1. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd TEIN APII Koren Symposium Australia and the Pacific Region Infrastructure to support global e-science George McLaughlin Director, International Developments

2. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Work in Progress AARNet is currently designing a new network for Australian and International deployment in January 2004 Design largely complete Commercial negotiations still in progress Deployment yet to come

3. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Basic Design - 1 Dual unprotected links from Brisbane to Perth Dual unprotected links from Sydney to US West Coast (via Hawaii) - 622Mbps and 10Gbps Dual Points of Presence in each Australian capital city along path Dual R&E PoPs in US as well as Hawaii, Dual International commodity PoPs in US Initially a commodity link from Perth (Western Australia) to Singapore Next phase to consider a link from Sydney to Tokyo and possibly a dedicated link to Singapore Option to include New Zealand Future possibilities for Fiji, Indonesia and Guam

4. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd © AARNet Pty Ltd 2003 Australia’s Research and Education Networks AARNet3 GrangeNet CeNTIE AARNet/Powerlink North Queensland Network AARNet/TrandGrid NSW Network

5. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Basic Design 2 Using MPLS Fast Failover for “protection” Burst capacity 2x “protected” link capacity Supports IPv4 and IPv6 (unicast & multicast) Supports QoS (diffserv) Uses MPLS-TE to minimise latency for Voice/Video over IP (and potentially other real time applications) Customers connect via Gigabit Ethernet

6. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Services Basic transport of IP packets Customers use precedence tagging on a packet to change QoS, both premium (up) and scavenger (down) Premium service used primarily for Voice/Video over IP applications, e.g. VoIP & video conferencing Voice implemented like an extended PABX AARNet provides MCU(s) to support of Video over IP Rapid growth in deployment of Access Grids nodes

7. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Grid Services Advanced Communications Services Specialised, Regional and International Networks User Communities Backbone Network Health Bio- informatics Earth and Environmental Sciences etc Feeder Networks etc Education Internet2 Canarie APAN Feeder Networks Next Generation Network/GRID Structures User Communities of Interest

8. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Grid Concepts “Resource sharing & coordinated problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organisations” (Ian Foster) –On-demand, ubiquitous access to computing, data, and services –New capabilities constructed dynamically and transparently from distributed services “When the network is as fast as the computer's internal links, the machine disintegrates across the net into a set of special purpose appliances” (George Gilder)

9. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Cyberinfrastructure NSF - pf - 8/02 Software High-speed Network Connectivity Computation People and Training Large Databases and Libraries Instrumentation (large and/or many small Cyberinfrastructur e Courtesy: Dr. Peter Freeman Assistant Director, CISE, NSF

10. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Grid Interactions Visualisation Display Computation People Datasets and Libraries Instrumentation (large and/or many small People Datasets and Libraries Computation People Computation Datasets and Libraries Instrumentation (large and/or many small Access Grid Compute Grid Data Grid Visualisation Grid Remote Instruments Grid Network Links

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12. AARNET’s current and planned Pacific Rim links Fiji Manau Kea

13. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd AARNET’s international connections Fiji Manau Kea

14. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Collaborative areas of research Astronomy (Low Frequency and Square Kilometre Array) - very long baseline interferometry High Energy Physics Solid Earth and Environmental Sciences – Earth simulators and earthquake prediction Bioinformatics Climate and oceanographic studies Remote health applications and telemedicine Film and media

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