The São Paulo academic network in 2012

• Grant number: 11/52044-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Research and Education Network of the State of São Paulo
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: October 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Luis Fernandez Lopez
• Grantee: Luis Fernandez Lopez
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FM). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The decade of 2000 was particularly stable with respect to the technology of computer networks. Technological developments during this period occurred incrementally in the physical layer and showed no substantial evolution in the upper layers (network and data). The decade that began this year, however, points to some radical changes in technology and network architecture, especially in the layers of data and network. To accompany these changes, ANSP will have to leave the role of network provider that it played during the previous decade and start acting also as a developer and experimenter of new technologies and architectures. In practice, ANSP must return to its origins going back to the role originally assigned to it in the late eighties. It is well known that the research, development and testing can simply be ordered to a project. In order to have important results however, a competitive environment, marked by merit and excellence, is fundamental. So this year it is proposed that the ANSP Program acts as a real program and not just as an infrastructure project. It is proposed that the ANSP project this year be limited exclusively to the provision of basic infraestrura, acquisition, operation and maintenance of the network, while the development work and experimental research will be tendered to the research community of the state through specific and regular FAPESP project calls. With this spirit, this year the project ANSP is presented as a proposal to FAPESP launching this new phase of the ANSP program, accompanied by a justified budget for the infrastructure project. (AU)