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using the Internet2 DC Network in combination with the circuit infrastructures of the Internet2

Connector, the Great Plains Network (GPN), and the ESnet network. In the demonstration, a

researcher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), a Tier2 site for CERN's Large Hadron

Collider (LHC), was receiving periodic 8.5 Gigabit per second (Gbps) downloads from Fermilab

in Batavia, Illinois, the US-CMS Tier1 LHC site.

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