  We consider the stochastic background of gravitational waves produced by a
network of cosmic strings and assess their accessibility to current and planned
gravitational wave detectors, as well as to big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN),
cosmic microwave background (CMB), and pulsar timing constraints. We find that
current data from interferometric gravitational wave detectors, such as LIGO,
are sensitive to areas of parameter space of cosmic string models complementary
to those accessible to pulsar, BBN, and CMB bounds. Future more sensitive LIGO
runs and interferometers such as Advanced LIGO and LISA will be able to explore
substantial parts of the parameter space.
