News for and about the Internet2 community

[Greg Wood <>]

INTERNET2, NYSERNET AND INDIANA UNIVERSITY ESTABLISH NEW INTERNATIONAL 
HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKING EXCHANGE

New York City facility eases connections among US and international 
research and education networks

Washington, DC -- May 7, 2003 -- Internet2(R), NYSERNet and Indiana 
University today announced MAN LAN, a new high performance exchange 
point in New York City to facilitate peering among U.S. and 
international research and education networks.

Abilene, an Internet2 backbone network; GEANT, the pan-European research 
network; and HEANet, the Irish research and education network are 
already connected to MAN LAN. NYSERNet’s network and CA*net 4, Canada's 
research and education network, are expected to connect in the next few 
months.

MAN LAN, as the "Manhattan Landing" exchange point is known, has been 
established at NYSERNet's co-location space in The Hub at 32 Sixth in 
downtown Manhattan where many large communications carriers are present. 
Indiana University's Global NOC(R) will manage the daily operation of 
MAN LAN. With over 15 gigabits per second (Gbps) of trans-Atlantic 
connections serving the research and education community, New York is a 
key location for international research and education networking.

The exchange point is built on gigabit Ethernet technology, providing 1 
and 10 Gbps connections to research and education networks. Internet2’s 
Abilene network is connected at 10 Gbps, GEANT has two 1 Gbps 
connections and HEANet is connected at 1 Gbps. CA*net 4 expects to 
connect with two 1 Gbps connections and NYSERNet plans to connect
at 10 Gbps.

MAN LAN builds on the expertise and success of other international 
exchange points such as StarLight in Chicago, Illinois 
(http://www.startap.net/starlight/); Pacific Wave in Seattle 
(http://pacificwave.net/) and AMPATH in Miami, Florida 
(http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/) that have been established and are operated 
by Internet2 members.

For more information about MAN LAN, see:
http://international.internet2.edu/intl_connect/manlan/

About Internet2(R)
Led by over 200 U.S. 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/

About NYSERNet
NYSERNet is a not-for-profit organization that serves New York State 
educational and research institutions by facilitating member 
organizations’ use of advanced network services.  The services include a 
dedicated New York State Research Network, access to national and 
international research networks and cost effective access to high speed 
commodity Internet services.  Founded in 1985, NYSERNet was among the 
first organizations in the nation to deploy Internet services statewide 
and is one of the country’s original regional networks established to 
support research nationally.  More information about NYSERNet can be 
found at www.nysernet.org.

About the Global NOC(R)
The Global Research Network Operations Center (Global NOC) at Indiana 
University manages the international network connections from advanced 
research and education networks in the Asia/Pacific, Europe, and South 
America to the Science Technology and Research Transit Access Point 
(STAR TAP) and the leading US high performance research and education 
networks such as Abilene (an Internet2 backbone network), the NSF's very 
high performance Backbone Network System (vBNS) and the Department of 
Energy's ESNET. For more information, visit http://globalnoc.iu.edu/.

Contacts:
Indiana University
Gregory Moore

+1-812-855-0429

Internet2
Greg Wood

+1-202-331-5360

NYSERNet
Jim Brennan

+1-518-283-3584 ext 25

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news-+
For list utilities, archives, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. please visit the
ListProc web interface at 

   http://archives.internet2.edu/

---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news--