- POL-34
POL-34 is a Polish academic
computer network created to provide high-speedInternet access and to conduct network-based research. Most of the government founded higher education organisations and all ofmetropolitan area network s in Poland are connected to POL-34.POL-34 has been created as a result of an experiment hosted in Poznań in 1997 during a scientific conference in which all major Polish MAN's representatives took part. Its target was to create a high-speed WAN. During the experiment
Poznań ,Łódź andGdańsk have been connected and the 34 Mbit/sATM network in an 622 Mbit/sSDH environment has been created and since then called POL-34. Since its creation, POL-34 has been a purely high-speed IP network.In the beginning, POL-34 has been using fiber-optic links leased from
TEL-ENERGO , a company founded byState Power Companies ,Polish Power Networks andPolish Power Distribution Association . Since its creation POL-34 has been creating its own infrastructure and now owns all fiber-optic connections to major nodes.In 1999 a project to extend the bandwidth of the network has been proposed and POL-155 has been created. Speed has been expanded to 155 Mbit/s Asynchronous Transfer Mode between Gdańsk, Łódź and Poznań and constant effort to create 155 Mbit/s links between smaller nodes has been made.
In 2000 POL-34/155 and various other academic organisations set up a project of creating a 10 Gbit/s network within
GEANT project. Network called PIONIER is the result of that project. Currently it connects Białystok,Bielsko-Biała ,Bydgoszcz ,Częstochowa , Gdańsk,Gliwice ,Kielce ,Kraków ,Lublin , Łódź,Opole ,Poznań ,Puławy ,Radom ,Toruń ,Warsaw ,Wrocław andZielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s link. The rest:Koszalin ,Szczecin ,Olsztyn ,Rzeszów are connected with links between 155 and 622 Mbit/s. PIONIER's Network Operations Center is based in Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center. It has connections to various commercial networks and is well integrated with GEANT network.Both POL-34/155 and PIONIER is operated by a consortium of 22 metropolitan area network operators and other educational institutions. Decisions within the consortium are made by voting.
External links
* [http://www.man.poznan.pl/pcss/public/main/index.html?lang=en Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center website]
* [http://www.pol34.pl/ POL-34/155 website]
* [http://www.pionier.gov.pl/ PIONIER website]
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