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The following services are provided by CENIC at no additional cost to the California Community Colleges as associate members of CalREN. CENIC does provide a number of other services that may be of interest that are outlined on the CENIC Add-on / Fee-for-Services Catalog page.

Digital California (DC) Service

The Digital California service provides routed access to CalREN members, commodity peers, on-net cache resources, commercial ISP, and R&E transit.

Digital California (DC) Service Technical Features & Benefits:

  • Network backbone engineered with abundant bandwidth and optimized for performance. Capable of handling the most demanding traffic patterns, Minimizing dropped packets, jitter, and other underperformance characteristics of commodity networks.

  • High-performance, low-latency direct access to cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and Azure, partner networks including Internet2, Pacific Wave, and Western Regional Network, and other online services such as Netflix, Twitch, and Akamai.

  • Highly reliable & cost-effective member connections.

  • Direct access at 18 hub sites and various backhaul options to reach additional locations.

  • Supports IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack and jumbo frames.

  • Supports the full BGP internet routing table and static routing on member connections.

  • Access to CENIC's DNS resolvers.

  • Highly reliable connections to other research and education entities.

Layer 2 Virtual Private Network Service - E-LINE

E-LINE is a private and seamless point-to-point Layer 2 service providing transparent connectivity between CENIC members and to cloud providers.

E-LINE Technical Features & Benefits:

  • Layer 2 Ethernet over private MPLS backbone.

  • Simple and efficient way to extend a LAN enterprise network.

  • Support for VLAN-based and port-based options.

  • Fast provisioning.

  • Fully transparent to pass control packets.

Layer 2 Virtual Private Network Service - E-LAN

E-LAN is a private and seamless point-to-multipoint Layer 2 service providing transparent connectivity between CENIC members and to cloud providers.

E-LAN Technical Features & Benefits:

  • Layer 2 Ethernet over private MPLS backbone.

  • Simple and efficient way to extend a LAN Enterprise network.

  • Support for VLAN-based and port-based options.

  • Fast provisioning.

  • Fully transparent to pass control packets.

Layer 3 Virtual Private Network Service - IP VPN

IP VPN is a private and unencrypted point-to-multipoint Layer 3 service providing a separate virtual network between CENIC members and to cloud providers.

IP VPN Technical Features & Benefits:

  • Completely private network separate from your public internet connection.

  • Support for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint options.

  • Full control over IP prefix propagation.

  • Layer 3 Ethernet service over private MPLS backbone.

Optical Service

A dedicated 10GB or 100GB point-to-point optical circuit, provisioned over a customer-specific metro segment and/or a CENIC optical backbone.

Optical Service Technical Features & Benefits:

  • Dedicated and private Layer 1 connections.

  • Support for LR4 and SR4 client handoffs.

  • Available bandwidth options: 10G and 100G.

Optical Spectrum Service

A dedicated 10GB or 100GB point-to-point optical circuit, provisioned over a customer-specific metro segment and/or a CENIC optical backbone.

Optical Spectrum Service Technical Features & Benefits:

  • Dedicated and private Layer 1 connections.

  • Available bandwidth options: 10G and 100G.

  • Wavelength allocation is based on ITU Grid C-Band, 100 GHz spacing.

  • Allows CENIC members to leverage the CalREN optical backbone and customer-specific metro segments while managing their own transponders or DWDM optics.

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