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[Greg Wood <>]

NEXT GENERATION INTERNET PROTOCOL PERFORMANCE RECORDS ANNOUNCED AT 
INTERNET2 MEETING

ARNES, DANTE and RedIRIS  team make greater than 100-fold leap in IPv6 
Internet2 Land Speed Record

Los Angeles, California--October 30, 2002-- An international team has 
set a new Internet2 Land Speed Record using the next generation Internet 
protocol by transferring the equivalent of the entire contents of a 
CD-ROM over more than 9000 miles (14,800 km) of network in less than 17 
seconds. The transfer was accomplished at an average speed of 348.22 
megabits per second, more than 6000 times faster than a typical computer 
modem.

ARNES (the academic and research network of Slovenia), RedIRIS (Spain's 
national research network), and DANTE (the pan-European advanced 
research and education networking organization) set the new Internet2 
Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) of 5154 terabit-meters per second on October 
9, 2002 as part of IPv6 deployment on GEANT, the pan-European research 
network.

"This is an achievement we can be proud of," said Avgust Jauk, Technical 
Director of ARNES. "Not only that we have a very high speed pan-European 
research network, GEANT, but we have also proven how effectively IPv6 
can be used on the European research infrastructure."

"This successful demonstration shows that our network backbones are 
prepared to support native IPv6 in dual stack mode, which will be fully 
deployed in the near future,”said Esther Robles, Network Manager for 
RedIRIS. “Now we should work to spread this deployment to the campuses 
of our universities and research centers, and encourage the use and 
deployment of native IPv6 applications."

"This work carried out with ARNES and RedIRIS is a big step towards 
GÉANT providing full production support for native IPv6 in dual stack 
mode," said Roberto Sabatino, Chief Technical Officer at DANTE. "It is 
an example of the continuous co-operation amongst European Research & 
Education networks for the development of next generation services."

This current record, set in the single stream IPv6 category, surpasses a 
previous mark of 1215 terabit-meters per second set by the same team on 
September 27, 2002.

"Once again, the ARNES, DANTE, RedIRIS team has demonstrated that a 
world class global IPv6 network exists and can support the demands of 
today's high performance applications," said Rich Carlson, Network 
Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and Chair of the 
I2-LSR judging panel.

Both this mark, as well as the first I2-LSR IPv6 mark set by a team from 
the Oregon Gigapop, NYSERNet and the University of Oregon on August 22, 
were recognized today at an awards ceremony as part of the Fall 2002 
Internet2 Member Meeting.

Internet2 Land Speed Record entries are judged on a combination of how 
much bandwidth they use and how much distance they cover end-to-end, 
using standard Internet (TCP/IP) protocols. The Internet2 Land Speed 
Record is an open and ongoing competition. Details of the winning 
entries, complete rules, submission guidelines and additional details 
are available at:
http://www.internet2.edu/lsr/

About ARNES
ARNES operates and develops the national research and education network 
of Slovenia. It has provided national and international connectivity and 
advanced services to universities, research institutions, secondary and 
primary schools, libraries and cultural institutions since 1992. For 
more information, see: http://www.arnes.si/

About DANTE
DANTE, a Cambridge, England-based organisation set up to build and 
manage advanced network services for the European research and education 
community, is the co-ordinating partner of the GÉANT consortium and 
responsible for the construction of GÉANT.  GÉANT, the pan-European 
multi-gigabit research network, enables European scientists to compete 
on an international stage by providing them with a world-class backbone 
that offers the bandwidth and the Quality of Service required for 
research and development activities at this level. It represents the 
basis for the introduction of "virtual laboratories" and "virtual 
institutes" in Europe. For more information about DANTE, see:
http://www.dante.net/

About RedIRIS
RedIRIS is the Spanish National Academic and Research Network, funded by 
the National Plan for R&D and is at present managed by the Scientific 
Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas). 
Since 1988, RedIRIS has provided network infrastructure to Spanish R&D 
institutions. The number of institutions connected - mainly universities 
and R&D centres – has increased continuously and now stands at about 
250. The services offered by RedIRIS to the Spanish Academic and 
Research Community require the support of an advanced infrastructure of 
transport, technologically adapted to the needs of the connected 
centres. These services are provided in collaboration with other 
academic  networks in Europe and the US through the pan-European network 
GÉANT. For more information, visit http://www.rediris.es

About Internet2(R)
Led by over 200 US universities, working with industry and government, 
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and 
technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the 
creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnerships 
among academia, industry, and government that helped foster today's 
Internet in its infancy. For more information about Internet2, see:
http://www.internet2.edu/

Contacts:

ARNES
Avgust Jauk

+386-1-479-8877

DANTE
Dale Robertson, Public Relations Manager

+44 1223 302992

RedIRIS
María Bolado Relations Manager
Tel +34 91 585 5150


Internet2
Greg Wood

+1-202-331-5360

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