1. 22 April 2004 Crystal Gateway Marriot Hotel – Salon B
Expanding the reach of advanced networking Special International Workshop
22 April 2004 Crystal Gateway Marriot Hotel – Salon B

2. Welcome! "Expanding the Reach of Advanced Networking“
April 22, 2004 – Salon B
Latest agenda and presentations are online at
Background on workshop
Objectives
A glimpse at global research and education networks
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3. Background on workshop
Since Fall 2002 Internet2 Member meetings: regular BoF on “getting to hard to reach areas of the world”
in countries and areas not reachable via dedicated research and education networks
with facilities within countries that may have some level of dedicated REN (research and education networking) connectivity but unconnected due to geographic or technical reasons.
Informal sharing on initiatives underway in various areas and what facilities, data, researchers and so on, that need to be reached
Case studies from the community
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4. Some initial ‘key’ themes
“hard to reach place”: what does it really mean?
Not just geographic remoteness but market/economics, technical, social and political
The role and importance of National Research and Education Networks [NRENs]
non-commercial and dedicated to serve research and education - often offer large network capacity and various advanced services not available generally
Research networks and their user communities form important environments that become sources of innovation.
Networks of networks (NRENs interconnecting): participation in international, world-leading broadband developments with particular applications to leading-edge education and research
Ø      geographic remoteness: places where communications infrastructure has not been built primarily because the place is remote and traditional user populations haven’t existed. For example, the mountains in northern Chile where several radio and optical observatories have been located (purposefully away from population centers)
Ø      market/economic issues: places where little underlying communications infrastructure is available (such as in several African countries) or for regulatory or economic reasons communication infrastructure is not affordable (such as India)
technical: places where communications infrastructure has traditionally not been provided because of technical difficulty; for example, the surface and floor of the ocean.
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5. Cont. role of NRENs – cont. Science, funding and aid agencies:
increasing role of expanding effective networking
NRENs can be a country’s national asset
Science, funding and aid agencies:
and you are? No or very little knowledge about NRENs and what it is that NRENs do or about programs
duplication, costs, lack of coordination
expressed interest in exploring actions or activities the group might undertake beyond simple information sharing on an ad hoc basis.
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6. Synergies between NRENs and aid and funding agencies
Global research and education networking community and key science, funding and aid agencies: How can get to know each other (and know about what we do)
Overviews of agencies information and communication technology ICT programmatic areas and related programs
The need for the global research and education community to also do outreach on what it is that what we do, what our members do and that illustrate real proof of concept instantiations,
show that there are things we could do together
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7. Goals for today get to know a bit about each other
to have a a forum to explore ways in which we may work together to address the challenges in extending the reach of Internet infrastructure and networks in support of research, education and knowledge sharing
what do you see as the gap areas – the needs? Before and after the workshop
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8. Steering Committee – many thanks!
Les Cottrell (SLAC)
Curtis White (Allied Communications)
Bob Dixon (Ohio State)
Heather Boyles (Internet2)
Peter Highnam (NIH)
Lori Perine (NSF)
Micah Beck (UT)
Mary Kratz (Internet2)
Steven Huter (NSRC, Univ. Oregon)
Art St George (Univ. New Mexico)
Dany Vandromme (RENATER)
George McLaughlin (AARNet)
Jim Williams (Indiana Univ)
sharon Moskwiak (Internet2)
Anil Srivastava, AcrossWorld
Ana Preston (Internet2)
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9. Expanding the reach of advanced networking
Highlights:
a keynote speech by Mohamed Muhsin, Vice-President and CIO of the World Bank
presentations on programs from several science, funding and aid agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Organization of American States, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development, USAID and other European and Australian agencies for international development.
presentations from members of the global research and education community that illustrate approaches for expanding network access to resource limited settings around the globe and how we may better work together to address needs and issues.
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10. Overview of global R&E networking
Ana Preston

11. Purpose
foci on advanced networks that support research and education communities and dedicated (not commercial) and that may peer (or not) with global R&E infrastructure
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12. Europe GEANT http://www.geant.net
30 countries connected
Consortium of 26 NRENs
Operated by DANTE
10 Gbps core backbone
Connectors at 10Gbps(9) and below
High-performance R&E networks
GEANT2 backbone in midst of new procurement
~September 2004 start
Mix of leased/owned transmission and bought telecom services
Several national networks building out owned/leased fiber (NL, CH, PL, CZ, SK)
Wavelength connections to NetherLight
Czech Rep., NordicLight, UKLight (coming soon), CERN (by SURFNET)
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13. Beyond Europe Additions to “Europe”
Russia
Already had 622Mbps through St. Petersburg to NORDUnet
GEANT consortium member proper
European-funded connectivity to other regions than Europe
SEEREN (southeastern Europe)
EUMEDCONNECT (Mediterranean)
ALICE (Latin America)
TEIN2 (Southeast Asia)
Support for NATO-led Virtual Silk Highway
Discussions with South Africa (SANREN emerging)
A must read is “Networks for Knowledge and Innovation” A Strategic study of European research and education networking – SERENATE report (Williams, Bonac, Butterworth, Davies, Jaume-Rajaonia, Mayer, Skouby, Vietsch)
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14. Europe – International connectivity
Outreach to:
SE Europe (Balkans) (SEEREN)
Med. (+N. Africa) (EUMEDCONNECT)
Asia (TEIN)
Central Asia/Caucasia (Virtual Silk Hgwy – NATO)
S. America
Report on present status of international connectivity in Europe and to other continents From SERENATE – Study into European Research and Education Networking As Targeted by eEurope,
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15. Asia-Oceania APAN: Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
APAN network made up of country-owned point2point links contributed to APAN
Most connect to APAN/Tokyo XP
No real shared regional “backbone” at this point
Cluster efforts (Northeast, Southeast, Oceania)
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16. Asia-Oceania future
Efforts to further firm up APAN organizaiton and to move toward regional clusters of interconnection
Outreach to South Asia
India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan
No current connectivity
Australia
SXTransport [2x10G] to Hawaii and US mainland
Eventually connect New Zealand (new NGI-NZ entity)
Fiji
A must read are the Mary O’Kane reports (see web program)
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17. APAN future North Cluster (CN, JP, KR, …) Russia Europe North America
Japan
Korea
Central Asia Net
USA
China
Taiwan
Hong Kong
South Asia Net
Thailand
Vietnam
Philippines
Malaysia
West Asia Net
In the horizon: south asia -- India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (U. Colombo through Ai2 project and LEARN project) , Bangladesh; Little current connectivity
July meeting to bring together NRNs or possible NRN members in region
Connectivity to APAN? To Europe? TBD
Sri Lanka
Singapore
Indonesia
Southeast Cluster
(MY, SG, TH,…)
Oceania Cluster
(AU,…)
Exchange Point
Access Point
Current status
2003 (plan)
Australia
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18. Americas United States: Canada: Internet2 – www.internet2.edu
Abilene backbone network
Emerging regional and national initiatives
unprecedented opportunities for our members
in support of member activities
Rick interconnections to the rest of the world
Canada:
CA*net national facility/backbone – CA*Net
Richly connected to United States, Asia and Europe
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19. Countries reachable via North American NRENs
Europe-Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Americas
Austria (ACOnet)
Belgium (BELNET)
Croatia (CARNet)
Czech Rep. (CESNET)
Cyprus (CYNET)
Denmark (Forskningsnettet)
Estonia (EENet)
Finland (Funet)
France (Renater)
Germany (G-WIN)
Greece (GRNET)
Hungary (HUNGARNET)
Iceland (RHnet)
Ireland (HEAnet)
Israel (IUCC)
Italy (GARR)
Latvia (LATNET)
Lithuania (LITNET)
Luxembourg (RESTENA)
Malta (Univ. Malta)
Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway (UNINETT)
Poland (POL34)
Portugal (RCTS2)
Qatar (Qatar FN)
Romania (RoEduNet) Russia (RBnet)
Slovakia (SANET)
Slovenia (ARNES)
Spain (RedIRIS)
Sweden (SUNET)
Switzerland (SWITCH)
United Kingdom
(JANET)
Turkey (ULAKBYM)
*CERN
Australia (AARNET)
China (CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET)
Hong Kong (HARNET)
Japan (SINET, WIDE, IMNET, JGN)
Korea (KOREN, KREONET2)
Singapore (SingAREN)
Philippines (PREGINET)
Taiwan (TANet2, ASNet)
Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN)
Argentina (RETINA)
Brazil (RNP2/ANSP)
Canada (CA*net)
Chile (REUNA)
Mexico (Red-CUDI)
United States
(Abilene, vBNS)
Venezuela
(REACCIUN-2)
More information at
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20. An asymmetric scenario
Interregional Internet Bandwidth
Source: Nelson Simoes, RNP
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21. Americas : Latin America
Established education and research networks:
With dedicated Internet2 connections: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela
Some with dedicated int’l connectivity: Costa Rica, Cuba, Uruguay
Education and research networks being re-established (present nat’l/int’l connectivity through commercial ISPs)
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, El Salvador
No education/research network (most connected to Internet via commercial ISPs):
Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Haiti, rest of Caribbean
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22. CLARA CLARA: Cooperacion Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas
Association of NRENs in LA open to all LA Countries
CLARA network:
CLARA network May 2004
Support from Europe – ALICE project
Interested in optimizing connections between North America and Latin America
Source: Michael Stanton, CLARA technical committee
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23. Other, Middle East and Africa
Middle East is mixed bag:
Israel (GEANT)
EUMEDCONNECT
Gulf States
Qatar links to New York
UAE, Oman interest
No dedicated R&E network connectivity to/from African continent
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24. Other Antarctica Non-Western Hemisphere centric
South Pole research station
Non-Western Hemisphere centric
TEIN2 project: Europe to Asia NREN connectivity
Russia – China connectivity being put in place
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25. Some conclusions NRENs important role
New NRENs in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean, Middle East
Regional (continental-scale) backbone growth
Continuum from commercial Internet access, to reliable-leading-edge (production) to experimental to network research facilitating networks
But locus of most effort on supporting the high-performance, leading-edge needs of high-end science and other high-end research, education, clinical needs
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26. Some generalizations
NREN organizations also do outreach, technology implementation and support for application development in various ways
and many positive things
BUT
large gaps exist regarding dedicated research and education networks
being “connected” to an NREN (or close to one) may not mean much
the end to end problem – performance monitoring to illustrate just this…
and many, many challenges remain…
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27. So… We are here to talk about some of these issues:
What do you think still think needs to be done?
what are the things we could do?
we need to hear from our invited speakers and guests
There is much to gain
THANK you!
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