What's New with Internet2?

Recent I2 news includes a fall 2001 meeting announcement and new network peering in Asia and Europe

Fall 2001 Member Meeting

The agenda for the Fall 2001 Internet2 Member Meeting, scheduled to be held October 1 - 4 in Austin, Texas, has been announced. Here's a brief outline of the main events:

Monday, October 1, will be a pre-meeting day with tutorial sessions and constituency group meetings. The main meeting will be held at the Renaissance Austin Hotel, opening with a plenary session the next morning.

On the afternoon of October 2, attendees will have the opportunity to see applications demonstrations on the Austin campus of the University of Texas. The meeting will conclude on Thursday morning, October 4.

More detailed program information will be available in mid-July. For general information about the fall meeting, see http://www.internet2.edu/activities/html/fall01-agenda.html

Registration. If you're interested in attending the meeting, you can complete the registration form at http://www.internet2.edu/activities/html/fall01-registration.html (Register by September 7 to be entered in the Early Registration prize drawing!)

New International Network Peering

STAR TAP. STAR TAP, the NSF international interconnection project, is enabling a new connection between the Korean research education community and Internet2 backbone networks.

Two key Korean research networks, KOREN and KREONET2, have jointly brought a 45mbps connection to Chicago. The two networks support high-performance connectivity for institutions that are also part of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network-Korea consortium, an Internet2 International MoU Partner.

For more information on STAR TAP, go to http://www.startap.net/ To learn more about KOREN and KREONET2, see http://www.koren21.net/ and http://www.kreonet.re.kr/

BELNET (Belgium). New connectivity is available via Internet2 backbone networks to the Belgian National Research Network (NRN), BELNET. BELNET peers with Abilene at 155mbps in New York City.
An Internet2 International MoU Partner, BELNET operates a high-speed backbone service within Belgium for research and education institutions. See http://www.belnet.be/ for more information.

JANET (UK). JANET, the academic network in the United Kingdom, has increased network capacity between the U.S. and the U.K.

JANET is run by UKERNA, an Internet2 International MoU partner and connects directly with Abilene and ESnet at 622mbps in New York City. You can reach JANET via the International Transit Network. For more information on UKERNA, see http://www.ukerna.ac.uk/

uniNET (Thailand). On June 14, the peer network uniNET, Thailand's inter-university network, was connected and began passing traffic. For more information about uniNET, see http://www.uni.net.th

REUNA (Chile). When the AMPATH network was connected to I2's Abilene network last June, REUNA (National Research Network of Chile), the first participant in the AMPATH project, began peering with Abilene.

Services going through AMPATH to REUNA include unicast and multicast peering.

Using Global Crossing's terrestrial and submarine optical-fiber network, AMPATH will interconnect the Research and Education networks in South and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico to international peers via Abilene and Star Tap.
For more information about the AMPATH project, see http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/news.htm