TWAREN & TANet

TWAREN stands for "TaiWan Advanced Research and Education Network", while TANet "Taiwan Academic NETwork".

TWAREN :

• A physical network serves multiple purposes and logical networks : TANet, connects to commodity Internet; TWAREN research network; experiment, testbed, special research
• Provisioning services on multiple layers : L1 Lightpaths; L2 VLAN, VPLS VPN; L3 IPv4, IPv6, Multicast ; SSL VPN

TWAREN's International Connections:

• Pacific Crossing to USA’s west coast upgraded to 5 Gb/s
• Connections between LA, Palo Alto, Chicago, and New York are 2.5 Gb/s
• Connects to the rest of the world via the U.S.’s Abilene Network
• Connection expanded to Europe in 2006 (IEEAF donated 622 Mbps of bandwidth/fiber optic cable)‏

TWAREN peers with international NRENs at Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Seattle (through Pacific Wave).

TANet:

• A national wide network backbone for academic and education use
• In operation since 1990
• Provides Internet connection for universities and some research institutes
• Now expands to all levels of schools
• Dual stack (IPv4/IPv6) has already deployed in universities

Source Liu|NCHC-TWAREN@APAN