Ciena Provides Terabit Speed for SCinet on SC24

Ciena announced that its optical, routing, and switching innovations will once again support the SCinet network at the SC24 conference held at the Georgia World Convention Center (GWCC) in Atlanta from November 17th to 22nd. SCinet is a testing platform and demonstration network built by a team of experts from industry, academia, and government specifically for the annual SC conference. It will provide a massive bandwidth of 8.71Tb/s from GWCC to the global R&E network, enabling the SC community to engage in data intensive research, experimentation, and demonstrations. In addition, Ciena will showcase its scalable and sustainable scientific research and discovery network solutions at booth 1940.

Ciena’s highlights on SC24

SCinet Connectivity: Ciena will use WaveLogic 5 Extreme modems on the Internet 2 spectrum to power the 400GE circuit between the Chicago Starlight International/National Communications Exchange Facility and GWCC. Ciena will also provide 400GE circuits between GWCC and the joint big data testbed located in McLean, Virginia, using 8190 coherent aggregation routers and WaveLogic 5 Nano coherent pluggable transceivers on ESnet spectrum (1300 km routing). In addition, Ciena’s 6500 reconfigurable line system (RLS) will expand the Internet 2 photonics backbone network to GWCC, while its 8110 coherent aggregation router will extend the NSF funded FABRIC testing platform to the exhibition site.

Ciena booth # 1940: Ciena will showcase its latest innovations, including WaveLogic 6 Extreme and WaveLogic 6 Nano coherent pluggable optical devices. The company will collaborate with the University of Amsterdam to conduct research demonstrations showcasing federated learning (FL) and microservices applications for AI driven engine fault detection in the aviation industry, as well as machine learning within the network.

Mobile Fabric Node (tfNode): Ciena’s mobile tfNode will be part of the SCinet network and showcased at booth # 1940. TFNode provides multiple x400Gb/s high-speed connections, enabling researchers and experimenters to carry out large-scale projects in fields such as distributed computing, storage, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.