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UCI Lightpath A Dedicated Network for Research on UCI Campus

UCI Lightpath is a specialized network at UC Irvine, enhancing data transfer speed and capability for researchers. It bypasses campus bottlenecks, connects major computing clusters, and facilitates groundbreaking research collaborations.

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UCI Lightpath A Dedicated Network for Research on UCI Campus

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  1. UCI LightpathA Dedicated Network for Research on UCI Campus Jessica Yu Office of Information Technology, UC Irvine NSF PI Workshop 9/29/2015

  2. About University of California, Irvine • UC Irvine is a public research university • 30,000+ students and 22,000+ faculty and staff • Located in Irvine, California • UCINet is the general campus network • 191 Buildings • 529 Network equipment closets • 1,709 Routers, switches in service • 40,755 Active network jacks

  3. Purposes • UCI Lightpath • is built to let researchers with need for transferring large quantities of data to get on a faster network, ahead of general campus network upgrade • Improves data throughput within and beyond campus by avoiding bottlenecks and other performance impacting components in general campus network

  4. Current Status • In service 6 month after funding started in 1/2014, connecting • two major campus computing clusters as well as a number of servers/workstations in research labs; providing the capability for 100+ researchers to utilize UCI Lightpath • perfSONAR servers in strategic locations collecting stats • DTN for concept proving for Pacific Research Platform • Special DTN for early adoption of technology for LHC collaboration

  5. Impacts • Allows researchers on the ‘network slums’ of old buildings access to faster network, resulting in improved data transfer performance and increased productivity • Helps to avoid network bottlenecks and limitations of campus border firewall • Contributes to leading-edge research networking initiatives, such as proof-of-concept for PRP and LHC collaboration • Can be expanded to where needed • Advisory Committee and Access Policy

  6. Acknowledgements • NSF for sponsoring this Project (CC-NIE #ACI-1341038) • Office of Information Technology of UC Irvine for providing technical resources to implement UCI Lightpath

  7. Food for Thoughts 25+ years ago, NSF funded the NSFNet which is widely recognized as the base platform evolving to today’s Internet Change the way people live What could CC* do for the next 25+ years? CC-NIE, CC*DNI …

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