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 | Latin American and Mexican Networks Connect to US Research and Education NetworksredCLARA (Latin America) and CUDI (Mexico) networks now connected to CENIC's CalREN Network and Internet2's Abilene Network via NSF-funded WHREN-LILA project. I2-News 08.01.2005 Recently, redCLARA, the pan-Latin American regional network of CLARA (Cooperacion Latino-Americana de Redes Avanzadas), which is comprised of over 15 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in the Latin American region--established a direct connection to the Abilene network via a 1 Gbps connection over a fiber link between San Diego, California and Tijuana in Mexico, and then over CENIC's CalREN infrastructure. Additionally, Mexico's NREN CUDI also established a second connection to Abilene, via a 1 Gbps link over this fiber link and over the CalREN infrastructure. CUDI also peers with Abilene via a 1 Gbps over fiber link between Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas--also facilitated by the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Texas at Austin. These connections are made possible by the WHREN-LILA (Western Hemisphere Research and Education Networks - Links Interconnecting Latin America) project, which is a cooperative of research and education networks across the Americas. WHREN is funded by a grant (award number 0441095) from the US National Science Foundation, under the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program. More information on the project and the PI's and Co-Pi's is available on the WHREN-LILA pages at the URL above. source: http://members.internet2.edu/newsletter.cfm?date=2005-08-01#303 |