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    Southern Crossroads (SoX), also known as Southern Light Rail (SLR), serves the Southeastern United States’ Research and Education community. A 501(c)3 organization, SoX provides high-speed, global connectivity, and other commodity services. SoX also serves as the Southeast connector to Internet2, ESnet, and other major U.S. and international research networks. SoX supports universities, K-12 education networks, federal agencies, government laboratories, and non-profit institutions that promote research in in the Southeast region of the U.S. Through its membership in The Quilt, SoX is able to offer low-cost internet bandwidth throughout the region with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to its participants. SoX also provides additional value-added services.

    An extension of initiatives to facilitate research dating back to the 1980s, SoX/SLR is managed through a research contract with the Office of Information Technology at Georgia Tech.

    A list of current participants can be found here.

    The Worldview Panel above is a world map that provides the ability to monitor and visualize realtime traffic statistics. It uses timeseries data to represent traffic between nodes as circuits. It provides this information when hovered over the circuits and nodes.

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