Internet2 Virtual Briefing International Collaborations 17 July 2002 Powered by the Internet2 Commons Internet2 International Partnerships

Internet2 International Goals Ensure global interoperability of the next generation of Internet technologies and applications Enable global collaboration in research and education providing/promoting the development of an advanced networking environment internationally

International Partners Build effective partnerships in other countries With organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding

MoU in brief Provide/promote interconnectivity between communities Collaborate on technology development and deployment Facilitate collaboration between members on applications Encourage technology transfer

Asia-Pacific AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) APRU (Asia-Pacific) CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NECTEC / UNINET (Thailand) SingAREN (Singapore) TAnet2 (Taiwan) International MoU Partners Americas CANARIE (Canada) CRNET (Costa Rica) CUDI (Mexico) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP2/ANSP (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama) Europe-Middle East ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) POL-34 (Poland) RCST (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom)

Networks reachable via Abilene – by country Europe-Middle East Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Cyprus Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Asia-Pacific Australia China Hong Kong Japan Korea Singapore Taiwan Thailand Americas Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Mexico United States Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom *CERN More information about reachable networks at Also, see

Sacrament o Los Angeles Washington STAR TAP/Star Light APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERN, CERnet, FASTnet, GEMnet, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, RENATER, SURFnet, SingAREN, TAnet2 NYCM BELNET, CA*net3, HEANET, JANET, NORDUnet, GEANT* Pacific Wave AARNET, APAN/TransPAC, CA*net3, TANET2 SNVA GEMNET, SINET, SingAREN, WIDE LOSA UNINET AMPATH REUNA, RNP2 RETINA, ANSP OC3-OC12 El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso) CUDI San Diego (CALREN2) CUDI * ARNES, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS 16 November 2001 How? STAR TAP, Abilene, CA*net ITN

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ARENA ARENA (funded in part by NSF) Interactive atlas: –Links to research and education networks –NOC and technical contact information –Who connects to which network –Which networks are connected together (peer) –Pathfinder tool draws a path and shows bandwidth from one institution to another Major efforts underway to complete project and provide useful tools Major issues: scalability and maintenance Distributed database of databases?

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Asia to US connectivity (June 2002) CountryNetworkBW(mbps)Interconnect APAN/USTransPAC622Tokyo to P. Wave (NSF funded)622Tokyo to Star Light AustraliaAARNET310Pacific Wave ChinaCERNET10?STAR TAP KoreaKOREN/KREONET245STAR TAP JapanSINET155Abilene, Sunnyvale JapanWIDE (ipv6 only)155Abilene, Sunnyvale JapanGEMNET33Ab/Sunny. – STAR TAP SingaporeSingAREN27STAR TAP, Sunnyv. TaiwanTANET2155Pacific Wave ThailandUNINET10?Abilene, LA

Pacific Wave Project of the Pacific NorthWest Gigapop 2 gigE switches in telco hotel (Westin Building) in Seattle Interconnecting AARNET, Abilene, CA*net3, DREN, ESNET, TANET2, TransPAC (in part, funded by NSF) others

APAN APAN is Asian partner on TransPAC link APAN network made up of country-owned p2p links contributed to APAN

TransPAC Connections APAN to US OC-12 POS Seattle (Pacific Wave) to Tokyo OC-12 ATM Chicago (StarLight) to Tokyo Together Gbps Tokyo to the US

AARNET u/ 155mbps Plan to run unprotected and utilize double bandwidth Connects at Pacific Wave Supports academic and research community in Australia Source: George McLaughlin, AARNET

CERNET 10mbps connection to STAR TAP 10mbps to Japan (APAN) Within China: 16x2.5G DWDM system (two lambda’s are currently running) OC48 POS links to 8 cities OC3 POS SDH links to all provincial capitals (except Lhasa) unicast and multicast Source: Xing Li, CERNET

KOREN/KREONET2 Sharing 45mbps link across Pacific to STAR TAP KREONET2 is led by KISTI and funded by Ministry of Sci & Tech KOREN is funded by Ministry of Info and Comm and operated by Korea Telecom

SINET SINET national backbone network for higher education SuperSINET for research projects (~14 versus 300 SINET universities) 10gbps backbone in Japan 155mbps Abilene in Sunnyvale SuperSINET Sites ● ● ● ●● ● ● ●● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●● ●● ●● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●● ● ● ● ● ● Jan Oct Oct ● ●

WIDE IPv6 Connection First international, native IPv6 connection 45mbps Tokyo to Sunnyvale Connects to Abilene IPv6 router in Sunnyvale DV over IP applications development –Fujitsu at University of Maryland

GEMNET NTT Labs-owned and operated network Connects NTT Research Labs in Japan Plus several radio telescope installations Plus U. Kyoto and U. Tokyo 2.4Gb/s circuits 33mbps connection to US, of which 10mb PVC to Abilene, also to STAR TAP National Astronomical Observatory Kashima Space Research Center (CRL) KSP Miura Station (CRL) NTT Musashino R&D Center KSP Tateyama Station (CRL) Communications Research Laboratory KSP Koganei Station KSP Kashima Station Radio Frequency Signals from Space 2.4Gb/s ATM Network Usuda Deep Space Center (ISAS) Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NAO)

SingAREN Currently 27mbps across Pacific Peers with Abilene in Sunnyvale 45mbps PVC to STAR TAP/AADS switch

TANET2 Recently upgraded to 90Mbps connection to Pacific Wave, Seattle Connects select few, high-end research institutions in Taiwan Peers with several nets at Pacific Wave

UNINNET Funded by Ministry of University Affairs in Thailand Connects most universities in Thailand Via 155mbps links Currently has 10mbps PVC to Los Angeles Peers with Abilene in L.A. Other major net in Thailand is run by NECTEC (Ministry of Science & Tech funding)

Asia-Pacific what’s coming up? CJK Hub Genkai project – GbE between Japan and Korea Korea – China link? TEIN Europe to Asia link 10mbps RENATER managing, E. Commission interested in taking on broad European context

250 ㎞ Korea Seoul GbE Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan KJCN (Korea-Japan Cable Network) –Starting in –12 fiber pairs with no relays –Starting from 50Gbps  2.88Terabit (current traffic volume between KR and JP : about 500Mbps) Busan By Koji Okamura Genkai/Hyunhae

Europe to US connectivity (June 2002) CountryNetworkBW(mbps)Interconnect CERN coming Star Light/710 NLSD FranceRENATER45STAR TAP/AADS IrelandHEANET465NYC/STAR TAP NetherlandsSURFnet1244+Star Light Nordic Countries NORDUnet622?NYC/Star Light U.K.JANET2500?NYC RussiaNaukanet (nee MIRnet) (NSF funded) 155?STAR TAP EuropeGEANT coming NYC

Europe highlights TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Network Association) Membership association of National Research Networks (NRNs) No network, but technology and applications working groups

Europe highlights Middleware Development JISC work in U.K. TERENA working groups CERN experiments Medical Applications NIH and Ireland Shared Classroom Penn and Grenoble Duke in Germany

Europe more highlights GEANT 31 countries connecting Now 3x2.5gbps across Atlantic Outreach to SE Europe (Balkans), Med. (+N. Africa), S. America CAESAR), Asia (TEIN) “Lambda” point to point links NetherLight in Amsterdam, to CERN, to Chicago

SURFnet 2x622mbps to StarLight (production) Lambda for research (2.5gbps) StarLight counterpart in Amsterdam Source: Erik-Jan Bos

CERN April 2002: OC12 to StarLight Summer 2002: DataTag OC48 (2.4gbps) to StarLight TEN-155 ATM CERN CERN PoP Chicago STARTAP CIXP STM-1 POS ESNET KPNQWEST T3 (21 Mb) STM-1 ATM T3 ATM CERN - North America, today Source: Paolo Moroni, CERN

HEANET Serves the Irish universities Using 2 of several OC3 (155mbps) links to peer in NYC Upgrading backbone to 155mbps

NORDUnet Connects together networks of Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden Upgraded from 310 to 622 (plus 155 to StarLight (production)) Providing transit to RUNNET (Russia), EENET (Estonia), UARNET (Ukraine) and NASK (Warsaw, Poland)

JANET 2.5gbps backbone in UK Connects MANs – connecting universities Supporting UK gov’t funded e- Science projects Utilizing GEANT connection to peer with Abilene

Global Terabit Research Network GTRN AS DANTE-provided router in NYC DANTE-provided 2.5gbps links across Atlantic Abilene tunnel TransPAC (in part funded by NSF) router in Seattle (Router at StarLight)

GTRN More coordinated, cooperative, integrated management of global infrastructure Lessons already learned between Abilene and GEANT engineering, operations teams Philosophy: rough consensus and operating links – use what’s on the ground now Need Asia, South America other parts of world Motivating some ‘continental’ consolidation?

Americas Connectivity (June 2002) CountryNetworkBW(mbps)Interconnect CanadaCA*net3465+S.T., Pacific Wave, NYC MexicoRED-CUDI255Tijuana-San Diego (CALREN2), Juarez/El Paso ChileREUNA45AmPATH BrazilRNP245AmPATH ANSP45AmPATH ArgentinaRETINA245AmPATH Gemini/NOAO(funding from NSF)10SFGP Puerto Rico (Arecibo Observatory) To Abilene-U.S. (funding from NSF) 45SFGP

Americas highlights CLARA Comunidad Latino Americana de Redes Academicas Chile, Argentina, Brazil leading interconnections Driven by opportunity to participate in GTRN, European interest European project –CAESAR study

Americas highlights Remote instruments Telescopes in Chile Cosmic ray observatory (P. Auger) in Argentina Earth-observation, environmental, biotechnology apps Panama, Costa Rica Discussions in progress: Ecuador, Uruguay, Colombia, Cuba

AmPATH Florida International University leads Potential to connect 10 countries at 45mbps each Peering through Miami (collocated with SFGP) Now has some NSF funding for workshops

Mexico Connecting 41 universities in México; expected 80 Connecting to U.S.: - via Tijuana – San Diego (with transit from CALREN2 to Abilene) at 155mbps -100mbps between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso -“Convenios internacionales” with CANARIE, Internet2/UCAID, CENIC, REUNA, RETINA

Brazil Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP Connecting ~27 Brazilian states at 155 Mbps. RNP2 – AmPATH via DS-3

Brazil ANSP: Academic Network at Sao Paulo AmPATH via 45Mbps

Argentina Red Teleinformática Académica Red RETINA: Connecting ~25 institutions Retina2: via AMPATH

Chile Red Universitaria Nacional – REUNA 10 POP’s from Arica to Valdivia 155 Mbps ATM/SDH Network Centrally operated from Santiago Basic Internet and Internet2 services REUNA3: Gigabit Backbone Project Iquique Antofagasta Copiapó La Serena Valparaíso Santiago Talca Concepción Temuco Valdivia Geographical Distribution of REUNA2 POP’s

National Research Network - CRNet Costa Rica Internet2 connectivity possibly through Los Arcos

Africa highlights No dedicated R&E network connectivity from African continent to Internet2-type networks currently European Commission funding connections from northern Africa to GEANT (European network)- EUMEDCONNECT

EUMEDCONNECT Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian authority, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey Egypt: Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) Morocco: Maroc Wide Area Network (MARWAN)

Other university networks, research links South Africa: Tertiary Education Network (TENET) National Institutes of Health MIMcom project Satellite connectivity to malaria research sites in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania