CENIC and Pacific Northwest Gigapop receive SCinet Spirit of Innovation Award
Award recognizes Pacific Wave's support of international science activities at SC22
SCinet has awarded the SCinet Spirit of Innovation Award to seventeen organizations who were instrumental in supporting demonstrations of large-scale international science at SC22 during a private ceremony on Monday, November 14, 2022. Those recognized are: AARNet, APONET, ARENA-PAC, CENIC, Ciena, Cisco, HARNET, Internet2, KISTI, NICT, NII, Pacific Northwest Gigapop, REANNZ, SingAREN, TransPAC, University of Hawaii, and Verizon.
The seventeen organizations recognized with the SCinet Spirit of Innovation Award were instrumental in supporting some of the more outstanding demonstrations involving international engagement.
“The winners of the 2022 SCinet Spirit of Innovation Award have embraced the spirit of collaboration and cooperation that showcases the best there is to offer in demonstrating, implementing, and operating leading-edge solutions to challenging problems,” said Matt Zekauskas, SCinet chair. “This collaboration is truly special to SCinet, and we are all encouraged by and appreciative of their efforts to showcase partnership and innovation.”
CENIC and Pacific Northwest Gigapop together contribute to SCinet through their jointly operated Pacific Wave International Research and Education Exchange. Pacific Wave’s high-speed distributed network exchange infrastructure has provided cutting-edge infrastructure to support the United States' interconnection with the Asia-Pacific region since its inception in 2001, providing critical bandwidth and technical capabilities for the research and education community, enabling critical scientific collaboration and discovery.
In support of this year's planned Network Research Exhibitions at SC22, CENIC and Pacific Wave facilitated a total of 900 Gbps from Los Angeles and Seattle to the venue in Dallas.
Pacific Wave receives support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its International Research and Education Network Connections (IRNC) program.
At SC22 NICT featured several experiments enabled by the collaboration, including both full 400 Gbps End to End data/video transfer and uncompressed 8K video by Kangawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) with edge computing processing.
NICT exhibited full 400 Gbps End to End (E2E) data/video transfer across the Trans-Pacific in their booth, led by the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA). This 400 Gbps transmission utilized five 100Gbps links between Japan and the US in cooperation with members of APOnet, Pacific Wave, TransPAC, UH, ARENA-PAC, SingAREN, NII, HARNET, and AARNet.
NICT demonstrated the impact of uncompressed 8K video processing on edge computing using the Pacific Wave/TransPAC 100Gbps link and other capacity from the APOnet collaboration. The precision of the visual definition possible with this uncompressed 8K video could enable international health care delivery, even surgery, across oceans. This is a world first with this technology.
Pacific Wave and Internet2 work together through the Atlantic Pacific Research and Education Exchange (AP-REX) to support high-speed collaboration with researchers across the globe, enabling more seamless service integration and seamless dynamic access to bandwidth. AP-REX interconnects the Pacific Wave International exchange on the west coast with Manhattan Landing (MANLAN) in New York, and the Washington International Exchange (WIX) in the Washington, DC region.