Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Development of R&E Networks in Egypt Mostafa Abdel Wahed Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Egypt

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Road Map.. Egyptian R&E Community National Network for Universities and Research Centers ENERGI Initiative Highlights on R&E Activities in Egypt Collaborative Research Work

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Egyptian R&E Community 124 Research Centers and Institutes covering 32 Ministries 16 Governmental Universities Private Universities and Research Centers Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET The National Network for Universities & Research Centers The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Partnership between The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Interconnect 16 universities and 9 research centers with Giga Ethernet via an MPLS backbone Establish two centers for Scientific and Research Content Connect to International Networks

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET The National Network for Universities & Research Centers Network Highlights Fiber Optic Infrastructure providing high reliability and full redundancy via 2 NOCs at EUN and ENSTINET High network security measures Advanced network management systems 24/7 Technical support

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET The National Network for Universities & Research Centers POP3 POP2 POP1 EUN NOC Univ. X R.C. B R.C. A Operating Bandwidth E3/T3/STM1 Operating Bandwidth nSTM1 Data Carrier Network (MPLS-based Network) Provider Edge Router Provider Edge Router Provider Edge Router Single Fiber Cable Connection (24 Core) Single Fiber Cable Connection (12 Core) Operating Bandwidth nSTM1 Access Router Core Router Access Router ENSTINET NOC Backup Link (Giga Bit)

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET ENERGI Egypt Network for Education and Research on Next Generation Internet

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET About ENERGI.. Vision To serve as … A catalyst in the development of the Egyptian information economy and a partner in the emerging information society.

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET About ENERGI.. Mission To provide access to specialized and state of the art resources specific to the needs of the Egyptian R&E community through effective management of resources.

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET About ENERGI.. Scope & Objectives Supporting advanced networking and next generation Internet technologies in Egyptian R&E networks Interconnecting Egyptian R&E networks with Internet2 and other international peers to facilitate research activities Providing the R&E community in Egypt with high speed access to global information resource

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET ENERGI Partnership Agreement Partners: Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MCIT) Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network (ENSTINET) Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) Agreement effective as of February 1 st 2005

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET ENERGI Highlights International partner of Internet2 as of April 2005 STM1 international connection to MAN/LAN exchange National distribution facility providing connectivity to: –Partners (MCIT – EUN – ENSTINET) –Bibliotheca Alexandrina –Egyptian R&E entities (academic – governmental – non- governmental – private sector) Operational starting May 2005 Mirror 34 Mbps link to GÉANT at EUN via EUMEDCONNECT project

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Highlights on R&E Activities in Egypt

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET IPv6 Task Force Test Bed ActivitiesDateStatus Establish E-IPv6Sep 04Done Obtain IPv6 address cluster from AfriNICDec 04Done Implement IPv6 Test LabMar 05Done Test IPv6 over IPv4 Tunnels with international & local providers Apr 05Tunnels with Sprint and 4 NSP’s Test basic services (DNS, , Web, etc…)Apr 05DNS and Mail are up and running Connect to GEANT & Internet 2Apr 05GEANT link is under test Test Dual Stack operation with local providersJul 05Not Started Test security and other advanced services (VoIP, video streaming, etc…) Aug 05Not Started Test Dual Stack operation with international providers Sep 05Not Started

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET IPv6 Task Force Test Bed Test Bed Architecture

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Telemedicine Connecting National Cancer Institute in Cairo with similar institutes in rural areas such as Tanta, Damietta, Luxor, Assiut Connecting National Cancer Institute in Cairo with the Cancer Institute in Paris Establishing a Telemedicine project between The Ahmed Maher Burn Institute in Cairo and at John Hopkins School of Medicine in US

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET GOTHI e-Connect Project General Organization for Teaching Hospitals and Institutes (GOTHI) 17 teaching hospitals and institutes Video Conferencing Medical Health Record via Smart Cards

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET GOTHI e-Connect Project ENSTINET MPLS Data Network GOTHI HQ Ahmed Maher Hospital(NOC) Talaat Harb Exch Roda Exch Hospital Hospital Hospital Copper Wire (nxE1) Exchange Hospital Hospital Copper Wire (E1) GOTHI Telemedicine Network

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET National Cancer Institute Egyptian Society for Surgeons Mostafa Kamel Military Hospital GOHTI Hospitals and Institutes Azhar University, Faculty of Medicine Video Conferencing

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Tele-immersion Establishment of a solid video- conferencing infrastructure Next step will be to establish Tele- immersion system would allow individuals at different locations to share a single virtual environment, jointly participating in simulations and models of molecular, physical or economic constructs

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Virtual Laboratories Proposed project to establish a virtual laboratory, heterogeneous distributed problem solving environment, enabling researchers located around the world to work together on a common set of projects and sharing the basic infrastructure requirements across disciplines

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Virtual Laboratories The following applications will work best via Internet2: –Applications used by a relatively small number of technically competent trusted users working with large datasets –Applications which open many parallel network streams to diverse locations –Applications where there is a large discrepancy between bandwidth available via commodity network connectivity and bandwidth available via high performance networks (e.g., overseas sites in many regions, provided that the overseas site has access to high-performance network connectivity)

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Digital Library Commitment to developing digital libraries in Egypt Internet2 will significantly enhance development of digital libraries New services and capabilities envisioned for Internet2 offer important opportunities to move the Digital Libraries program into new areas Very high bandwidth and bandwidth reservation will allow currently exotic materials such as continuous digital video and audio to move from research use to much broader use

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Digital Library Images, audio and video can, at least from a delivery point of view, move into the mainstream currently occupied almost exclusively by textual materials. This also facilitates more extensive research in the difficult problems of organizing, indexing, and providing intellectual access to these classes of materials.

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Medical Data Analysis The National Research Center in Cairo is developing a Medical Data Analysis, a non-intrusive method for capturing the electrical activity in the brain This project will help the practitioner to diagnose certain brain illness Data transfer, analysis and diagnosis are applied in the computing grid

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Protein Alignment The National Research Center in Egypt is trying to establish a project of Protein Alignment In this project discovered new protein sequence will be analyzed by comparison with genetic sequence databases, which are growing exponentially To speedup the analysis, a sequence database will be portioned and the tasks of sequence alignment will be distributed over a computational grid

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET High Speed Computing intint incinc * ts1ts1 ts2ts2 tsntsn  + n M C in 1 2 n  1 1  n n  2 2 lass1lass1 P11P11 B B B M M M P12P12 P1mP1m P21P21 P22P22 P2mP2m Pn1Pn1 Pn1Pn1 PnmPnm ) P11P11 P3P3 P5P5 P4P4 P2P2 P1P1 F J e3e3 e4e4 e2e2 e1e1 1. Grid parameters 1. Application parameters 3. Scheduling Grid Model Hierarchal Performance Model Application Model Grids/clusters are geographically distributed (one exists between university of Connecticut (US) and Electronics Research Institute (Egypt))

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Other Activities Other activities that would benefit from connecting to Internet2 include: Remote Sensing & Space Science Capacity Building

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Collaborative Research Work

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Collaborative Research Work Future Cooperation with Internet2 Community Content Delivery –Egyptian R&E Repository Medical Applications –Telemedicine (Tele-surgery, Tele-radiology, Tele-pathology..etc) High Speed Computing –Grid Computing Applied Sciences –Genetics Engineering –Biotechnology Applications –Nanotechnology Applications

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Collaborative Research Work Future Cooperation with Internet2 Community Renewable & Sustainable Energy Remote Sensing & Space Sciences Astronomy & Geophysics –Solar Research, –Seismology, –Geomagnetism, –GeoElectricity, –Geothermal, –Gravimetry, –Geodesy, and Geodynamics

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Collaborative Research Work Future Cooperation with Internet2 Community Digital Library & Interlibrary Loan Virtual Reality Applications Virtual R&E Community –Virtual Universities –Virtual Labs E-Learning

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Thank You …