1. Development of NRENs in Latin America Florencio I. Utreras Executive Director of CLARA June 6, 2005

2. The RedCLARA Evolution and Present Status

3. GEANT April 2005 RedCLARA: The LA Network Provided by ALICE

4. RedCLARA is also connected to the US GEANT Internet 2

5. Advances in CLARA, the Organization

6. The Clara Organization General Assembly Board of Directors Executive Director Accounting Public RelationsOperations (NOC) Engineering (NEG)

7. CLARA Administration Principles Small highly professionalized management team (extremely small for the time being!) Subcontract specific functions as needed –Accounting and Legal Assistance subcontracted in Uruguay –Network Operation to CUDI (Mexican NREN) –Network Engineering to RNP (Brazilian NREN)

8. CLARA Members ArgentinaRETINAOperational BrazilRNPOperational BoliviaBOLNET (ADSIB)Operational ColombiaRAC In deployment Costa RicaCRNetOperational CubaRedUnivOperational ChileREUNAOperational EcuadorCEDIAOperational El SalvadorRAICESIn deployment GuatemalaRAGIEOperational HondurasRHUTAIn deployment MexicoCUDIOperational NicaraguaRENIEOperational PanamáRedCytIn deployment ParaguayRedUNAOrganizing PerúRAAPOperational UruguayRAUOperational VenezuelaREACCIUNOperational

9. NREN’s Created during 2004-2005 Period

10. Backbone Node International Network Aggregation Point Participant Institution 45 MBPS 11 MBPS 4 MBPS CEDIA: Ecuador Academic Network

11. RAAP: Peruvian Network Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú PUCP UNI UNMSM La Molina IPEN INICTEL ACADEMIC NAP 2 Mbps UPCH To RedCLARA POP 10 Mbps RED MPLS - VPN - RED MPLS - VPN - CISCO 3725 FE T3 CISCO 7204 FE LAN PUCP LAN PUCP Valores iniciales. Se incrementará

12. RAC: Colombia’s Network Clear Channel

13. RAGIE: Guatemala’s Network

14. Agronomía Ciencias Ingeniería Medicina Hospital de Clínicas Química INIA LATU Inst. Invest. Biológicas Clemente Estable Polo Tecnológico Pando CUTI Universidad ORT RedCLARA Red ATM 155 Mbps 100 Mbps 10 Mbps 34 Mbps Seciu ATMeth ATM RAU2: Uruguay’s Advanced Network

15. REACCIUN2: Venezuela’s Advanced Network ULA UCVIVICUC UCLA USBUDOUPEL 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 155Mbps 155Mbps CNTI GLOBAL CROSSING Sao Paulo

16. REDCYT: Panama’s Network RedCLARA Cisco 12000 Global Crossing Cisco 7513 Senacyt Domestic Carrier Switch Cisco 2950 REDCYT Node Panamá Cisco 7513 SENACYT Building Firewall Domestic Carrier MINSA USMA UNIPAN ULAT UDELAS Univ. Interamericana UTP FSU Tech Monterrey

17. RedUNIV: Cuba’s Network RED 3 RED 1 RED 2 RED 24 Central Node INFOMED Node CUBARTE Node MINED Node REDUNIV All Frame Relay Links

18. RENIE: Nicaragua’s Network RedCLARA

19. RHUTA: Hondura’s New NREN Domestic Fiber Network UNITEC UNAH UNICAH COHCIT UPN Others Initially Ethernet

20. Final Remarks NREN’s are being created and deployed all over Latin America Domestic Operators are highly involved Huge differences between countries, both in technical and funding resources But all are getting organized, connected inside their countries and connected to RedCLARA

21. “The ALICE dream is creating a future in LA” Free version of Victor Hugo’s words