Atlanta & Georgia Initiatives

• Atlanta GigaPoP - aggregation point of services and customers

  • vBNS
  • ESNet
  • Emory University (proposed)
  • University of Georgia (proposed)
  • Commodity Internet Service Providers (?)

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• Meeting point where customers can meet providers.

• GigaPoP operators to charge the institutions they serve for those services which they offer. Could be:
  • ISP Services
  • Research Network Services
  • Special Information Servers
  • Other types of services for which there is a demand

• Capability for institutions to aggregate traffic onto a single high bandwidth link from the institution to the GigaPoP