1. TAnet2 Road Map Jang Hsu, ph. d. Edgar Chang, ph. d. National Center for High Performance Computing HsinChu, Taiwan February 21, 2002 Pacific Rim Network Meeting

2. TAnet2 Domestic Configuration

3. TAnet(2) Proposal I Taipei HsinChu Kaohsiung

4. TAnet(2) Proposal II Taipei HsinChu Kaohsiung 20 gbps backbone -> 40 gbps

5. National Broadband Experimental Network (NBEN) IPV6 Wireless LAN QoS DWDM Video Conferencing Multicast Grid Computing …

6. Links to Abilene, STAR TAP, APAN

7. Just in Today Distant Education for English Learning Collaborative video- conferencing between & the University of Missouri.

8. International Cooperation Genomics/biotech, nanotech and communications Bandwidth-intensive research applications are: Cosmology & astrophysics (with Au, Kr, many in the US, including Hawaii) High Energy Physics (with US, JP, CERN) Synchrotron Radiation (KEK & Spring8 of JP, multi- sites in the US) Seismology research (with US, Jp, Asian countries in the fault lines) Genome research and access to genomic databanks and protein databases (US, Jp, Sg, Uk, Ch…)

9. Our Goals Data Center of an e-Government to alleviate the disaster of an e-Earthquake. International cooperation (e-Marriage) on Biomedical, Nano, Environmental Research. Convert data into knowledge (Knowledge Platform), and better yet, into solution so to become a Total Solution Provider. All these made possible by Broadband Network!

10. Our Common Goals Science has no generation gap. Humanity has no national divide. Thank You!