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Global Big-Data Collaboration Gets Easier with Two New 100 Gbps Connections to CENIC and Pacific Wave for ESnet

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Researchers with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN. Photo by Michael Hoch.
© 2017 CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Used with permission.

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC) is pleased to announce the turn-up of two 100 Gbps connections in Los Angeles: one between the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and CENIC and the other between ESnet and the Pacific Wave international distributed peering facility for research and education (R&E) networks.

These two 100 Gbps peering connections now function alongside ESnet’s existing 100 Gbps connections to Pacific Wave in Sunnyvale, CA and Seattle, WA. With these new connections, researchers at ESnet will enjoy greater performance and improved latency when collaborating with researchers both worldwide and within California—particularly with facilities in the southern part of the state, such as Caltech, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and UCLA.

“The new peering with CENIC and Pacific Wave enables science researchers to have improved performance to Department of Energy user facilities, datasets, and collaborators. Together with CENIC, we are excited to provide this high-speed access to benefit California’s research and education community as well as science collaborators in Asia and on the west coast who are connected by Pacific Wave,” said Inder Monga, Executive Director of ESnet.

One example of a major international collaboration that will benefit from the improved connectivity within and beyond California is the Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G)—a community of network professionals from national R&E networking (NREN) organizations all over the world. The GNA-G works together to better align resources and make continent-to-continent interconnections more efficient for global science collaborations and transnational education.

The GNA-G has several working groups, one of which—the Data-Intensive Sciences Working Group—brings together the world’s NRENs and leading science programs with the joint mission of meeting the challenges of fostering a new generation of multidomain services and agile R&E network operations spanning world regions. Harvey Newman, Professor of Physics at Caltech and Chair of this working group, said, “The new peerings and 100 Gbps connections between CENIC and ESnet in Los Angeles represent another major step forward in the multifaceted collaboration with Caltech, UCSD, the National Research Platform, Internet2, and many US and international partners in the GNA-G, who are working to meet the needs of the Large Hadron Collider and other data-intensive science programs.

”Newman added that the new connections to ESnet will accelerate the development of the next-generation network-integrated system, which will meet these programs’ needs for worldwide data distribution, processing, and collaborative analysis on unprecedented scales while supporting the continued efficient use of these networks by current academic and research communities.

About CENIC | www.cenic.org
CENIC connects California to the world—advancing education and research statewide by providing the world-class network essential for innovation, collaboration, and economic growth. This nonprofit organization operates the California Research and Education Network (CalREN), a high-capacity network designed to meet the unique requirements of over 20 million users, including the vast majority of K-20 students together with educators, researchers and others at vital public-serving institutions. CENIC’s Charter Associates are part of the world’s largest education system; they include the California K-12 system, California Community Colleges, the California State University system, California’s Public Libraries, the University of California system, Stanford, Caltech, USC, and the Naval Postgraduate School. CENIC also provides connectivity to leading-edge institutions and industry research organizations around the world, serving the public as a catalyst for a vibrant California.

About Pacific Wave | www.pacificwave.net
Pacific Wave (PacWave) is a distributed, Research and Education (R&E)-focused, open Internet exchange. It provides for very high-performance Internet connectivity among US Science and Engineering R&E institutions and their international partners and is critical infrastructure for access to internationally supported instruments and large-scale data sources and repositories.

Pacific Wave enables large-scale scientific workflows to accelerate discovery in all areas of science and engineering, including high-energy physics, Earth sciences, astronomy and astrophysics, biology, and biomedical engineering, as well as scalable visualization, virtual reality, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

About ESnet | www.es.net
The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is a high-performance, unclassified network built to support scientific research. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) and managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides services to more than 50 DOE research sites, including the entire National Laboratory system, its supercomputing facilities, and its major scientific instruments, as well as to additional research and commercial networks. Through ESnet, DOE-funded scientists collaborate on some of the world’s most important scientific challenges, from the origins of the universe to the future of energy and climate science.

ARENA-PAC Indonesia Segment starts to be operated as a new high-speed path to institutions connected via IDREN

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New 100-gigabits path from Guam to Malang stimulates the development of use cases and applications for research and education institutions in Indonesia

February 1, 2023 – The recently activated Guam–Malang link announced today marks the operation of new high-speed connectivity to support elevating services and collaboration available to research and education (R&E) parties in Indonesia. The operation of this connectivity was achieved as per the MoU signed among Arterial Research and Educational Network in the Asia Pacific (ARENA-PAC), Universitas Brawijaya (UB), and Indonesia Research and Education Network (IDREN) on August 31, 2022.

The 100 Gbps ARENA-PAC network connects to IDREN, with UB as its gateway, to Tokyo and other locations through Guam. The connection marks a giant leap for the R&E community in Indonesia to be able to exchange data more quickly and boost possible wider collaboration with the global R&E community.

JGA South is Ready for Service – 36 Tbps Interconnecting Australia, Asia and the United States

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Singapore, 27 March 2020 – A consortium including RTI Connectivity Pte. Ltd. (RTI), AARNet Pty Ltd (AARNet) and Google announced that the construction of the Japan-Guam-Australia South Cable System (JGA South) has been successfully completed and is ready for service. The approximately 7,000-kilometer fiber optic submarine cable system between Piti, Guam and Sydney, Australia with a branch to the Sunshine Coast, will have an initial design capacity of more than 36 terabits per second (36 Tbps). The Sunshine Coast branch is the first undersea fiber optic cable to land on the east coast of Australia outside of Sydney.

Cable Ship Île-de-Bréhat bringing the cable ashore in Sydney, Australia
 
 
JGA South greatly improves communications networks from Australia to Asia and the United States by enhancing network diversity and expanding onward connectivity.
 
Russ Matulich, RTI’s CEO, said, “Everyone deserves easy access to international networks that offer diversity, scalability and onward connectivity. JGA South is now easily accessible across Equinix’s Sydney campus and will soon be connected in Brisbane. Not only is JGA South the fastest path from Australia to Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Guam, but it also interconnects seamlessly to all RTI cables through GNC – RTI’s neutral cable landing station and data center on Guam. RTI’s infrastructure investments that interconnect our cables and data centers to neutral cities across Asia, Australia and the US, give our customers complete confidence that their critical content is safely and securely delivered over our state-of-the-art 100 Gbps network.”
 
Chris Hancock, AARNet’s CEO said, “The on-time completion of JGA South is a milestone for AARNet as we expand our reach into North Asia. The recent impact of the new coronavirus on the Australian research and education community has been both unexpected and devastating. AARNet moved immediately to procure additional capacity on our existing links into North Asia to meet the increased demand for video conferencing, remote learning and personal communications. JGA South, will in the future, form an essential link to all points north in Asia and our long-term investments in international infrastructure will provide us the control to not only cope with events like this but more importantly to facilitate the significant future data growth for research and education.”
 
JGA South, a consortium cable among AARNet, Google and RTI, is the southern segment of the Japan-Guam-Australia Cable System, between Piti, Guam and Sydney, Australia, with a branch to the Sunshine Coast. JGA South was manufactured and built by Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN). JGA North, the northern segment between Minami-Boso, Japan and Piti, Guam, is a private cable with RTI as the sole investor. JGA North is being manufactured and built by NEC Corporation and is scheduled for completion in summer 2020. Both JGA North and JGA South will interconnect in Guam at GNC, a neutral and combined cable-landing station and data center.
 
RTI’s owned assets are summarized as follows:
  • Southeast Asia-United States Cable System (SEA-US), commercially available since 3Q 2017, with an initial design capacity of 20 Tbps;
  • JGA South, now commercially available, with an initial design capacity exceeding 36 Tbps;
  • JGA North will become commercially available in summer 2020, with an initial design capacity of 24 Tbps;
  • Hong Kong-Guam Cable System (HK-G), will become commercially available in 2H 2021, with an initial design capacity of 48 Tbps;
  • Hong Kong-Americas Cable System (HKA), where RTI is a consortium member and will own an initial design capacity of 6 Tbps;
  • Hermosa Beach (HMB), a carrier-neutral 1MW scaled facility located in Hermosa Beach, California landing four international subsea cables connecting Los Angeles to Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Hawaii and Guam; and
  • Gateway Network Connections (GNC), a purpose-built carrier-neutral 2MW data center landing JGA North and HK-G, and which will enable connections to all Guam cable landing stations.
Taken together, RTI’s ownership on these cables exceeds 100 Tbps, totaling 38,110 kilometers, and connecting 7 cities, 4 countries, 3 continents and 2 hemispheres over a single seamless network.

Hawaiki seals new capacity deal with REANNZ to boost global research collaboration

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https://www.reannz.co.nz/news-and-events/hawaiki-seals-new-capacity-deal-with-reannz-to-boost-global-research-collaboration/

  • REANNZ strengthens network with additional capacity and resiliency

  • Hawaiki delivers all-in-one connectivity solution involving multiple cables and services

  • REANNZ expands reach in the Pacific with new subsea routes and PoPs


Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP and Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand today announced the signing of a significant agreement to provide the country’s peak research network with a crucial boost in international cable capacity and resiliency.

REANNZ was an anchor tenant for the Hawaiki Transpacific Cable – launched for commercial service mid-2018. Its high-performance network allows researchers to send and receive massive data transfers within the global research and education communities, supporting real-time collaboration on critical research projects.

Following the contract signed today, Hawaiki will provide REANNZ with more resilient end-to-end connectivity, as well as additional capacity on both the Hawaiki network and diverse trans-Tasman and trans-Pacific subsea routes.

Dianna Taylor, Chief Executive Officer of REANNZ said: “We are delighted to be able to not only support our members through the robust service that we offer now, however with this next step we will provide a greater level of service resiliency that ensures continuity and grows opportunities”.

REANNZ will now expand its reach in Australia and the US, including new Points of Presence in Sydney, Guam and Hawaii, further strengthening its network infrastructure with future-proof capacity.

Remi Galasso, Chief Executive Officer of Hawaiki said it is natural the company would extend its partnership with REANNZ, and he looks forward to collaborating further in advancing the digital transformation of the Pacific.

“We are very proud to pursue our partnership with REANNZ and increase the scope of our collaboration. Research and Education are at the heart of Hawaiki’s development and this new contract will help to both extend and improve connections between research organizations throughout the region,”

The Hawaiki transpacific cable system is the fastest and largest capacity link between New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii and mainland United States.

The deal announced with REANNZ today comes after Hawaiki was honored at last month’s Pacific Telecommunications Council awards in Honolulu, taking home prizes for ‘Outstanding Ecosystem Collaboration’ and ‘Outstanding ICT Education Provider’ for the revolutionary HoloCampus telepresence project.

About Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP

Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, owns and operates the Hawaiki submarine cable system (Hawaiki). Hawaiki is the first and only carrier-neutral submarine cable linking Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Oregon, on the U.S. west coast. For more information, visit www.hawaikicable.co.nz or connect with Hawaiki on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About REANNZ

REANNZ is a Crown entity that operates the National Research and Education Network (NREN) for New Zealand. They provide a specialized high-performance network and other supporting services that connect and support creators and users in the science, research and education sectors both nationally and internationally. For more information, visit our website www.reannz.co.nz or follow REANNZ on Twitter.

Media contacts

David Binning
AwesomTech Media Consulting
+61 406 397 033
david.binning@awesomtech.com

REANNZ
Hannah Edwards
Communications and Marketing Manager
+64 21 197 6862
communications@reannz.co.nz

Alcatel Submarine Networks to Deploy an Unrepeated Cable to Connect Tokelau

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https://web.asn.com/en/press-room/alcatel-submarine-networks-to-deploy-an-unrepeated-cable-to-connect-tokelau.html

Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has been awarded a new system in the South Pacific Ocean that will connect the three Tokelau atolls of Atafu, Nukunonu and Fakaofo.

 

This unrepeated (OALC5) 250km-long open cable based on 2 fiber pairs and built by ASN, will provide a connection to the archipelago up to 20Tb/s.

 

This new subsea cable will be interconnected with the Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable, also built and deployed by ASN.

 

Currently using satellite to connect to the global network, Tokelau’s three atolls will be connected by subsea cable to Australia, New Zealand, the West Coast of the USA, Fiji and Kiribati, providing a great boost to international connectivity and bringing for the first time, high speed telecommunications capacity to Tokelau.

 

This new subsea cable will allow the Tokelau population to access all the services enabled by high-bandwidth communications and bring them into the worldwide digital community.

 

The Tokelau Cable is co-funded by the Government of New Zealand and the Government of Tokelau, and the cable will be managed by Teletok on behalf of the two government partners. The system will be ready at the beginning of 2021.


About Alcatel Submarine Networks

Alcatel Submarine Networks, part of Nokia, leads the industry in terms of transmission capacity and installed base with more than 650,000 km of optical submarine systems deployed worldwide, enough to circumnavigate the globe 15 times. From traditional Telecom applications to Content and “Over The Top” Service Provider infrastructures, as well as to offshore Oil and Gas applications, ASN provides all elements of a turnkey global undersea transmission systems, tailored to individual customer’s needs. An extensive Services portfolio completes its comprehensive offering for the submarine business, including project management, installation and commissioning, along with marine and maintenance operations performed by ASN’s fully owned fleet of cable ships.


Alcatel Submarine Networks media contact

Guillaume FAUSTEN

communications@asn.com

UH president highlights advancements at global communications conference

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UH President Lassner at the 2019 IEEE GLOBECOM Conference

University of Hawaiʻi President David Lassner was a keynote speaker at the 2019 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Global Communications Conference. The GLOBECOM conference was held December 9–13 at the Hilton Waikoloa Village.

Lassner’s presentation, “Advanced Networking for Research and Education: View from the Pacific,” discussed R&E Networking (REN) updates in the Pacific. It also featured new initiatives that help include Pacific islands in global research and education networks, such as the Guam Open R&E Exchange, the 3D HoloCampus project that connects Hawaiʻi and American Samoa for education, the PolyREN initiative in French Polynesia, and the new submarine fiber systems that link other island nations and economies.

About GLOBECOM

GLOBECOM is one of the IEEE Communications Society’s two flagship conferences dedicated to driving innovation in nearly every aspect of communications. Thousands of participants gather to present research results, share visions and ideas, obtain updates on latest technologies and expand professional and social networking.

View Lassner’s Keynote at the IEEE TV website.

UH president highlights advancements at global communications conference