1. KDDI-America - Indiana University International Networking Activities James Williams Director – International Networking Director – Network Operations Service Desk TransPAC2 Principal Investigator 20-January-2008

2. High-performance networking as a tool To facilitate international collaborations in research and education To enable sharing of expensive/scarce resources (telescopes, microscopes, …) To provide access to scientific materials and databases To enable one-way and multipoint telepresence (medical activities)

3. Most current TransPAC2 slide goes here Current TransPAC2 Network

4. TransPAC2 including Pakistan

5. Indiana University – KDDI-America Partnership in Asia The current TransPAC2 connection to Asia is funded by the US National Science Foundation and our partners in Japan. KDDI-A has been the long-term provider of TransPAC2 connectivity. The Indiana University – KDDI-America partnership is quite strong. Our NOCs cooperate well together. KDDI-America provides excellent hands/eyes service for IU in Los Angeles.

6. The next 18 months… The IRNC program, which funds the TransPAC2 network, will continue until at least 1-January-2010. Depending on the timing of a new IRNC-2 solicitation, IRNC-1 may be extended until 1-January-2011. There are plans for a new IRNC-2 solicitation at some time in 2009. Indiana University, Internet2 and APAN will surely partner in responding to this solicitation. This will require a new RFP for a new set of services.

7. IRNC-2 Issues Current bandwidth is sufficient Bandwidth needs to be allocated more effectively and dynamically Security and performance measurement will be more important.

8. IRNC and TEIN2 Asia Circuits

9. Interesting URLs… TransPAC2: http://www.transpac2.nethttp://www.transpac2.net APAN: http://www.apan.nethttp://www.apan.net NSF IRNC program: http://www.irnclinks.nethttp://www.irnclinks.net GlobalNOChttp://globalnoc.iu.eduhttp://globalnoc.iu.edu Me: williams@indiana.eduwilliams@indiana.edu