Advanced Networks in Latin America and Argentina: available infrastructure

1. Advanced Networks in Latin Americaand Argentina: available infrastructure

2. Agenda • Grids: needs for advanced networks • Network Infrastructure in Argentina • Network Infrastructure in Latin America • Grids: regional initiatives

3. GRIDs: characteristics • Colaboration between institutions in different cities, countries or continents • Particularly useful for large countries like Argentina • Equipments and resources to be shared • Based on Advanced Networks

4. Why Advanced Networks? • Need for bigger bandwidth • Quality of Service: different kind of traffic, priorities, response times • IPv6: addressing, security, flexibility, mobility • Multicast: • optimized bandwidth for audio and video transmisions • possibility to build p2p architecture involving many sites

5. Available Infrastructure • RETINA: Research and Education Network of Argentina • Advanced backbone in the central region of the country • AMPATH: Internet2 connection • CLARA: Cooperación Latinoamericana en Redes Avanzadas • Available Infrastructure for regional connectivity and communications to the rest of the world

6. What is RETINA? “Red TeleINformática Académica” • NREN of Argentina since 1990 • Around 60 institutions of R&E • Managing the network of the 36 Public Universities • Connected to Internet2 since 2001 (through AMPATH) and initial member of CLARA since 2002

7. RETINA: main facts • International representation of the NREN since 15 years ago • Project always running during that period • RETINA is not a user of the resources, the services are available to the R&E community • Main role together with other NREN from LA in associative projects like Clara, Alice, LACNIC, ENRED, etc.

8. RETINA + RIU ARN CONAE CNEA CLACSO TANDAR MRECIC SFP SAFJP AMSAT UDESA IFEVA UNA UTN Antorchas Arauz Tarea Darwinion UNCPBA UNGS UNGSM UNLM UNLP UNLZ UNLu UNMP UNQ UNref

9. Avanced Network in Argentina • December 2001: RETINA gets connected to Internet2 being part of the AMPATH project • First institutions connected: UBA, UNL, UTN, SMN • Initial link of 45 Mbps • Native Multicast and IPv6

10. Objectives • To connect RETINA to other advanced networks • To promote the access to that kind of networks from the R&E institutions of the public and private sector of the country • To make available to the R&E community the new technologies and applications that are already in use in main countries • To support the development of new applications that are still not possible in the actual Internet

11. AmPath AMPATH • DS3 (45 Mbps) for each NREN • Global Crossing – FIU agreement • Duration: 3 years

12. AMPATH • Access to Abilene (Internet2) • Access to Startap and transit to Europe, Canadaand other advanced networks. • Active since 2001 for Chile, Brasil and Argentina.

13. In the National scene • Problem: internal capilarity • Buenos Aires and the suburban zone have very good fiber infrastructure • Other main cities like Córdoba, Rosario, Santa Fe, Mendoza have many carriers/providers • Main problem: to extend the good connectivity to the rest of the country (monopolies, bad infrastructure).

14. Network availability High Medium Low

15. Strategies for augmenting national connectivity • Need of a high speed R&E backbone • Negotiation with carriers to be able to use available excess bandwitdth already installed. • Agreements for joint work • There are already some PoPs inside the country available

16. RETINA’s backbone Córdoba Santa Fe Rosario Río IV Mendoza Buenos Aires San Luis La Plata

17. RETINA’s backbone Rosario Rio IV La Plata

18. Backbone key facts • International link of 45 Mbps extends to the central region of the country • More than 70% of the R&E activity of Argentina is in that zone • It’s a starting point: it has to be extended to cover the other zones • Important: each city in the backbone gets the same access conditions like Buenos Aires (services, costs)

19. Backbone features • Initial capacity: 45 Mbps. Potential upgrade to 155 Mbps • Native IPv6 available • Native Multicast • QoS in the core and in the access • International link: 90 Mbps

20. Backbone features • Agreement with Impsat to have a backbone in the central region of Argentina • Negotiation with other providers to extend the backbone to North and South • Already available 45 Mbps: • Mendoza, Cordoba, Rosario, Santa Fe • Other PoPs will be available on demand

21. IPv6 availability • RETINA connected in native mode to AMPATH; soon to CLARA • Institutions will have native mode connectivity • Production addressing from LACNIC: 2001:1418::/32 • Addresses asigned to the institutions that ask for them

22. Actual connections IPv6 Nativo

23. IPv6 assignemt 2001:1318:4000::/36 2001:1318:5000::/36 Rosario 2001:1318:8000::/36 2001:1318:3000::/36 2001:1318:9000::/36 Rio IV 2001:1318:1000::/36 - 2001:1318:2000::/36 2001:1318:6000::/36 2001:1318:A000::/36 La Plata

24. Multicast - Concept • Mechanism to transmit the same stream of data to multiple receivers in an efficient way • Unicast: one stream for each receiver • Broadcast: data gets replicated to all the points in the network • Multicast: only the minimum BW gets wasted, only the interested receivers get the data

25. Multicast - Concept

26. Multicast - Concept

27. Multicast • Native Multicast available with AMPATH and CLARA • Multicast will be available in all the PoPs of the backbone • Very few institutions have implemented multicast service until now • We will give support to the institutions that want to implement it

28. Quality of Service • Need for guaranteeing different kind of traffic quality of service: • Videoconference • VoIP • Remote management of instruments in real time • Data transfers • They will co-exist at the same time in the Network

29. Quality of Service • Parameters to take account: • Latency • Jitter • Packet loss • QoS in the backbone but also in the access (institutions) • WG of QoS integrated by RETINA and institutions

30. Institutions connected to RETINA2 • Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) • Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) • Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) • Centro de Investigaciones Tecnológicas de las Fuerzas Armadas (CITEFA) • Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química (PLAPIQUI) • Arquitectura-UBA • Agronomia-UBA • Ciencias Exactas y Naturales-UBA • Medicina - UBA

31. Institutions connected to RETINA2 • Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) • Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) • Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) • Observatorio Pierre Auger • Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) • Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) • Centro Regional de Investigaciones Básicas y Aplicadas de Bahía Blanca (CRIBABB) y Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS) • Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (UNLM) • Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTref)

32. CLARA – Cooperación Latinoaméricana en Redes Avanzadas • Coordination between LA NRENs and other actors • Cooperation to promote S&T development • Planning and Operation of a Regional Advanced Network to interconnect the LA NRENs • Interconection of CLARA to the rest of Advanced Networks in the world

33. ALICE and CLARA • May 2002: @LIS initiative launched in Brussels • June 2002: Meeting EC-LA in Toledo. The Declaración de Toledo get signed • July 2002: all LA NRENs meet in Rio de Janeiro. Agreement to create CLARA: Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas • November 2002: Meeting EU-CLARA in Santiago, Chile • May 2003: CLARA bylaws get signed

34. Argentina (60) Brasil (382) Bolivia (6) Chile (14) Colombia (43) Costa Rica (-) Cuba (21) Ecuador (9) El Salvador (7) Honduras (-) Guatemala (10) México(69) Nicaragua (-) Panamá (10) Paraguay (28) Perú (11) Rep. Dominicana (-) Uruguay (7) Venezuela (7) CLARA: members and S&T institutions

35. Topology of RedClara

36. ALICE: América Latina Interconectada Con Europa • March 2003: European Comission aproves ALICE Project • June 2003: “Invitation to Tender” for the Network officialy announced • November 2003 San José de Costa Rica: topology and chronogram decided • March-April 2004: Contracts get signed • August 31st 2004: First node active in Chile • September 2004: Brasil join the network • October-November 2004: Argentina, México and Panamá close the backbone ring • November 2004: Launch of the Network in Brasil • January-July 2005: all the countries in LA will be joining the network

37. RedCLARA Europa Septiembre 2004

38. RedCLARA Europa Octubre 2004

39. RedCLARA Europa Noviembre 2004

40. RedCLARA Europa Marzo 2005

41. RedCLARA Europa Junio 2005

42. WHREN-LILA • WHREN: Western Hemisphere Research and Education Network • LILA: Links Interconnecting Latin America • NSF funding for interconnection US-CLARA • April 2004 proposal to NSF, leaded by CENIC and FIU. Aproved December 2004. • Link of 1 Gbps Tijuana-San Diego • Shared link of 1,2 Gbps Sao Paulo-Miami

43. WHREN-LILA y RedCLARA Miami San Diego

44. RedCLARA 2005 Internet2 Internet2 GEANT

45. Network sustainability • CLARA coordinates ALICE project in LA • Total cost of ALICE project is 12.5 Millions Euros in 3 years • 10 Millions Euros funded by the European Comission by Interconnection Initiative within @LIS • 2,5 Million Euros will be provided by LA NRENs as cofinancing • After 2006 finantiation will depend on use and a better balance of international bandwidth costs

46. Grids: initiatives in the region • RETINA: infrastructure to give support to research projects (PAV, others) • Proposal to ALFA funding to train researchers and technicians (RETINA-UNCOMA-CRIBABB-UNPA) • CLARA: EELA proposal to the European Comission

47. Support Infrastructure • PAV: computational and access GRIDs deployment • Make use of RETINA’s advanced backbone • Join groups of researchers from different institutions of the country • Will favor the integration and research in ICTs

48. ALFAGRID • 4 institutions in Argentina: • RETINA, CRIBABB, UNCOMA, UNPA • Coordinator: Universidad de Cantabria • Other countries: • España, Italia, Francia, Chile, Mexico, Brasil, Venezuela • Training in GRIDs oriented to researchers and technicians (support)

49. EELA Project • E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America • Joint project betwen EU-LA presented to EC IST • Extend to LA Grid technology and infrastructure developed in EGEE • Period: 2006-2007, in case of being approved • Take advantage of the already developed Advanced Networks: GEANT, CLARA

50. EELA: objectives • To build an interoperable infrastructure between EU and LA • Identify joint research & scientific applications between EU and LA • Encourage participation in new projects at a national and international level • Promote participation in relevant forums of grid computing • Contribute to make researchers aware of grid computing