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Scientific User Community Needs in LA&C

CLARA: an advanced regional network integrating LA&C NRENs (*) CCIRN 2004 Cairns, Australia July 2004. Michael Stanton CLARA Technical Committee Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa – RNP, Brazil www.rnp.br/en michael@rnp.br (*) LA&C = Latin American and the Caribbean

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Scientific User Community Needs in LA&C

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  1. CLARA: an advanced regional network integrating LA&C NRENs (*)CCIRN 2004Cairns, AustraliaJuly 2004 Michael StantonCLARA Technical CommitteeRede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa – RNP, Brazilwww.rnp.br/enmichael@rnp.br (*) LA&C = Latin American and the Caribbean NREN = National Research and Education Network

  2. Scientific User Community Needs in LA&C • The provision of high-capacity networking infrastructure in LA&C countries is in good part to meet the demands of international collaboration • It is hoped that such provision can be made by a combination of networking interconnections at the regional/inter-regional levels, combined with renovation of national NREN infrastructures Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  3. Global connectivity supports science user communities • Scientific research increasingly dependent on access globally to resources, collaborators, data, scientific instruments. • Access to scientific instruments with specific geo-location needs: • optical telescopes: e.g., Gemini South and SOAR, Chile; operated by US, Brazil and other countries • Unique instruments: impractical or unfeasible for each country to “afford” for its own community: • Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva: thousands of collaborators around the world • Access to/collecting geo-specific data and getting it back for analysis, visualisation, sharing • Environmental data from the Amazon or Antarctica Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  4. Some of the scientific community connectivity needs in LA&C • Areas of interest: • Astrophysics • Argentina, Brazil, Chile • E-VLBI • Brazil, Chile • High Energy Nuclear Physics • Brazil • Geosciences • Chile • Marine sciences • Chile • Environmental studies • Brazil, Costa Rica • Health and Biomedical applications • Several countries • Grid computing in general Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  5. Global connectivity – tendencies • Very high capacity (10s of Gbps) networks in core countries and between them • Increasingly regionalised networking • European GEANT, South American CLARA, Asian cluster efforts • aggregate inter-continental bandwidth now sometimes greater than continental bandwidth • slow trend away from US as centre of the world • many initiatives outside the US are engaging and establishing leadership roles in connecting to the world • European – Asian connectivity • European – Latin American connectivity Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  6. The emerging global network(as seen from Australia) Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  7. LA&C connectivity • Phase 1: satellite communication with US hub • bandwidth limited to 2 Mbps • Phase 2: submarine optical cables • initial bandwidth of 34 or 45 Mbps • no upper limit in sight • Phase 2A: based on US hub • AMPATH project (2001 - ) • Phase 2B: region-centric • CLARA network (2004 - ) Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  8. Phase 1: Satellite connectivity (1990s) Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  9. Phase 2: New Submarine Cables in Latin America (1999-) to New Yorkand Europe to Californiaand Asia-Pacific Miami San Juan, Puerto Rico E-mergia (TIWS)Global Crossing & TI SparkleGlobal CrossingImpSatTransandinoUniSur Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  10. North Miami 309km Cat Island 474km 271km 319km Crooked Island 521km Providenciales(Turks & Caicos Islands) Cancun 258km 165km Tulum Puerto Plata 376km 325km 291km San Juan 363km Ladyville Punta Cana Trujillo 294km 241km PuertoBarrios PuertoLempira PuertoCortes 1006km 339km 114km 258km PuertoCabezas 372km Curacao 279km 242km Bluefields Willemstad 351km Punto Fijo 270km Riohacha 371km 301km 314km PuertoLimon MariaChiquita Ustupo Phase 2: New cables in the Caribbean (Maya & Arcos) Maya Arcos(festoon) Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  11. Phase 2A: US-centric connectivity (2001 - ) AmPath • uses Global Crossing • 45 Mbps (one size fits all) • connections to Miami, and thence to Abilene (US NREN) • connects Argentina, Brazil (2), Chile, Panama, Venezuela • other LA&C countries not so benefited Mexico • 3 cross-border connections to US (Texas and California) AmPath Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  12. Where do we go from here? • AMPATH´s achievements • Initial boost for Advanced Networking in LA • Stimulus for advanced connectivity inside each country • Motivation for collaborative projects BUT • Why does LA&C communicate internally through Miami? • Why does LA&C communicate with other parts of the world through the US? Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  13. An alternative paradigm: regional R&E networking • Since the early 1990s great efforts have been invested in pan-European networking. • The present pan-European network is GÉANT (2002-) • currently the largest capacity operational IP network in the world • built and managed by DANTE Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  14. GÉANT connections to other regions (2004) Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  15. The European Commission’s @LIS initiative • Through @LIS programme the European Commission is supporting improved connectivity to Latin America and the Caribbean (LA&C) • @LIS: Alliance for the Information Society (2003-2005) • 62.5 Million Euros for EU-LA&C on Information Society Issues • 10 Million Euros for Interconnecting Europe & LA&C Research and Education communities • Will interconnect LA&C-NRENs • Consequences: • Formation of new NRENs in many LA&C countries • Creation of the CLARA organisation of LA&C-NRENs • ALICE project to support the building of the CLARA regional network in Latin America Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  16. Association of NRENs open to all LA&C Countries • constituted in Uruguay (like LACNIC) in Dec 2003 • Created in response to @LIS initiative, but not limited to @LIS time scale and restrictions • CLARA regional network will connect to Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific Argentina (RETINA) Brazil (RNP) Chile (REUNA) Costa Rica (CRNET) Panama (REDCYT) Paraguay (ARANDU) Peru (RAAP) Uruguay (RAU) Venezuela (REACCIUN) Ecuador (CEDIA) El Salvador (RAICES) Guatemala (RAGIE) Mexico (CUDI) Nicaragua (RENIE) CLARAMemberNRENs (July 2004) (NRENs in formation indicated in RED) Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  17. Phase 2B: region-centric networking ALICE – Latin America Connected to Europe (2003-2006) • Project to build CLARA network, supported by the @LIS programme (cost-sharing: EU 80% - LA&C 20%) • Coordinated by DANTE, with participation of NRENs from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and some LA&C countries, and CLARA itself • (target countries include present 14 CLARA members, plus Bolivia, Columbia, Cuba and Honduras) • August 2004: CLARA network to commence operations • ALICE website:www.dante.net/alice • ALICE brochure (in English, Spanish and Portuguese):www.dante.net/alice/ALICEbrochure.pdf Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  18. Expected CLARA network topology • Initially connected to Europe • Tijuana (Mexico) PoP to be connected by dark fibre to CENIC (California) • access to US, Canada and Asia - Pacific Rim • Initial backbone ring bandwidth of 155 Mbps • Spur links at 10 to 45 Mbps (Cuba at 4 Mbps by satellite) • Initial connection to Europe at 622 Mbps from Brazil • Network to be operated by CLARA (through CUDI and RNP) • Expected also to support future US funded international scientific collaborations, including through the IRNC program Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  19. IRNC - International Research Network Connections – new NSF program launched in March, 2004 Synopsis of Program: • Support for international collaboration for: • access remote instruments, data, and computational resources located throughout the world • Remote access to large-scale science and engineering facilities located both inside and outside the U.S. utilized by multi-national research and education collaborations • NSF expects to make awards to provide network connections linking U.S. research networks with peer networks in other parts of the world. • Links funded by this program are intended to support science and engineering research and education applications.   • Funded projects will enable state-of-the-art international network services similar to and interconnected with those currently offered or planned by domestic research networks. Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  20. CLARA response to IRNC • CLARA’s major interest in this program is to leverage good quality connectivity between the US and countries served by the CLARA network through new links from the US to backbone nodes of the CLARA network • Cross-border dark fibre from Mexico to US • Direct access to the “Southern Cone” countries (Argentina-Brazil-Chile) • CLARA believes the region’s interests are best served by working with all US institutions proposing IRNC-funded links to LA&C. We have therefore freely collaborated with both proposals we have learned about. Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  21. Clara 1st Proposal CLARA for IRNC 2004 to US East Coast to US West Coast to Europe (existing) Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  22. Clara 2nd Proposal CLARA for IRNC 2004 to US East Coast to US West Coast(CUDI-CENIC) to Europe (existing) Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

  23. Thank you! Questions? michael@rnp.br Michael Stanton - CCIRN 2004

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