[Whren-today] March 2007 WHREN-LILA Newsletter

[WHREN Editor]

WHREN-LILA Report
Volume 3, Issue 2
March 30, 2007

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.

March 2007 Issue:

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

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1. WHREN-LILA ACTIVITIES

A virtual meeting on oceanographic studies was held to share information 
about oceanography projects in the U.S. and Latin America.  Participants 
were from the University of Florida, Universidad de Concepción en Chile, 
Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, ICMyL, UNAM, and CICESE of Mexico. Salma 
Jalife of CUDI organized the virtual meeting, and along with Heidi Alvarez 
of FIU and AMPATH, informed this group of the availability of networking 
resources in the region through local NRENs, RedCLARA, and the LILA links.

Next steps are to create a community of interest for oceanographic studies. 
CUDI offered to host the community resources and to create a working group 
mailing list at < oceanography at cudi.edu.mx>.  Presentations from the virtual 
meeting are available at 
http://www.cudi.edu.mx/aplicaciones/dias_cudi/07_02_13/index.html

2. FIU-CIARA ACTIVITIES

AMPATH Activities
AMPATH engineer Ernesto Rubi, along with Justin Trieger from New World 
Symphony (NWS), set up a multicast stream via AMPATH's 7609 to the Internet2 
community for the NWS Shostakovich: Music For Orchestra concert.  The 
concert was held on February 24, 2007 in Knight Concert Hall at the Carnival 
Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, FL.  The concert featured cellist 
Yo Yo Ma and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.  In addition, Yo Yo Ma 
conducted a master's class in cello where four students had a chance to 
perform.  Music program students from universities including USC, 
IU/Bloomington and Northwestern had the opportunity to participate in this 
exciting event.

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

For more information on CIARA, visit their website at http://ciara.fiu.edu/

3. CENIC ACTIVITIES

CENIC announced its partnership with Open Student Television Network (OSTN) 
to deliver IPTV via the California Research & Education Network (CalREN) to 
9.5 million end users.

"OSTN not only delivers educational content to California's colleges and 
universities, but it also provides opportunities for students at those 
institutions to work together to create content themselves," said Jim 
Dolgonas, President and CEO of CENIC. "CENIC created the CalREN network to 
enable precisely this sort of active, collaborative learning environment, 
and we're delighted that students at our member institutions will be able to 
take advantage of what OSTN has to offer."

OSTN CableTV can include educational channels NASA TV, C-Span, University of 
California Television (UCTV) and the Florida Educational Channel. The 
foreign language channels include CCTV (Chinese), TV5 (French), RAI 
(Italian), ART (Arabic), TV Polonia (Polish), SBTN (Vietnamese), MBC 
(Korean), RTN (Russian), TFC (Filipino), TV Asia (South Asian), TV JAPAN 
(Japanese), CTI Zhong Tian Channel (Chinese), and C1R (Russian).

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

4. ATLANTIC WAVE ACTIVITIES

RedCLARA is peering with Abilene and NLR now using the AtlanticWave, which 
interconnects with the LILA East link in Miami at the AMPATH International 
Exchange Point. AtlanticWave is offering Ethernet-based layer 2 connections 
for international peering with networks connected at AMPATH, SoX/SLR, 
NGIX-East and MANLAN.

For more information on Atlantic Wave, visit the website at 
http://atlanticwave.net/

5. PACIFIC WAVE ACTIVITIES

Softbank Telecom (ODN) joined Pacific Wave with Gigabit ports in Sunnyvale 
and Los Angeles in February 2007.

Agreements were signed to bring Google onto the Pacific Wave exchange in all 
three locations: Seattle, Sunnyvale and Los Angeles.  Installations are 
underway.

Delays on the participant side have prevented the new connection for 
National University of Singapore-GigaPoP in Los Angeles from being realized. 
New installation date is scheduled mid-April.

John Silvester gave a talk entitled "International Networks (and 
Networking)" on March 12, 2007 at the CENIC '07 Making Waves Conference held 
in La Jolla, California, USA.  The slides are available at 
http://cenic07.cenic.org/abstract.cgi?abstract=a&num=3

Progress was made on bringing up the second 10 Gigabit link on 
Translight/Pacific Wave from Australia to California via Hawaii.

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

6. CUDI ACTIVITIES

To recognize the importance of the CUDI community, CUDI is creating a 
variety of committees and is looking for nominations for committee members 
or coordinators.  The coordinator is a leader who can position his 
respective community in the national and international arena.  The following 
committees will be formed:
- GRIDS
- Health
- Earth Science
The selection procedure will be based on nominations and recommendations 
from members of the CUDI community.

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

7. CLARA ACTIVITIES

RAGIE and RAICES: The New Members of the Official Clan

With only two days difference, the Guatemalan Advanced Network for Research 
and Education, RAGIE, and the Salvadorian Advanced Network for Research, 
Science and Education, RAICES, officially launched their networks in 
November 2006.

After waiting for several months, RAGIE had its official launch party. An 
event with important personalities gave the finishing touch to this Network 
which has grown out of sheer strength and which after a year of being 
connected to RedCLARA already has several scheduled projects and convenient 
offers.

The official launch of RAICES took place on 24 November 2006. The event was 
attended by representatives from CLARA's member national networks, as well 
as its President and Executive Director. The Salvadorian Deputy Minister of 
Education also attended the ceremony and he highlighted the importance of 
RAICES for the country's educational policies.

For more information on this, go to 
http://www.redeclara.org/en/07/02_03/11_03.htm

To find out more about CLARA, visit http://www.redclara.net/

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