2nd NKN Annual Workshop

Bengaluru, India

18 October 2013

TEIN (Trans-Eurasia Information Network) Linkage to NKN

ByungKyu Kim, Ph.D.

Executive Officer

TEIN* Cooperation Center

- Connecting Europe and Asia’s Research and Education Communities -

Introduction of TEIN

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TEIN Partners (August 2013)

Beneficiary (14 countries / economies)

Bangladesh : University Grants Commission (UGC)

Bhutan : Department of Information Technology and Telecom (DIT&T)

Cambodia : Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC)

India : National Knowledge Network (NKN)

Indonesia : Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)/INHERENT

Laos : Lao Education and Research Network (LERNet)

Malaysia : Malaysian Research and Education Network (MYREN)

Nepal : Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN)

Pakistan : Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN)

Philippines : Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI)

Sri Lanka : Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN)

Thailand : Thailand Research Education Network Association (ThaiREN)

Vietnam : National Agency for Science and Technology Information (NASATI)

Afghanistan : Afghanistan Research Education Network (AfgREN)

Non-Beneficiary (6 countries / economies)

Australia : Australia, Academic and Research Network (AARNet)

China : China Education and Research Network (CERNet),

China Science & Technology Network (CSTNet)

Hong Kong : Hong Kong Academic and Research Network (HARNet)

Japan : National Institute of Information and Communications (NICT),

National Institute of Informatics (NII),

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Network (MAFFIN)

Korea : National Information Society Agency (NIA)

Singapore : Singapore Advanced Research & Education Network (SingAREN)

Further country National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) may join

during the period of TEIN projects.

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TEIN Network Topology

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TEIN4 Work Packages

WP1 - Network Procurement and Commercial Management

Conducting TEIN network tender, TEIN NOC tender

Sourcing TEIN network equipment

Reviewing NOC performance & overseeing the TEIN NOC

Conducting a feasibility study

WP2 - Promoting and Supporting Applications

Developing a portfolio of target applications areas for TEIN support

Developing tools and technical support to facilitate application

deployment on TEIN

Setting up a TEIN user support group to co-ordinate applications

support and share best practice

dissemination activities

WP3 - Enhancing Human Capacity and International Collaboration

Commissioning and delivering customized training courses on network engineering

and operations

Providing funding support, subject to budget availability, for beneficiaries’ staff

capacity development

Assessing needs for non-technical training by beneficiary partners

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TEIN4 Activities on 2013 - Meetings & MoUs -

TEIN4 Project, Governors’ and Steering Committee Meetings

2nd TEIN4 Project and 3rd Governors’ Meetings in Honolulu (January 2013)

3rd TEIN4 Project and 4th Governors’ Meeting in Daejeon (August 2013)

9th ~ 13th Steering Committee Meetings (monthly/bi-monthly via VC)

TEIN4 Consulting with DANTE (weekly via VC)

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MoU with Internet2/TransPAC3/Pacific Wave (Hawaii, Jan. 2013)

Network Interconnection and Operational Coordination, Joint Network Research,

Federated Identity Management, Open Access Environment, R& E Collaboration,

Collaboration for enhancing HRD/Training

Network Interconnection between TEIN and TransPAC3 to exchange traffic

between TEIN partners and USA

Collaborate jointly on the development of network technologies and applications

serving R&E communities

MoU with CAREN (Turkmenistan, April 2013)

MoU with 4 CAREN NRENs - KazRENA, KRENA, TARENA, TURENA

Collaborations: e-learning, telemedicine, disaster risk management, e-govern

ment, e-culture, Eduroam, IPv6, HRD/Training, Next-generation Network

MoU with NKN/India (April 2013)

Participating TEIN4 programme and cooperate with Mumbai PoP.

MoU with APNIC (August 2013)

Cooperation on IPv6, HRD/Training

TEIN4 Activities on 2013 - TEIN4 Network, NOC/PoP/Equipment -

TEIN4 Connectivity

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Provider Points Speed Date

Tata BD - IN 45M May 13

Tata EU – IN 2.5G Oct 12

Bharti Airtel IN – SG 2.5G Oct 12

Bharti Airtel NP – IN 45M Nov 12

Bharti Airtel LK – IN 45M Nov 12

Telkom Indonesia ID – SG 622M Jan 13

PCCW VN – HK 622M Oct 12

Telekom Malaysia MY – SG 155M Same as

TEIN3

Transworld PK – SG 155M Jan 13

LG Uplus PH – HK 155M Feb 13

Malaysia: Upgrade (622M) is still in progress.

Australia: Preparing upgrade of the SG-AU Perth Link

from 622M to 2.5G.

TEIN*CC will request all network carriers updated network prices and topologies on Q4 2013.

TEIN4 Activities on 2013 - TEIN4 Network, NOC/PoP/Equipment -

TEIN NOC

TEIN NOC Evaluation Survey carried out with NRENs partners on May 2013

Evaluation Results: Partners are satisfied with the existing TEIN NOC services and have recommended

that the services to be continued. Total 16 partners are participated except 3 non-directly connected.

To extend the existing TEIN NOC services by Tsinghua Univ. until the end of 2014.

During 2014, a new tender for TEIN NOC will be made, starting from January 2015.

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PoP: Maintaining for the current SG POP, the provider will be replaced on October 2013.

Equipment: Will replace the oldest router in TEIN BJ PoP : Q3~Q4 2013

TEIN4 Activities on 2013 - Feasibility Studies -

Feasibility Study on 2013

Afghanistan The SILK-Afghanistan project (funded by NATO and USA) provides high-speed internet

access via satellite and fibre optic cable to 18 Afghan universities as well as some governmental

institutions in Kabul. The 2nd phase of the project will run from June 2013 to June 2015.

An international link (155M) to the GÉANT router in Vienna has been launched.

Received TEIN4 LoI from Afghanistan, and formally accepted by the EC (June 2013)

Mongolia The final report for the Mongolia feasibility study has been done.

Myanmar Myanmar submitted the proposal on the middle of June, and it is still going on.

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TEIN4 Activities on 2013 - Promoting Applications -

Application Workshops (1st phase)

Cloud Workshop was held in Phnom Penh of Cambodia on 1~2 August 2013.

Glacial Lake Monitoring and Information Exchange in Nepal (date is not decided yet)

Selection for Application Workshops (2nd Phase)

Towards Research and Education Identity Federation in TEIN4 : Development of Trust Framework

of ASEAN Countries

Proposer: Suhaimi Napis, MYREN, Malaysia

Co-Proposer: Kazutsuna Yamaji, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Proposed date: Q4 2013

Workshop on the Establishment of Best Practices on Applications, Data Management,

Storage, and Utilization of Large Climate Data Sets for Benchmarking of the TEIN4 Network

Proponent: DOST-ASTI

Proposed date: 23 October 2013

Workshop on LHC based Research Collaboration in High Energy Physics among

TEIN4 Countries

Proponent: PERN

Proposed date: 02-04 September 2013

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TEIN4 Activities on 2013 - Enhancing HRD/Training -

HRD/Training (1st phase)

OF@TEIN Training Workshop in Malaysia (18 ~ 20 February 2013)

Selection for HRD/Training (2nd Phase)

Network Management & Monitoring

Proposer: BdREN/Bangladesh

Location & Date: Dhaka/Bangladesh, November 2013

Open DNSSEC

Proposer: TERENA

Location & Date: APAN37 in Jakarta, January 2013

Federated Identity Infrastructure (Eduroam)

Proposer: TERENA

Location & Date: collaboration with India, October/November 2013

Joint TEIN/APAN/NSRC Training

Proposer: ITB/Indonesia

Target Date: APAN37 in Jakarta, January 2013

Cooperation with NSRC, APAN, APNIC, and TERENA..etc.

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TEIN4 Activities on 2013 - Marketing & Visibility: TEIN4 Events -

NASATI-Vietnam (Hanoi, 5 July 2013)

Successfully held in Hanoi, in conjunction with the 6th VinaREN

Workshop (~ 150 attendees)

Aplications on meteorological forecasting, telemedicine, high

performance computing, network congestion control

Provided marketing materials and press kit.

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ASTI-Philippines (Manila, 14 June 2013)

Successfully held in Manila during the National ICT Month in the

Philippines. (~ 100 attendees)

Applications on telemedicine and the Disaster Management & Grid

Computing.

Provided marketing materials and press kit.

Future TEIN4 Events on 2013

TEIN4 Workshops in Brunei and in Myanmar (October 2013)

TEIN NOC Workshop in AIT, Thailand (November/December 2013)

TEIN4 National Launch Events in Bangladesh (Dhaka, November 2013), in Thailand (December 2013),

and in Laos (December 2013)

TEIN4 Activities on 2013 - Marketing & Visibility: Case Study & Application Poster-

Case Study and Application Poster

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India’s Activities and Roles on TEIN

India’s Activities and Roles on TEIN

Important Gateway to connect between Europe and Asia

Mumbai TEIN PoP @ NKN PoP connects 2 important TEIN Backbones (2.5Gbps to EU and SG)

Directly connect with EU, Singapore and most of South Asia countries (NP, LK, BD, and BT)

From Singapore PoP and Hon Kong PoP, it connects to

• more South Asia countries (PK), AF (directly to GEANT)

• North Asia countries (CN, JP, KR, MO)

• Southeast Asia countries (TH, VN, MY, ID, PH, KH, MM)

• Pacific (AU)

• USA

India/NKN participates as a TEIN*CC Governor, and a Steering Committee Member

Link India into TEIN Community

Not only “Network Connectivity”, but also “various Activities and Applications in India”

Key roles in International (multi-national) Collaboration

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Thank you !

www.teincc.org

www.tein.asia

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