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Euro-Link is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that facilitates the connection of European and Israeli National Research Networks (NRNs) to the high-performance vBNS and Abilene networks. As part of the NSF's High-Performance International Internet Services (HPIIS) program, Euro-Link is funded through 2003 as a next-generation Internet initiative that supports international research collaboration.

Euro-Link consortium members NORDUnet, SURFnet, RENATER2 and CERN, along with partner HPIIS network consortia TransPAC and MIRnet, connect to the vBNS through its international anchor, the Science, Technology and Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAPSM). Euro-Link and STAR TAP are managed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Countries worldwide are currently building next-generation networks to meet the high-bandwidth, quality-of-service (QoS) and connectivity needs of academic researchers running high-performance scientific applications. Euro-Link was established in early 1999 to encourage the interconnection of U.S. networks to these foreign networks for the express purpose of enhancing and expanding U.S.-led scientific research. Euro-Link engineers and researchers will work with European NRNs and their U.S. partners to optimize end-to-end performance such that tens of Mbps are realized to the desktop.

For More Information
Tom DeFanti, Principal Investigator of Euro-Link
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
tom @ euro-link.org

Maxine Brown, Co-Principal Investigator of Euro-Link
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
maxine @ euro-link.org

Alan Verlo, Euro-Link technical engineer
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago
techsupport @ euro-link.org

Partners
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, Indiana University

Ameritech Advanced Data Services (AADS)

European National Research Network Members
CERN, NORDUnet, RENATER2, SURFnet

U.S. Research and Education Networks
The National Science Foundation's vBNS
UCAID's Internet2 Abilene

HPIIS Team
The University of Illinois at Chicago is one of three U.S. institutions receiving National Science Foundation funding to support international connections under its High Performance International Internet Services (HPIIS) program. The others are Indiana University, to support connectivity with APAN (TransPAC); and University of Tennessee, to support connectivity with Russia (NaukaNet).

Meetings
HPIIS Performance Review, San Diego, CA, USA, October 2000

HPIIS Team Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, April 1999


  
     
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