NIHNLM Optical Networks

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NIH/NLM Optical Networks
NIH/NLM Ver. 1 09/09/05

• Jules Aronson
• aronson_at_nlm.nih.gov

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Telemedicine

• Predictable Network Performance
• Low Latency
• Low Jitter
• Security
• Low Cost

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What is the BIRN?
The BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS RESEARCH NETWORK
IT Infrastructure to hasten the derivation of new
understanding and treatment of disease through
use of distributed knowledge

• A stable, robust, shared network and distributed
  database environment across gt20 institutions,
  tailored to the BIRN collaborations.
• Extensible tools and IT infrastructure that can
  be reused.
• Established Cyber-infrastructure for a virtual
  data grid
• Involves a large scale data integration effort

It will no longer matter where data, instruments
and computational resources are located!
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caBIG (Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid)

• Network of individuals and institutions
• Share data and tools
• Speed delivery of innovative treatments
• Participants 50 Cancer Centers and 500
  individuals
• Proposed Architecture Grid
• May Profit from Optical Networks

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HHSNet

• Current Topology
• Local Dark Fiber
• vBNS for distant connections
• Covers almost all of the DHHS agencies
• Future
• All Optical Network

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Conclusion

• Potential for implementing Optical Networks
• Caveat Cost
• Previously Build it and they will use it
• Now, we are limited by the cost