Internet2: Global Partnerships

1. Internet2: Global Partnerships Ana Preston apreston@internet2.eduProgram Manager, International Dia Virtual: Centros CONACYT 4 November 2003

2. Outline of talk • Who is this person? • What is Internet2? • Global partnerships • CUDI and Internet2

3. Internet2: Mission and Goals • Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s internet. • Enable new generation of applications • Create leading edge R&E network capability: Supporting advanced service efforts (multicast, IPv6, QoS, Measurement, Security) • Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

4. Internet2 Partnerships • Internet2 universities are recreating the partnerships that fostered the Internet in its infancy • Industry • Government • International

5. Workshops &Meetings WorkingGroups Boards &Councils SIGs BoFs Internet2: communities InternationalPartners UniversityMembers CorporateMembers AffiliateMembers Shared interestsand joint effort K20Community GovernmentPartners GigaPoPs

6. Applications and Engineering Applications Motivate Enables Engineering

7. Applications End-to-end Performance Security motivate enable Middleware Services Networks Putting it together International

8. Last updated: 01 October 2003 Abilene International Peering

9. Last updated: 01 August 2003 Networks reachable via Abilene - by country Europe-Middle East Asia-Pacific Americas 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) Latvia (LANET) Lithuania (LITNET) Luxembourg (RESTENA) Malta (Univ. Malta) Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway (UNINETT) Poland (POL34) Portugal (RCTS2) Romania (RoEduNet)Russia (RBnet) Slovakia (SANET) Slovenia (ARNES) Spain (RedIRIS) Sweden (SUNET) Switzerland (SWITCH) United Kingdom (JANET) Turkey (ULAKBYM) *CERN Australia (AARNET) China (CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET) Hong Kong (HARNET) Japan (SINET, WIDE, IMNET, JGN) Korea (KOREN, KREONET2) Singapore (SingAREN) Philippines (PREGINET) Taiwan (TANet2, ASNet) Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN) Argentina (RETINA) Brazil (RNP2/ANSP) Canada (CA*net) Chile (REUNA) Mexico (Red-CUDI) United States (Abilene, vBNS) Venezuela (REACCIUN-2) More information at http://abilene.internet2.edu/peernetworks/international.html

10. International Partner Program • Build effective partnerships in other countries • With organizations of similar goals/objectives and similar constituencies • Mechanism: Memoranda of Understanding • Provide/promote interconnectivity between communities • Collaborate on technology development and deployment • Facilitate collaboration between members on applications • Engagement to: • Establish leading, high-performance network infrastructures in support of science, teaching and learning • Ensure global coordination and end-to-end performance in support of our communities

11. Europe-Middle East ARNES (Slovenia) BELNET (Belgium) CARNET (Croatia) CESnet (Czech Republic) DANTE (Europe) DFN-Verein (Germany) GIP RENATER (France) GRNET (Greece) HEAnet (Ireland) HUNGARNET (Hungary) INFN-GARR (Italy) Israel-IUCC (Israel) NORDUnet (Nordic Countries) POL-34 (Poland) Qatar Foundation (Qatar) FCCN (Portugal) RedIRIS (Spain) RESTENA (Luxembourg) RIPN (Russia) SANET (Slovakia) Stichting SURF (Netherlands) SWITCH (Switzerland) TERENA (Europe) JISC, UKERNA (United Kingdom) Americas CANARIE (Canada) CEDIA (Ecuador)CLARA (Latin America & Caribbean) CUDI (Mexico) CNTI (Venezuela) CR2NET (Costa Rica) REUNA (Chile) RETINA (Argentina) RNP (Brazil) SENACYT (Panama) Asia-Pacific AAIREP (Australia) APAN (Asia-Pacific) APAN-KR (Korea) APRU (Asia-Pacific) CERNET/CSTNE/NSFCNET (China) JAIRC (Japan) JUCC (Hong Kong) NECTEC/UNINET (Thailand) NG-NZ (New Zealand) SingAREN (Singapore) TANet2 (Taiwan) Last updated: 01 October 2003 Current International Partners

12. International importance • Our members are increasingly dependent on access globally to resources: collaborators, data, scientific instruments. • Access to scientific instruments with specific geo-location needs: • optical telescopes: e.g., Cerro Pachon, Chile; operated by US and other countries • Radio telescopes: establishing distributed “antennae” network (e.g., US, Asia, Europe, South America) for very-long baseline interferometry (beyond experiments pushing the network, obtaining finer-grain pictures of the cosmos) • Access to/collecting geo-specific data and getting it back for analysis, visualization, sharing, prevention • Malaria data in sub-Saharan Africa • Heard of SARS? (WHO, NIH, universities) • Environmental data from the Amazon or Antartica

13. Singular instruments: not possible for each country to “afford” for their own country: • 30-story scanning electron microscope in Japan • Large-Hedron collider at CERN in Geneva: great example of an international-funded facility where collaborators around the world (1000s) are working to conduct experiments together using these facilities • Access to people for teaching/learning • Multi-disciplinary real problems • telemedicine, second opinion network opportunities, border issues, environmental research, etc. • El Nino • Sismology, volcanology • Disaster preparedness programs • Bio-technology / genomics • apps.internet2.edu for more information and details

14. Astronomy and Physics well-known drivers for Internet2 - Examples: Radio astronomy: • Astronomers collect data about a star from many different earth based antennae and send the data to a specialized computer for analysis on a 24x7 basis. • E-VLBI (electronic very large baseline interferomety)VLBI is not as concerned with data loss as they are with long term stability. • The end goal is to send data at 1Gb/s from over 20 antennae that are located around the globe. • High energy physics: • CERN (Switzerland); High Energy and Nuclear Physics groups • Terabytes of data (1,000,000,000,000 or 1x1012) • sensitivity of data and transfer challenges • Optical , astrophysics….. List goes on…

15. Setting the stage: Cyberinfrastrucuture Daniel E. Atkins, Chair, University of Michigan Kelvin K. Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma Stuart I. Feldman, IBM Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University Michael L. Klein, University of Pennsylvania David G. Messerschmitt, University of California at Berkeley Paul Messina, California Institute of Technology Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Princeton University Margaret H. Wright,New York University http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/ Source: NSF update – Kevin Thompson (Fall 2003 Member meeting) Presentation at http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/fall-03/20031014-NSFUpdate-Thompson.ppt

16. [Cyber] infrastructure • The term infrastructure has been used since the 1920’s to refer collectively to the roads, bridges, rail lines, and similar public works that are required for an industrial economy to function • The recent term cyberinfrastructure refers to an infrastructure based upon computer, information and communication technology (increasingly) required for discovery, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge • Traditional infrastructure is required for an industrial economy • Cyberinfrastructure is required for an information economy The PROMISE of cyber infrastructure: • Ubiquitous, digital knowledge environments that are both interactive and functionally complete………… (Atkins report) • revolutionize the processes of discovery, learning and innovation across the science and engineering frontier.

17. Components of CyberInfrastructure-enabled science & engineering High-performance computing for modeling, simulation, data processing/mining People Instruments for observation and characterization. Individual & Global Connectivity Physical World Group Interfaces & Visualization Facilities for activation, manipulation and Collaboration construction Services Knowledge management institutions for collection building and curation of data, information, literature, digital objects Source: Paul Messina – Fall 2003 Internet2 member meeting, “Cyberinfrastrucutre: Promises and Challenges” presentation at http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/fall-03/20031014-Plenary-Messina.htm

18. e-Science and Information Utilities (John Taylor, Head of UK SRCs) e-Science • science is increasingly done through distributedglobalcollaborations between people, enabled by the internet • using very large data collections, terascale computing resources and high performance visualisation • derived from instruments and facilities controlled and shared via the infrastructure • Scaling X1000 in processing power, data, bandwidth

19. 21st Century Science & Engineering • The three fold way • theory • experiment • computational simulation • Supported by • multimodal collaboration systems • distributed, multi-petabyte data archives • leading edge computing systems • distributed experimental facilities • internationally distributed multidisciplinary teams Simulation Experiment Theory

20. Changes in global “networking” • The US has played a key role in having very rich connectivity to the ‘world’ • many initiatives outside the US are engaging and establishing leadership roles in connecting to the world • North America and the rest of the continent – some closing of the gap… some expanding…not unlike what is happening around the world: the getting to hard-to-reach places of the world • More than ever, we need to solidify our international ties and work and learn from our partners around the world

21. Internet2 – CUDI partnership • Internet2 – CUDI Partnership • via Memorandum of Understanding • In place since May 1999 • Abilene – CUDI Peering • 400 Mbps of connectivity (via California and Texas) • Strong and increasing Internet2 – CUDI collaborations

22. Multi-disciplinary involvement : new opportunities for solving real problems • TRIMS project: Transboundary Information Management System (United States – Mexico border • Center for Environmental Resource Management - http://www.cerm.utep.ed • Integrative information management (GIS) system (current, reliable and consistent information on the border) • Assistance towards local, regional and binational organizations - ‘the grid-enabled border” • via multi-point videoconferences via Internet2 network and CUDI – Mexican network: Symposiums (x) to define issues and facilitate dialogue between universities throughout border and with agencies (e.g., HUD, EPA, Dept. Health and counterparts in Mexico) • http://www.trims.org

23. PanamericanE-mergia (Telefonica)ImpSatTransandinoUniSurGlobal Crossing New Optical Cables in Latin America

24. Americas

25. AMPATH • In 2000 thanks to an initiative by FIU, Global Crossing donates 10 DS-3s to be used by 10 countries in LA to connect to the Internet2 thru a POP located in Miami • In June 2001, Chile’s REUNA becomes the first LA NREN to get connected to the Ampath POP • In December 2001, both Argentina (RETINA) and Brazil (RNP) get connected to Ampath • In January 2002, FAPESP from Brazil connects to Ampath separetly from RNP • In April 2003, Venezuela’s REACCIUN gets connected to Ampath • All links are DS-3 • All connections are free of charge from GC for 3 years

26. Present Internet2 Connectivity in Latin America AmPath • uses Global Crossing • connects AR, BR (2), CL, VE • 45 Mbps • all connections are point to point from Miami, and thence to Abilene Mexico • cross-border connections to USA (TX and CA)

27. CLARA: Cooperacion Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas • Association of NRENs in LA open to all LA Countries • Background: • @LIS: Alliance for the Information Society (2003-2005) • CAESAR: promote EU-LA connectivity • Project ALICE - América Latina Interconecta Con Europa • September/October 2003: Phase I connection to Europe at 155 Mpbs)

28. Conclusions • Internet2 focused on: • Working together to advance the development and use of networking infrastructure, technologies and applications • AND • Putting in place the community-wide, interoperable infrastructure (at network, middleware, advanced services levels) to support development and use for research, teaching, learning • Leading-edge, high-performance network infrastructure is being put in place to support science, research, teaching and learning in countries around the world • As a global community, we need to work even more closely together to ensure support for global applications on an end to end basisyes.

29. Points of Contact - Information • Ana Prestonapreston@internet2.eduProgram Manager • http://international.internet2.edu • www.internet2.edu Muchas Gracias!

31. Europe – International connectivity Report on present status of international connectivity in Europe and to other continentsFrom SERENATE – Study into European Research and Education Networking As Targeted by eEurope, http://www.serenate.org/publications/d6-serenate.pdf

32. Europe - highlights • Pan-European network: GEANT- http://www.dante.net/geant/ • DANTE – management/planning of networking needs • TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Network Association) • Membership association of National Research and Education Networks (NRNs); No network, but technology and applications working groups • Individual countries: NRENs • Generally connect higher ed and research centers • Connect to GEANT backbone network • “Lambda” connectivity between NRENs emerging • European-wide technology, grid and science projects using high performance networks • DataGrid; European vLBI network (EVN); 6NET • Compendium of European NRENs (2002) www.terena.nl/compendium

33. Asia-Pacific - highlights • APAN: Asia-Pacific Advanced Network • Partner in TransPAC link • Several national networks moving to 10Gbps • APAN network made up of country-owned point2point links contributed to APAN • Trans Eurasia and Trans Pacific connectivity increasing

34. APAN: Asia Pacific Advanced Networking Consortium North Cluster (CN, JP, KR, …) Russia Europe North America Japan Korea USA Central Asia Net China • Taiwan Hong Kong South Asia Net Thailand Vietnam Philippines Malaysia • Sri Lanka West Asia Net Singapore Indonesia Southeast Cluster (MY, SG, TH,…) Oceania Cluster (AU,…) Exchange Point Access Point Current status 2003 (plan) • Australia