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Activities with Kazakhstan

Activities with Kazakhstan. Peter T. Kirstein Department of Computer Science UCL. The Silk Project. Under NATO Science for Peace Programme I chaired Network Panel 2001 Started Silk Project in 2000 Went live Oct 2002 Provides Internet connectivity to whole region

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Activities with Kazakhstan

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  1. Activities with Kazakhstan Peter T. Kirstein Department of Computer Science UCL Presentation on KZ collaboration

  2. The Silk Project • Under NATO Science for Peace Programme • I chaired Network Panel 2001 • Started Silk Project in 2000 • Went live Oct 2002 • Provides Internet connectivity to whole region • Supplemented by Network Infrastructure grants • Main Kazakh colleague Prof Boris Japarov, General Director of KazRENA Presentation on KZ collaboration

  3. X X X X X X X X Location of Remote Silk Nodes X Presentation on KZ collaboration

  4. Configuration of Silk until 2008 Presentation on KZ collaboration

  5. Silk Parameters • Political Decision of initially same bandwidth for all, one node per country • Technical need to go by satellite at the time • Connects NRENs internationally • NATO helped fund national connectivity via Network Infrastructure Grants • Initially supposed to be 6/24 Mbps for region • Silk-2 supposed to be 30/120 Mbps • Failure of satellite reduced this to about 20/80 Mbps Presentation on KZ collaboration

  6. Development of Silk • Initially connectivity from NATO, management from EC, Equipment partially Cisco • In 2008 moved all Caucasus to fibre • March 2009 new EC BSI will take all their traffic • Moved KG to fibre end 2009 (6/6 Mbps), and will move KZ 1/3/09 (15/15 Mbps) • Intend to keep operational to 6/10 help transition to EC-funced CAREN, which will start in early 2010 – hopefully with 155 Mbps for KZ Presentation on KZ collaboration

  7. National Connectivity • NATO provided NIGs to help national build of NRENs • Boris wanted this by satellite • Fibre was prohibitively expensive • Provided funds for 7-9 sites, but satellite solution turned out to be difficult • Boris persuaded KazakhTelecom to give more reasonable tariffs, and uses fibre Presentation on KZ collaboration

  8. KAZRENA INTERNET TRAFFIC DEMAND Presentation on KZ collaboration

  9. Tools for Collaboration • To manage Silk, set up Exco and Silk Board • SB physical meeting in silk countries 2-3 per year • Exco has weekly TC (Boris represents CA) • Have monthly VCs • To help this have set up VoIP and videoconferencing facilities in each country Presentation on KZ collaboration

  10. CERT, VoIP and Conferencing • Under NIG, set up Computer Emergency Response Team in each Silk site (CERT) • Initial pure managerial use of VoIP was extended under EC OCCASION plus NATO NIG, RUG donation, Cisco discount to provide ~150 terminals • 50 have been provided to KZ for mainly use domestically amongst administrators • Have provided switches in DESY and UCL that can be used; KZ uses own also • Coul extend this area if of interest • UCL could provide technical assistance Presentation on KZ collaboration

  11. MAIN KZ GROWTH INDICATORS Presentation on KZ collaboration

  12. Conclusions • In the network field UCL already has been running a programme which involves KZ • It has included Internet connectivity, training and collaboration tools • Though most UCL activity has been managerial, with funding and manpower from others • The KZ needs are growing rapidly • UCL could assist technically In managing this growth Presentation on KZ collaboration

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