News

RouteViews on Pacific Wave Peering Improves Network Operations for International Research and Education

Pacific Wave announces the availability of its RouteViews connector connected to the Pacific Wave international exchange. Pacific Wave is a joint project of CENIC and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop.

Global Big-Data Collaboration Gets Easier with Two New 100 Gbps Connections to CENIC and Pacific Wave for ESnet

CENIC has turned up two new 100G connections to ESnet in Los Angeles – one to the CENIC backbone and one to Pacific Wave – to facilitate big-data collaboration in CA and beyond.

More Reasons to Protect Your Pre-ARIN Legacy IP Addresses with a Legacy Registration Services Agreement

More Reasons to Protect Your Pre-ARIN Legacy IP Addresses with a Legacy Registration Services Agreement

To encourage the registration of legacy IP addresses, ARIN has been offering substantial discounts—via a fee schedule cap—for legacy addresses brought under an agreement, but these discounts will not apply to LRSAs signed after December 2023.

CENIC Infrastructure Supports Optical Demos at OFCnet in San Diego

CENIC infrastructure is supporting demonstrations at the OFCnet conference in San Diego via a fiber connection from the San Diego Convention Center to the CENIC’s California Research and Education Network (CalREN) optical backbone node at San Diego which provides up to 34 Terabits per second of capacity to the OFC exhibition floor.

CENIC and Pacific Northwest Gigapop receive SCinet Spirit of Innovation Award

CENIC and Pacific Northwest Gigapop receive SCinet Spirit of Innovation Award recognizing Pacific Wave's support of international science activities at SC22.

APOnet Members will Collaborate for the Exhibition at SC22, Dallas in Texas

APOnet members will collaborate for the exhibition by NICT ICT Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center at SC22, Dallas, in Texas, USA. SC is the international conference and exhibition held in the United States in November every year, and it focuses on High-Performance, Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.

APOnet & NICT

When the JGN Tokyo-Hong Kong-Singapore line *1, operated by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), a Japanese National Research and Development Network, was scheduled to provide backup for the suspension of the Japanese academic backbone network, Science Information Network (SINET), for two months, the importance of regional cooperation exemplified by the APOnet framework really came to light.

Global Research and Education Networks Collaborate to Connect the Asia Pacific Oceania Region with the Asia Pacific Oceania Network Collaboration

Eleven global leading-edge research and education networks in North America, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania have agreed to collaborate to improve high-speed network services in the Asia Pacific Oceania region.

CENIC Recognizes California and Israeli Teams for Remote Collaboration on Underwater Archeological Dig

In recognition of work to reshape archeological studies, the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology at UC San Diego and the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel are being awarded the 2021 CENIC Innovations in Networking Award for Research Applications.

NSF Awards CENIC an International Networking Grant for Operation of Pacific Wave

The National Science Foundation has awarded CENIC a $4 million, five-year grant for continued operation and enhancement of Pacific Wave International Exchange.

©2026 CENIC & PNWGP. The Pacific Wave International Research and Education Exchange is a project jointly operated by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) & Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP).