Newsletter May 2013

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A large part of the motivation for this connection was to work around the obstacle to the natural collaboration that would otherwise take place between both UCSD and CICESE created by the national border, where a researcher could spend between three and four hours during a simple day trip just crossing the border itself. Since that time is unlikely to grow shorter in the future, optical networks were the ideal way to enable scientific collaboration. Smarr also reminded the panel audience of the extraordinary Calit2-CICESE demo which took place the following day and featured a live linkup between both institutions’ OptIPortals, by which large seismic datasets were shared absolutely seamlessly in real-time.

The link up between the institutions was supported by AMLIGHT and made possible through the funding support of the National Science Foundation (award# OCI-0963053).

For more information and a link to a YouTube video of the entire presentation, click here.

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RedNIBA currently has 40 POPs throughout Mexico and includes 10G connectivity on the “triangle” of Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey, and north to Juarez by which it obtains connectivity to the Internet2 via the University of Texas at El Paso, and CENIC’s CalREN. June 2012 saw an agreement between CUDI and the Ministry that allows CUDI to use RedNIBA without cost. (link to network map here)
Hrybyk pointed out that BCNET has undergone a large shift in its conception of itself, going so far as to remove the word “network” from its mission statement and instead conceptualizing itself as “shared IT services for higher education.” Its funding it dominated by fees paid by members, although it also receives funding from the provincial government in British Columbia and CAMARIE as well as fees for other services such as revenue from exchange points. BCNET’s 10G fiber network spans over 2,000 km throughout British Columbia and is owned, managed, and operated by the BCNET member consortium.
An overview of Canada’s continent-spanning CANARIE network then followed. CANARIE has 19,000 km of fiber throughout Canada, with 100G capability, and connects a million Canadians at 1,100 institutions throughout the country. This very thorough penetration is furthered by CANARIE’s work with provincial networks like BCNET to ensure that all Canadian universities are connected, as well as research hospitals and health networks, Networks of Centres of Excellence, major science facilities like TRIUMF, NEPTUNE, SNOLAB, thousands of high schools, and what are in Canada known as CEGEPs or general and vocational colleges (link to network map here )

For the full story and link to YouTube video of the presentations, click here.

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Jim Condon worked with William Cotton, Edward Fomalont, Kenneth Kellermann, and Rick Perley of NRAO; Neal Miller of the University of Maryland; and Douglas Scott, Tessa Vernstrom, and Jasper Wall of the University of British Columbia. The researchers published their work in the Astrophysical Journal.
For original article click here.