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APPLICATIONS: Computer & Information Sciences Advanced Networking Infrastructure & Research |
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Photonic TeraStream |
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![]() Researchers are using OMNInet to prototype tools for intelligent application signaling, dynamic lambda provisioning, and extensions to lightpaths through dynamically provisioned Layer2 and Layer3 configurations, in part, to allow for access to multiple types of edge resources. In turn, these network-control capabilities are being incorporated into next-generation large-scale global applications, which include high performance data transfer (based on GridFTP), digital media streaming (270Mbps encoding), and high performance remote data-access methods (based on iSCSI). At iGrid 2002, iCAIR is presenting its innovative dynamic lambda provisioning capability the Optical Dynamic Intelligent Network (ODIN) service layer. Applications use intelligent signaling to provision their own lightpaths with ODIN in order to optimize network-based resource discovery and performance; for example, to access and to dynamically interact with very large amounts of distributed data. Applications supported by dynamic lambda switching provide for significantly more powerful capabilities than those based on today’s communication infrastructure. Acknowledgment: Hal Edwards, Paul Daspit, Nortel Networks; Teresa Elliott, Carol Huss, and Rachel Alarcon, SBC / Ameritech; USA National Science Foundation awards, including #ANI-0123399 on intelligent signaling. Contact Joe Mambretti International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University (NU), USA j-mambretti@northwestern.edu Collaborators Joe Mambretti, Jeremy Weinberger, Jim Chen, Elizabeth Bacon, Fei Yeh, David Lillethun, iCAIR, NU, USA Tom DeFanti, Jason Leigh, Oliver Yu, Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Robert Chang, Materials Sciences Research Center, NU, USA Cees de Laat, Leon Gommans, Bas v. Oudenaarde, Bert Andree, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Caren Litvanyi, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), USA www.icair.org/igrid2002 www.uva.nl www.icair.org/omninet |