In the next few months, we will permanently relocate the Berkeley connection to Sunnyvale and the LA connection to Anaheim. We discontinued the direct vBNS connection this month. We implemented Cable and Wireless connections on both the north and south rings. An additional Qwest link at Sunnyvale will be implemented within the month. The Mexican consortia has had plans to connect their network to CalREN-2 in San Diego.
Coordination is underway to set a date and work out the technical details of the connections.
The target date is May 2000. Initially, UC campuses will be the sole users of this connection. An RFP will be issued soon with implementation scheduled this spring. Los Nettos is investigating utilizing CalREN-2 to augment some of its infrastructure. Another focus will be to identify and stimulate the development of inter-institutional groups that could collaborate to develop applications.