Global Lambda Integrated Facility

Description

"The Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) community successfully demonstrated a pilot implementation of an automated multi-domain lightpath provisioning system during SC10 in New Orleans on 15-18 November 2010. This expanded on the system that was first demonstrated at the 10th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop in Geneva on 13 October 2010. The CzechLight and CESNET2 networks, developed by CESNET, an association of Czech universities and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, contributed to the demonstration.

GLIF is an international collaboration of research and education service providers and researchers working together to develop a global infrastructure of interconnected 'lambdas' that can be used for data-intensive scientific research. These lambas (optical wavelengths running over fibre optic cables) terminate at exchange points known as GOLEs—GLIF Open Lightpath Exchanges—which are able to interconnect lambas from different organizations to create end-to-end virtual circuits known as lightpaths. Lightpaths refer to very high performance network transport connections typically providing capacities of 1, 10 or 40 Gbps." (http://www.ces.net/doc/press/2010/pr101208.html)