1. Super Computing 2016 Salt Lake City, Utah Nov 15, 2016
Creating new opportunities for U.S.-Latin America research and education collaborations through the development of an intercontinental 100G optical network infrastructure
Julio Ibarra, PI
Heidi Morgan, Co-PI
Donald Cox, Co-PI
Jeronimo Bezerra, Chief Network Engineer
Florida International University

2. Outline AmLight Express and Protect Project Anticipated Challenges
Science Challenges motivating 100G

3. U.S.-Latin America 100G network link

4. AmLight Express and Protect (AmLight-ExP)
AmLight-ExP is a project ( ) of the National Science Foundation
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AmLight-ExP builds upon the achievements of the AmLight project ( )
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Introduces spectrum capacity between the U.S. and Brazil
Continues evolving a rational network infrastructure, using both spectrum and leased capacity

5. AmLight-ExP Today 100G Miami-São Paulo, Atlantic
100G Miami-São Paulo, Pacific
4x10G links, landings in São Paulo, Fortaleza, Santiago
240G of aggregate bandwidth capacity
100G ring to include Santiago and Fortaleza in November 2016

6. AmLight-ExP Future AmLight Express: AmLight Protect:
300GHz of spectrum: Miami-São Paulo, São Paulo-Santiago
Spectrum to be configurable by RENs to meet user/application requirements
AmLight Protect:
100G leased capacity ring
Miami, São Paulo, Santiago, Panama City, Miami
AMPATH, Southern Light, REUNA, and RedCLARA operated
Fortaleza as a South Atlantic Crossroads
EulaLink submarine cable from Fortaleza to Portugal
SACS submarine cable to Angola (Q3 2018)
CBCS submarine cable to Cameroon (Q4 2017)
680G+ bandwidth capacity

7. Anticipated Challenges
Integration of spectrum with existing 100G network services
Multi-domain optical provisioning and network management
Network virtualization and SDN applications

8. Integration of Spectrum with existing 100G network services
What multi-link protection approach to implement to mutual redundancy involving both spectrum and leased capacity?
How to extend the current SDN environment to manage the optical layer?
Evaluating SDN and packet optical integration
What other questions can be added to this slide?
How the SDN environment can manage both the packet layer and optical layer, while simultaneously managing and operating AmLight-ExP resources in an integrated fashion.
Reducing the manual interventions.

9. Multi-domain Optical Provisioning Challenges
How to establish the end-to-end path across multiple optical domains?
Is “domain-based” regeneration necessary?
How to coordinate spectral width and frequency requirements across optical domains?
How can channels be modeled and supported across domains with varying optical power and signal to noise requirements?
Can super-channel capabilities be leveraged?
There are other challenges as well
Super channels combine two or more channels. It results in an increase in amplitude.
It’s done to support technologies that cannot work in a single channel, such as 400GHz.
Can the interconnected optical networks be protected from one another?

10. Network Virtualization and SDN Applications
How to evolve to newer control plane protocols, for example, from OF 1.3 to OF 1.4, and so on?
How to evolve the current SDN infrastructure to manage the underlying optical network?
How to support multiple testbeds alongside a production network (security and operational perspective) in a scalable fashion?
What are the challenges involving Network Virtualization and SDN Applications?

11. Science Challenges motivating 100G
What are the science challenges for 100G?
Ultra-High Definition Video Streaming
Astronomy
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
Dark Energy Camara (DECam)
Distributed High-Throughput Computing
Pierre Auger Observatory
GridUNESP
LHC Open Network Environment (LHCONE)
Large-scale Testbed Networks
SDN and Future Internet

12. Ultra-High Definition (UHD) Video Streaming
UHD video includes
4K UHD (8.3 Mpixels) and
8K UHD (33.2 Mpixels)
4K uncompressed, 60 frame/s, 12Gbps
8K uncompressed, 60 frame/s, 48Gbps
For the World Cup, 8K compressed was transmitted over 10Gbps connections
NTT, NHK, RNP, CLARA, Florida LambdaRail, Internet2, AmLight collaboration

13. Astronomy: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
8.4 meter large aperture, ground based telescope
Located in the Andes mountains of northern Chile
Continuously will scan the southern hemisphere
6.4GB images will be created every 17 seconds
Each image will be transferred to NCSA within 4 seconds
Requires Gbps

14. Distributed High-Throughput Computing
refers to a distributed computing environment that delivers large amounts of computational power over a long period of time
Distributing and Sharing computational resources
Pierre Auger observatory
detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Malargue, Argentina
GridUNESP, Super Computing Center in Sao Paulo, and
Open Science Grid (OSG), USA

15. Conclusion AmLight Express and Protect is
Implementing a scalable network infrastructure that interconnects North America to key aggregation points in South and Central America (Brazil, Chile, Panama)
Evolving into a reliable, flexible and efficient research and education network infrastructure underpinned by the integration of spectrum and leased capacity
Facilitating effective peering between RENs and communities of interest through a distributed exchange model
Meeting the requirements of science applications
Facilitate outreach to researchers and network operators

16. Thank You!
NSF OpenWave, AmLight, OSDC-PIRE, CC-NIE, CC*IIE, AMPATH, AtlanticWave infrastructure, science application support, education, outreach and community building efforts are made possible by funding and support from:
National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ACI , ACI , ACI , ACI , ACI , ACI , ACI
FAPESP, ANSP – grant no. 2008/
Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP)
CLARA
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
Florida International University
Latin American Research and Education community
The many national and international collaborators who support our efforts