Our network

It is possible to say that rednesp operates, basically, in two complementary scales: the state and the international.

At the state level, rednesp has two access points in the State of São Paulo, with its main nucleus - the Academic Traffic Exchange Point, or PTTA - allocated in a Tier III data center belonging to the Equinix company, located in Barueri.

Most of São Paulo's research and education institutions (public and private), as well as the National Education and Research Network (RNP), connect to rednesp through this PTTA, which also has the assistance of the MetroSampa network to enable the access of some participants in the metropolitan region of São Paulo.

Out of the capital of São Paulo, rednesp also maintains an access point in the city of Campinas, in which it is connected not only to Unicamp, but also other research and education institutions based in this municipality.

Source: Own elaboration using QGIS, based on information available on RNP's website (https://www.rnp.br/sistema-rnp/redecomep), accessed in December 2020.

At the international level, rednesp connects to the commercial internet and its platforms (such as Google and Facebook) through the same Equinix data center in Barueri, where our PTTA interconnects with international academic networks through the Pan-American AmPath/AmLight consortia.

With these articulations, rednesp accesses the world by sharing a 100G bi-oceanic ring with RNP and RedCLARA with access points in Santiago (Chile), Panama City (Panama), Miami (USA) and Fortaleza (Brazil); moreover, recently, AmLight joined the Monet submarine cable operators to expand the connection between São Paulo, Fortaleza and Miami by another 200G.

The rednesp also participates in the consortium that connects the telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope), which is located in Chile. The long-distance connection involves complex coordination work to operationalize the transfer of data through various academic networks to data processing centers. The rednesp's participation in this project, maintaining the links of the 100G bi-oceanic ring, makes it possible the use of Monet Cable.

Finally, and again through AmLight, in 2020 the international dimension of rednesp broke the boundaries of the American continent, and through partnerships with the South African academic network Tenet and Angola Cables (owner of the SACS cable), it is possible today exchange academic traffic directly with Africa.

Vera C. Rubin long haul links to SLAC

Backbone SP

Estabelecimento de backbone de alta velocidade no estado de São Paulo com links de capacidade de 100Gbps para prover interligação entre centros de pesquisa e universidades no estado de São Paulo, sob coordenação da rednesp para constituição de um backbone regional. Em sua fase inicial o backbone irá interligar 8 universidades à rednesp utilizando links de 100 Gbps, com Links Ponto a Ponto (Lan to Lan) transparentes a protocolos.

Backbone SP

Lançada em 29 de setembro de 2022 o Backbone SP é uma rede de fibra óptica que conecta oito universidades paulistas a uma velocidade de 100 Gbps (gigabits por segundo). 

Ele conecta a Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie e o Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), possibilitando a troca de informações entre estas instituições e a conexão com outras redes acadêmicas nacionais e internacionais a 100 Gbps, podendo fazer uso das conexões do anel bi-oceânico da rednesp.

Currently, the requirements for research institutions in the state of São Paulo to participate in rednesp are being revised.

The new criteria are being discussed with the Management and Executive Committees and with the academic community. As soon as they are defined, we will publish them on this page.

Se sua instituição ainda não faz parte da rednesp, mas deseja fazer, ela deve nos enviar um e-mail  solicitando essa participação e anexando a documentação comprobatória de que a instituição atende aos requisitos exigidos, a saber: 

O caso será analisado pelo Comitê Executivo da rednesp na primeira reunião após o recebimento do pedido.
Além disso, excetuando-se as instituições federais, cabe ressaltar que a FAPESP prevê a solicitação de uma “Reserva técnica para conectividade” para as instituições que queiram se conectar à rednesp – maiores informações podem ser obtidas aqui e aqui

Source: Own elaboration using QGIS, based on information available on the websites of the following projects: GNA-G (https://www.gna-g.net/), AmLight (https://www.amlight.net/?page_id=2107), RedCLARA (https://www.redclara.net/index.php/es/red/redclara/topologia-actual-de-la-red) and RNP (https://www.rnp.br/sistema-rnp/rede-ipe), all accessed in December, 2020.