Production Services
Core Services
Value-Added Services
- Guidance through the initial connection process
- Traffic Utilization Graphs
- SmartHands
- 24/7/365 Network Operations Center (NOC) as a single point of contact for all issues
Participation Benefits
MAX participation includes many benefits far beyond what can be provided by
a common Internet Service Provider (ISP), including:
Building Community
Highly reliable, regional R&E network aggregation point delivering high-speed commodity and research Internet…
Networking Services
A “first stop” point to provide cost effective access to national commodity Internet Service Providers (ISPs), national R&E backbones…
Collaboration
Encourage collaboration, sharing of intellectual capital, and material resources among participating research, federal…
Operational Support
A Network Operations Center (NOC) that monitors and responds to events and requests from our participants 24 hours a day, 7 days …
About Us
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) is a GigaPoP (Gigabit Point of Presence) organization founded in 1999 and an entity of the University of Maryland, College Park’s Division of IT. We are a network access point that supports high-bandwidth, high performance data transfer and provides advanced network services that enable our participants to successfully fulfill their organizational missions. MAX is a member of and provides its participants with connectivity to Internet2 as well as various commodity Internet providers.








