São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the two largest cities in the country, became connected at very high speeds with the activation of two 100 Gb/s circuits interconnecting the Points of Presence of the National Education and Research Network (RNP) in these states.

With a capacity up to 20 times greater than the previous one, this is the first high-performance interstate connection in the Southeast Region, since other regions of Brazil, such as the South, North and Northeast, already had connections at 100 Gb/s linking their states. 

“Imagine that there is a research project at UFRGS that needs to transfer data to a laboratory at UFF. This transfer can take place through circuits between these two states, all of them with a capacity of 100 Gb/s, which tends to make this transfer faster”, explains the deputy director of Engineering and Operations at RNP, Ari Frazão Júnior. 

For RNP, the very high performance connection benefits institutions throughout Brazil that need to communicate with institutions present in these states in the Southeast region. To cite one example, the connection for the use of the Santos Dumont supercomputer, which is housed at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), in Petrópolis (RJ).

In a next step, through the e-Ciber project, of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), RNP will be able to connect some of the main research institutions in the country, such as the Research, Development and Innovation Center Leopoldo Américo Miguez de Mello (Cenpes), in Rio, the National Laboratory of Synchrotron Light, in Campinas, and the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) at very high speed for collaboration activities.

“What we have today is a superhighway that was built between these two states, where we have the guarantee that the traffic that reaches it will be drained without encountering any retention. What we need to improve now are the roads that reach this superhighway, so that it can be better used”, explains RNP's deputy director.