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Miami, Florida, April 26, 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Florida International University\u2019s Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) is pleased to announce the first 100G research and education network link between the U.S. and Latin America, a major component of the five-year AmLight ExP (IRNC BACKBONE: Americas Lightpaths Express and Protect)\u00a0NSF Award#ACI-1451018<\/a>.<\/p>\n On April 18,\u00a02016\u00a0the AmLight Consortium activated the first 100G link of the AmLight-ExP project. It has 106ms delay and it goes via the Atlantic between Miami, FL and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The 100G link is under evaluation for the next 30 days. \u201cTo date, we have not seen any packet loss or errors and, to evaluate it, we are using an IXIA 100G packet generator,\u201d said Jeronimo Bezerra AmLight Chief Network Engineer.<\/p>\n The AmLight Consortium is a group of not-for-profit universities, state, national and regional research and education networks including the AmLight ExP project at\u00a0Florida International University<\/a>,\u00a0RNP<\/a>,\u00a0ANSP<\/a>,\u00a0RedClara<\/a>,\u00a0REUNA<\/a>,\u00a0FLR<\/a>,\u00a0AURA<\/a>,\u00a0Latin American Nautilus<\/a>, and\u00a0Internet2<\/a>.<\/p>\n Robert Grillo, Vice President and CIO at Florida International University said, \u201cThis milestone for FIU sets new standards for\u00a0high speed\u00a0networking and bandwidth in the Americas that will promote new and innovative activities for all education and research institutions. Our vision will continue to advance scientific research and scholarship across the globe in collaboration with all our partners.\u201d<\/p>\n Elias Eldayrie, Vice President and CIO at the University of Florida and Chairman of the Florida LambdaRail Board of Directors said, \u201cFLR and its 12 Partner Institutions are collaboratively working with FIU to determine the resource requirements, timelines and milestones needed to contribute and collectively achieve FIU\u2019s objectives in the NSF IRNC AmLight-ExP, AtlanticWave-SDX through the use of optical spectrum. Utilizing our 100 Gbps network, we look forward to participating in this experiment to connect multiple U.S. locations through Florida to Brazil and Chile, moving forward together.\u201d<\/p>\n Jeffrey Kantor, of the LSST Project Management Office said, \u201cLSST has partnered with FIU AmLight for our high-speed network needs between Chile and multiple locations in the U.S, including a 100 Gbps ring connecting Santiago and Miami. \u00a0This capability will be critical in connecting LSST\u2019s operational sites and permit us to perform near-real-time transient alert processing at our main archive site at the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.\u201d<\/p>\n David Lambert, President and CEO of Internet2 said, \u201cThis 100G implementation is extremely valuable to our members, providing them resilient, scalable, long term bandwidth that connects research and education institutions globally. In this global ecosystem, it pays off in spades when researchers and scientists can lean on sophisticated infrastructure to simplify their work and connect in meaningful ways to propel innovation and discovery. Congratulations to FIU, AMPATH and the NSF for this wonderful accomplishment\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRNP began to collaborate with AMPATH in 2001, and has been a partner since 2004 in the series of IRNC links, co-supported by NSF and ANSP, which provide Research and Education connectivity between the US and Brazil \u2013 the AmLight Consortium. These links have constituted Brazil\u2019s principal support for international collaboration, and have steadily grown in capacity over the years. The adoption of 100G links this year represents an increase in capacity of almost 500%, demonstrating ample support for the growth of important data-intensive international science collaborations\u201d, said Dr. Michael Stanton, Director of Research and Development at Brazil\u2019s National Research and Education Network, RNP.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Academic Network of Sao Paulo (ANSP) provides connectivity to more than fifty institutions, which are responsible for more than forty percent of Brazilian science production. The AmLight Consortium implementation of 100G protected capacity on the international links is a milestone in our partnership with RNP and FIU for over a decade,\u201d said Dr. Luis Lopez, Principal Investigator (PI) of ANSP.<\/p>\n The AmLight Consortium works together to provide submarine cable connectivity between Miami, FL and Fortaleza and Sao Paulo, Brazil as well as Santiago, Chile for research & education purposes. The AmLight Consortium needs connectivity in the furtherance of its research and educational goals, to promote the development of advanced network applications, content, and services between the US and Latin America. The networking team is currently working on the activation of a second 100G link, going via the Pacific route. After that, the team will establish a 100G link with Fortaleza, Brazil.<\/p>\n Link evaluation is being performed using OpenFlow, a recent innovation of the previous methodologies such as virtual local area networks (VLANs), route loops and TTL\u00a0(Time to Live)\u00a0change. The OpenFlow protocol enables network controllers to determine the path of network packets\u00a0across\u00a0a network of switches.<\/p>\n The AmLight Consortium is actively seeking new scientific and educational applications for the new 100G network. Researchers involved with Big Data, Networking and\/or Software Defined Networking (SDN) can request a virtual network on the new 100G ring from AmLight SDN by sending email to\u00a0sdn@amlight.net<\/a>\u00a0describing your research, how AmLight could help your research, information about your controller, etc., and we will reach you to discuss next steps.<\/p>\n For full press release click\u00a0here<\/a>. Miami, Florida, April 26, 2016\u00a0\u2013 Florida International University\u2019s Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) is pleased to announce the first 100G research and education network link between the U.S. and Latin America, a major component of the five-year AmLight ExP (IRNC BACKBONE: Americas Lightpaths Express and Protect)\u00a0NSF Award#ACI-1451018. 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