Canarie - About the network

The CANARIE Network embodies the concept of a "customer-empowered network", placing dynamic allocation of network resources in the hands of end users thus permitting a much greater ability for users to innovate in the development of network-based applications. These applications, based upon the increasing use of computers and networks as the platform for research in many fields, are essential for national and international collaboration, data access and analysis, distributed computing, and remote control of instrumentation required by researchers. The CANARIE optical network infrastructure is built using a mixture of CANARIE-lit wavelengths, carrier-leased wavelengths and wavelengths swapped with like-minded organizations. All wavelengths are unprotected, point-to-point connections, and operate at 10 Gbps.