[Whren-today] May 2006 WHREN-LILA Report

[WHREN Editor]

WHREN-LILA Report
Volume 2, Issue 3
May 31, 2006

The Western Hemisphere Research and Education Networks (WHREN) - Links
Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) report summarizes activities from
participating networks.  The WHREN-LILA Report is published under National
Science Foundation (NSF) Award # 0441095 and Academic Network at São Paulo
(ANSP) award Projeto Fapesp no. 04/14414-2.

May 2006 Issue:

1. WHREN-LILA Activities
2. FIU-AMPATH Activities
3. CENIC Activities
4. Pacific Wave Activities
5. AtlanticWave Activities
6. CLARA Activities
7. CUDI Activities

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1. WHREN-LILA ACTIVITIES

The NSF reports for the WHREN-LILA project are now available online.  The
proposal, the 2005 annual report, and each of the 2005 quarterly reports are
available in PDF format at http://www.whren-lila.net/pubs/documents.htm.

A new WHREN-LILA calendar is online and accessible from the website's
homepage (http://www.whren-lila.net/).  Please add your events to the
calendar.  You won't see them immediately since any new event has to be
approved.  Events are approved and updated daily.  If you prefer, you can
email your event information to editor at whren-lila.net and it will be added
to the calendar.

For more information on WHREN-LILA, visit the website at
http://www.whren-lila.net/index.htm

2. FIU-AMPATH ACTIVITIES

Nothing new to report.

For more information on AMPATH, visit their website at
http://www.ampath.net/

3. CENIC ACTIVITIES

Nothing new to report

For more information on CENIC, visit their website at http://www.cenic.org/.

4. PACIFIC WAVE ACTIVITIES

Pacific Wave launched its new "speedometer" measurements WebPages in April.
To view these new pages go to
http://www.pacificwave.net/technology/measurements/ and click on either the
Seattle or California links.

Caltech's High Energy Physics group continued to use Pacific Wave to run
tests with its Ultralight partner KISTI in Korea to simulate the environment
in which distributed physics analysis will be carried out.

On March 30th, the CSIRO Testbed ran an interactive teaching session for
laparoscopic surgery from Stanford University to the CSIRO Marsfield office
in Sydney, Australia.  This ran over Internet2, AARNet and CENTIE networks
and used Pacific Wave peerings. Traffic graphs of the event can be found at
http://havnet.stanford.edu/events/nezhat.html.

Plans are under way for GEMnet/NTT Labs to run another high definition video
demonstration over Pacific Wave in June.

National Lambda Rail's PacketNet network joined Pacific Wave with a 10
gigabit port in Seattle.

CENIC is working with NASA's NREN to bring them up at 10 gigabit in
Sunnyvale

Also, the REANNZ network in New Zealand has signed an agreement and is now
proceeding with connecting to Pacific Wave in Seattle at one gigabit.  If
their Pacific Wave connection is up in time, they are planning a NEESGrid
proof-of-concept demonstration in the late June/early July timeframe.

For more on these and other efforts, visit the Pacific Wave website at
http://www.pacificwave.net/.

5.  ATLANTICWAVE ACTIVITIES

The AtlanticWave collaboration is moving forward to establish the wave from
Miami at the AMPATH International Exchange Point to New York City at MANLAN.
This will be ready for service for Super Computing 2006.  A distributed
exchange point service is currently in operation between the AMPATH Exchange
Point and the Sao Paulo exchange point, made possible by the WHREN-LILA
link.  The AtlanticWave service will meet the WHREN-LILA link in Miami to
extend the distributed exchange point service to New York City at MANLAN,
with add-drops in Atlanta at the Southern Light Rail and in Washington D.C.,
at the Mid-Atlantic Crossing.

6. CLARA ACTIVITIES

Commissioner Viviane Reding has called for an extension to the
RedCLARA-GÉANT2 partnership, created by the ALICE project. Speaking at the
IV EU-LAC Ministerial Forum on the Information Society held in Lisbon on
28th and 29th April 2006, she stated that the "RedCLARA-GÉANT collaboration
has to be highlighted; has to have continuity; has to have an extension" and
that this should be the main conclusion of the Forum's declaration.

In a speech to more than 400 delegates, Reding highlighted the role ICT
plays in fostering close relationships between Europe and the Latin American
and Caribbean region. "We need ICT to further and deepen our partnership and
in this sense research is one of the fields where there is very strong
potential and new opportunities for international cooperation."

For more information on this topic, visit
http://alice.dante.net/server/show/conWebDoc.2000

For more information on CLARA, visit http://www.redclara.net/en/03/01.htm.

7. CUDI ACTIVITIES

CUDI, founded 7 years ago as a non-profit organization, has produced a video
about CUDI and Internet2.

The idea behind this video is to promote CUDI's objectives and mission. The
video has been made under the coordination of the Members Committee and the
support of the General Direction of Education Television.

The video provides an in depth explanation of the use of advanced networks
and the institutions associated to them in Mexico.  The video also provides
a clear vision of what Internet2 means for research and how it works.

The video is available to members at:
http://www.cudi.edu.mx/members/video_cudi.wmv

For more information on CUDI, visit their website at
http://www.cudi.edu.mx/.

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