End-to-End Lightpaths to Synchrotrons

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Network Schematic

Network Structure

The goal of this project is to provide very high-quality remote access to the Canadian Light Source's Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility (CMCF) beamline. This project has connected workstations at the CMCF to workstations at the Universities of Alberta and Calgary.

The lightpath network created connects specific workstations directly to the lightpath and, by extension, each other, independant of the slower area networks that typically connect workstations. Installation of BigBangwidth's Lightpath Accelerator (LPA) hardware essentially creates a finer network structure with direct access to the CANARIE CA*Net 4 lightpath infrastructure. The network does not replace the current network architecture, but rather runs alongside it to be activated when high-volume data transfer is required.

Network Diagram

BroadLAN^TM

BigBangwidth's BroadLAN recognizes large network traffic flows through a LAN and then redirects them directly to desktops through dedicated lightpaths. BroadLAN can bring up to 10 Gigabit/s connections directly to high-performance devices, allowing for large file transfers of up to eighty times faster than conventional local area network equipment. The redirection of data streams to lightpaths allows for regular area network resources to remain available for other users.

BroadLANTM BroadLANTM is a secure high-performance path through the LAN, which lifts critical traffic off the LAN onto private circuits, automatically on-demand.