MID-ATLANTIC CROSSROADS

Creating world-class networking and cyberinfrastructure services that power research, education and scientific discoveries.

Production Services

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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

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MAX participation includes many benefits far beyond what can be provided by
a common Internet Service Provider (ISP), including:

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Building Community

Highly reliable, regional R&E network aggregation point delivering high-speed commodity and research Internet…

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Networking Services

A “first stop” point to provide cost effective access to national commodity Internet Service Providers (ISPs), national R&E backbones…

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Collaboration

Encourage collaboration, sharing of intellectual capital, and material resources among participating research, federal…

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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

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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.

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MAX's Contribution to Research, Education, and More

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High Performance Computing (HPC)

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