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Appendix 19. StarLight

Maxine Brown and Tom DeFanti

Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

Joe Mambretti

Northwestern University

January 2008

StarLight23 is a 1GigE and 10GigE switch/router facility for high-performance access to

participating networks, and a true optical switching facility for wavelengths. Since summer 2001,

StarLight management and engineering has been working with the international academic and

commercial communities to create a proving ground in support of grid-intensive e-Science

applications, network performance measurement and analysis, and computing and networking

technology evaluations.

Figure 64: StarLight GOLE diagram24

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http://www.startap.net/starlight/

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Courtesy of Linda Winkler, Argonne National Laboratory and StarLight senior network engineer.

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