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May 25, 2004
Korea Connects to StarLight across Canada's Optical CA*net 4 Network; Joins
TransLight and GLIF
CHICAGO, IL - A flurry of e-mails between network engineers in North America
and South Korea last week unofficially marked the "lighting" of an optical
path now transiting Korea's research traffic from Seoul, across Canada to
Chicago.
In a special arrangement between Canadian, Korean and U.S. networking
project personnel, KREONet2 and KOREN, the national research networks of
Korea, now transit traffic from the Pacific Northwest GigaPoP (PNWGP) in
Seattle, where Korea's transpacific link lands, to StarLight in Chicago via
Canada's optical research network CA*net 4.
KREONet2 and KOREN, two distinct research communities sharing one link,
disconnected its 155Mbps connection to STAR TAP, StarLight's ATM-based
predecessor also located in Chicago, on April 30. The networks now peer with
a global community of research and education networks at StarLight, a
National Science Foundation-funded optical facility that supports 1Gbps,
2.5Gbps and 10Gbps links.
KREONet2 and KOREN join two other leading research networks in Ireland and
Taiwan to autonomously cross connect over CA*net 4 using its User Controlled
LightPath (UCLP) network management software. UCLP allows end users to
create and manage their own optical lightpath without signaling or requiring
permission from any central network management authority. Other features
allow users to create lambda grid networks optimized for the needs of
high-end applications and data flows. UCLP is co-funded by Cisco Canada and
CANARIE Inc., Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization.
"This arrangement affords Korea's research networks, and by extension its
scientific community, the flexibility to control and provision data flow at
will," said Bill St. Arnaud, Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE
Inc. "It permits a much greater ability to innovate in the development of
network-based applications."
CA*net 4 is one of a number of international networks in North America and
the Pacific Rim that peer at the PNWGP, an international peering facility in
Seattle since 1998. Pacific Wave is a joint project of PNWGP and the
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) to
create, deploy and operate an advanced, extensible peering facility along
the entire U.S. Pacific Coast.
"This international cooperative arrangement in support of research is
precisely what the Pacific Wave peering infrastructure aims to facilitate,"
said Ron Johnson, Vice President and Vice Provost of the University of
Washington. University of Washington founded and largely built the PNWGP. It
also created and now hosts the Pacific Wave international peering service.
The Korean government supports efforts to foster innovative research in
various science and engineering disciplines based on Grids and e-Science.
The StarLight connection plays a major role in advancing Korea's research,
which relies on high-performance computing and high-speed networks.
StarLight's advanced optical infrastructure provides network services
optimized for high-performance applications, such as High Voltage Electron
Microscopy (HVEM) research at the Korea Basic Science Institute.
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
Supercomputing Center is another key institution. "KISTI has a long history
of supporting supercomputer users for the advancement of science and
technology, and optical networking is a natural extension of this effort,"
said Jysoo Lee, Director of the KISTI Supercomputer Center.
The StarLight connection also enables Korea to actively participate in
building the global research infrastructure and further its contributions to
innovative science and technology. Korea is joining StarLight's TransLight
and Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) consortia, two initiatives that
serve complementary goals in StarLight's community of optical or "lambda"
connected networks. TransLight is a partnership of countries, consortia and
institutions willing to make lambdas available to the global e-science
community for scheduled use. TransLight is the underlying infrastructure for
GLIF, a world-scale "virtual" laboratory for application and middleware
development, where applications rely on dynamically configured optical
wavelength networks.
"KISTI will actively participate in TransLight and GLIF in order to work
with this global alliance on the development of the Lambda Grid for
e-Science," said Lee.
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Contact:
Jaesung Kwak
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
[email protected]
Laura Wolf
University of Illinois at Chicago/StarLight
[email protected]
About KREONet2 / KOREN <www.kreonet2.net> and <www.koren21.net> KREONet2
(Korea Research Environment Open Network 2), established in 1988, is a
national R&D network run by KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Information) and supported by Korea's Ministry Of Science & Technology
(MOST). KREONet2 provides high-end application services for the Korean
scientific and R&D community. It is a non-profit scientific research network
with over 250 member organizations.
KOREN (KOrea advanced REsearch Network) was founded in 1995 to provide a
research environment for the development of high-speed telecommunications
equipment and application services. KOREN is a non-profit research network
subsidized by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), and
provides universities, laboratories and industrial institutes with a
research and development environment for 6T-related technology and
application services.
KREONet2 and KOREN have cooperated since 2001 to provide international
transit network service for Korean science and technology research
communities.
About StarLight <www.startap.net/starlight>
StarLight is an advanced optical infrastructure and proving ground for
network services optimized for high-performance applications. Operational
since summer 2001, StarLight is a 1GE and 10GE switch/router facility for
high-performance access to participating networks and also offers true
optical switching for wavelengths. StarLight is being developed by the
Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at
Northwestern University, and the Mathematics and Computer Science Division
at Argonne National Laboratory. Funding for StarLight comes from the
National Science Foundation (SCI-9980480).
About CANARIE Inc. and CA*net 4 <www.canarie.ca>
CANARIE Inc. is Canada's advanced Internet development organization.
CANARIE's mission is to accelerate Canada's advanced Internet development
and use by facilitating the widespread adoption of faster, more efficient
networks and by enabling the next generation of advanced products,
applications and services to run on them. CA*net 4 is CANARIE's optical
Internet research and education network.
About Pacific Wave <www.pacificwave.net>
Pacific Wave is a joint project of the Corporation for Education Network
Initiatives in California (CENIC) and the Pacific Northwest GigaPoP (PNWGP)
to create, deploy and operate an advanced, extensible peering facility along
the entire U.S. Pacific Coast. Pacific Wave supports peering among
international and national networks as well as among organizations
throughout the Pacific Northwest.
About TransLight
TransLight is a global-scale networking initiative that supports prototypes
of the most aggressive e-science applications coming this decade. TransLight
consists of many provisioned Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) circuits (called
lambdas) among North America, Europe and Asia via StarLight in Chicago.
About GLIF <www.glif.is>
GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is a world-scale Lambda-based
Laboratory for application and middleware development on emerging
LambdaGrids, where applications rely on dynamically configured networks
based on optical wavelengths. GLIF was established at the third annual
LambdaGrid Workshop organized by SURFnet and University of Amsterdam, and
hosted by NORDUnet at their annual conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, in
August 2003.
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