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NERO Connectivity

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NERO Connectivity

NERO consists of a high speed core network with hubs in Portland, Corvallis, and Eugene. The core hub sites are fully interconnected at DS3 (45Mb/s) or higher.

Our partners aggregate traffic from their various networks and interconnect to NERO at one of the three NERO hub sites. Partner equipment may be colocated at the Portland and Eugene hubs, or the partner's hub site may be connected to one of the NERO hub sites via a telco circuit.

NERO provides internet transit connectivity for our partners via a DS3 to Cable & Wirless from the Eugene hub, and two DS3s to UUNET WorldCom from the Portland hub. In addition, NERO is a member of the Oregon IX. Traffic between NERO's partners and other members of the Oregon IX is routed via the IX, thus saving bandwidth on the internet transit connections.

For a pictorial diagram of the NERO network click here.