The EduPop Project
The EduPop Project creates a mutually beneficial routing point for the educational and commercial networking community in the Houston area.
Background
A consortium of major educational institutions in the Houston area have come together to jointly support and build this new Internet gateway, called the EduPop project. The new Internet routing point being created benefits Houston area educators, students and university affiliates. Initial project funding is provided by the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure (TIF) Board.
A single EduPop peering connection enables ISPs to establish a high-speed network bypass with the educational institutions meeting at the Texas GigaPOP. This peering relationship will enable ISPs to shed the Internet traffic between their customers and Texas GigaPOP connected institutions over a single peering link.
EduPop Founding Members
Rice University
Texas A&M System - Health Science Center
The University of Houston
The University of Texas - Houston Health Science Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Aldine ISD
Houston ISD
Spring Branch ISD
Texas Region 4 Service Center
Time Warner's Road Runner Service
Houston Area League of PC Users
Comments to, hd@rice.edu.
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Last updated: Monday, July 29, 2002