URL:
www.teraflowtestbed.net
www.icair.org/PhotonicDataServices

Contact:
Robert Grossman, National Center for Data Mining (NCDM), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA, grossman @ uic.edu

Collaborators:
NCDM, UIC, USA: Robert Grossman, Yunhong Gu, David Hanley, David Turkington, Shirley Connelly, Mike Sabala
International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern University, USA: Joe Mambretti, Fei Yeh, Jim Chen, Rachel Gold
Advanced Internet Research Group, University of Amsterdam, NL: Cees de Laat CERN: Olivier Martin
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan: Yuji Oie
Queen’s University, Canada: David Skillicorn

High-performance data services for data exploration, data integration and data analysis are demonstrated; these services are designed to scale to 1Gb and 10Gb networks. These services are layered over the High-Performance Protocols (HPP) toolkit. In turn, these network protocols are layered over services for setting up, monitoring, and tearing down optical paths. Applications built with these data services demonstrate what are sometimes called “photonic data services,” i.e., advanced Layer-3 protocols and services that are closely integrated with Layer-2 and Layer-1 services. The latter is based on dynamic lightpath switching and supported by advanced optical control planes and leading-edge photonic technologies.