Black Sea Interconnection BSI

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Black Sea Interconnection (BSI)
7th Framework Programme of European Commission
project
Arthur Petrosyan (arthur_at_sci.am) Academic
Scientific Research Network of Armenia (ASNET-AM)
Institute for Informatics and Automation
Problems (IIAP) of the National Academy of
Sciences of Armenia (NAS RA) www.asnet.am
www.sci.am
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BSI Overview

• Republic of Armenia is participating in the
  Black Sea Interconnection (BSI) project, which is
  being implemented under 7th Framework Programme
  of European Commission (FP7). The BSI project
  will develop a high-speed backbone network among
  the NRENs of the South Caucasus countries and
  enable connectivity to the pan-European research
  and education GÉANT2 network.
• BSI is a 24 month project that will start in the
  second quarter of 2008. The regional network and
  the connection to GEANT is planned to be
  operational in the sixth month of the project and
  will be available for the remaining 18 months

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BSI Participants

• National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (NAS RA)
• Scientific and Technological Research Council of
  Turkey Turkish Academic Network and
  Information Center (TÜBITAK-ULAKBIM)
• Greek Research Technology Network (GRNET)
• Central and Eastern European Networking
  Association (CEENET)
• Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to
  Europe (DANTE)
• Georgian Research and Educational Networking
  Association (GRENA)
• Azerbaijan Research Educational Network
  Association (AZRENA)

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BSI Goals
The project involves the development of
strategies for interconnecting the existing
infrastructures in the region, realization of the
connections and supplying operational support for
the established network. The existence of
interconnections between the South Caucasus
countries and connection to GÉANT2 with
reasonable capacities will enable introduction of
new services to the region and will be an
important step towards the integration of the
scientific potential in the region with Europe.
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BSI Objectives 1/3

• Building a proper regional research and education
  network among South Caucasus and connecting it to
  GÉANT2
• BSI will offer a minimum of 34 Mbps connection
  capacity for each beneficiary to the regional
  network backbone and a minimum of 100 Mbps
  capacity between the regional backbone and GÉANT2
• The need for stable operation and
  interoperability with GÉANT2 will emerge after
  building the regional network and the
  interconnections
• BSI will supply a platform for the currently on
  going ICT projects in the region (SEE-GRID-SCI,
  e-learning e.t.c)

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BSI Objectives 2/3

• The project will contribute to the integration of
  South Caucasus scientific potential to Europe by
  successfully disseminating the infrastructure and
  promoting the ICT projects in South Caucasus
  countries.
• Promote the BSI infrastructure
• Disseminate FP7 and other funding resources for
  ICT based projects
• Assists in UNESCO, NATO, European Investment Bank
  resourcesfor upgrading national infra

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BSI Objectives 3/3

• Foster collaboration between homogenous
  scientific communities
• BSI intends identify the involved communities in
  the region, capture their requirements and
  analyse the results
• Establish mechanisms for knowledge transfer

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BSI Connection
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BSI Expected Gain

• The expected gain from many scientific research
  and eductional projects such as Development of
  e-Societies in South Caucasus and SEE-GRID-SCI
  would go one step further with the implementation
  of BSI project. Dissemination activities will
  promote widespread use of the BSI infrastructure
  by all members and all disciplines of the
  regional research and education community liaise
  with other pan-European efforts with similar or
  adjacent objectives