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2. 03 October 2001 Internet2 International Connectivity Overview Heather Boyles Ana Preston Virtual Internet2 Member Meeting Heather Boyles Ana Preston Virtual Internet2 Member Meeting

3. 03 October 2001 Talk Outline Background Developments by Area Global Trends/developments Information Resources Q&A

4. 03 October 2001 Internet2 International Goals Ensure global interoperability of the next generation of Internet technologies and applications Enable global collaboration in research and education providing/promoting the development of an advanced networking environment internationally

5. 03 October 2001 International Partners Build effective partnerships in other countries With organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding

6. 03 October 2001 MoU in brief Interconnectivity Collaboration on technology development and deployment Facilitate members’ use/development of advanced applications Technology transfer

7. 03 October 2001 Internet2 International Partners October 2001

8. 03 October 2001 International MoU Partners (October 2001) AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CANARIE (Canada) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (China) CUDI (Mexico) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NECTEC/UNINET (Thailand) NORDUnet (Nordic countries) POL-34 (Poland) RCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) RETINA (Argentina) REUNA (Chile) RNP2 (Brazil) SingAREN (Singapore) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TAnet2 (Taiwan) TERENA (Europe) JISC/UKERNA (UK)

9. 03 October 2001 Developments by Region

10. 03 October 2001 Asia-Pacific http://www.apan.net Several point to point connections Some regional interconnections Bandwidth increasing, but not as fast as Atlantic North American west coast connection points

11. 03 October 2001 Asia to US connectivity (September 2001) CountryNetworkBW(mbps)Interconnect APAN/USTransPAC155STAR TAP AustraliaAARNET310Pacific Wave ChinaCERNET10STAR TAP KoreaKOREN/KREONET245STAR TAP JapanSINET40Abilene, LA JapanWIDE45Abilene, SNVA JapanGEMNET45Abilene, SNVA SingaporeSingAREN27S.T./SNVA TaiwanTANET245STAR TAP ThailandUNINET10Abilene, LA

12. 03 October 2001 TransPAC http://www.transpac.org From 155mbps to… OC-12 POS Seattle (Pacific Wave) to Tokyo OC-12 ATM Chicago (StarLight) to Tokyo Together 1.244 Gbps Tokyo to the US

13. 03 October 2001 WIDE IPv6 Connection http://www.wide.ad.jp/ First international, native IPv6 connection 45mbps Tokyo to Sunnyvale Connects to Abilene IPv6 router in Sunnyvale DV over IP applications development –Fujitsu at University of Maryland

14. 03 October 2001 AARNET http://www.aarnet.edu.au/ 155mbps Connects at Pacific Wave Supports academic and research community in Australia Source: George McLaughlin, AARNET

15. 03 October 2001 Pacific Wave http://www.pacificwave.net/ Project of the Pacific NorthWest Gigapop 2 gigE switches in telco hotel Interconnecting AARNET, Abilene, CA*net3, DREN, ESNET, TANET2

16. 03 October 2001 Europe http://www.terena.nl/ Intra-European backbone network European backbone connection to the U.S. Several individual country connections to the U.S. Connections to the Middle East, North Africa, Asia

17. 03 October 2001 Europe to US connectivity (September 2001) CountryNetworkBW(mbps)Interconnect BelgiumBELNET155Abilene, NYC CERN 155STAR TAP FranceRENATER45STAR TAP IrelandHEANET310Abilene, NYC/S.T. IsraelIUCC45STAR TAP NetherlandsSURFnet1244Star Light Nordic Countries NORDUnet622Abilene, NYC/S.T. U.K.JANET622Abilene, NYC RussiaMIRnet6STAR TAP EuropeTEN-155/Geant752Abilene, NYC

18. 03 October 2001 SURFnet http://www.surfnet.nl/ 2x622mbps to StarLight (production) Lambda for research (2.5gbps) StarLight counterpart in Amsterdam Source: Erik-Jan Bos

19. 03 October 2001 CERN http://www.cern.ch Current link is 155mbps Move to 2 unprotected OC3 links in November April 2002: OC12 Summer 2002: DataTag OC48 (2.4gbps) to StarLight TEN-155 ATM CERN CERN PoP Chicago STARTAP CIXP STM-1 POS ESNET KPNQWEST T3 (21 Mb) STM-1 ATM T3 ATM CERN - North America, today Source: Paolo Moroni, CERN

20. 03 October 2001 HEANET http://www.heanet.ie Serves the Irish universities Using 2 of several OC3 (155mbps) links to peer in NYC Upgrading backbone to 155mbps

21. 03 October 2001 NORDUnet http://www.nordu.net/ Connects together networks of Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden Upgraded from 310 to 622 (plus 155 to StarLight (production)) Providing transit to RUNNET (Russia), EENET (Estonia), UARNET (Ukraine) and NASK (Warsaw, Poland)

22. 03 October 2001 GEANT http://www.dante.org.uk Consortium of NRNs in Europe (x#) 10gbps European backbone NRN access at 2.5gbps 2x2.5gbps across Atlantic Interconnecting in NYC

23. 03 October 2001 What’s going on in New York City? Currently point to point connections mostly among ~3 telco hotels in Manhattan Most TransAtlantic cables land here Need mutlilateral peering Colo space needed

24. 03 October 2001 Americas Canada, U.S. and Mexico connected at multiple points South America coming on line with AmPATH and some individual connections Central America still not connected

25. 03 October 2001 Americas Connectivity (September 2001) CountryNetworkBW(mbps)Interconnect CanadaCA*net31.310S.T., Pacific Wave, NYC MexicoRED-CUDI255Tijuana-San Diego (CALREN2), Juarez/El Paso ChileREUNA45AmPATH BrazilRNP245AmPATH

26. 03 October 2001 CA*net http://www.canarie.ca Currently procuring CA*net4 network Wavelength- based Connects provincial networks Source: Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE

27. 03 October 2001 Mexico http://www.cudi.edu.mx Connecting ~30 members in Mexico at 155mbps Connecting to U.S. via Tijuana – San Diego (with transit from CALREN2 to Abilene) at 155mbps New connection - 100mbps between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso

28. 03 October 2001 AmPATH http://ampath.fiu.edu Florida International University and Global Crossing led Potential to connect 10 countries at 45mbps each Peering through Miami (colocated with SFGP) REUNA (Chile) and RNP2 (Brazil) currently connected RETINA (Argentina) soon

29. 03 October 2001 Global Trends and Developments

30. 03 October 2001 Internet2 International connectivity Internet2 backbone networks have no non-US infrastructure Primarily, our partners’ networks pay to get to the US NSF provides some funding for 3 international links and one interconnection point TransPAC, EuroLink, MIRnet, STAR TAP

31. 03 October 2001 STAR TAP and StarLight http://www.startap.net Based in Chicago STAR TAP based on AADS (Ameritech) ATM switch StarLight is 3 things A place: colo space at a Northwestern University building - 710 North Lakeshore Drive Optical interconnect: optical switching of wavelengths Production peering: bridging to legacy STAR TAP Seattl e Portl and SDSC NCSA NYCNYC SURF net, CERN CA*n et4 Asia- Pacific AMP ATH PSC Atlant a IUIU DTF 40Gb PLR CA*net4

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33. International Transit Network (ITN) project Provide transit across North America Cooperation between STAR TAP, CANARIE, Internet2 Has provided connectivity where formerly gaps DANTE/TEN-155, JANET to Asia, etc. Red CUDI to all

34. 03 October 2001 Abilene - ITN Internet2 providing transit between non- US networks (and vBNS) across Abilene Implemented on Abilene now with participating networks

35. 03 October 2001 Abilene International Peering CHICAGO/STAR TAP APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERN, CERnet, GEMnet, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2, MIRnet, NORDUnet, RENATER, SURFnet, SingAREN, SINET, TAnet2 (ANSP, RNP2) OC12 NYCM BELNET, CA*net3, HEANET, JANET, NORDUnet, SURFnet, TEN-155* SEA/SNNAP AARNET, CA*net3 (TANET2, TransPAC) SNVA GEMNET, SingAREN, WIDE (SINET) LOSA SINET, UNINET AmPATH REUNA, RNP2 (RETINA) OC3 UT El Paso CUDI CALREN2 CUDI * ARNES, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, HEAnet, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS 22 August 2001

36. 03 October 2001 A Global Terabit Research Network Currently point to point international connections Move toward global backbone See more intra-regional connectivity Greater bandwidth across oceans

37. 03 October 2001 Information Resources

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39. 03 October 2001 ARENA project http://arena.internet2.edu/ Atlas of research and education network maps Who’s connected to what network? How are networks connected together? Show me a path between me and my colleague at a university in Germany! Contact information Topology, logical, multicast, etc. maps Funded in part by NSF

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