WELCOME TO ANSP

 

 

The ANSP project (an Academic Network at São Paulo), as determined by a decision of FAPESP's Board of Trustees, “provides the State of São Paulo research community with state of the art computer networking connectivity.”

 

ANSP develops and maintains the infrastructure, Internet services and data communication in general which, in conjunction with ANSP’s Technical Reserve Program, offers the education and research community in the State of São Paulo the technological means needed to access information throughout the world, to share knowledge, to develop collaborative projects and for innovation on a large scale.

 

The ANSP Project is run by NARA from The Medical School of the University of São Paulo and is funded by FAPESP through process 2013/11711-5

 

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ANSP is 100% IPv6 NETWORK

From 6 November, 2014, all of ANSP services now operating in IPv6. 

 

The ANSP network has been using IPv6 (Internet Protocol, version 6) since 2004. It has been using IPv6 to exchange traffic with RNP (National Research and Education Network) and private institutions such as Terremark, since 2006, and with the American academic networks, since 2009. However, ANSP’s services continued to operate with IPv4 until last week.

Now the USP Cloud, where ANSP’s servers are hosted or replicated, have also switched to operating with IPv6, enabling all ANSP servers to begin working with that protocol. Since 6 November, 2014, the ANSP network has become fully IPv6.

Implementing IPv6 increases the address space for data packets from 4 to 16 octets, increasing the number of possible addresses from 232 (4 billion) to 2128 (510 trillion trillion trillion), which allows the Internet to continue to grow and develop as it has done until now.

With the increased number of addresses it is not necessary to use the Network Address Translation (NAT) technique, used universally nowadays to generate more IP addresses. Besides having to implement an additional protocol on top of another, some services do not work well with NAT.

The increased address space and the rendering of NAT unnecessary are not the only advantages of IPv6. The more regular and hierarchical header enables the processing of packets by network devices to be more easily implemented on the hardware making them more efficient.

This transition is another remarkable fact in the history of ANSP’s innovative actions, underlining its permanent commitment to delivering a state of the art network to its users.

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 To find out more about IPv6:

Links e Sites Pointing hand cursor vector.svg IPv6 Portal on NIC.br. “IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol":  http://ipv6.br/

 Links e Sites Pointing hand cursor vector.svgMOREIRAS, Antonio Marcos. "IPv6 in the universities and academic networks". Presentation of NIC.br at BMA3 (3rd Biannual Meeting of ANSP), 22 May, 2013.
       Available at:  http://bit.ly/11yTPZ7

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