Press release March 9, 2026 Miami, Florida, March 9, 2026 – The AmLight International Research and Education (R&E) network has activated 1 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth capacity between Boca Raton, Florida and Fortaleza, Brazil, and 1.2 Tbps between Fortaleza and São Paulo, Brazil. AmLight, a project at Florida International University (FIU), is sponsored...
The ESnet SENSE project team released the SENSE Orchestrator 26.01 (Final) on January 21, 2026. This biannual major release delivers important stability improvements, dependency modernization, usability enhancements, and refined visualization behavior. A cornerstone of this release is the formal integration with the AtlanticWave-SDX project, through a component referred to as...
December 17, 2025Original Article is published here. FABRIC successfully deployed a dedicated 100-gigabit network link connecting its Miami edge node at Florida International University (FIU) to a core FABRIC site in Atlanta. This connection enhanced the strength of FABRIC’s nationwide footprint and provides researchers with a high-capacity, Layer...
AmLight achieved a major milestone at SC25, delivering more than 1.5 Tbps of bidirectional traffic from Latin America to the conference show floor—more than double the throughput achieved at SC24, which peaked at under 0.7 Tbps. The accomplishment drew strong praise across the international research networking community, including...
This year at the SuperComputing 2025 (SC25) conference, taking place November 16–21 in St. Louis, MO, the AmLight team is playing a significant role in supporting Network Research Exhibitions (NREs) that showcase cutting-edge advancements in global networking for data-intensive sciences. These demonstrations highlight innovative methods to accelerate scientific discovery, enable...
The AtlanticWave-SDX team, will present cutting-edge advances in programmable networking at the upcoming KNIT 11 FABRIC Community Workshop, taking place October 14–15, 2025. The presentation, “Programmable L2VPNs and Flow Analytics with FABRIC + AtlanticWave-SDX” is scheduled for October 15, 2025, from 1:35–2:05 p.m. in Track 2, Granite...
Introducing the first riches from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s cosmic treasure chest, a wealth of data that will help scientists make countless new discoveries about our Universe. This image, one of the first released by Rubin Observatory, exposes a Universe teeming with stars and galaxies - transforming seemingly empty,...
By Megan Johnson, NCSAOriginal article here: https://access-ci.org/a-summer-of-cyberinfrastructure/ For those not yet familiar, the Student Training and Engagement Program (STEP) is just one of the great offerings hosted by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s ACCESS program. Envisioned as a way to bring new experts into the field of cyberinfrastructure (CI), STEP...
