1. Taiwan R&E Networks International Link Updates (2004/07)
Yu-lin APAN-TW NOC
Academia Sinica Computing Centre

2. Working Area (by TW-NSC)
TANet (operated by MOECC)
Internet-1 (commercial) connection to U.S.- West Coast (Palo Alto PAIX)
The term of “User Communities”
TANet2/TWAREN (operated by NCHC)
U.S.-West (Seattle PNW GigaPoP) and StarLight, link to Abilene (the Internet-2)
ASNet (operated by ASCC, i.e. APAN-TW NOC)
Connections to other areas
Currently has Asia-Pacific and European connections
TokyoXP (APAN, Tokyo Japan)
Hong Kong
Singapore (SingAREN)
StarLight (Chicago IL U.S.A.)
AMSIX (Amsterdam The Netherlands)

3. TW R&E Network International Connections
US-West
US-East
Japan
622M + 1G
6.2G (now)
* 2.5 to Seattle
* 3.7 to PAIX
622M
2.5Gbps
2.5G
622M
Hong Kong
HARNet
NL-Amsterdam
AMSIX
155M
Singapore
SingAREN

4. Services from ASNet / APAN-TW
Dark fiber and High Speed (GE, 10GE, STM16, STM64) IPv4/IPv6 links for RENs in the capital city of Taiwan (the TaipeiGigaPoP Metropolitan Network System)
IPv6 transition help and consultancy for RENs and ISPs
H.323 conference hosting
International transit and links
Managed international layer-2 circuits (the “EzLink” service for APAN members)

5. More contributions to Asia Pacific
Would like to be part of APAN infrastructure
Asian-Pacific Links
The TW-JP, TW-HK, and TW-SG links
Integrate these links to APAN as part of infrastructure to provide transit and backups, as well as the L2 circuits
Asian-Pacific PoPs
APAN-TW established the TW/HK/SG PoPs
Provide these PoPs to be connection points for APAN members
European Link
The TW-NL link provides transit, backups, and L2 circuits
Integrate the link to APAN as part of infrastructure

6. APAN 2004 with Taiwan (modified from Prof Chon’s picture)
100 Gbps
2.4Gbps
Europe
USA
10Gbps
Russia
35Gbps
Korea
1~2.5 Gbps(?)
2Gbps
10Gbps
6.2Gbps
Japan
China
Taiwan
622Mbps
2.5Gbps
2.5~5Gbps
1~2.5 Gbps(?)
155Mbps
Hong Kong
Singapore
622Mbps

7. Thank you.