hi sepp, this might be of interest to our audience?<br><br>see:<br><br><div style="background-color: rgb(232, 238, 247); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 140%; border-top: 1px solid rgb(119, 153, 221); padding: 2px;"> Topic: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet/t/bc892a0040a8eb7b" target="_blank">The Missing Link: Dedicated End-to-End 10Gbps Optical
Lightpaths for Clusters, Grids, and Clouds</a></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Venessa Miemis <<a href="mailto:venessamiemis@gmail.com" target="_blank">venessamiemis@gmail.com</a>></span>
May 25 04:03AM -0700
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[Over the past several weeks there has been a lot of exciting<br>
developments in the R&E network community at the Spring Internet 2<br>
meeting and more recently at the Terena meeting in Prague about new<br>
Internet architectures built around GOLEs – GLIF Open Lightpath<br>
Exchanges. There is a growing consensus amongst most of the major
R&E<br>
networks that we need to move away from traditional hierarchical<br>
networks to GOLEs enabling the direct peering of networks,<br>
institutions and/or researchers. This is primarily being driven by the<br>
data demands of global collaborative research. GOLEs enable a policy<br>
free interconnection with no bandwidth constraints or blocking between<br>
the connecting parties and therefore research is not constrained by<br>
policy or bandwidth issues as on traditional networks. GOLEs are also<br>
important for the R&E networks in the new research intensive nations<br>
like Brazil, China, South Africa, Korea, etc. In the future networks<br>
and researchers of these nations will be far less dependent on having<br>
to transit intermediary networks by peering directly with networks or<br>
institutions in designated host nations. The CANARIE UCLP (User<br>
Controlled LightPaths) and more recently Internet 2’s OS3E service<br>
are intended to allow institutions, or even researchers to establish<br>
their own private networks for specific VOs or communities of interest<br>
who can interconnect at these GOLEs.<br>
<br>
There is no question that GOLEs are going to challenge traditional<br>
business models for R&E networking, but the first priority must be
to<br>
enable the needs of the researchers themselves in the exponential<br>
growth of data driven science. Here are 2 excellent slide<br>
presentations explaining this explosion of data driven science and why<br>
we need GOLES – BSA]<br>
<br>
The Missing Link: Dedicated End-to-End 10Gbps Optical Lightpaths for<br>
Clusters, Grids, and Clouds<br>
<br>
Dr Larry Smarr<br>
<br><a href="http://lsmarr.calit2.net/presentations?slideshow=8084045" target="_blank">http://lsmarr.calit2.net/presentations?slideshow=8084045</a><br>
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Dynamically Provisioned Networks as a Substrate for Science<br>
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David Foster CERN<br>
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