Engineering Services
ESnet provides interoperable, effective, reliable, and high performance network communications infrastructure, and certain collaboration services, in support of the Office of Science (SC)’s large-scale, collaborative science programs. ESnet provides users with high bandwidth access to DOE sites and DOE’s primary science collaborators including Research and Education institutions in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and elsewhere. ESnet also provides a full suite of network services including:
- IPv4 and IPv6 routing and address space management
- IPv4 multicast
- Performance Knowledgebase (Fasterdata)
- Network Monitoring (perfSONAR)
- Reservable, guaranteed bandwidth using the ESnet On-demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation System (OSCARS)
- Service Level Descriptions | PDF 8.4 MB
The Network
The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is a high-performance, unclassified national network built to support scientific research. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC) and managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides services to more than 40 DOE research sites and connects to 140 other research and commercial networks. Read More
OSCARS
ESnet's On-Demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation System (OSCARS) provides multi-domain, high-bandwidth virtual circuits that guarantee end-to-end network data transfer performance. Originally a research concept, OSCARS has grown into a robust production service. Currently OSCARS virtual circuits carry fifty percent of ESnet’s annual 60 petabytes of traffic. Read More
Fasterdata
To meet the needs of our networking community, ESnet began an initiative to build a knowledge base for network engineers, system administrators and network researchers. This knowledge base is called Fasterdata. The goal of the Fasterdata Knowledge Base is to provide the research and education community with a trusted reference tailored for data-intensive science environments, including… Read More
IPv6 Network
In anticipation of the scalability problems with IPv4 (the current Internet Protocol), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has produced a comprehensive set of specifications that define the next generation Internet Protocol known as IPv6. Read More
