ESLEA - Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for eScience Applications

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EPSRC

www.epsrc.ac.uk

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the UK Government's leading funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences.

MRC

www.mrc.ac.uk

The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) is a national organisation funded by the UK Government. It promotes research into all areas of medical and related science with the aims of improving the health and quality of life of the UK public and contributing to the wealth of the nation.

PPARC

www.pparc.ac.uk

The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) is the UK's strategic science investment agency. It directs and co-ordinates the funding of research in national and international programmes in particle physics, astronomy, cosmology and space science in the United Kingdom. In addition, it manages UK involvement in international scientific bodies such as CERN.

Corporate

Boston Ltd

www.boston.co.uk

Founded in 1992, Boston Limited is one of the success stories of the independent IT hardware sector. The company has grown organically since inception, providing state of the art technology products backed up with superb service at both the pre-sales and post sales stages.

Boston supports the ESLEA project by providing high end computer equipment required to run data-intensive applications on the international testbed (including UKLight) established to pilot optical switching.

Cisco

www.cisco.com

Cisco Systems is the world-wide leader in networking for the Internet and has a long record of involvement with academic research into high-performance networking.

The company is involved in the ESLEA project through the provision of equipment and dedicated expertise; this contribution enables the project to examine Cisco products and services in a switched optical environment carrying traffic from data-intensive applications.

UKERNA

www.ukerna.ac.uk

The United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association (UKERNA) is funded by the UK Government, to provide and develop a network infrastructure that meets the needs of the education and research communities. UKERNA manages the operation and development of JANET production network as well as UKLight (research network managed on behalf of the Joint Information Systems Committee).