Advanced Networks in Latin America and Argentina: available infrastructure

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Advanced Networks in Latin Americaand Argentina
available infrastructure
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Agenda

• Grids needs for advanced networks
• Network Infrastructure in Argentina
• Network Infrastructure in Latin America
• Grids regional initiatives

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GRIDs characteristics

• Colaboration between institutions in different
  cities, countries or continents
• Particularly useful for large countries like
  Argentina
• Equipments and resources to be shared
• Based on Advanced Networks

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Why Advanced Networks?

• Need for bigger bandwidth
• Quality of Service different kind of traffic,
  priorities, response times
• IPv6 addressing, security, flexibility, mobility
• Multicast
• optimized bandwidth for audio and video
  transmisions
• possibility to build p2p architecture involving
  many sites

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Available Infrastructure

• RETINA Research and Education Network of
  Argentina
• Advanced backbone in the central region of the
  country
• AMPATH Internet2 connection
• CLARA Cooperación Latinoamericana en Redes
  Avanzadas
• Available Infrastructure for regional
  connectivity and communications to the rest of
  the world

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What is RETINA?

• Red TeleINformática Académica
• NREN of Argentina since 1990
• Around 60 institutions of RE
• Managing the network of the 36 Public
  Universities
• Connected to Internet2 since 2001 (through
  AMPATH) and initial member of CLARA since 2002

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RETINA main facts

• International representation of the NREN since 15
  years ago
• Project always running during that period
• RETINA is not a user of the resources, the
  services are available to the RE community
• Main role together with other NREN from LA in
  associative projects like Clara, Alice, LACNIC,
  ENRED, etc.

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UNCPBA UNGS UNGSM UNLM UNLP UNLZ UNLu UNMP UNQ UNr
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Avanced Network in Argentina

• December 2001 RETINA gets connected to
  Internet2 being part of the AMPATH project
• First institutions connected UBA, UNL, UTN, SMN
• Initial link of 45 Mbps
• Native Multicast and IPv6

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Objectives

• To connect RETINA to other advanced networks
• To promote the access to that kind of networks
  from the RE institutions of the public and
  private sector of the country
• To make available to the RE community the new
  technologies and applications that are already in
  use in main countries
• To support the development of new applications
  that are still not possible in the actual Internet

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AMPATH

• DS3 (45 Mbps) for each NREN
• Global Crossing FIU agreement
• Duration 3 years

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AMPATH

• Access to Abilene (Internet2)
• Access to Startap and transit to Europe, Canada
  and other advanced networks.
• Active since 2001 for Chile, Brasil and Argentina.

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In the National scene

• Problem internal capilarity
• Buenos Aires and the suburban zone have very good
  fiber infrastructure
• Other main cities like Córdoba, Rosario, Santa
  Fe, Mendoza have many carriers/providers
• Main problem to extend the good connectivity to
  the rest of the country (monopolies, bad
  infrastructure).

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Network availability
High Medium Low
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Strategies for augmenting national connectivity

• Need of a high speed RE backbone
• Negotiation with carriers to be able to use
  available excess bandwitdth already installed.
• Agreements for joint work
• There are already some PoPs inside the country
  available

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RETINAs backbone
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RETINAs backbone
Rosario
Rio IV
La Plata
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Backbone key facts

• International link of 45 Mbps extends to the
  central region of the country
• More than 70 of the RE activity of Argentina is
  in that zone
• Its a starting point it has to be extended to
  cover the other zones
• Important each city in the backbone gets the
  same access conditions like Buenos Aires
  (services, costs)

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Backbone features

• Initial capacity 45 Mbps. Potential upgrade to
  155 Mbps
• Native IPv6 available
• Native Multicast
• QoS in the core and in the access
• International link 90 Mbps

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Backbone features

• Agreement with Impsat to have a backbone in the
  central region of Argentina
• Negotiation with other providers to extend the
  backbone to North and South
• Already available 45 Mbps
• Mendoza, Cordoba, Rosario, Santa Fe
• Other PoPs will be available on demand

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IPv6 availability

• RETINA connected in native mode to AMPATH soon
  to CLARA
• Institutions will have native mode connectivity
• Production addressing from LACNIC
  20011418/32
• Addresses asigned to the institutions that ask
  for them

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Actual connections
IPv6 Nativo
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IPv6 assignemt
200113184000/36
200113185000/36
Rosario
200113188000/36
200113183000/36
200113189000/36
Rio IV
200113181000/36 - 200113182000/36
200113186000/36
20011318A000/36
La Plata
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Multicast - Concept

• Mechanism to transmit the same stream of data to
  multiple receivers in an efficient way
• Unicast one stream for each receiver
• Broadcast data gets replicated to all the points
  in the network
• Multicast only the minimum BW gets wasted, only
  the interested receivers get the data

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Multicast - Concept
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Multicast - Concept
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Multicast

• Native Multicast available with AMPATH and CLARA
• Multicast will be available in all the PoPs of
  the backbone
• Very few institutions have implemented multicast
  service until now
• We will give support to the institutions that
  want to implement it

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Quality of Service

• Need for guaranteeing different kind of traffic
  quality of service
• Videoconference
• VoIP
• Remote management of instruments in real time
• Data transfers
• They will co-exist at the same time in the Network

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Quality of Service

• Parameters to take account
• Latency
• Jitter
• Packet loss
• QoS in the backbone but also in the access
  (institutions)
• WG of QoS integrated by RETINA and institutions

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Institutions connected to RETINA2

• Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
• Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN)
• Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
  (CLACSO)
• Centro de Investigaciones Tecnológicas de las
  Fuerzas Armadas (CITEFA)
• Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química (PLAPIQUI)
• Arquitectura-UBA
• Agronomia-UBA
• Ciencias Exactas y Naturales-UBA
• Medicina - UBA

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Institutions connected to RETINA2

• Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales
  (CONAE)
• Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL)
• Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN)
• Observatorio Pierre Auger
• Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)
• Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE)
• Centro Regional de Investigaciones Básicas y
  Aplicadas de Bahía Blanca (CRIBABB) y Universidad
  Nacional del Sur (UNS)
• Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (UNLM)
• Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTref)

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CLARA Cooperación Latinoaméricana en Redes
Avanzadas

• Coordination between LA NRENs and other actors
• Cooperation to promote ST development
• Planning and Operation of a Regional Advanced
  Network to interconnect the LA NRENs
• Interconection of CLARA to the rest of Advanced
  Networks in the world

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ALICE and CLARA

• May 2002 _at_LIS initiative launched in Brussels
• June 2002 Meeting EC-LA in Toledo. The
  Declaración de Toledo get signed
• July 2002 all LA NRENs meet in Rio de Janeiro.
  Agreement to create CLARA Cooperación Latino
  Americana de Redes Avanzadas
• November 2002 Meeting EU-CLARA in Santiago,
  Chile
• May 2003 CLARA bylaws get signed

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CLARA members and ST institutions

• Argentina (60)
• Brasil (382)
• Bolivia (6)
• Chile (14)
• Colombia (43)
• Costa Rica (-)
• Cuba (21)
• Ecuador (9)
• El Salvador (7)
• Honduras (-)

• Guatemala (10)
• México(69)
• Nicaragua (-)
• Panamá (10)
• Paraguay (28)
• Perú (11)
• Rep. Dominicana (-)
• Uruguay (7)
• Venezuela (7)

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Topology of RedClara
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ALICE América Latina Interconectada Con Europa

• March 2003 European Comission aproves ALICE
  Project
• June 2003 Invitation to Tender for the Network
  officialy announced
• November 2003 San José de Costa Rica topology
  and chronogram decided
• March-April 2004 Contracts get signed
• August 31st 2004 First node active in Chile
• September 2004 Brasil join the network
• October-November 2004 Argentina, México and
  Panamá close the backbone ring
• November 2004 Launch of the Network in Brasil
• January-July 2005 all the countries in LA will
  be joining the network

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RedCLARA
Europa
Septiembre 2004
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RedCLARA
Europa
Octubre 2004
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RedCLARA
Europa
Noviembre 2004
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RedCLARA
Europa
Marzo 2005
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RedCLARA
Europa
Junio 2005
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WHREN-LILA

• WHREN Western Hemisphere Research and Education
  Network
• LILA Links Interconnecting Latin America
• NSF funding for interconnection US-CLARA
• April 2004 proposal to NSF, leaded by CENIC and
  FIU. Aproved December 2004.
• Link of 1 Gbps Tijuana-San Diego
• Shared link of 1,2 Gbps Sao Paulo-Miami

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WHREN-LILA y RedCLARA
Miami
San Diego
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RedCLARA 2005
Internet2
Internet2
GEANT
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Network sustainability

• CLARA coordinates ALICE project in LA
• Total cost of ALICE project is 12.5 Millions
  Euros in 3 years
• 10 Millions Euros funded by the European
  Comission by Interconnection Initiative within
  _at_LIS
• 2,5 Million Euros will be provided by LA NRENs as
  cofinancing
• After 2006 finantiation will depend on use and a
  better balance of international bandwidth costs

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Grids initiatives in the region

• RETINA infrastructure to give support to
  research projects (PAV, others)
• Proposal to ALFA funding to train researchers and
  technicians (RETINA-UNCOMA-CRIBABB-UNPA)
• CLARA EELA proposal to the European Comission

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Support Infrastructure

• PAV computational and access GRIDs deployment
• Make use of RETINAs advanced backbone
• Join groups of researchers from different
  institutions of the country
• Will favor the integration and research in ICTs

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ALFAGRID

• 4 institutions in Argentina
• RETINA, CRIBABB, UNCOMA, UNPA
• Coordinator Universidad de Cantabria
• Other countries
• España, Italia, Francia, Chile, Mexico, Brasil,
  Venezuela
• Training in GRIDs oriented to researchers and
  technicians (support)

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EELA Project

• E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin
  America
• Joint project betwen EU-LA presented to EC IST
• Extend to LA Grid technology and infrastructure
  developed in EGEE
• Period 2006-2007, in case of being approved
• Take advantage of the already developed Advanced
  Networks GEANT, CLARA

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EELA objectives

• To build an interoperable infrastructure between
  EU and LA
• Identify joint research scientific applications
  between EU and LA
• Encourage participation in new projects at a
  national and international level
• Promote participation in relevant forums of grid
  computing
• Contribute to make researchers aware of grid
  computing

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EELA participants

• CLARA and the NRENs of the participating
  countries
• Countries
• España, Italia, Portugal
• Argentina UNLP
• Brasil, Chile, Cuba, México, Perú, Venezuela
• CERN

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Conclusions

• There exists Advanced Network infrastructure for
  GRIDs support in LA and Argentina
• Working actively in the development and growing
  of that infrastructure
• New applications and services are promoted by
  different organizations
• GRIDs in Argentina are still to be developed
• We expect to collaborate in the dissemination and
  use of these new technologies

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Thanks

• Guillermo Cicileo
• www.retina.ar