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Southern Partnership in Advanced Networking Workshop Regional - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Southern Partnership in Advanced Networking Workshop Regional - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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.
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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
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- 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
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How to connect to SoX
- Commercial providers
- AT&T
- CenturyLink / Level3
- Crown Castle
- Earthlink
- Southern Light
- Spirit Communications
- Telia Carrier
- Tower Cloud
- Windstream
- Zayo
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Other services
- Commodity Internet
- Pricing arrangements
- Telia Carrier
- CenturyLink
- Cogent
- GTT
- Others by request (Level3, Zayo, NTT)
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Other services
- Commodity Peering
- TR-CPS
- Private peering: Akamai, Apple, Comcast, Cox,
Earthlink, Facebook, Google, Netflix
- Public peering: TIEX
- Backup ISP