1. Internet2: Global Partnerships
Ana Preston Program Manager, International
Dia CUDI Universidad de Colima 18 September 2003

2. Outline of talk Who is this person? What is Internet2?
Global partnerships
CUDI and Internet2
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3. Internet2: Mission and Goals
Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s internet.
Enable new generation of applications
Create leading edge R&E network capability: Supporting advanced service efforts (multicast, IPv6, QoS, Measurement, Security)
Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet
Universities strive for qualitative and quantitative improvements:
In support of research
In support of teaching and learning
Challenges:
how to accelerate the change in technologies and applications on the internet to support new demands for the research and education community?
how can new technologies be incorporated into the existing Internet?
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4. Internet2 Partnerships
Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy
Industry
Government
International
Partnerships are the foundation of how the Internet developed and they are also a part of the foundation of Internet2.
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5. Internet2: communities
International Partners
University Members
BoFs
Workshops & Meetings
Working Groups
Corporate Members
Boards & Councils
SIGs
Affiliate Members
Shared interests and joint effort
K20 Community
205+ university members with commitments from their Presidents/Chancellors/Rectors
50+ corporate members
Over 40 Affiliate Members
Government Research Agencies (NSF, NIH, NASA, etc)
Government Partners
GigaPoPs
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6. Applications and Engineering
Motivate
Enables
Engineering 4

7. Putting it together motivate enable Applications Middleware Services
International
motivate
enable
End-to-end Performance
Networks
Middleware
Applications
Services
Security
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8. Abilene International Peering
Last updated: 01 August 2003
Abilene International Peering

9. Networks reachable via Abilene - by country
Last updated: 01 August 2003
Networks reachable via Abilene - by country
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 (LANET)
Lithuania (LITNET)
Luxembourg (RESTENA)
Malta (Univ. Malta)
Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway (UNINETT)
Poland (POL34)
Portugal (RCTS2)
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, IMNET, JGN)
Korea (KOREN, KREONET2)
Singapore (SingAREN)
Philippines (PREGINET)
Taiwan (TANet2, ASNet)
Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN)
Argentina (RETINA)
Brazil (RNP2/ANSP)
Canada (CA*net)
Chile (REUNA)
Mexico (Red-CUDI)
United States
(Abilene, vBNS)
Venezuela
(REACCIUN-2)
More information at
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10. International Partner Program
Build effective partnerships in other countries
With organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies
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
MoU in brief:
Provide/promote interconnectivity between communities
Collaborate on technology development and deployment
Facilitate collaboration between members on applications
Encourage technology transfer
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11. International Partnerships
Europe-Middle East
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)
Israel-IUCC (Israel)
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)
Asia-Pacific
AAIREP (Australia)
APAN (Asia-Pacific)
APAN-KR (Korea)
APRU (Asia-Pacific)
CERNET/CSTNE/NSFCNET (China)
JAIRC (Japan)
JUCC (Hong Kong)
NECTEC/UNINET (Thailand)
SingAREN (Singapore)
TANet2 (Taiwan)
Americas
CANARIE (Canada)
CEDIA (Ecuador)
CUDI (Mexico)
CNTI (Venezuela)
CR2NET (Costa Rica)
REUNA (Chile)
RETINA (Argentina)
RNP (Brazil)
SENACYT (Panama)
Key:
Dark green: Current MoU partners
Medium green: Developing Partnerships
Gray: Related Efforts in Formation
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12. International importance
Our members are increasingly dependent on access globally to resources: collaborators, data, scientific instruments.
Access to scientific instruments with specific geo-location needs:
optical telescopes: e.g., Cerro Pachon, Chile; operated by US and other countries
Radio telescopes: establishing distributed “antennae” network (e.g., US, Asia, Europe, South America) for very-long baseline interferometry (beyond experiments pushing the network, obtaining finer-grain pictures of the cosmos)
Access to/collecting geo-specific data and getting it back for analysis, visualization, sharing, prevention
Malaria data in sub-Saharan Africa
Heard of SARS? (WHO, NIH, universities)
Environmental data from the Amazon or Antartica
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13. Access to people for teaching/learning
Singular instruments: not possible for each country to “afford” for their own country:
30-story scanning electron microscope in Japan
Large-Hedron collider at CERN in Geneva: great example of an international-funded facility where collaborators around the world (1000s) are working to conduct experiments together using these facilities
Access to people for teaching/learning
Zuckerman for a violin class
Distance education and exchanges
Multi-disciplinary real problems
telemedicine, second opinion network opportunities, border issues, environmental research, etc.
El Nino
Disaster preparedness programs
Bio-technology / genomics
apps.internet2.edu for more information and details
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14. Changes in global “networking”
The US has played a key role in having very rich connectivity to the ‘world’
many initiatives outside the US are engaging and establishing leadership roles in connecting to the world
North America and the rest of the continent – some closing of the gap… some expanding…not unlike what is happening around the world: the getting to hard-to-reach places of the world
More than ever, we need to solidify our international ties and work and learn from our partners around the world
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15. Continental Research Networking Initiatives and Issues - highlights

16. Europe – International connectivity
Outreach to:
SE Europe (Balkans) (SEEREN)
Med. (+N. Africa) (EUMEDCONNECT)
Asia (TEIN)
Central Asia/Caucasia (Virtual Silk Hgwy – NATO)
S. America
31 countries connecting
Operated by DANTE
10 Gbps core backbone
Connectors at 10Gbps(2) and below
Total of 4x2.5Gbps + 2x1Gbps across Atlantic (DANTE & EuroLink provided)
Report on present status of international connectivity in Europe and to other continents From SERENATE – Study into European Research and Education Networking As Targeted by eEurope,

17. Europe - highlights
Pan-European network: GEANT-
DANTE – management/planning of networking needs
TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Network Association)
Membership association of National Research and Education Networks (NRNs); No network, but technology and applications working groups
Individual countries: NRENs
Generally connect higher ed and research centers
Connect to GEANT backbone network
“Lambda” connectivity between NRENs emerging
European-wide technology, grid and science projects using high performance networks
DataGrid; European vLBI network (EVN); 6NET
Compendium of European NRENs (2002)
TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Network Association)
Membership association of National Research Networks (NRNs)
No network, but technology and applications working groups
GEANT
Pan-European network (connects together National Research Networks)
Operated by DANTE
vlbi:very long baseline interferometry: Radio telescopes around the world can be linked together electronically to create an earth-sized "interferometer," which creates the effect of one giant telescope as large as the earth
e-VLBI: explore the current state of high-speed astronomy data transmission, concentrating on the transmission of pre-correlation VLBI
1st tests: October, Japan, US (Haystack) Surfnet
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18. Asia-Pacific - highlights
APAN: Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
Partner in TransPAC link
Several national networks moving to 10Gbps
APAN network made up of country-owned point2point links contributed to APAN
Trans Eurasia and Trans Pacific connectivity increasing
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19. APAN: Asia Pacific Advanced Networking Consortium
North Cluster
(CN, JP, KR, …)
Russia
Europe
North America
Japan
Korea
Central Asia Net
USA
China
Taiwan
Hong Kong
South Asia Net
Thailand
Vietnam
Philippines
Malaysia
West Asia Net
In the horizon: south asia -- India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (U. Colombo through Ai2 project and LEARN project) , Bangladesh; Little current connectivity
July meeting to bring together NRNs or possible NRN members in region
Connectivity to APAN? To Europe? TBD
Sri Lanka
Singapore
Indonesia
Southeast Cluster
(MY, SG, TH,…)
Oceania Cluster
(AU,…)
Exchange Point
Access Point
Current status
2003 (plan)
Australia
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20. Americas
Canada: 1st Internet2 MoU partner; leading partner in global initiatives
Mexico: several direct connections with our neighbor
Central America: Costa Rica currently exploring peering options to the US, as well as Panama
South America: Brazil, Chile and Argentina – leading the way for South America – all currently connected with at least 45 Mbps; strong application communities (e.g., astronomy, bio-technology, and many more) and many hosts to key scientific resources/instruments that can be reached by US researchers (e.g., Gemini, ALMA)
Newest partners (just signed MoU with them at Fall meeting): Ecuador and Venezuela – strong efforts underway
With many countries have bridged a strong dialogue and hope to continue expanding our partnership to with many more countries in the region.
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21. Americas - highlights Canada:
CANARIE: 1st Internet2 MoU partner
CA*Net: 18,000 km OC192 wavelength network
Customer controlled wavelengths
Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela all peering with Internet2 networks
AMPATH: Florida International University (Global Crossing)
currently AR, BR (2), CL -> 45 Mbps
point to point from Miami
Initial boost for Advanced Networking in LA
Stimulus for advanced connectivity inside each country
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22. Latin America - highlights
During last 3 years, several firms have been building optical fiber rings in LA&C
Significant projects underway
Opening exciting and new possibilities for cooperation in advanced technological and scientific applications
Until very recently, the only available telecom infrastructure for data communication was by satellite
cost independent of distance
no incentive for establishing links within the region, as all countries were mainly interested in access to global Internet
Recent important changes (since late 1990s):
end of state telecom monopoly in many countries
competition and lower prices
building out of new infrastructure based on submarine fibre optical cables
Panamerican Global Crossing & Emergia ImpSat Transandino UniSur Global Crossing
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23. CLARA: Cooperacion Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas
Association of NRENs in LA open to all LA Countries
Background:
@LIS: Alliance for the Information Society ( )
CAESAR: promote EU-LA connectivity
Project ALICE - América Latina Interconecta Con Europa
September/October 2003: Phase I connection to Europe at 155 Mpbs)
CAESAR Workshop 2002 in Toledo became starting point for CLARA
cooperative organisation for advanced networking in LA
regional network: feasibility study showed budget sufficient to establish advanced connectivity to all LA countries
CLARA is not limited time scale and restrictions
Will connect LA to Europe and to other regions
Cost to connect to the backbone will be the same for every country at equal bandwidth
Improve I2 connectivity by optimising LA participation in AMPATH
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24. Internet2 – CUDI partnership
via Memorandum of Understanding
In place since May 1999
Abilene – CUDI Peering
400 Mbps of connectivity (via California and Texas)
Strong and increasing Internet2 – CUDI collaborations
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25. Conclusions Internet2 focused on:
Working together to advance the development and use of networking infrastructure, technologies and applications
AND
Putting in place the community-wide, interoperable infrastructure (at network, middleware, advanced services levels) to support development and use for research, teaching, learning
Leading-edge, high-performance network infrastructure is being put in place to support science, research, teaching and learning in countries around the world
As a global community, we need to work even more closely together to ensure support for global applications on an end to end basisyes.
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26. Points of Contact - Information
Ana Preston Program Manager
Muchas Gracias!
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