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Ray Soo (ray@exicom.OZ.AU) wrote:
: What sort of box sits at the other end of AARNet's international link
: (and where is is located)?

A Proteon CNX router. Our cisco CGS/3 router talks to it using PPP.

Located at the NASA Ames Research Centre in Mountain View California. It
is owned and operated by the NASA Science Internet, and is connected to
FIX-WEST - the Federal Interagency Exchange - West Cost - where all the
big US networks come together (NSFnet, NSI, ESnet, ICMnet, etc.)

: Who do AARNet pay to connect to the US end an how much would this be?

We pay our Australian half circuit costs directly to OTC - $35,000 /month.
In addition we pay a small portion of the US half circuit (cannot recall
exactly what this is - a few thousand dollars per month) through PACCOM.

: I've heard of PACCOMM - how are they involved (if at all)?

PACCOM is based at The University of Hawaii and in addition to acting
as a "buying cartel" for the nations requiring Internet access in
the Pacific (Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong) allows
US Federal agencies to meet connectivity requirements, ie. NASA pay
PACCOM some money to get them access to various sites around the
Pacific where NASA are underatking collaboartive work.

: Also, how are the University of Hawaii involved (if at all)?

They support PACCOM.

: Can i read about any of this stuff on AARNet somewhere (e.g. aarnet.edu.au)?

Not much is written down and publicly available. Some of the AARNet reports
in aarnet.edu.au:pub/reports have some information about Pacific connectivity.

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