Abilene

The backbone network which becomes the basis of the next generation Internet research project"Internet 2 " wherethe universityand enterprise of the All-American participate. The Qwest Communications corporation, the Cisco Systems corporation and the Nortel Networks corporation etc., being gratuitous in the university Hazama-gumi, Ltd. weaving UCAID which is the main promotion organ of project, it offers. Abilene with the enormous optical fiber network which reaches to All-American 2 ten thousand kilometers, has the connection point in 33 places of the metropole of the All-American. The National Science Foundation which arenetwork for another large-scale research (NSF)alsovBNS is connected. In addition, we have the interconnect point which is called GigaPoPs inthe All-American 13places, the university and enterprise, research network of the foreign countries are connected.Basicnetwork 2.4Gbps (OC-48)isSONET, but 10Gbps (OC-192) it is the schedule which changes to SONET within several years.