CalREN Updates: 2nd/3rd Quarter, 2014

The second quarter of 2014 saw a great deal of activity for all CENIC segments, including a 10-Gigabit connection for UC San Diego to CalREN-DC as well as a 10-Gigabit connection for UCLA to the California OpenFlow Testbed Network (COTN), a testbed deployed over CalREN-HPR that connects OpenFlow researchers throughout the state to one another and other such testbeds.

Two Central Valley CSU campuses obtained dual 10-Gigabit connectivity to the CalREN backbone, CSU Bakersfield and Fresno State University, in addition to two of California's Community Colleges in the Central Valley, San Joaquin Delta College and Merced College. In addition, Palomar College's off-site center in Rancho Santa Fe obtained connectivity to the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

California's K-12 System received multiple connections this past quarter as well, including the Los Angeles Unified School District, a DS-3 connection between the Trinity and Shasta County Offices of Education, and several connections for the Plumas County Office of Education to Loyalton High School and the CalREN backbone node at Sacramento. The California Department of Education also received a connection to that backbone node. Other K-12 connections include one between the Napa County Office of Education and the Napa Valley Unified School District as well as a connection for the Foothills Education and Technology Partnership to the CalREN backbone node at Los Angeles.

10-Gigabit connections for California's K-12 System include two for the Marin County Office of Education to the San Francisco Unified School District as well as to the CalREN backbone node at Sunnyvale, a connection between the Alameda and San Mateo County Offices of Education, and another between the Sonoma and Contra Costa County Offices of Education.

This year's second quarter updates for the CalREN backbone itself include Layer-2 and Layer-3 backbone equipment at the backbone node in Sunnyvale in preparation for a pending 100-Gigabit upgrade as well as additional equipment to support a Layer-3 upgrade of the CalREN-HPR network tier to 2x10-Gigabit.

The third quarter of 2014 -- and the first of the 2014-15 fiscal year -- brought even more upgrades for all segments, as well as upgrades to the CalREN backbone as a whole. For the California K-12 System, an extensive router refresh has been completed. To the list of 10-Gigabit upgrades were added several in the Central Valley for the Kings, Stanislaus, and Tulare County Offices of Education, as well as the Riverside County Office of Education's Indio location. In addition, California's Community College campuses at San Diego Miramar College and MiraCosta College's San Elijo campus obtained Gigabit connections to the CalREN backbone.

Multiple 10-Gigabit upgrades were also completed for various campuses in the California State University during the third quarter, including CSU Los Angeles, CSU Stanislaus, CSU San Bernardino, CSU San Marcos, and CSU Chico, as well as a Gigabit connection for CSU East Bay's Concord Campus. For the University of California, the third quarter saw a 10-Gigabit upgrade to the CalREN-HPR network tier for UC Irvine, and a 100-Gigabit connection to CalREN for UC Santa Cruz.

The CENIC backbone has also been boosted to support 100-Gigabit speeds through a series of upgrades at the backbone nodes located at Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, and Sunnyvale. In addition to this upgrade, fiber connections from Yuma, AZ to San Diego through El Centro were also completed as an expansion of the Western Regional Network for 100-Gigabit capacity. In support of a Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) demo between the New Zealand advanced network REANNZ, UC San Diego, and the University of Chicago at Urbana Champaign, transPacific fiber connectivity was also added through to the CalREN backbone node at San Luis Obispo, in addition to 8x10-Gigabit connectivity to Pacific Wave in Los Angeles. Lastly, a direct 10-Gigabit connection between Stanford University and Amazon Web Services was also completed.

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