Quick Facts

• WHREN is an acronym for the Western Participating Organizations Hemisphere Research and Networking Initiative. • Florida International University (FIU) – Florida, USA Research • WHREN’s goal is to improve and support • Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in research throughout the Western Hemisphere. (CENIC) – California, USA

• Links Interconnecting (LILA) is a • Academic Network of Sao Paolo (ANSP) – project of WHREN that provides links between Sao Paolo, Miami and as well as San Diego • Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas and . (CLARA) – Latin America

• WHREN is open to participation to research and • Cooperación Universitaria para el Dasarrollo de education networking providers in the Western A.C. (CUDI) – Hemisphere and their peers around the globe. • Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP) – Brazil • Red Universitaria Nacional (REUNA) – • Governance is cooperative. Education

WHREN–LILA Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, Florida 33199 Collaboration 305.348.4105 305.348.1422 www.whren-lila.net

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*WHREN’s work is partially funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation florida international university WHREN: The Western Hemisphere Research These links terminate in the following locations: and Networking Initiative Miami, Florida: The AMPATH International Exchange The Western Hemisphere Research and Networking Point. Located in the NAP of the Americas.

(WHREN) is a consortium that provides production, OPERATOR: FIU- AMPATH experimental and pre-production services in the São Paulo, Brazil: The São Paulo Open Exchange. Western Hemisphere. Located in the NAP do Brazil. OPERATOR: ANSP A cooperative of research and education networks San Diego, California: The CENIC International across the Americas, WHREN: Exchange. Located in the CalREN network hub site. Governance is Cooperative • Creates a community-based cyberinfrastructure OPERATOR: CENIC WHREN participants pool their excess resources for • Provides a forum for Pan American collaboration the collective good of their communities. There is Tijuana, Mexico: RedCLARA PoP. Located in the a desire for the evolving governance structure to • Makes it easy to pool network infrastructure that Bestel PoP. OPERATOR: CLARA be “lightweight” and consistent with this the participants agree to make available Additional LILA funds are provided by the Academic cooperative spirit. for research and education use. Network of Sao Paolo (ANSP) Projeto Fapesp no. In essence, WHREN provides the ultimate facility and 04/14414-2, the Corporation for Education Network WHREN – Part of the Emerging Research environment for timely transfer of data and supports Initiatives in California (CENIC) and Florida Interregional Infrastructure emerging distributed computation, data manipula- International University (FIU). WHREN builds on the emerging interregional infra- tion, visualization, remote instrument/experiment structure that facilitates connectivity among the control and other scholastic applications and services. Participation is Easy production services of the research networks from Any owner/custodian of research and education North and South America, as well as evolving network LILA: Links Interconnecting network infrastructure (circuits, lightpaths, exchange activities in the western hemisphere including: Latin America points, etc.) in the Western Hemisphere is welcome • The RedCLARA – regional backbone in Latin America The U.S. National Science Foundation supports to participate in WHREN. You must be willing and • The National LambdaRail – the nationwide optical WHREN through funding of Links Interconnecting able to make a portion of your infrastructure available Latin America (LILA) to other WHREN participants. backbone in the • The Atlantic Wave – a peering point that • Partially funding a fiber-optic acquisition between Each participating owner/custodian will prepare an interconnects the international exchanges in Miami San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico for a interconnect agreement that sets out the conditions and with other international exchanges in multi-gigabit per second (Gbps) link and constraints associated with making its infrastruc- the US and US federal networks ture available to other participants. Any WHREN • Partially supporting a multi-Gbps connection participant that wishes to use this infrastructure must • Optical and GLIF exchanges evolving in North between Miami, Florida and Sao Paulo, Brazil execute this agreement with the owner/custodian. America and Europe A register is maintained of the WHREN resources • Other data-intensive hybrid-services international available to participants. networking activities