Description
of the Project
Virginia
Commonwealth University (VCU) has been awarded $350,000 [NSF Proposal
Number 9985934] from the NSF 98-102 Connections to the Internet program
(category c) to establish a high performance connection to Internet2
(Abilene Network) via the Virginia Metapop. The award is effective
February 1, 2000 and expires January 31, 2002.
The NSF
support has allowed VCU to upgrade it’s connection from DS-3
(45 Mb) to an OC-3 (155 Mb) connection to facilitate the further development
and collaboration of numerous meritorious applications
across the VCU Campuses and with other Internet2 sites.
As part
of an ongoing plan to upgrade its networking capability, VCU is connected
to the Abilene network as a member of the Network Virginia NG (next
generation), a consortium of universities, technology providers and
information service providers in the Middle Atlantic states that are
creating a MetaPOP in the Washington D.C. area. VCU has also upgraded
its current DS-3 line into Network.Virginia
to an OC-3 connection which will serve to carry meritorious project
traffic to Abilene as well as serve as the link to the commercial
Internet.
VCU was
a participant in the creation of both the Virginia Educational and
Research Network (VERNet) and its current successor, Net.Work.Virginia.
VCU’s plans to use NetWork.Virginia NG as a cost-effective gateway
to Abilene, the vBNS, and other critical research networks through
the Network Virginia NG. VCU was an early adopter of ATM for both
campus backbones and at the workstation level to deliver educational
multimedia to the desktop. VCU has an array of current and new research
applications that require increased bandwidth and Quality of Service
(QoS) that would be provided by connecting VCU to the Abilene network.
VCU’s current connection to Net.Work.Virginia is insufficient
to support the network traffic for our growing clinical, research,
and teaching needs.
Contact
Information
For those
wishing to get additional information about the project,
please contact
|
Jim Bostick
Senior Director,AcademicTechnology
(804) 827-0390
jsbostick@vcu.edu
|
William
M. Jones
Director, VCUNET
(804) 828-9912
wmjones@vcu.edu |
Hitesh
Patel
Internet2 Liason
(804)828-1672
hmpatel@vcu.edu
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High
Performance Connection Description
A description
of the high performance connection supporting the
meritorious research. Please include the physical equipment and
network topology which shows how the links support and enhance the
campus infrastructure as well as provide the connection to the vBNS.
Include your anticipated schedule for implementation. A description
of
how you will be supporting quality of service requirements and
performance measurements. (Bill Jones)
Excerpted
Copy of VCU's Winning Proposal
View the
PDF version of VCU's
Proposal.
Internet2 High Performance
Connection