1. 2nd Asia Tier Centre Forum Summary report 4th April 2017 edoardo
2nd Asia Tier Centre Forum Summary report 4th April 2017

2. ATCF2 Numbers - Hosted at Suranaree University of Technology, TH
- 2,5 days
- 20 participants + 3 remote speakers
- 11 institutions: KISTI and Konkuk univ. (KR), SUT and UniNet (TH), Hiroshima Univ (JP), Indonesia Inst. of Science (ID), COMSATS (PK), CCNU (CN), TEIN (Asia), GEANT (EU), CERN (CH)

3. Participants

4. Reports

5. Reports from WLCG Sites
Thailand
Connected to LHCONE via TEIN at 622Mbps
Indonesia
- No LHCONE yet, network uplink 200Mbps
Pakistan
- No LHCONE yet, network uplink 54Mbps

6. Reports from WLCG Sites
Japan
- LHCONE by SINET, peering with ESnet at 10Gbps and GEANT at 20Gbps
China
- No LHCONE yet

7. Reports from WLCG Sites
Korea
- LHCOPN 10G and LHCONE 10G by KREOnet and GLORIAD-KR

8. Reports from Network Providers
TEIN (Asia)
- LHCOPN VRF implemented in the backbone
- Peering with GEANT
- Connected VRFs: Thailand
GLORIAD-KR (Korea)
- LHCOPN VRF implemented
- No peerings yet

9. Reports from Network Providers
UniNet (Thailand)
- implemented LHCONE VRF for SUT
GEANT (EU)
- LHCONE is expanding in Asia: SINET JP, TIFR IN, TEIN, Thairen and UniNet TH, ASGC TW

10. LHCONE implementation in Asia

11. Challenge 1: keep delay (RTT) low
Traffic between Asian countries must be routed within Asia (avoid transit to another continent or around the world)

12. Challenge 2: achieve full reachability
Full reachability to all LHCONE sites is not achieved today
KISTI
CNAF
MIT
KREONET
GARR
TEIN
Continental
VRFs
GEANT
Internet2 X

13. Possible solutions Low delay:
- Asian networks mesh their VRFs together, or
- Asian VRFs get interconnected by a regional backbone
Full reachability:
- full mesh of VRFs, or
- small VRFs get full transit from major VRFs

14. Status of LHCONE VRFs in Asia
ESnet
US AS293
ThaiREN
TH AS24475
CERNlight
CH AS20641
SINET
JP AS2907
ASGCNet
TW AS24167
TEIN
Asia AS24490
TEIN gives transit to reach GEANT
KREONET
KR AS17579
ERnet
IN AS2697
International
National
GEANT
EU AS20965
LHCONE peering in place
Only physical connection in place

15. Missing peerings ESnet ThaiREN CERNlight SINET ASGCNet TEIN KREONET
US AS293
ThaiREN
TH AS24475
CERNlight
CH AS20641
SINET
JP AS2907
ASGCNet
TW AS24167
TEIN
Asia AS24490
KREONET
KR AS17579
ERnet
IN AS2697
International
National
GEANT
EU AS20965
LHCONE peering in place
Missing LHCONE peering

16. Missing items
- TEIN VRF is not visible outside the GEANT domain (no transit through GEANT VRF)
- KREONET VRF not peering with anything yet
- ASGCnet VRF not connected to TEIN, KREONET, SINET yet. Planning to connect to APAN-JP
- SINET VRF not connected to any Asian VRF

17. Agreed TODO list Implement missing peerings
Start with peerings with TEIN
ATCF future
- discuss letter of agreement
- ATCF #3 may be hosted by KISTI KR, right before the next LHCONE meeting in Asia
- Involve more network operators

18. More information on ATCF2
Web site:
Agenda and presentations

19. After the forum

20. Latest events Contacted KEK for SINET connection to TEIN
- SINET will not give transit for the time being
- Peerings will be activated in Singapore first, then Hong Kong
- have to wait till June because the bandwidth in Singapore turned out to be just 1Gbps now
TEIN will peer with Korea and Taiwan, after TEIN routers in Singapore and Hong Kong will be upgraded in July-August 2017

21. LHCONE in China
- Two sites in China need LHCONE connectivity: IHEP (Beijing) and CCNU (Wuhan)
- CERnet and CSTnet have been asked to implement LHCONE VRFs and peer with other VRFs in Beijing and Hong Kong (TEIN, ASGCnet)

22. Upcoming peerings ESnet ThaiREN CERNlight SINET ASGCNet TEIN KREONET
US AS293
ThaiREN
TH AS24475
CERNlight
CH AS20641
SINET
JP AS2907
ASGCNet
TW AS24167
TEIN
Asia AS24490
KREONET
KR AS17579
CERNet
CSTNet
China
International
ERnet
IN AS2697
National
GEANT
EU AS20965
LHCONE peering in place
Missing LHCONE peering
Upcoming LHCONE peering

23. Questions