Subject: Re: EXPReS SA2 update needed - fiber to Sardinia? Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:40:34 +0100 From: Nanni Mauro To: Francisco Colomer CC: T. Charles Yun Hello Paco I can not have a travel to Madrid in this week, because we have also the Estrela Meeting in Bologna and more problems. sorry !!! I will partecipate to the e-Vlbi workshop of Madrid in June News about Expres and network Status : SRT : Regione Sardegna and ITT companies are dropping the undersea cables between Cagliari amd Trapani ( Sicily ) and Olbia and Civitavecchia ( near Roma) and Garr have some fibers in this cables for a loop for garr-x network. (see attachment file) The new undersea hight capacity path will be available in the next months.. SRT Radiotelescope will be inaugurate at the end of this year; Regione Sardegna have assigned 1.5 MEuro to connect SRT to the Garr node in Cagliari, and will execute the works with the "Sardega & Innovazione " Agency...... BUT ..... The regional government was fallen, in Sardegna we have elections and this make all slow for a lot of time. Medicina: The works for the "direct path" of the fiber from Bologna and Medicina are started in November, the railway was crossed (aleluiaaaa !!! ) and in a couple of months we will have the new fiber available, so I need to buy a 10Gbit SFP for the Medicina station, and to get more band from Bologna to Geant. Noto. In the first week of February there is a Grid workshop in Catania, and we are organizing a meeting with University and INFN to prepare a meeting with Regione Sicilia about the state of the network in the south of the Sicilia. We know that a project for a "government and health network" is starting in Sicilia and we need to be included in this project. Bye M.Nanni