Pacific Wave's architecture is designed to be accessible from multiple submarine cable landings and multiple nodes on the Western Coast of the United States. Pacific Wave's switches are located in three metropolitan areas in state-of-the-art facilities. The nodes are interconnected with 10 Gigabit lightpaths provisioned by CENIC and NLR. Peering is done over multiple VLANs set up for jumbo frames, standard frames, local and inter-site.
Pacific Wave Switches (PDF)
Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Architecture (PDF)
Pacific Wave VLAN Key (PDF)
Pacific Wave is also connected to Starlight via a 10GE circuit over National Lambda Rail (NLR) on loan from Cisco. Participant connections between Pacific Wave and Starlight may be requested as long as the wave is available and there is sufficient capacity to accomodate the request.
Pacific Wave is also capable of provisioning private VLANs or lightpaths for special projects.
For a look at the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) resources available on Pacific Wave see the GLIF website, or more specifically the information for Pacific Wave sites:
Layer 2 connections to NLR's Dynamic VLAN Service (DVS) and Internet2's Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) are available on a case-by-case basis. For more information on either layer 1 or layer 2 services, please contact info@pacificwave.net.