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