Bldg N254 - Ames Internet eXchange (Mountain View, California)

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The Ames Internet eXchange (AIX) is located in N-254 at NASA Ames Research Center. The facility hosts various network service providers including AT&T, Verizon, Centurylink and Level 3 Communications, to provide the center and agency with a diversity of carriers and services that results in more capabilities and flexibilities, and lower cost Wide Area Networking (WAN) services to NASA. These services are used to support Ames Research Center and NASA by providing NASA peering sites only available via the AIX (e.g., Yahoo, Microsoft, AT&T), enabling network support for various Ames and NASA projects (e.g., Yuri's Night, Great Worden Quake, Katrina), and includes support for over a dozen of NASA Research Park tenants. The AIX is also used to facilitate connections between federal agencies, universities and other research networks. Additionally, the AIX is the model for distributed connectivity at Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) locations, and will be used as NASA's first TIC of the five that are planned.