Press Release

2006

2006/09/20	SOI Asia Project successfully conducted Global-e-Workshop 2006
2006/07/19	10 Gigabit Ethernet Connects TransLight/Pacific Wave and TransLight/StarLight
2006/06/16	WIDE project and Internet Systems Consortium, in cooperation with Toshiba Corporation, have completed performance enhancement of the BIND9 DNS server, thereby contributing to the advancement of technology in the Internet infrastructure
2006/03/23	ALAXALA and WIDE Promote Experimental Testing on 10Gbit/s Business Network Environment - Extra Network Constructed Between ALAXALA Head Office and Shin Kawasaki Town Campus -

2005

2005/12/20	WIDE Project and JPRS Start Joint Operation of a Root DNS Server - Aiming at Contributing to Further Improvement of the Stability of the Internet -
2005/11/22	Universitas Syiah Kuala (Banda Aceh, Indonesia) Disaster Recovery Project - Distance learning to assist in university recovery -
2005/11/16	Collaboration of 20 Universities in 11 Countries Throughout Asia Deployed a World First Next Generation Distance Learning Platform Using Wide Area IPv6 Multicast
2005/11/07	KAME Project Manifest for Completion / R&D for IPv6:The new stage focused on Operations and Applications
2005/09/21	Success in the first Japan-Europe Remote Jazz Jam Session Using Uncompressed HDTV Imagery and Internet Metronome
2005/09/16	Demonstration of Next Generation Internet Technologies to be Conducted at the Closing EXPO 2005 International Forum
2005/08/10	WIDE Project provides technical support for Subaru Makalii School, remote learning lectures between Hawaii and Museum of Science, Tokyo.
2005/08/05	Prof. Jun Murai awarded with the Postel Award at IETF meeting.
2005/05/06	New Internet2 Land Speed Records Set By An International Research Group.
2005/01/27	Real-time HDTV Broadcast Enabled Through Global, Ultrahigh-speed Internet Testbed.

2004

2004/10/20	World's longest native 10Gigabit Ethernet connection established between Japan, and CERN Switzerland across research networks in United States, Canada, The Netherlands, and Japan.
Addendum: 2004/11/15	"World's highest performance and longest distance internet communication achieved at Supercomputing 2004 conference"
2004/09/29	WIDE Project launches a replicate of M-Root DNS Server in Paris with cooperation of Telehouse Europe, Renater, and France Telecom.
2004/06/22	Hitachi and WIDE Project Succeed in TransPacific 10Gigabit Ethernet Communication Test Using 10GBASE-EW

2003

2003/08/05	START OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF .JP DNS SERVERS AND UNIFICATION OF SERVER NAMES
2003/04/28	IPv6 Forum creates first published IPv6 acceptance standard with "IPv6 Ready" logo. "Kick-off at the Global IPv6 Summit Madrid!" Tokyo/Boston/Luxembourg, April 28, 2003 [PDF File:95.5KB]
2003/03/28	Distributed Network Service Provider Internet eXchange Point 2 (NSPIXP-2) launches operations at six locations in Tokyo Name changed to dix-ie (Distributed IX in EDO) as the distributed NSPIXP-2 is implemented.

2002

2002/06/13	WIDE and Fujitsu to Support Asia's First International Internet Engineering Conference
2002/03/22	SOI: Multicast verification testing carried out with universities in the USA and Japan

2001

2001/06/06	Distributed IX in Tokyo Met. Area: Experimental Operation with IPv6 and Broadband Internet.

2000

2000/12/18	Private and Academic Sectors Cooperate in Project to Deploy IPv6 for LINUX System
2000/06/27	An Operation of IAA (I Am Alive) system for the Volcanic Activity for Is. Miyake (in Japanese)
2000/04/06	An Operation of IAA (I Am Alive) system for the Eruption of Mt.Usu (in Japanese)
2000/01/07	The 5th Internet Disaster Support Drill (in Japanese)

1998

1998/11/18	98/11/18 The 4th Internet Disaster Support Drill (in Japanese) (PDF Version)
1998/01/16	The 3rd Internet Disaster Support Drill -- Update (in Japanese)
1998/01/13	The 3rd Internet Disaster Support Drill -- Contents of Drill (in Japanese)

1997

1997/11/17	The 3rd Internet Disaster Support Drill (in Japanese)

1996

1996/12/27	The 2nd Internet Disaster Support Drill (in Japanese)