- CANARIE
CANARIE, the Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education, is a Canadian government supported
non-profit corporation , founded in 1993, which maintains a set of leasedwide area network links and also develops and deploys advanced network applications and technologies, for education and high-speed data transfer purposes. Their computer network is called CA*Net or CAnet.Overview
CANARIE is led by universities and partners with several companies in areas from the networking and technology industries.
As of 2007 , the organization has 84 members, mostly universities, institutes and other places of higher education, together with several companies and government agencies.Headquartered in
Ottawa, Ontario , the company maintains and modifies a set of leased wide area network links for educational and research organizations of Canada.Operations
The original CAnet was created in 1990 with support from the
National Research Council . CANARIE was involved in its operations as network had been upgraded to 56 kbit links in 1993, to 10 Mbit/s in 1995, and then later to 20 Mbit/s. It had 100 Mbit/s aggregate capacity in 1996, and the same year the National Test Network (NTN) project introduced ATM.In 1997, the company
Bell Advanced Communications (laterBell Nexxia , now part ofBell Canada ) was given operating control over the network operations. The CAnet II was launched based on NTN links and capacities,OC-3 (155 Mbit/s) at the core.In 1998, CANARIE deployed CA*Net 3, the world's first national optical Internet research and education network. The planned capacity of the network was 40 Gbit/s.
The current version of the network is named CAnet 4, and it is based on
OC-192 optical circuits.One of the technologies CANARIE is developing is
User Controlled Light Path (UCLP) switching.External links
* [http://www.canarie.ca/ Official web site of CANARIE]
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