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TransLight/Pacific Wave's mission is the development of a distributed Open Exchange along the

US west coast, from Seattle to San Diego, to interconnect North American, Asian, Australian and

Mexican/South American links. Pacific Wave carries the connection from Seattle down the US

west coast to Los Angeles and then on to San Diego and Tijuana (via CalREN ­ the California

Research and Education Network, which is operated by CENIC, the Corporation for Educational

Network Initiatives in California). A network that connects to the exchange fabric in Los Angeles

or Seattle is able to peer with (connect to) any other network that also participates in the exchange

at low cost and with transparent high-performance. In addition, Translight/Pacific Wave worked

with AARNet and the University of Hawaii to bring two 10Gbps links from Sydney, Australia

through Hawaii and into Seattle and Los Angeles, connecting the research and education

communities of the US and Australia for advanced network-based scientific collaboration.

Translight/Pacific Wave supports other international connections to US research and education

networks that connect into the exchange.

Figure 66TransLight/Pacific Wave is a distributed exchange facility on the US West Coast

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