Peruvian network gets connected to Clara

Clara’s technical staff gets together in Mexico from April 25 to 27

Since August 31, 2004, when Clara Network, the Latin American academic network, started operating, six countries have been connected to it: Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina and, more recently, Peru. Other Hispano American nations will join this continental initiative, which permits international scientific research to take place, collaborating to the development of the countries involved.

The Latin American Cooperation for Advanced Networks (Clara) was created in July 2002 and officially registered on December 23, 2003. Meanwhile, there were meetings with representatives of Latin American and European academic networks. Besides, a 12.5 million contract was signed to sponsor Clara and its interconnection with Géant, the Pan European network, in the realm of Alice Project (Latin America connected to Europe).

The first network to be connected to Clara was Reuna (Red Universitaria Nacional, from Chile), on August 31, 2004, the same date when Clara was connected to the European network, by means of a point of presence in Spain. Twenty days later, it was connected to RNP (National Education and Research Network, in Brazil). Later, there were Reacciun (Red Académica de Centros de Investigación y Universidades Nacionales, in Venezuela), on October 11; Cudi (Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet, in Mexico), on November 24; Retina (Red Teleinformática Académica, in Argentina), on February 10, 2005, and finally, Raap (Red Académica Peruana, in Peru), on April 19,2005.

Next week, from April 25 to 27, Clara’s technical staff will be gathered in the city of Veracruz, in Mexico, talking about what has already been done and discussing the next steps. The meeting will offer a panel not only of Clara, but also of the several stages of development of each national network in Latin America and of the European Géant. Miguel Baptista, from the National Foundation for Scientific Computing (Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional - FCCN), in Portugal, will present an IPv6 tutorial; Juan Carlos Guel, from the National Autonomous University in Mexico (Unam), will talk about network security in the Clara community; and Michael Stanton, from RNP, will present the Eela Project – E-Infrastructure Shared Between Europe and Latin America - and debate the use of grids in computing. Still talking about IPv6, Eriko Porto, from Clara’s Engineering Unit, and Azael Fernandes, from Unam, will discuss the implantation of the new Internet protocol in Clara Network.

[RNP, 04.20.2005]

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