Providing Resources Through CENIC and Pacific Wave to Advance Research

In 2019, CENIC began a next-generation infrastructure project aimed at modernizing the network services available to our members as well as reducing costs for new connections and enabling more robust failure detection, recovery, and traffic engineering. As a result, in addition to our traditional commodity and research networks, CENIC is able to offer flexible Layer 2 and 3 services, seamless cloud connectivity, DDoS mitigation services, and Science DMZ solutions for our members. 400G circuits are now standard for member connections, and an 800G service was recently turned up with San Diego State University. All these enhancements to the CENIC network allow us to focus on CENIC AIR, CENIC's new AI effort in partnership with UC San Diego and the National Research Platform. Similarly, our Pacific Wave network, operated in conjunction with Pacific Northwest GigaPop, has completed a 400G infrastructure upgrade.