a state-of-the-art model designed to address With Pacific Wave, institutions are able to
this unique requirement. leverage new levels of scale and performance,
Pacific Wave is an international Internet
exchange facility that connects the research
and education community of the Pacific Rim. It
is operated in collaboration with the University
of Southern California and the University of
Washington and is a joint project between
CENIC (the Corporation for Education
Network Initiatives in California) and PNWGP
CENIC AND PNWGP
Pacific Wave Network Enables Researchers
to Push New Boundaries
enabling them to access scientific instruments
and exchange data with their research
collaborators throughout the region. It enables
on-demand connectivity between the various
global points of presence and includes the
following services on its own dedicated but
interconnected wavelengths:
•
A distributed, fully open, peering and
(Pacific Northwest Gigapop). Pacific Wave exchange fabric with access points on a
provides connectivity for research and 100-Gigabit backbone that spans Seattle,
education institutions across the United States Sunnyvale and Los Angeles to which nearly
through Internet2 (I2). It was the world’s first all Pacific Rim R&E networks connect —
100-Gigabit per second (Gbps) Research and and which is in turn interconnected with all
Education (R&E) network link between Asia USA R&E backbones including Internet2
and the United States and is the official USA and ESnet (each with multiple 100-Gigabit
National Science Foundation (NFS) funded connections) as well as the major cloud
interconnection and peering facility and providers and international ISP;
Software Defined Internet Exchange (SDX)
for Pacific Rim research networks.
•
A wide-area Research DMZ platform with a
dedicated 100-Gigabit backbone among Los
The Pacific Wave Network’s fiber connects Angeles, Sunnyvale and Seattle and also
From finding the next new medical breakthrough to investigating particle physics
and beyond, almost all of today’s research involves a great deal of collaboration. Seattle down to Los Angeles, with landing access in Tokyo (at WIDE/T-REX and Tata
stations that work with the international pops), Denver, Albuquerque, El Paso and
networks across the Asia Pacific region. Chicago (at StarLight) via shared
In order to effectively work on projects datasets are involved, it is important to have International circuits land onto the Pacific 100-Gigabit wavelengths
that typically span multiple institutions an exchange point where international and Wave backbone and then peer with each throughout the U.S. and the world, researchers domestic networks can land and where data other and with I2, CENIC, PNWGP and the need reliable, high-speed access to extremely can be sent directly between the networks of U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences the collaborators at unprecedented speeds, Network (ESnet) — becoming an international and extremely low latency. Ensuring simplified exchange point for research and education access, rock solid reliability and, direct serving the entire Asia Pacific area. Pacific The NSF funds Science DMZs, an architecture
connectivity, with research-level performance, Wave also now has a presence in Japan with a developed by ESnet (Department of Energy’s
is becoming table stakes to the work and recently established 100-Gigabit circuit that science network) that enables large amounts of
effectiveness of today’s researcher. The goes from Seattle to Tokyo. scientific data to be moved between labs and
large datasets and intensive computing
resources.
In the western United States, many
universities have field study areas throughout
the Asia Pacific region and beyond. When
continuous connectivity to extremely large
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recently developed Pacific Wave Network is
PACIFIC WAVE IN ACTION:
Pacific Research Platform and the Future
of Collaboration
collaborators’ sites, supercomputer centers,
Stronger Together
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