Southern Partnership in Advanced Networking Workshop Regional Networking / SoX Scott Friedrich scott@sox.net http://www.sox.net
Regional connector Organization that connects institutions and schools to national high speed R&E networks. 1995-2000 – vBNS 1999 – Abilene network 2004-2014 - NLR 2007 – Internet2 network
What is SoX? • The Southern Crossroads started as a Gigapop operating as part of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) attaching universities to the Very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) • Migrated to Abilene (the Internet2 network) within 2 years • Southern Light Rail (SLR) [501(c)(3)] was formed to manage National Lambda Rail (NLR) connectivity • SoX was eventually moved to SLR to be managed as a project
How to connect to SoX • Connect through one of our participants: • Georgia: Peachnet • Florida: FLR • Alabama: Alabama Supercomputer Authority • South Carolina: C-Light • Virginia: MARIA
How to connect to SoX • Commercial providers • AT&T • CenturyLink / Level3 • Crown Castle • Earthlink • Southern Light • Spirit Communications • Telia Carrier • Tower Cloud • Windstream • Zayo
Other services • Commodity Internet • Pricing arrangements • Telia Carrier • CenturyLink • Cogent • GTT • Others by request (Level3, Zayo, NTT)
Other services • Commodity Peering • TR-CPS • Private peering: Akamai, Apple, Comcast, Cox, Earthlink, Facebook, Google, Netflix • Public peering: TIEX • Backup ISP
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