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Luis Eliécer Cadenas, executive director of RedCLARA and co-chair of the BELLA Consortium, and José Palacios, president of REUNA, met, together with Luz Miriam Díaz Patigño, executive director of RENATA, with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies and the Ministry of National Education of Colombia to share the progress of the BELLA project.
Those interested in submitting papers for TNC19 can now submit their proposals. The call for papers of the annual conference of the pan-European advanced network, GÉANT, which will be held between June 16 and 20, 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia, is open from October 10 to November 30
In the meeting of its Board of Directors, held on October 25 and 26 in Santiago, Chile, LA Referencia elected Bianca Amaro, General Coordinator of Research and Maintenance of Consolidated Products of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), as its new president for a two-year term.
Angola Cables announced this October the start of the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) operation, the first submarine cable in the Southern Hemisphere to connect Africa to South America. It is extended between Fortaleza (Brazil) and Luanda (Angola) and has a transmission capacity of 40 Tb/s, offering lower latency between the two continents. According to Angola Cables, the cable, which cost approximately 130 million dollars, aims to reduce traffic costs for the African continent and attract regional internet providers, large operators, multinational companies and research networks.
On Wednesday, October 24, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Council of LA Referencia and CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) to facilitate the use of the Zenodo repository for Latin American researchers and institutions.
María José López Pourailly
The new link that goes from Miami to Panama City and from there to Santiago, was made in collaboration with AmLight and completes the 100 Gbps ring that closes with the link that goes from Santiago to Sao Paulo and from there to Miami. Thus, the collaboration with the American AmLight project enables RedCLARA to substantially improve the capacity of its network.