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Figure 36: CANARIE IP Network

International collaboration:

As a founding GLIF (Global Lambda Integrated Facility) participant and as a GLORIAD (Global

Ring network for Advanced Application Development) partner, CANARIE offers to researchers

around the world use of CANARIE's lightpaths on a permanent or as a needed basis. Countries

like Taiwan and Korea and others have acquired permanent lightpaths across the CANARIE

network. Others have simply used CANARIE's lightpaths on a short-term basis, in support of

demonstrations or short term event-based research activities. As an example, CANARIE has

provided the University of Tokyo with a Chicago to New York ROADM 10 Gbps wavelength in

support of their efforts to obtain the Internet2 IPv6 Land Speed Record, in which they succeeded.

Users Control LightPath (UCLP):

In 2006 the second generation of UCLP software enabling the control of the optical switches of

CANARIE network and allowing individual users or applications to directly control the routing

of their lightpaths, i.e. the interconnection and switching of user assigned resources across the

network, was delivered.

The GUI based UCLP provisioning workflow tool is based on Service Oriented Architecture

(SOA) and Web Services specifications. The tool can be used to manage any Web Services

enabled IT resources to interconnect instruments, processes, data, computing resources, as well as

network resources. Thus the tool allows for the creation of discipline or application-specific

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