UPoP introduction

The UCAR Point of Presence (UPoP) is a consortium of Universities, K-12s, non-profit corporations, and government agencies that cooperate in an aggregation point called the UPoP in order to share Wide Area Networking (WAN) services, access to the commodity Internet, access to the Abilene (I2) research network, and access to the National LambdaRail (NLR). The current members are listed on the UPoP Members page.

NCAR/UCAR provides the engineering and Network Operations Center support for the UPoP.

Please address comments or questions about this Web page to the Network Engineering & Telecommunications Section at nets-www@ncar.ucar.edu. The Network Engineering and Telecommunications Section (NETS) is part of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Last modified: Friday, August 31, 2007 15:30