1 TEIN2-VN: Vietnam participation in TEIN2 Tran Ba Thai TEIN2-VN TETF Taipei, 2005/Aug/27

2 Some legal steps by VN gov 2004/Apr. Education Minister signs LOI to DANTE 2004/Oct. ASEM-VN secretariate sends formal letter to VN gov and relevant ministeries on joining TEIN2 2004/Dec. VN gov gives green light to join and assigns MOST (Ministry of Science & Technology) as country co-ordinator for TEIN2 2005/Jan. MOST sends LOI and financial contribution to DANTE 2005/May. MOST sets up TEIN2-VN TETF

3 VN Tech Task Force – VN TETF VN-TETF is composed of Technical taffs of:  HUT (Hanoi University of Technology), Ministry of Education & Training  IOIT (Institute of Information Technology), Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology Drafting TEIN2-VN NOC project (for ) Assisting MOST to draft TEIN2-VN project (for 2006 and beyond) Assisting MOST in negociation of Hanoi – HK link with local telcos

4 Current status Context: telecom market has been open for local telcos. There is a chance to have similar price as in the region MOST:  Okey with TEIN2 topology to VN, but 155Mbps to HK is prefered Negociating with local telcos (Viettel, VNPT, VPT) for special price for R&E refering to regional price (TH - SG: 812K Euro for 155Mbps/year) Asking Ministry of Post & Telematics (MPT) to have official approval for the special price Letter of Commitment (LOC) shall be sent when negociations are finished (hopefully, early September)  Drafting TEIN2-VN project for the next financial year, 2006 VN-TETF: Trying best to have a “mini” VN-NOC ready by 2005/Dec at the Hanoi University of Technology

5 Current status: AI3-SOI Satellite-based: birectional and unidirectional Vietnam partner: Institute of Information Technology

6 Next phase: Vietnam (VinaREN) in TEIN2

7 VinaREN backbone Mid 2006:  To be set up officially  To join APAN

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10 Planning Phase 1A: -> 2005/Dec. setting up HK-NOC and VN -NOC/Hanoi University (HUT) link with 45/155Mbps Phase 1B: -> 2006/Jun.  Lauching VinaREN  setting up links NOC/HUT to Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST), Ministry of Education & Traing (MOET) Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology (VAST) Vietnam National University (VNU)

11 Planning Phase 2B:  -> 2006/Dec. Setting up VinaREN backbone Hanoi/North – Danang/Central – HochiminhCity/South  ->2007/Jun. expending to 3-8 universities per region Phase 3A: -> 2007/Dec.  expending to 50 universities and research institutes  Upgrading int’l bandwidth accoding to TEIN2 planning Phase 3B: 2008 and beyond: sustainable development of VinaREN

12 Conclusion Setting up VinaREN, joining TEIN2, APAN shall be a substantial step for R&E community in VN We hope for a new “era”

13 Thank you!

14 LOIs of VN sent to DANTE