USP 2021 Technical Reserve Annual Plan for the project USPnet Connectivity with REDNESP: third generation - fiber optics off - phase 3

• Grant number: 21/11235-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Overhead for Research and Education Network of the State of São Paulo
• Start date: December 01, 2021
• End date: November 30, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: João Eduardo Ferreira
• Grantee: João Eduardo Ferreira
• Host Institution: Superintendência de Tecnologia da Informação. Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

A large amount of money from the University budget is spent on contracts with carriers that provide Internet access to the Universitycampuses. In the long run, deploying USP own dark fiber network infrastructure connecting the campuses seems to be a viable and sustainable alternative to meet the demands of increasing traffic without the corresponding increase in cost. Having deployed buriedducts and a 72 core fiber optics cable interconnecting the Ribeirão Preto, São Carlos and Piracicaba campuses, we intend now to connect the São Paulo campus and to light up at least a pair of cores, bringing the bandwidth among the 4 campuses to 100Gbps, a ten foldincrease when compared to the currently available bandwidth. (AU)