1. Conference: e-AGE Conference Date: December 12, 2011 Place: Amman, Jordan Florencio I. Utreras Executive Director of CLARA Florencio.Utreras@redclara.net RedCLARA2: An Advanced Collaboration Tool for Latin America

2. RedCLARA Created by ALICE Projects – ALICE 10 Million from EuropeAid 2.5 Million from LA NRENs – ALICE2 12 Million from EuropeAid 6 Million from LA NRENs Not for Profit International Organization based in Uruguay 15 Partners, 13 connected, 2 in stand by 6 Existing NRENs at the beginning of the ALICE Project – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela 8 created during the ALICE Project – Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Uruguay 3 more during the ALICE2 Project – Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay

3. Building the Infrastructure ALICE Tenders: – Open Tenders + Negotiated Procedures – From 2004 the total lease cost for the backbone decreased by a factor of 10 and its speed increased 34 times Sinergy with other projects: Astronomers, Cosmic Ray Observatories. Cooperation with local or regional initiatives: MERCOSUR

4. Sinergies with Internal Networks Strategy of building Terrestrial networks with ability to carry internal traffic – Terrestrial Networks linking countries often go through main cities in countries Dark Fibre wherever that is possible – Low cost to upgrade – Flexibility to use the adequate technology at any time – Flexibilty to create different physically separated networks for special purposes

5. Key Factors Strategic – Continent wide network is best suited to work with other continental networks: GEANT, APAN, Internet2+CANet, etc. Short/Medium term – Construction of internal networks – Technical support – Economies of Scale for bandwidth purchases Long term – Added value of collaboration to tackle regional issues – Federated services – Negotiation power for services: clouds, content, etc.

6. LA Before ALICE2 45 Mbps

7. RedCLARA2 at the end of ALICE2 155 Mbps 622 Mbps 2488 Mbps 10096 Mbps

8. User Communities and Research Projects Building regional user communities is key to underline the importance of horizontal collaboration and hence regional connectivity

9. Services for Communities

10. http://www.redclara.net http://alice2.redclara.net