The University Network of Telemedicine of Chile (RUTE-Chile) will be launched next Tuesday, March 16, at 11 am in Santiago (2 pm GMT), in a virtual ceremony to be held by Zoom. The organization was created from the collaboration of four prominent Chilean universities (U. de Concepción, U. del Desarrollo, U. de Valparaíso and U. de Chile) with Chile's national research and education network (REUNA).
The call for the fifth and final BELLA’s Bidding Process for Infrastructure and Telecommunications Services is open since March 9th to reinforce the RedCLARA backbone in the stretch that joins the national research and education networks (NREN) of Ecuador, Panama and Brazil.
LACNIC has opened a call for presentations for the LACNIC Technical Forum (LTF) that will take place during the LACNIC 35 event which will be held online from 10 to 14 May.
After several years of planning, procurement, preparation, building, and most importantly collaboration, the BELLA Programme today sees an incredible milestone: the final splicing – and therefore completion of construction – of the new 6,000 km EllaLink submarine cable connection that directly links Europe and Latin America. Work now begins to bring BELLA connectivity online, providing the high capacity and low latency necessary for data-intensive research and education use.
February 24, 2021: RedCLARA’s Technical Manager, Marco Teixeira, visiting the Equinix-São Paulo datacenter (Brazil), carried out the installation of the first router equipment for BELLA-T.
The terrestrial phase of the BELLA Programme (BELLA-T), in charge of completing the infrastructure of the terrestrial optic fiber network of RedCLARA, will launch the BELLA-T005 tender in March, with which it will finalize the acquisition of the telecommunications equipment and necessary services to finish the project.
