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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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6th BIANNUAL MEETING OF ANSP - BMA6
On 25-27 August 2114, in São Paulo, ANSP is organizing its sixth Biannual Meeting (BMA6), with the guiding theme "25 years of ANSPs."
Initiated in 2012, the BMA (Biannual Meeting of ANSP), now in its 6th edition, once again provides an opportunity for participants of ANSP’s Ecosystem to meet and integrate, and it is highly valued for the topics it debates and the introduction of new concepts and new network technologies.
From 25 to August 27, 2014, ANSP intends to celebrate its 25 years with the 6th Biannual Meeting of ANSP (BMA6), at FMUSP (University of São Paulo School of Medicine), São Paulo, capital of the State of São Paulo.
In addition to highlighting the work and the evolution of ANSP over its 25 years of existence, symposiums on security in academic networks and new network technologies will also occupy the space of the School of Medicine, in the mornings. In the afternoons, courses on OpenFlow, NFV, Cyber Security, OpenStack and Big Data will be given.
Registration for BMA6 and the courses offered is now available on the official website of the meeting, and will remain open until 22 August, 2014.
In conjunction with BMA6, on 28 and 29 August, in the same institution, the CineGrid Brasil 2014 international conference will be held, with lectures and discussions on streaming videos that require large bandwidth. To register for the CineGrid Brazil 2014 conference and obtain more information, visit the official event website.
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DEMI Getschko NOMINATED TO THE INTERNET HALL OF FAME
Demi Getschko is the first Brazilian to be nominated to the Internet Hall of Fame at a ceremony on 8 April, 2014, in Hong Kong.
The “Internet Hall of Fame”, created in 2012 by the “Internet Society”, honors leaders and innovators from around the world who have made extraordinary contributions to the change in the lives of citizens using the Internet. The awards are presented in three categories: “Pioneers Circle”, “Innovators” and “Global Connectors”.
Demi Getschko, an electrical engineer, was nominated in the category of “Global Connectors”, which recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the growth and overall Internet use.
Getschko, a Brazilian born in Trieste, Italy, began a degree in 1971 in Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo and completed his doctorate at the same university in 1989. From 1971 to 1985, he worked at CCE-USP (Electronic Computing Center of the University of São Paulo). From 1985 to 1996 he worked at the Data Processing Center CPD- of FAPESP (the State of São Paulo Research Foundation) and was the ANSP Network’s first Technical Coordinator.
Until 2009 he was a member of the Board of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). He has been a director of CGI.br (the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee) since 1995, and Chief Executive Officer of NIC.br (Center for Information and Coordination. Br). He is an associate professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, where he teaches Computer Architecture and coordinates the PUCSPNetLab, Layer 2 laboratory of FAPESP’s KyaTera Project.
The team congratulates Prof. ANSP. Getschko and is honored by this award have been given in recognition of his work at ANSP in the period 1989-1996, which led to the consolidation of the National Research and Education Network (RNP) and the Brazilian Internet itself.
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See the 2006 ANSP interview with Demi Getschko:
http://www.ansp.br/index.php/br/depoimentos
Learn more about the Internet Hall of Fame ceremony:
http://internethalloffame.org/press/latest-news/internet-hall-fame-announces-2014-inductees
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SCIELO BRAZIL, A MEMBER OF ANSP, ONCE AGAIN ATTAINS LEADERSHIP IN THE "WEB RANKING OF WORLD REPOSITORIES"
SciELO BRAZIL, a participant in the ANSP Ecosystem, has once again secured first place in the international ranking of repositories
SciELO Brazil (Scientific Electronic Library Online - Brazil) has retained its leadership in the category "Top Portals" in the "Web Ranking of World Repositories" the goal of which is to promote and support initiatives to disseminate scientific publications with open access to the academic community. The site provides a list of repositories geared to research and is organized according to web indicators, which include visibility of the link, number of pages listed by Google, number of rich files (files in .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .pdf, .ps, .eps), and standardized articles available online, using the Google Scholar as database.
SciELO Brazil, a member of the ANSP Ecosystem (an Academic Network at São Paulo), is an electronic library of Brazilian scientific journals with over 300 titles in its collection. It is a project of FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), in partnership with BIREME (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences) and with support from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).
Anna Paula A. Costa, from NARA-USP (Center for Applications in Advanced Networks -Medical School, University of São Paulo), explains that ANSP provides a professional and high availability infrastructure required for the SciELO servers she hosts.
Prof. Luis Fernandez Lopez, ANSP’s Principal Investigator, says that "ANSP feels very proud to be the provider of the data center and internet for a project of this level of excellence" and congratulates the SciELO team for having won first place for the fourth consecutive year in such a prestigious ranking.
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A LOOKING GLASS FOR ANSP IS ANNOUNCED
At the request of the ANSP Ecosystem community, a looking glass for ANSP was installed in January 2014.
Commencing on 31/01/2014, ANSP has begun to offer a new service to its ecosystem community: a looking glass for ANSP has been installed. A looking glass, also known as a router proxy, is a very simple web interface that can be used by network administrators to run limited commands on routers in order to troubleshoot routing problems.
Several institutions have a looking glass, such as RNP (National Research and Education Network) and AMPATH (Pathway of the Americas).
The ANSP looking glass, after going through the testing phase for internal use, has been approved and installed, and is now available for community use on the ANSP page, under "Network and Services".
ANSP has started the year 2014 offering one more relevant service to the members of the ANSP Ecosystem.
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http://143.108.30.143/cgi-bin/lg/lgform.cgi (ANSP looking glass)
http://www.rnp.br/servicos/lg/ (RNP looking glass)
http://routerproxy.grnoc.iu.edu/ampath/ (AMPATH looking glass)
