Snow College, Southern Utah University, the University of Utah, is one of many participants that has seen significant benefits from TransitRail. "We are pleased that TransitRail now carries up to 50 percent of the commodity Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. for Utah education. It is cost effective and provides excellent performance. A high-demand connection that required 25 hops can now be made in just six. This collaboration with the Utah Education Network The Utah Education Network (UEN) is a not-for-profit consortium of higher and public education, libraries, state government and business. UEN’s high speed computer network connects Utah colleges and universities as well as the state’s school districts and libraries. , Front Range GigaPop, and other higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. partners provides economy and a high level of service to our stakeholders," said Steve Hess, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. for the University of Utah and the Utah System of Higher Education. To an institution concerned about the costs of their Internet connectivity, participating in TransitRail can spell significant savings over the higher-cost commodity Internet. Oklahoma's OneNet, a high-performance network dedicated to education and government, has been a participant in the TransitRail program since December 2006 and has seen cost savings and usage far beyond what they anticipated. They and other networks participate in TransitRail via their National LambdaRail National LambdaRail is a high-speed national computer network in the United States that runs over fiber-optic lines, and is the first transcontinental Ethernet network. The name is shared by the organization of research institutions that developed the network, and, to date, plans (NLR NLR Nationaal Lucht en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (Dutch: National Aerospace Laboratory, the Netherlands) NLR No License Required NLR Narrow-Line Region (astronomy) NLR Nazi Low Riders ) connection, leveraging NLR's cutting-edge national infrastructure. TransitRail's U.S. footprint is connected by 10Gbps waves provided by National LambdaRail (NLR). Each TransitRail node will be connected to, and accessible at, NLR points of presence throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . TransitRail peers with major ISPs, and its current participant base represents a substantial segment of the research and education community within the United States. TransitRail is available to any interested R&E network groups. Both peers and participants are expected to grow significantly as TransitRail continues to expand its operations. For more information about TransitRail, please contact info@transitrail.net. About TransitRail TransitRail is a national-level AUP-free commodity peering program jointly implemented and operated by CENIC and PNWGP in a consortia-type arrangement with TransitRail members. CENIC and PNWGP have significant individual and joint experience with peering facilities and existing relationships with prospective peering partners. Together, they have a combined track record of nearly 20 years of commodity peering activity. Joint operations of a peering facility are not new to PNWGP and CENIC. Since 2004, they have successfully and jointly operated the extended R&E Pacific Wave peering facilities (Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Los Angeles). Their working relationship is already well cemented with communications and processes that can be leveraged in support of TransitRail. CENIC and PNWGP staff are experienced in all facets of peering: peering solicitations, contracts, policies, infrastructure, monitoring, reporting, routing, troubleshooting, NOC-related functions, and participant support. CENIC and PNWGP already have over 80 established peering relationships with major regional and national entities. A majority of CENIC's and PNWGP's existing commodity peers will all be available for participation in TransitRail. More information about TransitRail can be found at http://www.transitrail.net/. More information about CENIC can be found at http://www.cenic.org/. More information about Pacific Northwest Gigapop can be found at http://www.pnwgp.net/. |
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