REUNA, Towards a National Photonic Network for Science and Education
Chile is a country privileged in natural resources, what offers big possibilities for research. The cristal clear northern skies are studied by various world class centres of astronomy that have turned Chile into one of the most important astronomic poles in the world. It is estimated that in the next years, the 70% of the Telescopes of the world will be looking to the sky from Chile. These mega constructions localized in Chile need to transport their data inside and out the country, amongst others into Europe, Asia and United States, for which the national infrastructure must be in tune with other academic networks such as RedCLARA and Geant, in the way that the beneficiary is the total of the scientific community. In the other hand there’s very important challenges in the national connectivity, geography, a long and narrow country, impose difficulties to obtain the proper conditions for the demands of the academic and research community. Even today, there are zones with a poor or non-existent network infrastructure, such as the Atacama desert and the most austral zone in the country. In this context the academic network of Chile, REUNA, has defined its vision of the future in the construction of a national network that aims to connect and integrate the continental territory of more than 4000Km. The present work describe the strategic plan for the development of the infrastructure of the Chilean academic network, emphasizing in the way that is has been gone through in projects such as EVALSO [1], ALMA [2] and the recent LSST [3] – telescope that will demand a 100 Gbps connectivity when is in full operation – such as the integration with computing centres with scientific purposes such as the NLHPC and , of course, the scientific community. Providing technological details of its solutions and how these have integrated national and interregionally with other academic infrastructures of the world.
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Source: RedCLARA.net