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| ESnet4 |
| Partnership Leads to Network Upgrade |
| DOE's Office of Science (SC) and Internet2 recently announced that the first segment of a next-generation, nationwide network has gone live. This segment, which connects the Washington, D.C. area to New York and Chicago through a partnership between Internet2 and DOE's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), marks a key step in significantly upgrading network services to thousands of scientific researchers across the country and around the world. The first complete national ring of the ESnet4 network will be rolled out segment by segment from the east to the west coast. It is expected to be fully operational by September 2007. |
| "The launch of this first segment of ESnet4 represents a significant step toward a state-of-the-art optical network that is a critical component supporting the United States' scientific leadership," said Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, DOE Under Secretary for Science. "Not only does this new architecture provide greater bandwidth and higher reliability for DOE researchers, but it also underscores the support of DOE's Office of Science to the entire U.S. university community." |
| The collaboration between ESnet and Internet2 brings together two advanced networks with a combined 30 years of experience in providing network support to thousands of researchers worldwide. ESnet, operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), connects more than 20 DOE laboratories and provides networking to more than 50,000 DOE laboratory staff and scientists, as well as to 18,000 researchers from universities, other government agencies, and private industry. ESnet directly serves major SC facilities including particle accelerators, supercomputing centers, and massive scientific data storage systems. |
| "Since announcing our partnership in August (2006), we have made steady progress toward deploying our new optical infrastructure on which ESnet4 is being built and are pleased to put the first major segments into production," Doug Van Houweling, Internet2's CEO, said. "The new ESnet4 network will allow university and lab researchers participating in a broad range of scientific research to leverage their institutions' existing Internet2 network connection to access the ESnet4 infrastructure and its wide range of Office of Science facilities." |
| Once completed, ESnet4 will be the most advanced high capacity nationwide network available to support the efforts of the DOE research community. By providing reliable high bandwidth access to DOE laboratories and other major research facilities, ESnet4 will help U.S. researchers and scientists and their international collaborators use large-scale instruments to advance the scientific mission of the SC. |
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http://www.es.net/
http://www.internet2.edu/
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