1. Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) August 31, 2001 Kazunori Konishi NOC Director http://www.jp.apan.net/

2. Why not by commercial Internet? Researchers should work more for the society. Local governments can play the key role for fiber/Internet deployments. Pilot users are required for developing technologies. New cost model can be applied for the pilot users.

3. Members(in Japan) Ministries –Education –Post & Telecom –METI –Agriculture NGO –WIDE(Keio Univ.) –Genkai(to be planned)

4. Topology APAN Topology

5. Examples of Projects Region-Oriented: –Earth monitoring –Agriculture/Gene –Remote Education US-Originated –VoIP/QoS –Grid/Lambda Network

6. Objectivity RAID Grid Architecture Objectivity RAID Objectivity RAID Objectivity RAID Objectivity RAID Objectivity RAID Objectivity RAID Database layer Compute node Compute layer Interconnect layer Peta Bytes Thousands of CPUs High-speed BB Lambda network Multiple 10Gbps Grid Network will be the backbone of next generation research networks.

7. Two International Gateways (in future) Tokyo Fukuoka Pusan Seoul Qingdao Beijing Shanghai USA