January 2014
In 2010, the NSF International Research Networks Connections (IRNC) program funded Florida International University‘s Americas Lightpaths (AmLight) proposal, which included upgrading the network connection between Los Angeles, San Diego, and Tijuana to 10Gbps. In collaboration with CONACYT,CUDI, and other institutions in Mexico, funds were allocated to extend connectivity from Tijuana to Ensenada to connect CICESE at 10Gbps. The project enabled improvements in the last mile to benefit not only CICESE and collaborators located at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) but also the local campuses of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Autonomous University of Baja California(UABC) which, at the time, were expecting to be connected at this speed. The first light transmitted through the optical link from Calit2 to Tijuana and CICESE occurred in early March 2012. “This link represents a new way of doing science, because it creates new networks of collaboration between researchers and students that will let them devise solutions to problems that affect our lives as a nation and for humanity at large,” said Federico Graef Ziehl, CICESE’s Director General.
Click here to read full article from CENIC Update, Volume 16 Issue 3: The quarterly newsletter of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California.
