1. ORIENTplus: The super highway for R&E collaboration between Europe and China
Erik-Jan Bos (NORDUnet)
TNC2013 – Maastricht, The Netherlands – June 5, 2013

2. Contents History ORIENTplus Project Updated status Use case examples
Future plans

3. History
ORIENT: 2007 – 2010
IP routed link between Copenhagen and Beijing
Speed: 2.5 Gbit/s

4. ORIENTplus, an Introduction
Time period: 2011 – 2014
Partners:
China: CERNET and CSTNET
Europe: European NRENs and DANTE (coord)
Budget: 4 million euro
Sponsored by the European Commission, Chinese Government and the partner European NRENs
Aims:
To continue a direct link between China and Europe for R&E, and increase its speed
To stimulate further development of services
To promote the use of the services

5. Partner list of ORIENT/ORIENTplus
CERNET, CN
CSTNET, CN
DANTE (coordinator)
CESNET, CZECH Repbulic
CESNET
DFN VEREIN, GERMANY
DFN
GARR, ITALY
GARR
GRNET, GREECE
GRNET
JANET, UK
Janet
RENATER, FRANCE
RENATER
NORDUnet
PIONIER/PSNC
E-ARENA
UIIP NASB 5

6. ORIENTplus Link Planning
Timeline for the Link:
2011: Copenhagen-Beijing at 2.5G (CERNET, supplied by TeliaSonera)
2012: London-Beijing at 2.5G (CSTNET, supplied by China Unicom as result of tender)
2013&2014: London-Beijing at 10G (EU partners, supplied by China Unicom as result of tender)

7. ORIENTplus, start
ORIENTplus started as a continuation from the ORIENT project

8. ORIENTplus, the move to 10G
10 Gbit/s milestone reached on January 2nd, 2013
A 10G lambda between London and Beijing

9. CERNET: biggest NREN in China
Fibre network backbone 100G(40λ) DWDM
Core IP network backbone 100G
31 provinces and over 200 cities
38 PoPs
Over 2000 universities and institutes
30M users . 9

10. CSTNET: S&T Network in China
Backbone 10G
12 sub centers
Over 20 provinces
Over 100 research institutes
Over 1M end users 10

11. CNGI-CERNET2 IPv6 Backbone
Backbone 10G to 40G/100G
25 PoPs in 20 cities
Over 260 IPv6
access
networks,
most of them
/48 IPv6
addresses
2M end users 11

12. Schematic of the 10 Gbit/s link engineering
ORIENTplus, a more technical view
Schematic of the 10 Gbit/s link engineering

13. MRTG view on the link on January 2, 2013
Moving to the new link
New 10G link delivered in December 2012 as planned, by China Unicom
Traffic cut over from old 2.5G link to new 10G link happened on January 2, 2013 as planned
MRTG view on the link on January 2, 2013

14. CNGI-6IX in Beijing
CNGI-6IX schematic in Beijing, China

15. London OLE schematic in London, UK
London OLE, part of GÉANT Open
London OLE schematic in London, UK
Part of GEANT Open

16. Back-up for ORIENTplus
Distance London – Beijing: 8250 km (ATCF)
IP backup for ORIENTplus link through:
10G Internet2/NSF link Beijing – Los Angeles
Internet2's routed IP network
ACE Project's multi-10G North Atlantic lambdas
ORIENTplus is also backup for Beijing-Los Angeles, as a mutual backup
Thus, creating a multi-G IP routed infrastructure for R&E across the Northern Hemishpere

17. Link Usage (1)
Over 25 substantial scientific and educational collaborative projects and programmes are using the ORIENT/ORIENTplus route:
CERN Collaboration: LHC project (IHEP- IN2P3), South East University with CERN
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory – JIVE
INFN-ARGO YBJ
EMBnet
EUChinaGrid
GEONETCast- EUMETSAT
1000 Genomes Project 17

18. Link Usage (2) INWA-GRID CEOP-AEGIS and DRAGON2
Shanghai Jiao Tong University – University of Essex
Bridge-Grid
ITER - the global fusion energy programme
Global atmospheric research, remote robotic experiments, etc. 18

19. Future Plans
Further develop shared operations of the link between CNGI-6IX NOC and GEANT NOC
Deployment of tools and services for R&E such as:
PerfSONAR
eduroam
Dynamic point to point links, using the Open Grid Forum's NSI Architecture
Stimulating the use of the link

20. ORIENTplus: An opportunity for your users
High-speed Routed IP and Point-to-Point links between Europe and China available for Research and Education
You can...
Help us promote the usage of the link in your PR material
Inform the users you talk to about ORIENTplus
Feedback any opportunity for ORIENTplus back to the Project partners

21. More information on ORIENTplus:
Thank you! Questions?
More information on ORIENTplus:
Speaker's contact details:
Erik-Jan Bos
Acknowledgements:
European Commission
Chinese Government
CERNET: Jennifer An and Zhonghui Li
CSTNET: Jiangning and Yongzheng Ma
Various European NREN staff
DANTE and GEANT NOC