Internet2 International Partnerships Program A very quick view of Research and Education Networks around the World

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Internet2 International Partnerships ProgramA
very quick view of Research and Education
Networks around the World

• K-20 Advisory Meeting
• 2 May 2005
• Arlington, Virginia
• Ana Preston ltapreston_at_internet2.edugt

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Outline

• Who is this person with the funny accent?
• An overview Internet2 International
  Partnerships
• Quick view of networking developments around the
  world
• Africa
• Europe and the Middle East
• Asia and Oceania
• Latin America
• Opportunities

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International Partnerships

• Partnerships are key to Internet2
• International partners are of strategic
  importance to Internet2
• Global collaborations
• Science, research, teaching and learning area all
  increasingly global
• Support global collaborations with an equivalent
  GLOBAL leading edge networking capability
  through partners around the world
• Interoperability, joint development of new
  technologies
• International Partner Program
• Build effective partnerships in other countries
• With organizations of similar goals/objectives
  and similar constituencies
• In support of the Internet2 membership

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Supporting science user communities and beyond

• Research increasingly dependent on access
  globally to resources, collaborators, data,
  scientific instruments.
• Access to scientific instruments with specific
  geo-location needs (e.g., optical and radio
  telescopes)
• Unique instruments impractical or unfeasible for
  each country to afford for its own (e.g., Large
  Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, electron
  microscope in Japan)
• Access to/collecting geo-specific data and
  getting it back for analysis, visualization,
  sharing, prevention
• Environmental, Atmospheric/Oceanographic Studies
• Access to the US (resources) and to non-US
  resources
• Teaching and learning new opportunities, new
  knowledge, international learning communities
• .and many more

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International Partner Program

• Mechanism Memoranda of Understanding
• Provide/promote interconnectivity between
  communities
• Collaborate on technology development and
  deployment
• Facilitate collaboration between members on
  applications
• Engagement to
• Establish leading, high-performance network
  infrastructures in support of science, teaching
  and learning
• Ensure global coordination and end-to-end
  performance in support of our communities
• Promote role of National Research and Education
  networks (NRENs)
• 50 organizations (International partners)
  representing over 75 countries
• http/international.internet2.edu

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Current International Partners
Europe
Africa
ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET
(Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE
(Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER
(France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET
(Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) NORDUnet (Nordic
Countries) POL-34 (Poland) FCCN
(Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA
(Luxembourg) RIPN (Russia) SANET
(Slovakia) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH
(Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA
(United Kingdom)
MCIT EUN/ENSTIN (Egypt)
Related partnerships
APRU (Asia/Pacific) IEEAF World Bank
Middle East
Israel-IUCC (Israel) Qatar Foundation (Qatar)
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US International Connectivity

• Links between the US and other countries funded
  through various sources
• Outside the US many of our partners procure and
  operate links from their country to the US
• US-funded
• US NSF provides funding through IRNC (was HPIIS)
  program for some links
• DOE provides some funding for CERN-procured and
  operated links to US
• Internet2 funds used for some connectivity
• Donations IEEAF has made donations from Tyco
  Telecom available to the RE networking community
• What type of connections?
• 45 Mbps -? multiple 10Gbps
• Also at Layer 1 and 2 (dedicated lightpaths )
  GLIF model (www.glif.is)
• International exchange points
• Around US borders (including north and south
  borders of US)
• Facilitate connectivity with Internet2
  infrastructure and other US national networks
• More than 60 countries reachable via the
  Internet2 Abilene backbone network

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Networks reachable via Abilene - by country
Last updated April 2005
Europe-Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Americas
Austria (ACOnet) Belgium (BELNET) Croatia
(CARNet) Czech Rep. (CESNET) Cyprus
(CYNET) Denmark (Forskningsnettet) Estonia
(EENet) Finland (Funet) France (Renater) Germany
(G-WIN) Greece (GRNET) Hungary
(HUNGARNET) Iceland (RHnet) Ireland
(HEAnet) Israel (IUCC) Italy (GARR) Latvia
(LATNET) Lithuania (LITNET) Luxembourg (RESTENA)
Argentina (RETINA) Brazil (RNP2/ANSP) Canada
(CAnet) Chile (REUNA) Mexico (Red-CUDI) United
States (Abilene)Peru (RAAP) Venezuela
(REACCIUN-2)
Malta (Univ. Malta) Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway
(UNINETT) Poland (POL34) Portugal (RCTS2) Qatar
(Qatar FN) Romania (RoEduNet)Russia
(RBnet) Slovakia (SANET) Slovenia (ARNES) Spain
(RedIRIS) Sweden (SUNET) Switzerland
(SWITCH) United Kingdom (JANET) Turkey
(ULAKBYM) CERN
Australia (AARNET) China (CERNET, CSTNET,
NSFCNET) Hong Kong (HARNET) Japan (SINET, WIDE,
JGN2) Korea (KOREN, KREONET2) Singapore
(SingAREN) Philippines (PREGINET) Taiwan (TANet2,
ASNet) Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN)
Central Asia
Africa
Algeria (CERIST) Egypt (EUN/ENSTIN) Morocco
(CNRST) Tunisia (RFR) South Africa (TENET)
Armenia (ARENA) Georgia (GRENA) Kazakhstan
(KAZRENA) Tajikistan (TARENA) Uzbekistan (UZSCI)
More information at http//abilene.internet2.edu/
peernetworks/international.html
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Abilene International Peering
Last updated 27 April 2005
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NRENs in general

• The idea of national research (and education)
  networks continues to be popular
• New NRENs in Latin America, Eastern Europe,
  Mediterranean, Middle East Pakistan, New
  Zealand, Jordan
• Typically one per country
• Connect universities
• Sometime also connect government research labs
• Other education institutions
• Not-for-profit or government/ministry-based
• Continuum from commercial Internet access, to
  reliable-leading-edge (production) to
  experimental to network research facilitating
  networks

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A picture of where NRENs exist
Current MoU Partners
Developing Partnerships
Related Efforts in Formation
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Global research and education network
infrastructure

• Interconnecting NRENs
• Regional (continental-scale) backbone growth
• Increasingly regionalized networking
• European GEANT, Asian cluster efforts, Latin
  American redCLARA
• Continental backbones providing transit to other
  regions
• Aggregate inter-continental bandwidth now
  sometimes greater than continental bandwidth
• Trend away (albeit slowly) from US as center of
  the world
• Many initiatives outside the US are engaging and
  establishing leadership roles in connecting to
  the world
• European South American connectivity
• European Asian connectivity

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Europe

• High-performance RE networks pan-European
  network is GEANT
• GEANT2 backbone in midst of finalizing
  procurement
• Several national networks building out
  owned/leased fiber (NL, CH, PL, CZ, SK)
• Wavelength-based international facilities and
  connections NetherLight, Czech Rep.,
  NordicLight, UKLight
• European-funded connectivity to other regions
  than Europe
• SEEREN (southeastern Europe)
• ALICE (Latin America)
• TEIN2 (Southeast Asia)
• EUMEDCONNECT (Mediterranean)
• Algeria, Cyprus, Israel, Malta, Morocco, Tunisia,
  Turkey now connected
• Trans-Atlantic connectivity between US and Europe
• Multiple links

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Middle East

• Qatar Foundation connectivity for Doha
  Education City universities and U. Qatar to US
  (NYC, LA)
• Interest in U.A.E., Oman occasionally
• Afghanistan
• Pan Arab Research and Education Network
  Feasibility Study
• Canadian initiative

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Americas

• Latin America
• redCLARA regional backbone network up and running
  
• emerging NRENs in Caribbean
• North America
• Canadas leading role
• NSF-funded WHREN/LILA project
• Connectivity between North and South America

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Asia-Oceania

• APAN Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
• Country-owned point2point links contributed to
  APAN
• Most connect to APAN/Tokyo XP
• Cluster efforts (Northeast, Southeast, Oceania)
  to create regional backbones
• Intra-Asian connectivity continues to grow
• see http//apan.net/documents/linkinfo.xls
• Australia
• Connectivity to New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaiian
  Islands, Japan
• Central Asia Virtual Silk project
• Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
  Uzbekistan now connected (via DFN (Germany)
• Limited satellite connectivity

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Africa

• North Africa EUMEDCONNECT
• Egypt (Ministry of Information and
  Communications Technology) connecting to US
  (already transiting via GEANT)
• South Africa TENET tunnel to GEANT/London
• NSF-funded study grant (G. Sadowsky, J. Mack, D.
  Riley)
• This Meeting

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Challenges for NRENs

• Many NRENS around the world are still dealing
  with traditional telecom models and costs
• Lack of competition and price-competitive
  capacity (intra-country) and between countries
• Many still largely based on commercial Internet
  services at low speeds
• Regulatory frameworks
• Limited global connectivity
• Beyond networks, applications, content,
  sustainability and the human factor
• Country developments are varied disparities in
  capabilities and resources
• Lack of awareness among policy makers and user
  communities for long-term strategic support to
  sustain networking for national ST and economic
  development
• Lack of funding for RE and for NRENs

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Some lessons?

• Example in Latin America, projects like AMPATH
  and the CLARA initiative have played a role in
  the way in which LAC countries communicate among
  themselves, and with countries outside the region
• NRENs regionalized networking can aggregate
  traffic within the region enabling more effective
  routing to other parts of the world
• NRENs can play a role in supporting national
  science and linking to international community
• Generally, there is improved connectivity that
  will also support improved and new collaborations
  with partners in other regions.
• NRENs role can be
• Strategic role policy/regulatory, capacity
  building, and bridging
• Can help towards establishing concrete regional
  and core frameworks around which to organize
  national and international support
• BUT

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Some lessons cont.

• Uses over infrastructure applications
• Support and long-term sustainability
• A final word on role of Internet2 international
  staff
• To help bridge relationships
• To help track international connectivity into the
  United States and the Internet2 infrastructure
• To the extent possible, to support Internet2
  members interested in international
  collaborations.
• Staff
• Ana Preston, Program Manager, International
  apreston_at_internet2.edu
• Heather Boyles, Director, Member and Partner
  Relations heather_at_internet2.edu
• Karen Doemer, Program Assistant
  kdoemer_at_internet2.edu

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Thank you!

• Please let us know how we can be of help
• Role and strategic importance of international
  program

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