Scientific Users (High-End Users)
These users are currently served by (NRENs) or large dedicated test beds. Appli-
cation examples include:
High-Energy Particle Physics: The next generation of experiments at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) in European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) will
produce data sets measured in tens of petabytes per year that can only be processed
and analyzed by globally distributed computing resources. Experiments require
deterministic transport of 10–100 terabyte data sets, and a 100 terabyte data set
requires a throughput of 10 Gbps for delivery within 24 hours. Thus optical network
services will be crucial to this discipline where dedicated and guaranteed bandwidth
is required for periods of days.
Very-Long-Baseline ...