FIU awarded for AMLIGHT to provide an Advanced International Network for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) through 2031

Florida International University’s Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) is pleased to announce AMLIGHT’s long-term support for a high-speed network, linking the NSF-funded Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to the National Center for SuperComputing Applications (NCSA) and beyond through a sub-award from the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). This unprecedented long-term infrastructure will provide committed bandwidth capacity for LSST’s explicit needs, and communal bursts within the AMLIGHT collaboration.

The network architecture is a critical component of the design of LSST.  AMLIGHT has contributed to the design of the network architecture for LSST, and supported the evolution of the regional network infrastructure since site planning in 2006. The network architecture allows for a design of LSST utilizing the computational resources of NCSA in Illinois to process in near real time the data from the telescope in Northern Chile.

The AMLIGHT collaboration will deploy multiple 100G links from Miami, to Fortaleza, Brazil, to São Paulo, and to Santiago, Chile, to provide the underlying infrastructure to support LSST’s committed bandwidth, and burst needs. Partners in the U.S. that interconnect with AMLIGHT and will help transport LSST’s data to NCSA include Florida LambdaRail, Internet2, and ESnet.

The full press release can be found here: http://ciara.fiu.edu/lsstFIUpressrelease12Nov2014final.pdf

New Era in Latin American and Caribbean R&E Networking: Projects & Infrastructure Developments

AmLight's Heidi Alvarez participated in the Internet2's conference in October 2014. The session Carabbean Knowledge Learning Network (CKLN), redCLARA supported applications, access to high energy physics tier-2 centers in Brazil, connectivity to astronomy projects in Chile and Argentina, cross-border 10G collaborative science between Mexico and the US as well as implementation of NET+ services in Columbia.

Use this link to access the presentations and to watch the hour long session.
http://meetings.internet2.edu/2014-global-summit/detail/10003138/

14th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop

Jeronimo Bezerra, AMPATH Senior Network Engineer, presented at the Global LambdaGrid workshop in Queenstown, New Zealand. Berezza's presentation, Moving towards SDN at AmLight, AMPATH and SouthernLight, discussed the key motivations for Software Defined Networks: improving operations efficiency and introducing network programmability.

A website has been set up for the SDN project at http://www.sdn.amlight.net/SDN/.

His presentation can be found here: http://www.sdn.amlight.net/pub/SDN/Documents/GLIF_Presentantion.pdf

100-Gigabit Connectivity to Pacific Wave International Peering Exchange for ESnet

New Connectivity Enables ESnet to Support Globe-Spanning Collaborations at Ultra-High-Performance Network Speeds

Pacific Wave announced the completion of a 100-Gigabit connection for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-speed computer network serving US Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories and scientific facilities. With the completion of this new connection in Sunnyvale, CA, ESnet has upgraded its peering capabilities to research networks in 40 countries throughout the Pacific Rim and beyond.

“International exchange points such as Pacific Wave serve a critical role in the architecture of the Internet, and they are especially important in supporting large-scale scientific collaboration,” stated ESnet Division Director Greg Bell. “This new 100-Gigabit connection will improve data mobility for scientists at the cutting edge of discovery in high-energy physics, fusion energy research, climate science, and many other fields.”

ESnet provides the high-bandwidth, reliable connections that link scientists at national laboratories, universities and other research institutions, enabling them to collaborate on some of the world’s most important scientific challenges including energy, climate science, and the origins of the universe. Funded by the DOE Office of Science, and managed and operated by the ESnet team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides scientists with access to unique DOE research facilities and computing resources.

For the full press release, visit http://www.pacificwave.net/p=580/

Demi Getschko Nominated to the Internet Hall of Fame

Demi Getschko is the first Brazilian to be nominated to the Internet Hall of Fame at a ceremony on 8 April, 2014, in Hong Kong.

The Internet Hall of Fame, created in 2012 by the Internet Society, honors leaders and innovators from around the world who have made extraordinary contributions to the change in the lives of citizens using the Internet. The awards are presented in three categories: “Pioneers Circle”, “Innovators” and “Global Connectors”.

Demi Getschko, an electrical engineer, was nominated in the category of “Global Connectors”, which recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the growth and overall Internet use.

Getschko, a Brazilian born in Trieste, Italy, began a degree in 1971 in Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo and completed his doctorate at the same university in 1989. From 1971 to 1985, he worked at CCE-USP (Electronic Computing Center of the University of São Paulo). From 1985 to 1996 he worked at the Data Processing Center CPD- of FAPESP (the State of São Paulo Research Foundation) and was the ANSP Network’s first Technical Coordinator.

Until 2009 he was a member of the Board of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). He has been a director of CGI.br (the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee) since 1995, and Chief Executive Officer of NIC.br (Center for Information and Coordination. Br). He is an associate professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, where he teaches Computer Architecture and coordinates the PUCSPNetLab, Layer 2 laboratory of FAPESP’s KyaTera Project.

The team congratulates Prof. ANSP. Getschko and is honored by this award have been given in recognition of his work at ANSP in the period 1989-1996, which led to the consolidation of the National Research and Education Network (RNP) and the Brazilian Internet itself.

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See the 2006 ANSP interview with Demi Getschko:

 http://www.ansp.br/index.php/br/depoimentos

Learn more about the Internet Hall of Fame ceremony: 

http://internethalloffame.org/press/latest-news/internet-hall-fame-announces-2014-inductees

Source:  http://agencia.fapesp.br/18915

OpenWave Presentation at the 13th Annual ON*VECTOR Photonics Workshop on March 5-6, 2014

Julio Ibarra, FIU, PI, Heidi Alvarez, FIU, Co-PI, Chip Cox, FIU, Co-PI and Louis Fox, CENIC, Co-PI presented an overview of the Amlight OpenWave: U.S.-Brazil 100G Experimental Alien Wave.

Research scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs from seven countries gathered at the University of California, San Diego, from March 2-4 for the annual ON*VECTOR International Photonics Workshop, a three-day “meeting of the minds” devoted to exploring the hottest and most relevant topics in computing and networking. 

ON*VECTOR stands for Optical Networked Virtual Environments Collaborative Trans-Oceanic Research. The annual ON*VECTOR workshop has contributed to the increased international use and ongoing development of photonic (or optical) networks. Optical networks — or communication networks that transmit information in the form of light (photons) — provide greatly increased bandwidth because multiple signals can be transmitted through optical fiber across individual wavelengths of light, called lambdas.

Slides of the presentation are available here: https://t.co/2uQ6yuNqKj