2013 SDN, large data and electronic medicine for the Science and Technology Paradise Conference

Companies can benefit from it, but education and research institutions dominate technological innovation. This is certainly true of the web, Internet2 shared a 100GbE fiber global network linking hundreds of research institutions to high-performance network technologies chased by many financial institutions.

This week, Internet2 with the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) and the Energy Technology Network (ESNET) hosted the 2013 Technology Paradise (TIP 2013) conference in Honolulu. Apan also provides high-performance network technology for research and educational institutions, while ESnet connects various national laboratories. The 450 engineers attending the conference will use cutting-edge technologies, including software definition networks (SDN), large data and electronic healthcare. The goal is to help research institutions in various regions better use technology for collaboration. Rob Vietzke, vice president of the Internet2 network in Washington, shares some of the topics that technical engineers will discuss this week.

Many meetings of the technical Paradise Congress are focused on SDN, but unlike other meetings, TIP 2013 SDN meetings focus on WANs and networks outside the data center. And why?

Rob Vietzke: In the field of research and education, there has been a history of creating platform and space for network innovation. The technology from the non-campus environment is more than the campus environment. You can think back to the early days of network development, when we had open protocols, and many of the inputs for platform innovation included large-scale Ethernet and search, social networking, etc. You can also recall the early days of the protocol stack, where thousands of people were talking about what TCP was. At that time is a kind of innovation, network development upsurge. I think you see our efforts on WAN Sdn is also a belief and hope that the concept of software definition network control can reopen the new era of great innovation. For us, this is not about the efficiency of data centers or the management of small data centers, but the opportunity to once again achieve network control through open software standards, which was not achieved in community development in the 30.

Is this innovation likely to occur in researchers and academics and not in the business environment?

Vietzke: Sometimes, the best innovation is often before the product business application, we contact the larger community. Ethernet may be the most typical one. We already have thousands of Internet Ethernet with native IP addresses when others are still dialing the Internet. You have experienced unprecedented application innovations such as file sharing and IP video, search, and social networking. A wide range of large-scale deployments before business applications and industry partnerships are some of the most interesting innovations. This is also an important environment for future changes in the network.

Large data will play an important role in tip 2013. Why is this important to the network community?

Vietzke: Big data is important for the host of the Internet2 community. Imagine what it would be like if genetic researchers stopped looking at genomes and genes. They are doing research at local hospitals, but they also collaborate with peers around the world. And they want real-time collaboration. Similarly, government agencies that conduct financial data modelling collaborate with school economists to secure the next economic crisis, jointly examining liquidity trends in financial markets and predicting future liquidity repression. All of these are important big data experiments in which the world's best ideas come from our campuses, which work on data from large natural science projects, government agencies or medical professions. We believe that developing web technologies to help them complete their research will help to bring about the next innovation.

What does it mean to create a network that supports large data? Does this require a lot of capacity and throughput, or are there more complex issues to solve?

Vietzke: One of the technologies we hope to develop in a large-scale SDN environment is the further integration of networks and applications. This is a commitment to the software definition network, which slowly enters the virtual computing environment. And we believe that we need not only to achieve large bandwidth, but also to implement data-intensive technology. This ensures that you not only have a larger pipeline, you can also ensure that the network can provide enough bandwidth where needed, or increase bandwidth allocations when needed, and that data can be transmitted to researchers through security devices so that researchers can perform their work smoothly.

Why should electronic or electronic health care play an important role in this year's technical Paradise conference?

Vietzke: There have been some major genetic research projects in Asia, for example, a lot of cooperation between the American gene community and Chinese institutions. We have developed a project with the Beijing gene agency that has transmitted a gene sequence to the United States, and they have found that the Beijing gene Agency and the United States need 26 hours to complete transmission. But with some network settings, we shorten the time to 30 seconds. If one researcher needs to provide treatment for terminally ill patients, and they want to know whether they have similarities with thousands of other patients by sequencing their genes, then 30 seconds and 26 hours is a different place. You will see the direct impact of data collection.

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