R&E Networks in the rest of the world Status, Trends

1. R&E Networks in the rest of the world Status, Trends Heather Boyles, Internet2 heather@internet2.edu JET Meeting, 16 October 2007

2. Caveats • Not comprehensive! • One person’s knowledge/view • Very interested in additional information, corrections, etc.

3. Not focusing on…. • US connectivity with other R&E networks around the world • NSF-funded IRNC links • DOE-funded LHCnet links • IEEAF-donated links

4. Will highlight….. • New/changes in organizations • Network infrastructure trends, changes • Delivery by R&E networks of other infrastructures/services • Federated identity management infrastructures (Trust Federations) • Applications infrastructures

5. 87 Networks reachable via Internet2 Network Europe-Middle East Asia-Pacific Americas Europe (GEANT2) 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) Jordan (JUNET) Latvia (LATNET) Lithuania (LITNET) Luxembourg (RESTENA) Malta (Univ. Malta) Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway (UNINETT) Palestinian Territories (Gov’t Computing Center) Poland (PIONIER) Portugal (RCTS2) Qatar (Qatar FN) Romania (RoEduNet)Russia (RBnet, RUNNET) Slovakia (SANET) Slovenia (ARNES) Spain (RedIRIS) Sweden (SUNET) Switzerland (SWITCH) Syria (HIAST) United Kingdom (JANET) Turkey (ULAKBYM) *CERN Australia (AARNET) China (CERNET, CSTNET,NSFCNET) Fiji (USP-SUVA) Hong Kong (HARNET) India (ERNET) Indonesia (ITB) Japan (SINET, WIDE, JGN2) Korea (KOREN, KREONET2) Malaysia (MYREN) New Zealand (KAREN) Philippines (PREGINET) Singapore (SingAREN) Taiwan (TANet2, ASNet) Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN) Vietnam (VINAREN) Latin America (redCLARA) Argentina (RETINA) Brazil (RNP2/ANSP) Canada (CA*net) Chile (REUNA) Colombia (RENATA) Costa Rica (CR2Net) Guatemala (RAGIE) Mexico (Red-CUDI) Nicaragua (RENIA) Panama (RedCyT) Peru (RAAP) Uruguay (RAU2) Venezuela (REACCIUN2) Central Asia Africa Algeria (CERIST) Egypt (EUN/ENSTINET) Morocco (CNRST) Tunisia (RFR) South Africa (TENET) Armenia (ARENA) Georgia (GRENA) Kazakhstan (KAZRENA) Tajikistan (TARENA) Uzbekistan (UZSCI)

6. Trends • Network Infrastructure • Access to lowest layers • ‘buying’ dark fiber – equipping, operating • Building multiple networks on top of infrastructure • High-performance IP • ‘lightpaths’ or point-to-point circuits – static and dynamic for general use • Inter-domain protocols for setting up circuits • Community/application-specific networks • Network performance measurement/monitoring infrastructure • Regional aggregation of routed networks

7. Trends • Identity Management Infrastructure • More NRENs (esp. Europe) taking on operation of national trust federations • Inter-federation across national lines • Bilateral? Confederation? • Applications Infrastructure • Roaming infrastructure, e.g. EduRoam • Video-conferencing, voip, data storage, etc.

8. Europe: orgs and network infrastructure • Almost every country has a NREN • SEEREN project for southeastern Europe • Organizationally, mostly stable, no major changes • GEANT2 Network interconnects 34 countries • Organizationally, partnership of NRENs and DANTE • Mix of dark fiber and leased lines in backbone • Providing multiple networks on top of backbone infrastructure • High-performance IP Network • the GÉANT+ service • full wavelength (10Gbps) services • LHC OPN (GEANT2 backbone and NRENs) • EGEE-II and DEISA grid computing • NREN infrastructures • Mix of dark fiber, leased circuits, bought services • TERENA Compendium: http://www.terena.org/compendium

9. GÉANT2 Topology

10. Europe, perf infrastructure, routing • GEANT2 and several NRENs have adopted perfSONARmeas.&mon. infrastructure - http://www.perfsonar.net/ • Routing aggregation • Even NRENs with their own circuits to US (SURFnet, CESnet) use GEANT2 for IP Network internationally • European-efforts to support, encourage regional aggregations elsewhere – ALICE->redCLARA, TEIN2, EUMEDCONNECT, UbuntuNet Alliance

11. Europe: access, identity management, applications infrastructure • National Identity Management Federations at national level • SWITCH (CH), FEIDE, UKFederation and others • Confederation at European level? EduGain • Seems to be rethinking of confederation vs. bilateral inter-federation • EduRoam – currently Radius-based, specific to permit network access on foreign campuses – ultimately utilize national federations? • Interesting services in v.c., voip, texting • JANET(UK) – JANETtxt, JANETtalk • TERENA Compendium summarizes a number of services

12. Middle East (and North Africa) • Mediterranean Middle East • Several NRENs off the ground, some established (e.g. Israel part of GEANT2) • EUMEDCONNECT project providing inter-national connectivity, routing aggregation • Not generally dark fiber-based, not providing more than IP Network • Saudi peninsula and Gulf states • Qatar Foundation connectivity for universities in Doha, with some other movement – UAE, Saudi Arabia • National telecom monopolies strong • North Africa • Several NRENs off the ground – largely connected internationally via EUMEDCONNECT • Egypt has additional connection to New York (MAN LAN) • National telecom monopolies strong

13. North Africa and Middle East - EUMEDCONNECT • 11 Mediterranean • Countries connected since • 2004, 7 wholly reliant • serving 1.4M users in • 400+ Institutions • Major users include • EUMEDGRID • MedGeNet • Closely connected to • GEANT2

14. Saudi/Gulf States connectivity opportunities

15. Middle East: • EUMEDGrid • European-funded effort to establish ‘grid’ infrastructure amongst EUMED countries

16. Sub Saharan Africa • TENET (SA), KENET (KE) and a few others with emerging NRENs (MoREnet, ZAMREN) • Assoc. of African Universities R&E Networks initiative - http://www.aau.org/renu • Sharing, org structure, rationale, technical knowledge • Telecom company services-based, but looking for dark fiber • UbuntuNet Alliance – southern and eastern Africa - http://www.ubuntunet.net

17. Géant General Internet Ub-EU Connection to GEANT2 • Relatively short lived • Enable NRENs to connect NRENs using existing internet connections • Establish a router in Europe • Will involve NRENs/institutions in renumbering their IP addresses

18. Central Asia • NRENs developed mostly motivated by SILK project • Established low-level satellite connectivity to a pop in each country • SILK-II increased bandwidth, better network management • Fiber coming to Caucuses, opportunities to Central Asia – cost remains key factor

19. Location of Remote Silk-1 Nodes X X X X X X X X X OCCASION at APAN-2007, Xian

20. South Asia • NREN organizations in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, effort emerging in Bangladesh • Only current connectivity to global R&E fabric is India (45Mbps to GEANT2; 1G for 2xTier2 LHC sites to CERN) • Largely bought telecom services – although PERN (Pakistan) has ambitious plans for dark fiber connectivity between PoPs • TransPAC2 supplemental funding to support connection with PERN • TEIN3 2008 feasibility study – including extending to South Asia

21. Southeast Asia • New-ish NRENs include Vietnam, Indonesia • Motivated in large part by TEIN2 project • TEIN2 primary provider of inter-connectivity within southeast Asia, to other parts of world • Mostly bought telecom services still, some lower-layer access (China)

22. 9 Asian countries and Australia connected since 2006 • Serving 30M users in 3,800 institutions • Major uses include: • China/EU traffic • Tele-medecine • E-learning programmes • Strong co-operation between partners

23. East Asia and Pacific • More R&E networks have access to lower layer infrastructure – Australia, China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea(?) • Building multiple networks/services on these infrastructures • Application-specific and dynamic circuit services • CERNET (CN) deploying perfSONAR-like system of monitoring/measurement • Trials in Japan, Korea, but not yet full deployment • Regional aggregation in routing has increased somewhat (mostly TEIN2), but still see multiple individual IP Network links to rest of world

25. East Asia and Pacific • Trust federations forming in Australia, Japan, some interest in China • eduRoam popular service for NRENs in Asia • AARNET (AU) has extensive voip, video applications infrastructure/services • CERNET (CN) deployment of DVTS video in 25 sites – stimulate v6 usage

26. South America (and other parts of North America) • Mexico, central and south America – most NRENs now established • Motivated by first AMPATH project and the redCLARA continental backbone • Outside of Brazil, maybe Chile, current access to lower layers is limited • NRENs and redCLARA providing dedicated IP Networks • Brazil exploring dedicated circuit-type services • Astronomers and their facilities are key community-specific customers – redCLARA connectivity dedicated to astronomers in Chile • RNP (BR) is key partner in perfSONAR development –anticipate deployment in Brazil and perhaps redCLARA

28. Canada • New CANARIE infrastructure • Mix of 72 wavelength ROADM network and purchased services • Also ORAN infrastructure • IP Network and UCLP-based topology-specific network capabilities • CANARIE Network Enabled Platforms • VO-based efforts to assemble pieces of cyberinfrastructure to support different disciplines - http://www.canarie.ca/conferences/platforms/info.html

30. Caribbean • Limited ‘national’ R&E network organizations/activity • University and research institution interest • Universities in Puerto Rico connected • University of the US Virgin Islands real soon now (via FIU) • Connectivity potential via CKLN initiative • redCLARA, AMPATH linkages

31. Antarctica • Several stations/research sites with satellite access • Interest from Kongsberg in downlink connection to Internet2 network in New York • USAP connectivity via Colorado to Internet2 • NASA links