Latin American and Mexican Networks Connect to US Research and Education Networks

redCLARA (Latin America) and CUDI (Mexico) networks now connected to CENIC's CalREN Network and Internet2's Abilene Network via NSF-funded WHREN-LILA project.
http://whren.ampath.net/index.htm

Recently, redCLARA, the pan-Latin American regional network of CLARA (Cooperacion Latino-Americana de Redes Avanzadas), which is comprised of over 15 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in the Latin American region--established a direct connection to the Abilene network via a 1 Gbps connection over a fiber link between San Diego, California and Tijuana in Mexico, and then over CENIC's CalREN infrastructure. Additionally, Mexico's NREN CUDI also established a second connection to Abilene, via a 1 Gbps link over this fiber link and over the CalREN infrastructure. CUDI also peers with Abilene via a 1 Gbps over fiber link between Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas--also facilitated by the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Texas at Austin.
These connections are made possible by the WHREN-LILA (Western Hemisphere Research and Education Networks - Links Interconnecting Latin America) project, which is a cooperative of research and education networks across the Americas. WHREN is funded by a grant (award number 0441095) from the US National Science Foundation, under the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program. More information on the project and the PI's and Co-Pi's is available on the WHREN-LILA pages at the URL above.