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- María José López Pourailly
Alex Galhano Robertson: RedCLARA gave the opportunity to improve collaboration for teaching and research in Latin America
Get to know the voice of the Coordinator of the Point of Exchange of Voice Traffic over IP Working Group, WG-PIT VOIP, and member of RNP. Read this and other interviews in the book “RedCLARA: Name, voice and instrument of collaboration in Latin America”.
What do you think has been your Work Group’s major contribution to the community of Latin American academic networks and to RedCLARA?
I would say there are three good contributions:
1- The dissemination of technical contents about VoIP for Latin American countries.
2- The encouragement of VoIP technology can help NRENs to deploy national IP telephone networks for the universities in their countries.
3- The inclusion between different teams in different countries around a goal that benefits their countries and their researchers.
What do you think has been RedCLARA’s contribution to Latin America?
The responsibility undertaken, the coordination of these work groups, giving them the opportunity to improve collaboration for teaching and research in Latin America.
What is the key important aspect of CLARA-TEC for you and your network?
To me, the opportunity to work together with technicians from other countries, having the chance to learn about other cultures and about the reality of other national networks and, above all, being able to help them. I feel useful because of the work we have done: with the VoIP course, with the meetings and for making the interest in IP telephony grow.
How important is for your Work Group the collaboration established within CLARA-TEC and through it with national and regional networks?
Apart from the VoIP technology and its benefits (or any other technology under research), I think it is very important that CLARA-TEC has promoted the inclusion of countries. Collaboration itself is a great benefit for everyone!
If RedCLARA did not exist, what do you think the technical development scenario in the region would be like?
I think it would be stranded, with few significant technical advances. Maybe, a few national networks would still exist.
From your point of view, what should be the role of RedCLARA over the next five years?
The same it has now! I think RedCLARA must continue doing its excellent work. It must be the reference for networks and services for Latin American NRENs.
