Advanced Networks
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The use of advanced networks is producing important
changes in the field of research and education, offering
new tools that increasingly make us closer to other educational and
scientific communities of the world. In this way, the
researchers are carried out
among geographically distant work groups, a large quantity of
information through high-speed networks can be transferred, greater
interaction and support among researches exists, and the contribution
in advanced scientific research has increased. The Office of Science
and Technology of the OAS, through RedHUCyT, supports the initiatives
of Latin American organizations for the strengthening of advanced
Networks.
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Advanced Networks Work Group
Presentations
Within the framework of the Workshop on
"Scientific and Technological Development in the Americas",
held in Quito, Ecuador, December 10
- 12, 2003.
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"NSF Releases Report on
Cyber-Infrastructure
The
National Science Foundation has
just released a
report which looks to explore the current and future use of
cyber-infranstructure, especially related to Science and
Engineering. This is the official release of this report."
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Academic Consortiums |
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CLARA Project: Latin
American Cooperation of Advanced Networks is a non-profit organization that promotes educational, scientific,
and cultural activities. Its main objectives are: the coordination
with National Academic Networks of Latin America with other similar
networks, the cooperation for the promotion of technological and
scientific development, the planning and establishment of networks for
regional interconnection, and the development of a Regional network to
interconnect to the national academic and research networks.
Meeting CLARA - OAS - Internet2
(June 13, 2003 Washington DC) |
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Internet2 is a non governmental organization that groups more than 202
universities in the United States, 45 international associates and
affiliated members whose purpose is to head in the development of
applications through advanced networks for the educational and
scientific community. |
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Dante
is an organization conformed by a number of research
networks in Europe, with headquarters in England that plans, builds,
and administers international network services.
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ALICE (Latin America Interconnected to Europe): is a
co-funded project by the European Commission within the framework of
the
@LIS Programme, which was launched to stimulate the creation and
development of the Information Society in Latin America.
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CEASEAR Commission (Connecting All European and South American
Researchers) is a European Commission funded feasibility study to
evaluate the possibility of a direct interconnection between the
pan-European research network
GÉANT and similar activities in Latin America.
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CCIRN
(Coordinating
Committee for
Intercontinental Research Networking)
CCIRN provides a forum
for members to agree and progress a set of activities to achieve
inter-operable networking services between participating
international entities to support open research and scholarly
pursuit. Policy, management, and technical issues will be
examined, based on agreed requirements.
CCIRN
Presentations
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APAN (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium),
Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium (APAN) was established on
June 3, 1997 for research and development in advanced networking
application and services in the Asia-Pacific Area |
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CANARIE Canada's advanced Internet development organization -
is a not-for-profit corporation supported by its members, project
partners, and the Federal Government. In 1998, CANARIE deployed CA*net
3, the world's first national optical Internet research and
education network. CA*net 4 will, as did its predecessor
CA*net 3, interconnect the provincial research networks, and through
them universities, research centers, government research laboratories,
schools, and other eligible sites, both with each other and with
international peer networks. |
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TERENA (Trans-European
Research and Education Networking Association). TERENA carries out
technical activities and provides a platform for discussion to
encourage the development of a high-quality computer-networking
infrastructure for the European research community. |
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NORDUNET is the Nordic Internet highway to research and
education networks in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. |
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New
Generation Networks |
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GEANT is a
project conformed by a consortium of 27 national education networks in
Europe (NRENs) that has DANTE as associate-coordinator. Its goal is
to improve the existing TEN-155 research network creating a backbone
to velocity of Gigabit |
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Abilene is a
backbone with advanced technology that constitutes the backup for the
development and expansion of the new applications that develop inside
the community of Internet2.
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AMPATH network is a Florida International University (FIU) project
sponsored in part by the US National Science Foundation in
collaboration with Global Crossing (GC) and other telecommunications
product and service providers. AMPATH is interconnecting the research
and education (R&E) networks in South and Central America, the
Caribbean, and Mexico to US and non-US R&E networks via Internet2's
Abilene network. |
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STAR TAP is a persistent infrastructure funded by the
National Science Foundation to facilitate long-term
interconnection and interoperability of advanced international
networking. |
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Applications in High Speed Networks |
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Generation Internet (NGI) |
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The Federal Program Next Generation Internet (NGI) was a research
initiative of development of several agencies of the United States
government since 1998, for the technological development of
applications with the use of advanced networks.
The NGI Program met all of its goals except for its goal of
Terabit per second networking in FY2002 that is expected to be met
by the current LSN research activities: Large Scale Networking
(LSN) from the National Coordination Office for Information
Technology Research and Development (NITRD).
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Upgraded in January 2004 |
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