The EduPop Project Membership

		EduPop Membership EduPop Project commercial membership benefits companies who have customers in the Houston area. Educational members must also be participants of the Texas GigaPOP.

Background Resources Membership Technology Policy EduPop Home		EduPop Project members participate in a truly win-win scenario. Many Houston-area educational institutions have built very high-bandwidth network connections between themselves and the Texas GigaPOP. These educational institutions have no desire to provide DSL, broadband, or cable modem service to their faculty, staff, students and affiliates at home. Commercial providers who serve these education affiliated individuals now have a mechanism to substantially reduce the Internet traffic on their bulk Internet connection. Commercial ISPs with a significant customer base in Houston will substantially benefit from the single peering connection which offloads traffic to and from a long list of educational institutions who peer with the EduPop. Commercial members connect to the EduPop using several methods. The EduPop currently maintains high bandwidth connections to the Houston ATM cloud (operated by Southwestern Bell) and to the Metropolitan Area Gigabit Internet Exchange (MAGIE; operated by Phonoscope). In addition, members are invited and encouraged to build or lease dedicated facilities to connect to the EduPop. Members may build peering connections using ATM PVCs on the Southwestern Bell ATM network in the Houston area. Members may also build peering connections using VLANs on the Phonoscope Metropolitan Area Ethernet network. A peering agreement which formally acknowledges the responsibilities of each party must be completed and filed at the EduPop. Current Members of the EduPop 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

		Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning, Rice University. Comments to, hd@rice.edu. Copyright 2001 Rice University http://www.EduPop.net/EduPop/Membership.html Last updated: Monday, April 15, 2002