 AMPATH supports the deployment of anycast for improvement of B-Root DNS Services
April 20, 2017
Florida International University’s Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) is pleased to support the improvement of the B-Root DNS service. B-Root activated anycast on May 1, 2017, providing service from a new site in Miami in addition to the current site in Los Angeles. Florida International University (FIU) and AMPATH are hosting the new hardware in Miami, and University of Southern California (USC) are providing the hardware support for this second site… Read More |
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 AmLight at the Internet2 Global Summit 2017
April 23-26, 2017
Jeronimo Bezerra, AmLight ExP Chief Network Engineer, and Marcos Schwarz, R&D Coordinator from RNP (Rede Nacional De Ensino E Pesquisa) Brazil, presented “Inter-domain SDN Data Plane Validation: Next Steps at AmLight“. The theme for the 2017 Global Summit focused on Bringing Networks Together: Connecting People and Technology with Research and Education. The research and education (R&E) community is in the business of building more than one kind of network. Putting foundational and innovative technologies to work across the globe, the Internet2 community has created a unique network infrastructure dedicated to supporting the research and scholarship missions of the members… Read More
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 VIII Workshop on Future Internet Research and Experimentation (WPEIF)
May 19, 2017
Humberto Galiza, AmLight Senior Network Engineer, presented “Mitigating the Risks of Supporting Multiple Control Planes in a Production SDN Network: A Use Case” at the VIII Workshop on Future Internet Research and Experimentation (WPEIF) part of the SBRC Conference.The Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) is an annual event promoted by Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and the National Laboratory of Computer Networks (LARC) University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. For more than three decades, SBRC has become the most important national scientific event on computer networks and distributed systems, and one of the most crowded in the computer science field in Latin America. The event was composed of technical sessions, short courses, panel discussions, workshops, demo session, tutorials, and lectures presented by internationally renowned researchers… Read More
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 AmLight experience with ONOS as an official project collaborator
May 25, 2017
For the very first time, AmLight introduced ONOS to the Network Engineering and Operations audience in Latin America at the Brazilian NOG group joint meeting (GTER 43) in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. The title of the presentation in Portuguese is “ONOS: um Sistema Operacional SDN para Provedores de Serviços de Internet” (in English: ONOS: an SDN Operating System to ISPs). Within the 40 minutes slot, the primary goal was to provide an overview of ONOS, its applications, and use cases focused on ISP environments. Additionally, we shared with the community AmLight experience with ONOS as an official project collaborator… Read More |
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 AmLight SDN and automation at TERENA Networking Conference (TNC’17)
March 29-June 2, 2017
AmLight Team (Jeronimo Bezerra, Jorge Marcos, Dr. Julio Ibarra, Dr. Heidi Morgan and Dr. Luis Lopez) presented Handling Network Events in a Production SDN Environment (part of session SDN and automation) at the Terena Networking Conference (TNC’17) in Linz, Austria. Along with that they participated in a Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) and Global Network Architecture (GNA) meetings. Through keynotes speeches by renowned specialists, varying parallel sessions, demonstrations, and presentations, the TNC conference presents participants with a unique overview of the latest developments in research networking, both in the technical field and in the area of application and management… Read More |
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 UNESP Center for Scientific Computing in São Paulo, Brazil introduces Kytos, a new SDN platform, during TNC’17
March 29-June 2, 2017
The Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) team at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) introduced Kytos, its new Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform, during the TNC’17 conference, held in the city of Linz, Austria, from May 29 to June 2. Kytos has been developed by the CSC team, and its main goal is to offer an innovative solution for controlling SDN networks. The platform is 100% open-source and is able to communicate with any switch that supports OpenFlow. In addition, the Kytos platform introduces the concept of Network Applications (NApps), which can be developed by independent developers and shared among the community of users… Read More |
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