GLIF Maps
These illustrations of GLIF infrastructure show the international research and education network bandwidth made available for scheduled application and middleware research experiments as of May 2008.
Conditions of Use - These maps are made available in various file formats for use by members of the public who wish to utilise them, or link to the GLIF website. We request that you not alter the image in any way; otherwise, special permission should be obtained from the GLIF Secretariat. We also request that you include the following 'Acknowledgements' (and 'Additional Information' as needed).
Acknowledgements - The Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) Map 2008 visualization was created by Robert Patterson of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), using an Earth image provided by NASA. Data was compiled by Maxine D. Brown of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Funding was provided by GLIF and US National Science Foundation grants # SCI-04-38712 to NCSA/UIUC and # OCI-0441094 to EVL/UIC. For more information on GLIF, see http://www.glif.is/.
Additional Information - The GLIF map does not represent all the world's Research and Education optical networks, and does not show international capacity that is dedicated to production usage. The GLIF map only illustrates excess capacity that its participants are willing to share with international research teams for applications-driven and computer-system experiments, in full or in part, all or some of the time. GLIF does not provide any network services itself, and researchers should approach individual GLIF network resource providers to obtain lightpath services.
World Maps
- Low resolution - JPEG (628 KB), TIFF (2.8 MB)
- Medium resolution - JPEG (1.8 MB), TIFF (10.4 MB)
- High resolution - JPEG (5.3 MB), TIFF (33.1 MB)
- Movie - MOV (58.0 MB), MOV (81.0 MB)
Asia-Pacific Maps
- Low resolution - JPEG (528 KB)
- Medium resolution - JPEG (560 KB), TIFF (2.6 MB)
- High resolution - JPEG (1.3 MB), TIFF (7.7 MB)
Australia Maps
- Low resolution - JPEG (492 KB)
- Medium resolution - JPEG (376 KB), TIFF (2.3 MB)
- High resolution - JPEG (928 KB), TIFF (7.0 MB)
Brazil Maps
- Low resolution - JPEG (428 KB)
- Medium resolution - JPEG (636 KB), TIFF (3.7 MB)
- High resolution - JPEG (1.5 MB), TIFF (10.6 MB)
Brazil-US Maps
- Low resolution - JPEG (552 KB)
- Medium resolution - JPEG (576 KB), TIFF (3.6 MB)
- High resolution - JPEG (1.5 MB), TIFF (10.7 MB)
Europe Maps
- Low resolution - JPEG (572 KB)
- Medium resolution - JPEG (724 KB), TIFF (3.7 MB)
- High resolution - JPEG (1.7 MB), TIFF (9.1 MB)
Europe-India Maps
- Low resolution - JPEG (568 KB)
- Medium resolution - JPEG (720 KB), TIFF (3.5 MB)
- High resolution - JPEG (1.7 MB), TIFF (10.0 MB)
