1. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET Cross Border Fiber - towards the revolution in NREN international connectivity Artur Binczewski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center) Stanislaw Starzak (Technical University of Lodz) Maciej Stroinski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center) Internet2 meeting Philadelphia, 19 th September 2005

2. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET CBF Initiatives – Reason of communication revolution in Central/Eastern Europe Extremely high cost of capacity in Central/Eastern Europe - structure of NREN budget* 50% cost of national communication 25% cost of GÉANT network 25% cost of Internet access Development of bilateral cooperation (NRENs, Universities, etc.) Access to cheap and effective technologies (CWDM/DWDM, 10/1 GE) Process of building or leasing the Cross Border Fibers started 2001 ! * Study of Stanislaw Sima CESNET

3. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET PIONIER Cross Border Fiber directions

4. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET Installed fibers Fibers+pipes: installed (end of Sep. 2005) (end of 2006) planned 2007 Fibers links in PIONIER

5. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET Used CBF links and NRENs’ own fibers in CE/EE CBF connectivity Austria Czech Republic Poland Slovakia Operational since 2004

6. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET CBF result s Relatively easy installation (@ 1Gbit/s) – 120km LH coloured GBICs The same technology - PIONIER, CESNET, ACONET & SANET operate with 10GE/1GE Free of charge access to national peering exchange points Quite difficult coordination of the CBF infrastructure management: –Link troubleshooting in layer 2 –VLAN number assingnment coordination (how to find a VLAN number which is free in all NRENs?) –Coordination of configuration tasks –Free of charge model is limited by the finite bandwidth of partners –Incentives for installation of additional channels

7. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET GTS 1,2 Gb/s GDAŃSK POZNAŃ ZIELONA GÓRA KATOWICE KRAKÓW LUBLIN WARSZAWA BYDGOSZCZ TORUŃ CZĘSTOCHOWA BIAŁYSTOK OLSZTYN RZESZÓW BIELSKO-BIAŁA Metropolitan Area Networks KOSZALIN SZCZECIN WROCŁAW ŁÓDŹ KIELCE PUŁAWY OPOLE RADOM PIONIER network 4Q2005 BASNET 34 Mb/s CESNET, SANET 10 Gb/s 10 Gb/s (1 lambda) PIONIER’S LINKS 2 x 10 Gb/s (2 lambdas) 1 Gb/s CBF 10GE GÉANT 10+10 Gb/s DFN 10 Gb/s GÉANT IP 2x2,5 Gb/s

8. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET e-Region concept e-Region objectives: 1.Creation of a rational base and possibility of collaborative work between institutions across the border, as defined by e-Europe program. (...) education, medicine, natural disasters, information databases, protection of environment, etc. 2.Enhancing the abilities of co-operation by developing new generation of services and applications. 3.Promoting the region in the Europe (as a micro scale of e-Europe concept)

9. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET CDF as e-Region infrastructure GERMANY CZECH REP. UKRAINE BELARUS LITHUANIA RUSSIA e-Region PORTA OPTICAPORTA OPTICA SLOVAKIA

10. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET Where is the digital divide?

11. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET „Porta Optica – a coordinated task...

12. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET „Porta Optica – a distributed optical gateway from GEANT to EE” A chance for closer scientific collaboration by means of provision multichannel/multilambda connections between neighboring countries of CE/EE. An easy way to extend GEANT to Eastern European countries – the case study of CBF connectivity to be applied for the whole Europe.

13. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET Porta Optica Proposal has been accepted by EC in the last FP6 call The ultimate goal of PORTA OPTICA is the creation and further development of communication network and consolidation of the initiatives to ensure the successful, fiber optics-based research network deployment in the Eastern Europe, Baltic states and Southern Caucasus regions” - SSA 12 participants kick-off: 01.12.2005 project duration: 1 year

14. POLISH OPTICAL INTERNET CBF - Summary CBF infrastructure in Central/Eastern Europe is shared to support the following goals: providing the transparent lambdas for pan-european GÉANT network providing the dedicated lambdas for bilateral cooperation between NRENs providing equal access to all NRENs to Internet Exchange Points DECREASING THE OPERATIONAL COSTS OF NRENS BETTER AND CHEAPPER SERVICES TO USERS

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