Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration1 Activities with Kazakhstan Peter T. Kirstein Department of Computer Science UCL

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration2 The Silk Project Under NATO Science for Peace Programme I chaired Network Panel 2001 –Started Silk Project in 2000 –Went live Oct 2002 Provides Internet connectivity to whole region Supplemented by Network Infrastructure grants Main Kazakh colleague Prof Boris Japarov, General Director of KazRENA

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration3 Location of Remote Silk Nodes X X X X X X X X X

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration4 Configuration of Silk until 2008

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration5 Silk Parameters Political Decision of initially same bandwidth for all, one node per country Technical need to go by satellite at the time Connects NRENs internationally NATO helped fund national connectivity via Network Infrastructure Grants Initially supposed to be 6/24 Mbps for region Silk-2 supposed to be 30/120 Mbps –Failure of satellite reduced this to about 20/80 Mbps

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration6 Development of Silk Initially connectivity from NATO, management from EC, Equipment partially Cisco In 2008 moved all Caucasus to fibre –March 2009 new EC BSI will take all their traffic Moved KG to fibre end 2009 (6/6 Mbps), and will move KZ 1/3/09 (15/15 Mbps) Intend to keep operational to 6/10 help transition to EC-funced CAREN, which will start in early 2010 – hopefully with 155 Mbps for KZ

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration7 National Connectivity NATO provided NIGs to help national build of NRENs Boris wanted this by satellite –Fibre was prohibitively expensive Provided funds for 7-9 sites, but satellite solution turned out to be difficult Boris persuaded KazakhTelecom to give more reasonable tariffs, and uses fibre

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration8 KAZRENA INTERNET TRAFFIC DEMAND # SOURCE FEBRUARY 2009, Mbps DECEMBER 2009, Mbps JUNE 2010, Mbps JUNE 2011, Mbps 1 “SILK” PROJECT JSC “TRANSTELECOM” JSC “KAZAKTELECOM” LLC “INTELSOFT” “CAREN” PROJECT TOTAL

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration9 Tools for Collaboration To manage Silk, set up Exco and Silk Board –SB physical meeting in silk countries 2-3 per year –Exco has weekly TC (Boris represents CA) –Have monthly VCs To help this have set up VoIP and videoconferencing facilities in each country

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration10 CERT, VoIP and Conferencing Under NIG, set up Computer Emergency Response Team in each Silk site (CERT) Initial pure managerial use of VoIP was extended under EC OCCASION plus NATO NIG, RUG donation, Cisco discount to provide ~150 terminals –50 have been provided to KZ for mainly use domestically amongst administrators Have provided switches in DESY and UCL that can be used; KZ uses own also Coul extend this area if of interest UCL could provide technical assistance

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration11 MAIN KZ GROWTH INDICATORS SEPTEMBER 2003 OCTOBER 2005 FEBRUARY 2009 NUMBER OF CITIES119 NUMBER OF USERS: ORGANIZATIONS USERS (PEOPLE) TRAFFIC 1,256 Mbps 2,5 Mbps43 Mbps

Feb 26, 2009Presentation on KZ collaboration12 Conclusions In the network field UCL already has been running a programme which involves KZ It has included Internet connectivity, training and collaboration tools –Though most UCL activity has been managerial, with funding and manpower from others The KZ needs are growing rapidly UCL could assist technically In managing this growth