Here's the view from TUKE, to three difference PVUSD sites:
And, the view of the participant in Phoenix of the instructor across continents and the big pond to Slovakia:
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Transcontinental Workshop - via TelePresence on NLR
The Technical University of Kosice (TUKE) in Slovakia and Paradise Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) outside of Phoenix recently co-hosted a two-week bootcamp on Cisco networking over TelePresence on NLR. Great demonstration of how TelePresence bridges distance and time zones.
Here's the view from TUKE, to three difference PVUSD sites:
And, the view of the participant in Phoenix of the instructor across continents and the big pond to Slovakia:
Here's the view from TUKE, to three difference PVUSD sites:
And, the view of the participant in Phoenix of the instructor across continents and the big pond to Slovakia:
NLR, Internet2 on TelePresence at Joint Techs
A preview of the new unified Cisco TelePresence service for research and education (R&E), formally announced today by Internet2 and NLR, was provided at last week’s ESCC/Internet2’s Joint Techs Conference by Ben Fineman (Internet2) and Brent Sweeny (Indiana University, GRNOC and NLR Engineering).
In a joint presentation, Ben and Brent described the shared objective of connecting islands and making Cisco TelePresence widely available to US R&E in a presentation that can be viewed at: http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2010feb/20100201-sweeny-fineman.pdf. For video, see: http://events.internet2.edu/2010/jt-slc/agenda.cfm?go=stream&sessid=10000992&streamtype=23&live=0.
More details about the new service will be announced. In the meantime, questions or comments can be sent to cisco-telepresence-request@internet2.edu or cisco-telepresence-request@nlr.net. To subscribe to a mailing list: cisco-telepresence-info@internet2.edu or cisco-telepresence-info@nlr.net.
Photos of the Joint Techs workshop can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallambdarail/sets/72157623253136177/
In a joint presentation, Ben and Brent described the shared objective of connecting islands and making Cisco TelePresence widely available to US R&E in a presentation that can be viewed at: http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2010feb/20100201-sweeny-fineman.pdf. For video, see: http://events.internet2.edu/2010/jt-slc/agenda.cfm?go=stream&sessid=10000992&streamtype=23&live=0.
More details about the new service will be announced. In the meantime, questions or comments can be sent to cisco-telepresence-request@internet2.edu or cisco-telepresence-request@nlr.net. To subscribe to a mailing list: cisco-telepresence-info@internet2.edu or cisco-telepresence-info@nlr.net.
Photos of the Joint Techs workshop can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallambdarail/sets/72157623253136177/
US-UK-Georgia TelePresence Link with Help from NLR
Three locations were able to join via Cisco TelePresence in celebrating the opening of a new IPv6 lab in Tbilisi, Georgia. John Morgridge, Cisco CEO emeritus, donated the equipment and participated from Cisco's San Jose, CA office (in photo at right). And the director and CTO of Cisco's Consulting Engineering group connected in from London to the lab at the Georgian Research and Education Networking Association (GRENA) in Tbilisi. Attendees in Tbilisi including the deputy minister of science and education.
The TelePresence session ran over national research and education network (NREN) infrastructures (NLR for the US portion) and was made possible by a link between the NLR and AT&T TelePresence Exchanges. TelePresence connectivity is supported over this link between NLR-connected universities and more than 650 Cisco TelePresence rooms worldwide.
NLR Supercharges Infrastructure with Community's Assistance
The upgrade of NLR's northern loop to a next-generation optical transport platform has been completed in record time, thanks to strong support from across NLR's community.
Further boosting the performance of the NLR backbone, the upgrade sets the stage for total capacity increases beyond the current 400 gigabits per second (Gbps).
The massive effort involved installing 143 Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM platforms and 200 transponder cards in 116 physical locations across 6,750 miles of NLR's total 12,000 mile footprint. Covered Los Angeles through Seattle, Chicago and Washington, DC to Jacksonville, Florida.
Many thanks to BoreasNet, CENIC, Pacific Northwest Gigapop, MCNC and Internet2 who loaned or leased fiber and waves to NLR to ensure uninterrupted service for NLR users during the upgrade. Also our appreciation to LightRiver Technologies, for handling the physical installation, turn-up, performance testing and removal of the obsolete gear, to Level 3 Communications for running new fiber cross-connects and helping with the preparation for the installation and to Cisco which, in addition to providing the 15454's, performed service quality and platform monitoring and testing services.
More info can be found at: http://www.nlr.net/release.php?id=41
Further boosting the performance of the NLR backbone, the upgrade sets the stage for total capacity increases beyond the current 400 gigabits per second (Gbps).
The massive effort involved installing 143 Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM platforms and 200 transponder cards in 116 physical locations across 6,750 miles of NLR's total 12,000 mile footprint. Covered Los Angeles through Seattle, Chicago and Washington, DC to Jacksonville, Florida.
Many thanks to BoreasNet, CENIC, Pacific Northwest Gigapop, MCNC and Internet2 who loaned or leased fiber and waves to NLR to ensure uninterrupted service for NLR users during the upgrade. Also our appreciation to LightRiver Technologies, for handling the physical installation, turn-up, performance testing and removal of the obsolete gear, to Level 3 Communications for running new fiber cross-connects and helping with the preparation for the installation and to Cisco which, in addition to providing the 15454's, performed service quality and platform monitoring and testing services.
More info can be found at: http://www.nlr.net/release.php?id=41
First Int'l R&E TelePresence Call
The first TelePresence session between national research and education networks was achieved as a result of joint efforts of NLR and its counterpart in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ANKABUT.
Demonstrating tremendous new opportunities to bridge physical distances and enable researchers and educators from other sides of the globe to collaborate live, literally face to face, NLR and ANKABUT announced they successfully arranged for and managed a Cisco TelePresence connection between the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi.
As a result, PSC engineers were able to join via TelePresence His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, UAE and Dr. Arif Sultan Al-Hammadi, Interim President of Khalifa University in a joint session at the UAE Forum on Information and Communication Technology Research 2009 held in Abu Dhabi.
This connection was the result of tremendous teamwork across NLR and ANKABUT and kudos to all involved.
For more information, please see:
http://www.nlr.net/release.php?id=40
Full Agenda at All Hands Meeting
This week's All Hands Meeting at Calit2, University of California at San Diego and attended by NLR members from around the country covered a lot of ground. Here's a quick take on key topics.
The backbone upgrade to Cisco 10454's has been completed in record time, thanks to a tremendous team effort led to Grover Browning, Ron Milford and others. Related engineering changes, capacity planning and new opportunities for members were a major topic of discussion.
Also, transition to 40 GE and what it means to NLR, the NLR Dynamic VLAN service via Sherpa and NLRView performance tests.
TelePresence on the NLR infrastructure also received a good chunk of the agenda. NLR provided guidance on specific steps needed for members to become Cisco TelePresence ready, how TelePresence can be supported in a campus/RON environment and opportunies presented by the NLR TelePresence Exchange.
Several updates provided on research running on NLR, including Open Cloud Computing and GENI.
A highlight was Tom DeFanti of Calit2 and his teams hosting several bleeding-edge demos on next-gen virtual reality and graphics. More on these and NLR's role in a separate post soon.
The backbone upgrade to Cisco 10454's has been completed in record time, thanks to a tremendous team effort led to Grover Browning, Ron Milford and others. Related engineering changes, capacity planning and new opportunities for members were a major topic of discussion.
Also, transition to 40 GE and what it means to NLR, the NLR Dynamic VLAN service via Sherpa and NLRView performance tests.
TelePresence on the NLR infrastructure also received a good chunk of the agenda. NLR provided guidance on specific steps needed for members to become Cisco TelePresence ready, how TelePresence can be supported in a campus/RON environment and opportunies presented by the NLR TelePresence Exchange.
Several updates provided on research running on NLR, including Open Cloud Computing and GENI.
A highlight was Tom DeFanti of Calit2 and his teams hosting several bleeding-edge demos on next-gen virtual reality and graphics. More on these and NLR's role in a separate post soon.
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