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NYSERNetThoughts on The Next Big Thing

Tim LanceApril 24, 2012

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Albert Einstein School of Medicine/YeshivaAlfred UniversityAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryBinghamton UniversityCity University of New YorkColumbia UniversityCornell UniversityHofstra UniversityMarist CollegeMt. Sinai School of Medicine

(Typically) Board Represented Institutions

New York Presbyterian HospitalsNew York Public LibraryNew York UniversityRensselaer Polytechnic Inst.Rochester Institute of Tech.Rockefeller University Stony Brook UniversitySyracuse UniversityUniversity at AlbanyUniversity at BuffaloUniversity of Rochester

NYSERNet Board

NYSERNet’s Optical Network

NYSERNet’s New York City Optical Network - Manhattan

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Backbone RingFuture Backbone RingCarrier HotelX

NYSERNet’s New York City Optical Network - Bronx

Backbone RingFuture Backbone Ring

NYSERNet’s The Colo@32 at Rudin Management’s The Hub

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Colocated with NYSERNet in The Colo@32

American Museum of Natural His.City University of New YorkColumbia UniversityCornell UniversityFordham UniversityMount Sinai School of MedicineNew York Presbyterian HospitalNew York UniversityNYSERNetThe New SchoolThe Rockefeller UniversityStony Brook UniversitySyracuse UniversityWeill Medical College

CA*netESNetGÉANT Internet2MITNORDUnetMAGPI/NOAAMAN LANGLIFNational Lambda RailSINetTWARENUSLHCnet/CERN

NYSERNet Member Services

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Carbon loadClimate changeWaterEnergyFinancial modelingNano(and smaller)technoloy

Solving problems bigger than any discipline, institution, or sector e.g.

The Next Big Thing

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NetworkComputingBridging to/for the academic and corporate research communityData

Tools for the Next Big Thing

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The Network – Open Flow Testbed

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SDN – More Detail

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OpenFlow Equipment in Syracuse

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Building Bridges

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Outreach to researchersUnderstanding the problemsEnabling use of instrumentationIntellectual propertyBalancing academic and corporate

priorities Balancing with economic development

Building Bridges - Challenges

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Building Bridges

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Building Bridges –Corporate Engagement

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Future Growth of Networking, Computing, Data

Network Computing

The Next Really Big Thing – Big Data

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Tim LancePresident and Board Chair

tl@nysernet.org

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