1. Global Cooperation, the IRNC and TransPAC2
James Williams
Indiana University
TransPAC2 Principal Investigator

2. Topics to be discussed The NSF IRNC awards
TransPAC2 goals and objectives
TransPAC2 partnerships

3. The NSF International Research Network Connections Program (IRNC)
Follow-on to the HPIIS program
5 year, $5million/yr NSF-funded effort
5 awards made (about $1M each/yr)

4. IRNC goals
Deploy networking to support production science between the US researchers and global collaborators
Deploy some fundamental infrastructure and services required by scientists now and in the future (e2e tools; security; AAI; HOPI)
Coordinate project efforts globally

5. IRNC awards TransPAC2 – connection between US and Asia
GLORIAD2 – connection between US and Russia/China
TransPAC2 and GLORIAD2 will connect in Hong Kong providing Asian connectivity to Russia and possibly Europe
EuroLink2 – connection between US and Europe (NYC and Geant2)
AMPATH2 – connection between US west coast, Latin America and Miami
PWave2 – connection between US (Seattle), US (Hawaii) and Australia
TransPAC2 and PWave will connect in Los Angeles.

6. The TransPAC2 Project
Funded by the US National Science Foundation (SCI )
US partners are Indiana University and Internet2
Asian partner is APAN
About $1M/year in funding for 5 years
Encourages scientific collaboration between researchers in Asia and the US

7. TransPAC2 Architecture
Continue high-performance connectivity across the Pacific Ocean [OC-192 connection between US and Tokyo]
Enhance connectivity by assisting in the development of an inter-Asia backbone [Tokyo-Hong Kong-Singapore] or beyond

8. TransPAC2 Architecture(2)

9. Network Design Plan of TransPAC2 as of end March
CERNET(CH)
CSTNET(CH)
APAN-KR
10G/OC192
ASTI(PH) 1G
Chicago
6M ~ OC3
TransPAC
Procket
StarLIGHT
Hawaii
Genlai XP
Japanese
Organization
APAN-TW
AI3
JGN2
JGN2 OC-192c
PacWave LA
ONS
Seattle
TokyoXP
TPPR
TPR4
Procket
MS6
BI15K
PacWave LA
Abilene
TPR2 LA MS
Hitachi
10G SW
TPR5
Juniper
T640
TransPAC2 OC-192c
TPR3
TransPAC
T320
POS192SM-SR2
on E-FPC 3
MAN-LAN
Japanese
Organization
T-LEX
OC-192c
NECTEC(TH)
SINET

10. TransPAC2 Goals
Provide production networking to facilitate research cooperation between the US and Asia
Cooperation with Internet2 HOPI project
US-Asian cooperation on “lightpath” technologies will be crucial in future development
Initial assets will allow for MPLS and GMPLS-like experimentation, with future equipment possibly supporting layer 2 and layer 1 services
Security coordination
Measurement coordination
AAI development

11. TransPAC2 Current Status
TransPAC2 has received NSF funding (SCI )
James Williams – Indiana University –Principal Investigator
Douglas Van Houweling – Internet2 – Co-PI
APAN network owners are committed to the TransPAC2 effort.
Purchase of OC-192c services between US and Tokyo is in process
Purchase of US end equipment in process (Juniper router to be located in Los Angeles)
Now is the time to discuss international partnerships and network engineering. APAN is the right place. We have the opportunity to establish the network infrastructure required by the next generation of science.

12. Interesting networking observations
The “bandwidth problem” between the US and Asia has been solved! >60Gbps available as of 4/1/05.
The “access problem” within Asia continues. The Tien2 Project is one effort to address this problem.
The “north-south” problem within Asia continues.
Now we have to address the network service infrastructure and scientific collaboration problem.

13. TransPAC2 Partnerships (really global partnerships)
Primary IRCN goal: Facilitating global production research collaborations, including grid, climate, HEP and earthquake research activities
Infrastructure partnerships
We must extend both high-performance infrastructure and access to that infrastructure. The extension of TransPAC2 north-south in Asia is extremely important.
Operational partnerships
Operational cooperation between all countries is important (NOC operations, security incident reporting…);
Research and development partnerships
Collaborations between network researchers in Asia and the TransPAC2/Internet2 team are needed in areas like HOPI research; measurement activities; security cooperation; AAI activities and circuit allocation mechanisms

14. TransPAC2 Principal Investigator
James Williams
TransPAC2 Principal Investigator