SOX Southern Crossroads

The Southern Crossroads (SoX) is a cooperative initiative by the members of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA). SoX is designed to facilitate access to current and future highly integrated, digital communications services for education, research and economic development within the region and across the United States.

As it evolves, SoX will enable a highly  functional, reliable communications system with the ability to integrate high performance voice, data and video services in a competitive multi-vendor environment at reasonable cost and with a quality of service standard.

SoX will serve to connect both Internet2 and non-Internet2 members to each other and to the Next Generation Internet, thus enhancing opportunities for collaboration among university researchers at differing institutions throughout the Southeast.

A list of institututions participating in Southern Crossroads may be found here. UAB is connected to the SOX network; UAB is a SURA member.

More information about SURA networking projects can be found here.

North Carolina Next Generation Network Initiative (NC-GNI)

The NC Next Generation Network Initiative (NC-GNI) is a next-generation information technology, networking and Internet program with a hybrid focus. One focus is on the research, applications development and infrastructure of the next-generation technologies, and the other focus is on early deployment of these technologies and capabilities to serve the production needs of education, business and government.

The NC-GNI was initially established in May 1996 by Duke University, North Carolina State University (NCSU), UNC at Chapel Hill, MCNC, Cisco, IBM, Nortel and Time Warner Communications. The intent from the outset has been to address both academic and business interests with the result that the NC GNI maintains a healthy tension between advanced research opportunities and early deployment of production services and applications. The goal is to exploit emerging technologies and applications to the competitive advantage of the Universities and business participating in the program.

GCG Gulf Central GigaPOP

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