2012

New World Symphony and Internet2 Prepare for Workshop on Performing Arts Production over Advanced Networks

January 26, 2012
If you happen to be wandering through the streets of Miami Beach after dark, you may notice a strange glow coming from an incongruously open and green area nestled in the midst of the urban restaurants, street artists, and art deco hotels. If you then choose to stroll toward the glow, if your timing is right you may be greeted with the sweet sounds of the New World Symphony playing over their outdoor intelligent array of 162 speakers and displayed on a ridiculously large 7,000 square foot outdoor screen. This, my friends, is a Wallcast on New World’s freshly opened New World Center, designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. And this is the venue where Internet2 and New World Symphony will be holding our Performing Arts Production Over Advanced Networks Workshop this coming March 4-6.

While this is the first time the workshop will be held in this fancy new venue (which is just as technically amazing on the inside as it is on the outside), the workshop itself has existed for a number of years now, and it’s been a pleasure seeing it evolve. The goal of this workshop is to bring colleagues in the performing arts field together to learn and discuss cutting edge methods to take advantage of advanced networking technology for artistic purposes. For example, New World Symphony has provided a shining example for many years with their ongoing remote master classes, executed using DVTS software pushing 30Mbs over their Internet2 Network connection. This year we will be excited to discuss and demonstrate LOLA, which provides the unprecedented capability for musicians to perform together from remote locations by leveraging a never before seen low level of latency. It’s pretty exciting stuff.

This year, I’ll be giving a talk with my colleague Justin Trieger, the New World Symphony Internet2 Systems Manager, where we discuss how to pick the appropriate video and audio technology for your application. We’ll also be facilitating a hands-on free-for-all where participants can get face time with LOLA, DVTS, ConferenceXP, EchoDamp, a Polycom HDX, a Cisco MXP, and various cameras, lights, and microphones.

In any case, registration is now open, and if you’re doing performing arts at an Internet2 connected institution, I sincerely hope to see you there.

March 4-6, 2012
Explore in depth the elements needed to do everything from simple one-on-one interactions to large scale stage productions and distance learning via advanced networks. The workshop is designed for an audience of educators, technologists, administrators, deans, CIOs and all interested parties are invited to attend.

2011

AMPATH to launch support for Dynamic Hybrid Networking
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National Science Foundation awards supplement to enable state of the art

PRESS RELEASE
Media Contact:
Heidi Alvarez, Director
Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA)
Florida International University
305-348-2006
heidi@fiu.edu

Miami, Florida, August 1, 2011 – CIARA announced today that it will begin a five year project to bring advanced network services to the AMPATH Open Exchange Point in Miami.

AMPATH will support dynamic hybrid (packet and circuit) network services in both production and experimental environments through the following activities:

• Deployment and operation of a production-level traffic monitoring and reporting system for dynamic circuit network services, including those used in international connections.

• Upgrade of the AMPATH GOLE (GLIF Open Lightpath Exchange) to support the dynamic provisioning of GLIF lightpaths.

• Deployment of OpenFlow switches and controllers to interconnect OpenFlow networks in Brazil with those of Internet2 and GENI.

• Deployment and operation of an experimental traffic monitoring and reporting system to prototype the Coral Reef passive monitor to support OpenFlow.

• Engagement with users and science projects, and collaboration with developers, engineers, operators and science communities to develop use cases demonstrating the increasing utility of the adoption of dynamic circuit network services.

“With the establishment of dynamic hybrid networking at AMPATH, we will be able to bridge important research underway in Brazil with the GENI efforts in the U.S. Over the coming years, these services will grow in both accessibility and impact.”, said Dr. Chip Cox, Chief Operations Officer of AMPATH.

“RNP welcomes AMPATH’s adoption of dynamic circuit services, which will promote significant advances in providing support for international cooperation between Brazil and the United States, both in the field of e-Science and in Future Internet experimentation within GENI”, commented Dr Michael Stanton, Director of Research and Development at Brazil’s National Research and Education Network.

The OpenFlow service effectively makes network devices part of a programmable infrastructure allowing networks to be defined in software. Although this is not an entirely new approach, it is being widely adopted internationally to develop new approaches to network architecture.

This research into the evolution of the Internet is of global scale, and requires a global team to harmonise interoperabiility. AMPATH is supporting this innovation throughout the Americas through the support of a NSF supplement to the AMLIGHT project (PI Julio Ibarra). The end result will be an enabling network supporting critical research, science and education seamlessly meeting needs today, and preparing for tomorrow.

About CIARA: Florida International University’s Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) has developed an international, high-performance research connection point in Miami, Florida, called AMPATH (AMericasPATH; www.ampath.fiu.edu). AMPATH extends participation to underrepresented groups in Latin America and the Caribbean, in science and engineering research and education through the use of high-performance network connections. AMPATH is home to the Americas Lightpaths (AmLight) high-performance network links connecting Latin America to the U.S., funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), award #OCI-0963053 and the Academic Network of Sao Paulo (award #2003/13708-0). AmLight aims to enhance science research and education in the Americas by interconnecting key points of aggregation, providing operation of production infrastructure, engaging U.S. and western hemisphere science and engineering research and education communities, creating an open instrument for collaboration, and maximizing benefits of all investors.

CIARA Receives $5.4M Grant from the National Science Foundation

January 28, 2011
Miami, FL. – Florida International University has been awarded $5.4 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to lead the project to enhance network infrastructure for science research and education between the U.S. and Latin America. The Center for Internet Research and Assessment (CIARA), part of FIU’s Division of Information Technology, will manage the project on behalf of FIU. The project, Americas Lightpaths, named AmLight, builds upon the achievements of FIU’s previous NSF awards in international research network connections.

With the support of the NSF and the contributions of national and international partnerships, the AmLight project establishes lightpaths between the U.S. and Latin America from four geographical locations: Miami-São Paulo, Santiago-São Paulo, San Diego-Tijuana, and San Antonio-Mexico City. “Lightpaths” refers to physical network connections between two or more networks based upon photonic technologies.

“Lightpaths are essential, because they provide the technological capacity needed to support the high-bandwidth requirements of science applications. The U.S. research and education community will be connected to 18 countries and an estimated 100 million students, faculty, and researchers through these lightpaths”, says Julio Ibarra, Assistant VP and Principal Investigator of AmLight.

The AmLight award will have an immediate impact on several FIU research projects of international scope. One of these projects is PrimoGENI which implements a real-time network simulation for the NSF Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI).

“PrimoGENI coupled with AmLight network resources extends the GENI infrastructure to partnership programs in Brazil to prototype future Internet network architectures”, says Jason Liu, Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of PrimoGENI.

The Cyberinfrastructure - Partnerships for International Research and Education (CI-PIRE) project creates a hub of international collaboration to enable research discoveries by supporting science and engineering applications with Cyberinfrastructure.  

“CI-PIRE relies upon the AmLight network resources to provide researchers and fellows unconstrained access to CI resources in the U.S. and Latin America”, said Masoud Sadjadi, Associate Professor and Principal Investigator of CI-PIRE.


FIU’s faculty and students are also able to connect to off-site locations and conduct research observations by leveraging the infrastructure FIU has established between the U.S. and Latin America via AmLight. For example, as a member of the Southern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) Observatory, FIU is able to remotely operate a telescope located in northern Chile using the AmLight infrastructure.

“Although I’ve never even been to Chile, I can still use the SARA telescope located there to do research from campus.” says Dr. James Webb, professor of physics at FIU.

“Experience in the implementation and operation of large-scale international network infrastructure by CIARA was a key reason why FIU was awarded to lead this project on behalf of the NSF”, said Dr. Min Yao, FIU Vice President and CIO.

2005

Chinese American Networking Symposium 2005
Shenzhen, China, November 1 - 3, 2005
Networking experts from China and the United States gather annually at the Chinese-American Networking Symposium (CANS) to discuss new ideas and advancements in networking technologies. The annual programs, alternately held in the USA and China, including presentations by networking experts, panel discussions, and technical breakout sessions.

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Pan American Studies Institute for E-Science 2005
Florida International University, May 15 - 21, 2005
The Pan American Studies Institute on Advanced Networking Technologies for E-Science was favorably reviewed and funded by the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering. The intellectual merit is that anew bridge between astronomy, physics and the advanced networking community will be created, fostering new discoveries. The PASI will not be a locus for fundamental research; rather it will incubate a new generation of scientists and engineers who are capable of fully integrating advanced networking into astronomy and physics research and education.

2004

Chinese American Networking Symposium 2004
Shenzhen, China, November 30 - December 2, 2004
Networking experts from China and the United States gather annually at the Chinese-American Networking Symposium (CANS) to discuss new ideas and advancements in networking technologies. The annual programs, alternately held in the USA and China, including presentations by networking experts, panel discussions, and technical breakout sessions.

For more information visit website.

Super Computing 2004 Conference
Pittsburgh, PA, November 6 - 12, 2004
The SC2004 conference will bring representatives from many technical communities together to exchange ideas, celebrate past successes and plan for the future. To reflect this important function, the conference theme is Bridging Communities, which represents not only the technical communities participating in the conference but the architecture of the city, too.

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