TransLight: a global-scale LambdaGrid for e-science

  • Authors:
  • Tom DeFanti;Cees de Laat;Joe Mambretti;Kees Neggers;Bill St. Arnaud

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Chicago;University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.;SURFnet, Utrecht, The Netherlands & GigaPort;CANARIE, Inc., Ottawa, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Blueprint for the future of high-performance networking
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This global experiment wants to see if high-end applications needing transport capacities of multiple Gbps for up to hours at a time can be handled through an optical bypass network.