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ClaraClaraCLARA: an advanced regional network integrating Latin American NRENs (*)

IAED 2004Campinas, Brazil March 2004

Michael StantonCLARA Technical CommitteeRede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa do Brasil - RNPwww.rnp.br/en [email protected]

(*) NREN = National Research and Education Network

Michael Stanton - IAED 20042

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Cyberinfrastructure: the central role of global connectivity

Cyberinfrastructure is the means;

“e-Science” is the result

From NSF report: Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Research and Educationhttp://www.cyrdas.org/related.documents/reports/cyber_report_new.pdf


ClaraClaraGlobal connectivity supports science user communities

• Scientific research increasingly dependent on access globally to resources, collaborators, data, scientific instruments.

1. 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

2. 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

3. Access to/collecting geo-specific data and getting it back for analysis, visualisation, sharing• Environmental data from the Amazon or Antarctica


ClaraClaraGlobal 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 - South American connectivity


ClaraClaraThe emerging global network

(as seen from Australia)


ClaraClaraLatin American 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 - )


ClaraClaraPhase 1: Satellite connectivity (1990s)


ClaraClaraPhase 2: New Submarine Cables in Latin America (1999-)

E-mergia (TIWS)Global Crossing & TI SparkleGlobal Crossing ImpSatTransandinoUniSur

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Miami

to New Yorkand Europe

to Californiaand Asia-Pacific


ClaraClaraPhase 2: New cables in the Caribbean (Maya & Arcos)

Maya

Arcos(festoon)

Curacao

North Miami

Cat Island

Crooked Island

Providenciales(Turks & Caicos Islands)

Puerto Plata

San Juan

Punta Cana

WillemstadPunto Fijo

Riohacha

UstupoMariaChiquita

PuertoLimon

Bluefields

PuertoCabezas

PuertoLempira

Trujillo

PuertoCortes

PuertoBarrios

Ladyville

Cancun

Tulum

271km

309km

319km

376km

258km

325km 291km

1006km

242km372km

351km

314km301km371km

270km

279km

258km

339km

241km294km

363km

165km

114km

474km

521km


ClaraClaraPhase 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, Venezuela• other LA countries not so

benefited

Mexico• cross-border connections to

US (Texas and California)

AmPath


ClaraClaraWhere 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 communicate internally through Miami?

• Why does LA communicate with other parts of the world through the US?


ClaraClaraAn 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


ClaraClaraGÉANT connections to other regions (2004)


ClaraClaraThe European Commission’s @LIS initiative

• Through @LIS programme the European Commission is supporting improved connectivity to Latin America

• @LIS: Alliance for the Information Society (2003-2005)– 62.5 Million Euros for EU-LA on Information Society

Issues– 10 Million Euros for Interconnecting Europe & Latin

American Research and Education communities• Will interconnect LA-NRENs (Latin American

NRENs)• Consequences:

– CLARA organisation of LA-NRENs– ALICE project to support the building of the CLARA

regional network in Latin America


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• Association of LA -NRENs open to all LA 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)

Brasil (RNP)

Bolivia (*)

Chile (REUNA)

Colombia (*)

Costa Rica (CRNET)

Cuba (REDUNIV) (*)

Panama (REDCYT)Paraguay (ARANDU)Peru (RAAP)Uruguay (RAU)Venezuela (REACCIUN)

(*) expected future member

Dominican Republic (*)

Ecuador (CEDIA)

El Salvador (RAICES)Guatemala (RAGIE)Honduras (*)Mexico (CUDI)Nicaragua (RENIE)

CLARAMemberNRENs


ClaraClaraPhase 2B: region-centric networking

ALICE Project – América Latina Interconectada Con Europa (2003-2006)

• Project to build CLARA network, supported by the @LIS programme (cost-sharing: EU 80% - LA 20%)

• Coordinated by DANTE, with participation of NRENs from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the CLARA countries, and eventually CLARA itself

• May 2004: CLARA network to commence operations

• ALICE website:www.dante.net/server/show/nav.009

• ALICE brochure (in English, Spanish and Portuguese):www.dante.net/alice/ALICEbrochure.pdf


ClaraClaraExpected CLARA network topology

• Initially connected to Europe• Tijuana (Mexico) PoP to be

connected to Los Angeles– 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

• Expected also to support future US funded international scientific collaborations


ClaraClaraBrazilian connectivity

• This is provided at four levels:

1. internationally (RNP, state networks of Rio and SP) – around 500 Mbps in 2003; almost 1.5 Gbps in 2004

2. nationally by RNP backbone network

3. statewide by 15 regional or state networks

4. campus by the user institution itself (around 250 institutions)

• Current RNP activities (see also www.rnp.br)

– renewal of national backbone network connecting all states and the Federal District (6x increase in capacity)

– the experimental high capacity GIGA network in the southeast for R&D applications – April 2004

– future plans for 1 Gbps national links and campus access by 2005


ClaraClaraBrazil – RNP: expected 2004 backbone

Rio de Janeiro

São Paulo

SantaCatarina

Paraná

Rio Grande do Sul

Brasília

Minas Gerais

STM-1 (155 Mbps)

E3 (34 Mbps)

Ceará

Pernambuco

Bahia

STM-4 (622 Mbps)EspíritoSanto

Maranhão

Paraíba

Tocantins

Acre

Rondônia Mato Grosso

Mato Grossodo Sul

Goiás

E1 (2 Mbps)

Pará

Amazonas

Rio Grandedo Norte

Piauí Sergipe Alagoas

Roraima

Amapá

Pop alreadytendered

Future tender


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Experimental GIGA network (R&D only): states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

telcosUNIFESP

USP - IncorUSP -

C.Univ.

CPqDLNLS

Unicamp

LNCC

CPTEC UFF

CTAINPE

CBPFLNCC

FiocruzIME

IMPA-RNPPUC-Rio

telcosUERJUFRJ

UniversitiesIMEPUC-RioUERJUFFUFRJUnicampUNIFESPUSP

R&D CentresCBPF - physicsCPqD - telecomCPTEC - meteorologyCTA - aerospaceFiocruz - healthIMPA - mathematicsINPE - space sciencesLNCC - HPCLNLS - physics

About 600 km extension - not to scale


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GIGA Project: initial network design

• long-distance network between Campinas and Rio de Janeiro, built using dark fibre (unused optical fibre) + optical equipment

– up to 6 lambdas (lightpaths) per link

• metro networks (MANs) in Rio, S. Paulo and Campinas, built using dark fibre

• initially 1 Gbps in each lambda(using Gigabit Ethernet)

• network operational in April 2004

Campinas

São Paulo

S.J. dos Campos

C. Paulista

Rio de Janeiro

Campinas

São Paulo S. José dosCampos

Rio de Janeiro

CachoeiraPaulista

MANCP

MANSP

MANRJ

Petrópolis

Niterói


ClaraClaraFuture RNP production network

• By 2005, RNP expects to move to new “facilities-based” backbone network of at least 1 Gbps capacity, based on GIGA project experience:– long-distance links based on acquiring “capacity”, in the

form of lambdas (lightpaths) or dark fibre– local access in metropolitan areas based on the use of

dark fibre and cheap Gigabit Ethernet switches• cooperation between local institutions is vital for the

setting up of these metro networks• R&E institutions will need to upgrade their internal

campus networks to Gigabit Ethernet

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