An Internet2 Connector for
Pennsylvania and West Virginia
3ROX (the Three Rivers Optical
Exchange) and Drexel University
have partnered to share a 2 × 5 Gb/s connection to Internet2.
Please see our press release for
more information.
Drexel, located in Philadelphia, is the Internet2 connector for the
fourteen universities of the Pennsylvania State System for Higher
Education. The Drexel connection is from the PoP at 401 North Broad
Street to the Internet2 PoP in the Washington, DC area.
3ROX, located in Pittsburgh, is a unit of the Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center, a project of Carnegie Mellon University and
the University of Pittsburgh. It serves as the Internet2 connector
for CMU, Pitt, Penn State, West Virginia University and a number of
other K-20 institutions in the region. The 3ROX connection is
currently from the PoP at 143 South 25th Street to the Internet2 PoP
in the Washington, DC area. 3ROX also offers connectivity to
National LambdaRail as well as commodity Internet connectivity for
its members.
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