| RedCLARA exchanges direct traffic with the National University of Singapore |
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| Written by María José López Pourailly |
| Friday, 12 November 2010 15:03 |
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On October 27, the RedCLARA's Network Engineering Group (NEG) established a peering with the National University of Singapore (NUS) which allows the advanced Latin-American network to exchange direct IP traffic with NUS, improving the speed and efficiency in the communications and activities that over RedCLARA develop its users with the scientists and researchers from NUS.
This peering is established under the Pacific Wave project, designed to enhance efficiency in the exchange of IP traffic between major networks and projects, reducing the cost of such traffic and increasing efficiency and speed of data transfer. Previously, through Pacific Wave, RedCLARA established peerings with the following institutions:
ASN - Autonomous System Number: is the identifier of each Autonomous System (AS), which can be defined as a network (RedCLARA, for example), or a group of routers, or as part of a great networks interconnection under a single administrative authority. RedCLARA's ASN is the number 27750; NUS ASN is 7610. All the major networks - including national networks (NRENs) - have their own ASN. More information at:
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RedCLARA (ASN 27750) has previous peerings with GÉANT (pan-Europe), Internet2 and National LambdaRail (USA), y ESnet (Energy Sciences Network), among others. Before this new peering, the Latin-American researchers ans scientists connected to RedCLARA that were developing academic activities with the National University of Singapore (ASN 7610), had to wait their data to travel through RedCLARA to other advanced networks domains in order to get to NUS, but today this is a direct and bidirectional path which furthers even more the processes and, of course, boots the development of new initiatives.