Outgrowth of 6year USRussia NaukaNet program

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Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications
Development

• Outgrowth of 6-year US-Russia NaukaNet program
• OC3 circuits Moscow-Chicago-Beijing since January
  2004
• OC3 circuit Moscow-Beijing July 2004 (completes
  the ring) (IP traffic August)
• Korea (KISTI) joining US, Russia, China as full
  partner in GLORIAD
• Plans developing for Central Asian extension
  (w/Kyrgyz govt)
• Rapid traffic growth with heaviest US use from
  DOE (FermiLab), NASA, NOAA, NIH and Universities
  (UMD, IU, UCB, UNC, UMN, PSU, Harvard, Stanford,
  Wash., Oregon, 250 others)

Gigabytes transferred monthly via GLORIAD to US,
Russia, China

• GLORIAD 5-year Proposal Pending (with US NSF) for
  expansion 2.5G Moscow-Amsterdam-Chicago-Seattle-
  Hong Kong-Pusan-Beijing circuits early 2005 10G
  ring around northern hemisphere 2007 multiple
  wavelength service 2009 providing hybrid
  circuit-switched (primarily Ethernet) and routed
  services