Pacific Wave is a distributed, Research and Education focused, open Internet Exchange. The exchange provides high-performance Internet connectivity among US Science and Engineering R&E institutions and their international partners and is critical infrastructure for high-performance access to internationally supported instruments and large-scale data sources and repositories.
Pacific Wave enables large-scale scientific workflows to accelerate discovery in all areas of science and engineering, including high-energy physics, earth sciences, astronomy and astrophysics, biology and biomedical engineering, as well as scalable visualization, virtual reality, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Its strategic location on the US West Coast facilitates connection of Trans-Pacific undersea cables to US National and Regional Research Networks, such as Internet2, ESnet, and others, as well as enabling key connection points between researchers and the cloud. Further connectivity is seamlessly enabled through the North American Research and Education Exchange collaboration (NA-REX), a collaboration among Pacific Wave, Internet2 (MANLAN, WIX, and BIX), StarLight, and AMPATH. NA-REX enables the Pacific Wave Participants to extend their reach to Europe, Central and South America, Africa, and beyond, thereby supporting a truly global high-performance research platform.
The Pacific Wave International R&E Exchange has primary points of presence in Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, and Seattle offering interconnectivity among peers as well as advanced measurement, monitoring, and analytic tools to ensure optimal exchange and network performance. Pacific Wave’s ongoing enhancements aim to meet demands for higher data rates (400 Gbps, 800 Gbps, and beyond), making possible exploration and adoption of newly emerging technologies for improved performance, security, measurement, and monitoring.
Pacific Wave is a joint project of CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP).
Pacific Wave today announced its successful partnership
with FLAG, one of the world’s largest privately owned subsea cable
networks, for new capacity on the state-of-the-art Echo subsea cable
system, significantly expanding connectivity between US university
research institutions and their partners in Singapore, Guam, and
Indonesia, empowering this global research community with greater speed,
reliability, and capacity for their common endeavors.