http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/06/21/universities-advance-high-speed-trans-atlantic-network.aspx
The group has signed with Hibernia Atlantic to use its transatlantic fiber optic cable for data communications. Indiana University, lead partner for the America Connects to Europe Project (ACE Project), said the organization will be using Hibernia's network to connect participating universities and labs with European counterparts. Last year Indiana U received a National Science Foundation award of $4.6 million to fund this latest high-speed international network service.
The project is also receiving funding from GÉANT, a multi-domain topology that spans 34 European countries to connect 30 million researchers. The infrastructure in that existing initiative is supplied by the non-profit Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (DANTE).
At the same time Indiana U received the ACE funding, it also received the same amount to continue its network connection work with Asia in the TransPAC3 project, which has been going on for at least a decade. The university is the lead institution for the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program, an umbrella effort to support high-performance network connectivity between this country and the international community. ACE is one of several components within the IRNC program.
Hibernia's network delivers 10 Gbps capacity between New York and Amsterdam and between Washington, DC and Frankfurt. The plan is to deploy several 10 Gbps "waves," starting with 40 Gbps and growing that to 100 Gbps.
The group has signed with Hibernia Atlantic to use its transatlantic fiber optic cable for data communications. Indiana University, lead partner for the America Connects to Europe Project (ACE Project), said the organization will be using Hibernia's network to connect participating universities and labs with European counterparts. Last year Indiana U received a National Science Foundation award of $4.6 million to fund this latest high-speed international network service.
The project is also receiving funding from GÉANT, a multi-domain topology that spans 34 European countries to connect 30 million researchers. The infrastructure in that existing initiative is supplied by the non-profit Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (DANTE).
At the same time Indiana U received the ACE funding, it also received the same amount to continue its network connection work with Asia in the TransPAC3 project, which has been going on for at least a decade. The university is the lead institution for the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program, an umbrella effort to support high-performance network connectivity between this country and the international community. ACE is one of several components within the IRNC program.
Hibernia's network delivers 10 Gbps capacity between New York and Amsterdam and between Washington, DC and Frankfurt. The plan is to deploy several 10 Gbps "waves," starting with 40 Gbps and growing that to 100 Gbps.
