scientific user community needs in la&c
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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 [email protected] (*) LA&C = Latin American and the Caribbean - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ClaraClaraCLARA: 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/en [email protected]
(*) LA&C = Latin American and the Caribbean
NREN = National Research and Education Network
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ClaraClaraScientific 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
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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
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ClaraClaraSome 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
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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 – Latin American connectivity
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ClaraClaraThe emerging global network
(as seen from Australia)
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ClaraClaraLA&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 - )
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ClaraClaraPhase 1: Satellite connectivity (1990s)
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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
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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
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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, Panama, Venezuela• other LA&C countries not so
benefited
Mexico• 3 cross-border connections to
US (Texas and California)
AmPath
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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&C communicate internally through Miami?• Why does LA&C communicate with other parts of the
world through the US?
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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
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ClaraClaraGÉANT connections to other regions (2004)
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ClaraClaraThe 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
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• 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)
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ClaraClaraPhase 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
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ClaraClaraExpected 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
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ClaraClaraIRNC - 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.
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ClaraClaraCLARA 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.
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ClaraClara1st Proposal CLARA for IRNC 2004
to US West Coast to US East Coast
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to Europe (existing)
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ClaraClara2nd Proposal CLARA for IRNC 2004
to US West Coast(CUDI-CENIC)
to US East Coast
to Europe (existing)
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