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OVERVIEW CANARIE is led by universities and partners with several companies in areas from the networking and technology industries. As Of 2007 , the organization has 84 members, mostly universities, institutes and other places of higher education, together with several companies and government agencies. Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario , the company maintains and modifies a set of leased wide area network links for educational and research organizations of Canada. OPERATIONS The original CAnet was created in 1990 with support from the National Research Council . CANARIE was involved in its operations as network had been upgraded to 56 kbit links in 1993, to 10 Mbit/s in 1995, and then later to 20 Mbit/s. It had 100 Mbit/s aggregate capacity in 1996, and the same year the National Test Network (NTN) project introduced ATM . In 1997, the company Bell Advanced Communications (later Bell Nexxia , now Bell Canada ) was given operating control over the network operations. The CAnet II was launched based on NTN links and capacities, OC-3 (155 Mbit/s) at the core.
The current version of the network is named CAnet 4, and it is based on OC-192 optical circuits. One of the technologies CANARIE is developing is User Controlled Light Path (UCLP) switching. EXTERNAL LINK |
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