Eleven research and education networks form APOnet collaboration
Eleven research and education (R&E) networks in North America, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania have formed the Asia Pacific Oceania network (APOnet) collaboration. The collaboration will see the organizations link their networks to create a trans-oceanic network services delivery system that provides more resiliency, flexibility, and consistency than the individual networks could enable on their own.
The networks and organizations involved are:
- Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
- Arterial Research and Educational Network in Asia-Pacific (ARENA-PAC)
- University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, also known as Internet2
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
- National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
- National Institute of Informatics (NII)
- Pacific Wave International Exchange
- Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ)
- Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN)
- TransPAC
- University of Hawaii (UH).
The APOnet collaboration will see the partners enabling multiple paths between R&E networks, backup connectivity, coordination of engineering and management activities, cooperation on deployment of new network technologies and services, experimentation with and development of applications to serve high-bandwidth demands, support of shared routing practices, and the sharing of measurement data.
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