NORDUnet news archive

NORDUnet2008 Conference 9-11 April, Finland

NORDUnet2008 was th 24th conference in the NORDUnet conference series. As in previous years, the conference brings together networking and grid computing experts and users from the Nordic and global community.

Conference themes:

The NORDUnet 2008 conference included a full track on grid computing.

The next NORDUnet Conference will take place in Copenhagen in September 2009

NORDUnet AMSIX Peering Goes Live

Copenhagen  January 30th 2008

As a part of our constant efforts to improve network connectivity and reduce cost, NORDUnet is now present at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMSIX). AMSIX is Europe's largest interconnect exchange point rapidly approaching the 300 Gbit/sec traffic point and with close to 300 Connected Parties.

On January 30th 2008 the first of many AMSIX peering partners where connected to NORDUnet.

NORDUnet is also present at the NETNOD internet exchange in Stockholm; NORDUnet plans to continuously expands peering presence.

In addition to peerings at  internet exchange points, NORDUnet operate a number of private peerings, and have global internet connectivity in both Stockholm (2x10Gbit/sec) and Copenhagen (1x10Gbit/sec), securing superior quality to NORDUnet's Nordic customers at the lowest possible cost. 

You can follow the peering traffic at the NORDUnet Load Plot Page and you can find NORDUnet's Policy here. Peering request can be send to NORDUpeering.

Kyoto - Stockholm 4k Digital Cinema streaming

Stockholm November 11th 2007

During the past weekend - on 10-11 November - NORDUnet and SUNET participated in an experiment streaming 4k Digital Cinema video from the prize ceremony of the Kyoto Prize to KTH in Stockholm. 
The 4k Digital Cinema video of the entire prize ceremony was streamed uncompressed, for maximum quality and minimum latency.  An uncompressed 4k Digital Cinema stream is 6.6 Gbps. To facilitate this experiment, a dedicated 10 GE lightpath was set up from Kyoto University to KTH. 

The lightpath was created from lambdas owned by a number of GLIF partner.  At our end, the 10GE was realized with 10GE over dark fiber in Stockholm, NORDUnet DWDM Stockholm-Copenhagen-Hamburg, and SURFnet DWDM to Amsterdam (Netherlight).  From there, the IRNC OC192 was used across the Atlantic to Starlight, and a JGN2 OC192 from there to Tokyo. 

Thanks to Mats Erixon at KTH and the NUNOC optical engineering team, who put in a lot of effort to make this experiment a success.