AmLight: The Next Frontier Towards Discovery in the Americas and Africa project continues its mission to maintain a purpose-built international network infrastructure to support the Vera Rubin Observatory and U.S. astronomy projects, major facilities, scientific workflows, network testbeds, and the R&E communities in the U.S., Latin America, and Africa by maintaining critical long-haul connectivity, colocation, and software services that directly support U.S.-led global science initiatives. The AmLight Next Frontier project will enhance network operation and automation to guarantee new levels of observability, programmability, integration with science workflows and testbeds, and data transfer performance. AmLight is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), #2537489, #2029283 and previous awards. AmLIght is based at Florida International University, and it continues to evolve from the support of organizations and projects that share common goals: USC-ISI, Vanderbilt University, Rednesp: the State R&E network of Sao Paulo, RedCLARA: the Regional Network of Latin America, RNP: the NREN of Brazil, REUNA: the NREN of Chile, SANReN: the NREN of South Africa, the Vera Rubin Observatory, AURA: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Florida LambdaRail, and Internet2. More details about the project coming soon.

Florida International University’s Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA), in the Division of IT, is pleased to announce a new $3.8M five-year award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Award# OAC-2029283, for the International Research and Education Network Connections Core program: Americas-Africa Lightpaths Express and Protect (AmLight-ExP) project.
Deleted: Big data science in South America and Sub-Saharan Africa will be dramatically evolving over the next five years, with increasing dependency on advanced cyberinfrastructure and programmable networking. Significant projects include the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, Brazilian participation in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN, and the Square Kilometer Array in South Africa … Read More

In response to the growing network requirements of these U.S.-Latin America collaborative science research activities, the Americas Lightpaths Express and Protect (AmLight ExP) project implements a hybrid network strategy that combines the use of optical spectrum (Express) and leased capacity (Protect), in order to build a reliable, leading-edge network infrastructure for research and education. The total production bandwidth provided by AmLight ExP between the U.S. and South America will grow to more than 680G over the next five years … Read More

AmLight ExP project is supported by NSF Award #1451018 and #2029283. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in AmLight ExP materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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