CERNET, CNGI, & CERNET2

CERNET

• CERNET project was started in 1993. It is the first nationwide TCP/IP backbone and the 3rd largest ISP in China.
• CERNET owns its own transport network : 30,000KM darkfiber, 800G DWDM system.
• CERNET has PoPs in 73 cities, covering all the provinces.
• There are about 2,000 universities, schools and research institutes connected.
• The end users reaches 25M : There are 320M students/school kids in China

CNGI

• Initiated from 2002 and approved in 2003
  
• Leaded by National Reform and Development Committee
• Joint with MST, MOE, CAS, MII, NSFC, CAE, …
• Main contents

CNGI Backbone: nation wide, 30-40 Giga Pops and 300 campus networks, international links

Network technology and applications

Delivery to information industry

• All NSPs have jointed this project : CERNET, China Telecom, Unicom, Netcom/CSTNET, China Mobile, China Railcom

CNGI-CERNET2:

• CERNET2 project was started in 2004. it is the largest IPv6 single stack network in the world.
• CNGI-CERNET2 runs on CERNET DWDM transport network: 30,000KM darkfiber, 800G DWDM system.
• CERNET has 25 Pops in 20 cities.
• There are about 2,00 universities, schools and research institutes connected.
• The end users reaches 1M: There are 320M students/school kids in China

Source Li|CERNET@APAN