The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced Thursday it has been awarded a grant of nearly $3.5 million from the National Science Foundation to support a software-defined networking (SDN) system among West Coast research institutions.
The grant from the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program will support expansion of Pacific Wave, an international Internet exchange facility that interconnects the research and education community of the Pacific Rim. The project is jointly managed by CENIC and the the Pacific Northwest Gigapop.
“California’s research universities, along with more than 200 other research institutions across the U.S., will benefit from these enhanced capacities, enabling them to access scientific instruments and exchange data with their research collaborators in the Asia-Pacific Region,” said CENIC President & CEO Louis Fox.
The Pacific Wave SDX – to be deployed in Seattle, Los Angeles and the Bay Area – will be on a parallel infrastructure to enable research and education networks to peer with one another independent of their connection point to Pacific Wave.
