CANARIE (Canada)
| CANARIE Inc. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Non-profit companies |
| founding | 1993 |
| Seat |
Ottawa , Ontario Canada
|
| management | Jim Roche (President and CEO) |
| Branch | communication |
| Website | www.canarie.ca |
CANARIE is a government - funded , non-profit company that operates a fiber optic communications network for research and education, as well as for government institutions. The company is headquartered in Ottawa , Canada . The company was founded in 1993. The company manages a 19,000 km long fiber optic network, to which research institutes and universities, as well as provincial and government offices are connected in order to be able to send large amounts of data. The network also provides access to other countries. The network is internationally connected in several places. There is a hub in St. Johns , which connects Newfoundland, Canada with Europe . There is also a hub in Vancouver , which is connected to the Asia-Pacific region via Seattle . Other nodes are located between Toronto, Montreal, New York and Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, which connects North America, South America and Europe. The network can achieve speeds of up to 100 gigabytes per second. However, it is only used at 10 gigabytes per second. In 2008 it was the fastest national fiber optic system in the world, after the United States.
history
The initial fiber optic network was launched under the name CAnet in 1990 in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada . CANARIE was commissioned with the expansion when the network was increased from 56 kbit in 1993 to up to 10 Mbit / s in 1995. The speed was later increased to up to 20 Mbit / s. In 1996 the capacity of the network was around 100 Mbit / s.
1997 the company Bell Advances Communications (later Bell Nexxia) and today part of Bell Canada took over the operational operation of the network. The CAnet II system started for a short time and allowed speeds of up to 155 Mbit / s. During this time, the Sympatico DSL service, which used the lines, also started.
1998 CANARIE introduced the Ca * Net 3. The world's first national optical network system, used in research and education. The planned capacity was 40 Gbits / s. In 2002 the Canadian government provided Can $ 110 million for the development and operation of CAnet 4 CANARIE. CAnet 4 achieved speeds between 160 Gbit / s and 320 Gbit / s.
At the SuperComputing conference in Seattle in November 2011, CANARIE participated in the transfer of 1 petabyte of data between the California Institute of Technology and the University of Victoria . Together they achieved a transmission speed of 186 Gbit / s, which was a world record.
Overview
The company manages and modifies the network at its headquarters in Ottawa. The main fiber optic network is 19,000 km long and runs across the interior of the country. There are also branches in the north of Canada, the Arctic Ocean. Satellite-based transmission routes are used to connect cities and towns on the Arctic islands. CANARIE has numerous partners in the network and communication industry. In November 2010, data of 6.6 petabytes per quarter was sent through the fiber optic network.
More than a million scientists, researchers and students have access to the high-speed network. 2003
were in total:
- 89 universities, 101 colleges, and other educational institutions;
- 86 provincial and government agencies, as well as their laboratories and research centers;
- 60 hospitals, other medical institutions and associated research institutes;
- 32 cultural institutions
- approx. 1000 high schools
- 12 provincial and terrestrial fiber optic network partners
- 100+ international peer networks in 80 countries.
Regional partners
CANARIE works closely with numerous partners in the provinces:
- Yukon: Yukon College
- Northwest Territories: Aurora College
- Nunavut: No network as of December 2010
- British Columbia: BCNET
- Alberta: Cybera
- Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Research Network (SRnet)
- Manitoba: Manitoba Research Network (MRnet)
- Ontario: Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION)
- Quebec: Réseau d'informations scientifiques du Québec (RISQ)
- New Brunswick: University of New Brunswick
- Prince Edward Island: University of Prince Edward Island
- Nova Scotia: Atlantic Canada Organization of Research Networks (ACORN-NS)
- Newfoundland and Labrador: Atlantic Canada Organization of Research Networks (ACORN-NL)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Core Capacity" ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CANARIE performance report
- ↑ CNET News of December 14, 2011
