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Brazilian Collaborative Projects in Advanced Networking. Márcio L Bunte de Carvalho mlbc @ rnp.br. Topics. The Brazilian Strategy ReMAV National Backbone Internet2 Interconnection Advanced Networking Development Ongoing Collaborations. Brazilian Strategy. ReMAV
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Brazilian Collaborative Projects in Advanced Networking Márcio L Bunte de Carvalho mlbc @ rnp.br
Topics • The Brazilian Strategy • ReMAV • National Backbone • Internet2 Interconnection • Advanced Networking Development • Ongoing Collaborations
Brazilian Strategy • ReMAV • Government sponsored Call for Proposals • Consortium between universities, infrastructure providers and application-driven institutions to: • implement advanced MANs • train people on how to use and operate advanced MANs
Brazilian Strategy • ReMAVs • First ReMAV begin operation in 1999 • 14 cities (34 to 622Mbps) • 79 institutions: universities, research institutions, government, telecom, cable TV companies, electrical, hospitals and TV stations • total investment $20 M • 10+ different applications
Brazilian Strategy • Current Applications at ReMAVs • Digital/Virtual Libraries • Distance Learning • Network Management • Geographical Information Systems (GIS) • Tele and Videoconferencing • Health and Medicine • Video on Demand
Brazilian Strategy • RNP2: National Research and Education Backbone • ATM in 13 cities (155 to 34Mbps) • Frame relay in 14 cities (2 Mbps increments) • Finished Sep ‘2000 • Transit for 15 regional backbones • Differentiated services: production and experimentation
Brazilian Strategy • Interconnection with Internet 2 • OC3 link from Advanced ANSP (Academic Network of São Paulo) • OC3 link from RNP2 • AmPath (and RNP2) – DS3 link – Spring 2001
Brazilian Strategy • Advanced Networking Development • Government Sponsored: S&T and Education • Collaboration Objectives: • Consolidate collaboration between ReMAVs • Enhance collaboration with internet2 and other international initiatives
Brazilian Strategy • Advanced Networking Development • Area coordinators: • Engineering: José Suruagy Monteiro suruagy@rnp.br • Middleware: Michael Stanton michael@rnp.br • Applications: Liane Tarouco liane@rnp.br
Ongoing Collaboration • Remote Collaboration • Richard Walters - UCDavis - RCT http://escher.cs.ucdavis.edu:1024/ • Liane Tarouco - UFRGS - EQUITEXT http://equitext.pgie.ufrgs.br/
Ongoing Collaboration • Integrated Environment for Collaborative Work Across Internets • Integrate network of reflectors • CERN & CALTECH • Philippe Galvez • UFRGS • Liane Tarouco • Fabricio Raupp Tamusiunas
Ongoing Collaboration • Capture of Synchronous Meetings • (and the corresponding generation of MM hyperdocuments) • Gregory Abowd - College of Computing - GeorgiaTech • Maria da Graça Campos Pimentel - USP - S. Carlos • http://eclass.icmc.sc.usp.br:8080/inca-serve/
Ongoing Collaboration • Earth Observation System Data Information (EOSDIS) • Related topics: vegetation, oceanography (Tropical and South Atlantic), agriculture, meteorology, climatology, mineral resources, etc. • INPE - (Brazilian) National Institute of Space Research • NASA • http://www.atsme.inpe.br
Ongoing Collaboration • Application Level Adaptation and Control for Retrieval and Delivery of Continuous Media over the Internet (COMIT) • Edmundo de Souza e Silva - UFRJ • Bethier Ribeiro Neto - UFMG • Richard Muntz - UCLA • Donald Towsley - UMass, Amherst • Leana Golubchik - Univ. of Maryland • http://www.land.ufrj.br
Ongoing Collaboration • Species Analyst - distributed database for biodiversity data • Fundação André Tosello – Campinas SP • The University of Kansas • http://habanero.nhm.ukansas.edu/TSA
Further Informations • http://www.rnp.br