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Appendix 18. The Global Lambda Integrated Facility

GLIF

Erik-Jan Bos, SURFnet

Maxine Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago

Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC

Kees Neggers, SURFnet

Karel Vietsch, TERENA14

January 2008

GLIF:

GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility15, is an international virtual organization that

promotes the paradigm of lambda networking to support demanding scientific applications. It is a

collaborative initiative of research networks across the world, as well as institutions and consortia

working with lambdas. GLIF makes lambdas available as an integrated global facility for use by

scientists and projects involved in data-intensive scientific research. GLIF brings together leading

networking engineers from across the world who learns from each other's experiences. They seek

to establish best practices, work together to enable the development, testing and implementation

of new lambda networking technologies, middleware and applications, and generally collaborate

to take hybrid networking technology forward.

Figure 62: This map illustrates the GLIF advanced research and education multi-gigabit

optical network infrastructure.16

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