IRNC: Backbone: Americas Africa Research and eduCation Lightpaths (AARCLight)

佛罗里达国际大学和AmLight联盟合作伙伴正在规划、设计和定义一项战略，用于美国和西非之间的高容量连接研究和教育网络连接，称为AARCLight：美洲非洲研究和教育光路。科学是在信息丰富的时代进行的。 跨越国界共享科学资源，如数据、仪器、技术和最佳实践，可以促进扩大科学探究，并有可能推动发现。将美国和非洲国家的研究和教育界联系起来，是一个日益重要的战略优先事项。非洲为研究和教育界提供了独特的生物、环境、地质、人类学和文化资源。大气和地球科学、材料科学、热带疾病、生物学、天文学和其他学科的研究挑战将通过加强美国和非洲研究和教育界之间的技术和社会联系而受益。该规划项目主要基于计划提供的海底电缆频谱供研究和教育界使用。 它为美国的利益相关者创造了前所未有的机会，非洲和巴西协调规划工作，以战略性地利用所提供的频谱，为最广泛的研究和教育利益群体服务。AmLight联盟的合作伙伴是（巴西教育和研究网络（RNP）、圣保罗学术网络（ANSP）、拉丁美洲高级网络合作组织（CNOA）、智利国家红色大学（REUNA）、佛罗里达LambdaRail（FLR）、天文学研究大学协会（AURA）和拉丁美洲鹦鹉螺）

Florida International University and AmLight consortium partners are planning, designing, and defining a strategy for high capacity connectivity research and education network connectivity between the US and West Africa, called AARCLight: Americas Africa Research and eduCation Lightpaths. Science is being conducted in an era of information abundance. Sharing science resources, such as data, instrumentation, technology, and best practices, across national borders, can promote expanded scientific inquiry, and has the potential to advance discovery. Linking the U.S. and the nations of Africa's researcher and education communities is an increasingly strategic priority. Africa offers research and education communities with unique biological, environmental, geological, anthropological, and cultural resources. Research challenges in atmospheric and geosciences, materials sciences, tropical diseases, biology, astronomy, and other disciplines will benefit by enhancing the technological and social connections between the research and education communities of the US and Africa.The planning project is largely based on the planned availability of submarine cable spectrum for use by research and education communities. It creates an unprecedented opportunity for the stakeholders in the U.S., Africa, and Brazil to coordinate planning efforts to strategically make use of the offered spectrum towards serving the broadest communities of interest in research and education. The AmLight consortium partners are the (Brazilian Education and Research Network (RNP), Academic Network of São Paulo (ANSP), Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks (CLARA), Chile's Red Universitaria Nacional (REUNA), Florida LambdaRail (FLR), Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), and Latin American Nautilus)