1. APAN-JP Updates - Proposal of CIREN for NSF's IRNC Solicitation -
July 6, 2004
Kazunori Konishi
July 4, 2004
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2. What is CIREN?
CIREN:　Consortium of International Research and Education Networks
Most of the Research & Education Networks have joined this proposal, for expanding the global collaborations.
Principal Investigator Michael McRobbie (Indiana Univ.)
Co-PI Doug Van Houweling (Internet2)
Dai Davies (DANTE)
Shigeki Goto (APAN)
Nelson Simoes da Silva (CLARA)
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3. Requirements & Commitment
1. Support of R&E Community: Major Networks have joined this proposal.
2. Network Topology: US – Tokyo - HK
Busan SG – (IN)
3. Network R&D: NOC Collaborations, HOPI(Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure), Measurement Infrastructure, E2E Performance, Security Center, etc.
4. Support of NSF’s CyberInfrastructure: Global deployment of HENP, VLBI, NCMIR, TeraGrid, etc.
5. Extension to other region: Connection to India will be studied.
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4. New TransPAC links Cisco ONS Router Carrier ADM TransLIGHT Tokyo XP
+ML x 4
+OC192IR x 1
+XC-10G x 2
TransLIGHT
10GigE
Cisco ONS15454
+ML x 4
+OC192IR x 1
+XC-10G x 2
SL Switch
Tokyo XP
SONET
STS12c x 16
Unprotected
CHIN
SONET
STS12c x 16
Abilene
Pro8812+
OC192 POS
Lambda
LOSA
SONET STS192c
Tyco Shinagawa
Tyco LA?
Carrier-LA
SONET STS192c
Protected
NICT will get:
- 10Gbps single or low-priority SONET ring circuit ( SONET STS12c X 16 ) from Carrier-LA to StarLight.
- a single International circuit with the same SONET framing from Tokyo XP to Carrier-LA.
IU will surely secure the grant extension of 9 months for HPIIS, IU will get
- 10Gbps high-priority SONET ring circuit ( SONET STS192c ) from Carrier-LA to Abilene-LA.
- the other single International circuit of the same SONET framing from Tokyo XP to Carrier-LA.
IU will synchronize the purchase of the circuits with NICT:
- the same carrier should be selected
- the new contract will start at
- the terminating date of IU is
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5. Links between JP and South East Asia
Two links are envisaged:
1. JP-SG link: 155Mbps in 2005
is proposed to NSF by CIREN
2. JP- TH link: 2Mbps -> 45Mbps in 2004
is being studied by NII.
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6. Joint Research Projects
The following projects are expected for Korea to join the projects:
NOC Collaborations: Global CIREN NOC
HOPI
Measurement Infrastructure: Observatory
E2E Performance: piPEs
Security: virtual Security Operation Center
CyberInfrastructure: HENP, VLBI, NCMIR, TeraGrid
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7. HOPI GLIF agrees Hybrid approach is promising! July 4, 2004
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8. Observatory
Backbone Network Measurement will be jointly executed by Researchers as well as NOC:
Throughput, Latency, Routing, Netflow, Usage, Router, Syslog
Data collected by NOC will be provided to the authorized network researchers or students, for encouraging the network research activities: Advanced NOC service
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9. End-to-end Performance
E2E performance can be executed by the joint efforts of network researchers and e-Science/Application researchers, ex. eVLBI.
This project is critical for the development of APAN. Tokyo-LA link Usage is shown below:
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10. Security
Security researchers will work closely with NOC for stabilizing the networks.
NOC will provide Netflow data to the authorized researchers for encouraging the security researches over the real networks.
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11. CyberInfrastructure
e-Science Projects such as HENP, VLBI, NCMIR, and TeraGrid will be initiated by the network researchers to show the availability or dependability of the networks.
e-Science or application researchers will carefully evaluate the networks, and will adopt the networks later on.
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12. Issues of CyberInfrastructure
e-Science researchers require the huge bandwidth, but they don’t know how to make full use of the networks.
APAN NOC folks are working for the backbone, and it is not easy to help the end-to-end services; it is critical for e-Science projects to hire the network experts to kick off their projects.
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13. Thank you!
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