1 Status of APAN [Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium] Kyushu-Korea Broardband Project Meeting Kilnam Chon, Yong-Jin Park

2 1. Whats APAN APAN is a non-profit international consortium for Advanced Networking in Asia-Pacific, established in June 1997.

3 2. Advanced Networks in Other Continents USA: Internet2/Abilene/vBNS Canada: CA*Net3/4 Europe: TEN155/GEANT

4 Network Evolution : Spiral Privatization Commercialization [ARPAnet] [NSFnet] [Gigabit Testbeds] [vBNS,Abilene,CA*Net] Commercial ISPs Optical Net Wireless APAN R&D/Experimental R&D/Production ANSnet 21st Century Networking

5 3. Objective Research & Development for Advanced Applications and Services Advanced Networking Environment for Research Community –Asia-Pacific Backbone –Intercontinental Links Regional Cooperation International Collaboration

6 4. NSF Grant Submission to NSF HPIIS program on (KR,JP,AU,SG, Indiana Univ) HPIIS:High Performance International Internet Service Award $10 M over 5 years to Indiana Univ, TransPAC, on

APAN Network Topology

8 APAN Link List

9 6. Members Primary Member Australia: ACSys China: APAN-CN Consortium CERNET, CSTNET Japan: APAN-JP Consortium APII/CRL, IMNet/JST, KDD, MAFFIN/MAFF RWCP/ETL, SINET/NII AI3/WIDE Korea: APAN-KR Consortium Malaysia TEMAN Singapore: SINGAREN USA: Indiana University/HPIIS Associate Member Thailand : (NECTEC) Liaison Member Canada: CANARIE Europe: DANTE Affiliate Member CIGRA apan-sec

10 7. Activities Application Middle ware Network User Community Video, Archive, QoS, … Advanced Internet Commodity Internet (Intl Link, Domestic Network, Campus Network)

High Speed Networking High speed intercontinental connections and performance tuning Intracontinental connections through connectivity programs such as APII, AI3,.. Exchange Point(XP) Improvement and Interconnection

Working Groups User Community Area Digital Library Education Grid Medical Informatics Global Design & Manufacturing Natural Resource Area Agriculture Earth Monitoring BioInformatics Technology Area IPv6 Measurement Multimedia Satellite Internet Digital TV QoS Network Storage & Content Dist

Human Resource Development Two Meetings Per Year Workshop/ Conference Working Group Meetings Committee Meeting

14 8. Schedule Tsukuba Ad hoc Meeting(during APEC Symposium) Preliminary Meetings, Workshops & Visits Tokyo First APAN Meetings Singapore Second APAN Meetings Tsukuba Third APAN Meetings 7.1-3Seoul Fourth APAN Meetings Osaka Fifth APAN Meetings Canberra Sixth APAN Meetings Tsukuba Seventh APAN Meetings Beijing Eighth APAN Meetings Honolulu Ninth APAN Meetings Penang 10th APAN Meetings Phuket 11th APAN Meetings Shanghai 12th APAN Meetings /2 Kyushu(?) 13th APAN Meetings

15 9. Global Advanced Research Networks TEN155/GEANT national networks (Europe) CA*net 3, Abilene, vBNS (North America) APAN national networks (Asia) Exchange National Networks (Latin America)

16 Thank you!

17 Appendix A: Bibliography AI3 APAN CA*Net3 DANTE(TEN-155) Internet2 STAR TAP vBNS Abilene

18 Appendix B: Committees and Centers APAN Member Committee Network Operation Center Tokyo XP Seoul XP Singapore XP Engineering Teams IPv6 Measurement Multicast QoS Resource Allocation Committee

19 Appendix C: APAN Organization and People APAN Committee ChairKilnam Chon (kr) Deputy Chair Shigeki Goto(jp) Deputy Chair Jianping Wu(cn) APAN Secretariat DirectorYong Jin Park(kr) Network Operation Center Director Kazunori Konishi (jp) Deputy Chair Jaehwa Lee(kr) User Community Area Chair (Markus Buchhorn(au)) Natural Resource Area Chair Seishi Ninomiya(jp) Deputy Chair (Tan Hock Soon(sg)) Technology Area Chair (Shigeki Goto (jp)) Deputy Chair(Chul-Hee Kang (kr))

20 Australia AARNET2 : China CERNET : CSTNET : Hong Kong HARNET : India ERNET : Japan IMNET : JGN : SINET : WIDE : Korea KOREN : KREONET : Malaysia TEMAN : Philippines PHNET : Singapore SINGAREN : Taiwan TANET : Thailand NECTEC : Vietnam IOIT : Appendix D : Major R&E Networks in Asia-Pacific