e San Diego Telecom Council, which boasts a membership of 300 telecom companies, has expressed interest in extending OptIPuter links to a variety of public- and private-sector sites in San Diego County. The project will also fund what is expected to be the country's largest graduate-student program for optical networking research. The OptIPuter will also extend into undergraduate classrooms, with curricula and research oppor- tunities to be developed for UCSD's new Sixth College. Younger students will also be exposed to the OptIPuter, with field-based curricula for Lincoln Ele- mentary School in suburban Chicago and UCSD's Preuss School (a San Diego City charter school for grades 6-12, enrolling low-income, first-generation college-bound students). The new Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) building at UCSD is equipped with one of the most advanced computer and telecommunications networks anywhere. The NSF awarded a $1.8 million research infrastructure grant over five years to UCSD to outfit the building with a Fast Wired and Wireless Grid (FWGrid). "Experimental computer science requires extensive equipment infrastructure to perform large-scale and leading-edge studies," says Andrew Chien, FWGrid principal investigator and professor of computer science and engineering in the Jacobs School of Engineering. "With the FWGrid, our new building will represent a microcosm of what Grid comput- ing will look like five years into the future." FWGrid's high-speed wireless, wired, computing, and data capabilities are distributed throughout the building. The research infrastructure contains ter- aflops of computing power, terabytes of memory, and petabytes of storage. Researchers can also access and exchange data at astonishingly high speeds. "Untethered" wireless communication will happen at speeds as high as 1 Gbps, and wired communication will top 100 Gbps. "Those speeds and computing resources will enable innovative next-generation systems and applications," says Chien, who notes that Cal-IT2 is also involved in the 