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Establishing continental backbones
"The DANTE/GEANT experience"
E. Valente (GARR) International Workshop onAfrican Research & Education NetworkingSeptember 25-27 2005 CERN - Geneva, Switzerland
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateWhat is GÉANT2?
• 7th generation of pan-European research network infrastructure – first international hybrid network
• Project partners include 30 of Europe’s national research and education networks (NRENs), DANTE and TERENA
• Will connect 34 European countries and serve over 3500 research and education establishments across Europe
• Over 3 Million Users
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• Provide international connectivity to other world regions• Funded jointly by NRENs and European Commission• Project timescale September 2004 - August 2008
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateGÉANT2’s Objectives
• Provide a gigabit-speeds infrastructure to support European research and education
• Provide a research infrastructure for network technology developments• Develop a wider range of network services
– Performance monitoring– Security– Bandwidth on demand– Testbed facility– Mobility and roaming
• Provide global connectivity for Europe’s research and education community
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Research Networking in Europe
Where did we start?
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1996/97 Topology
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October 1996 Topology
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January 2000 Topology
USA
Israel
Cyprus
JapanNACSIS
January 2000Topology
155 M bps
10 M bps34/45 M bps
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December 2001 Topology
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October 2004 Topology
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Research Networking in Europe
And where are we now ?
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August 2005 Topology
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Country Name of NRENInternational Research Connectivity (in Mbps)
Status
Algeria CERIST 155 In service1
Cyprus CYNET 200 In service
Egypt EUN 34 In service
Israel IUCC 310 In service
Malta University of Malta 20 In service
Jordan UniCo 45 Planned2
Morocco CNRST 34 In service
Syria HIAST 8 Planned2
Tunisia RFR 45 In service
Turkey ULAKBIM 155 In service
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• The EUMEDGRID initiative is aimed to estabilish a Grid Infrastructure for eScience in the Mediterranean Area
• connected with EGEE • and other related initiatives in the Balkans, North Europe, Latin
America and Far-East Asia.
• The EUMEDGRID initiative is intended to foster and promote the international cooperation in eScience as well as the growth of the Mediterranean Countries in the fields of Research and Industry.
• EUMEDGRID EUMEDGRID EUMEDGRID
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• EUMEDGRID aims to provide specific support actions to assist the participation of the states of the Mediterranean region in the pan-European and worldwide Grid initiatives, thus expanding and supporting the European Research Area (ERA) in the region.
• The core of the EUMEDGRID approach is to establish a human network in the eScience area, enlarge and train this community, and establish a pilot Grid infrastructure supporting proof of concept regional applications.
• The reference GRID Infrastructure in Europe will be EGEE a 2 years project funded by the EU and started in April 2004.
• EUMEDGRID will build upon and exploit the infrastructure provided by the Gigabit Pan-European Research & Education Network (GEANT) and the Mediterranean Research and Education Networking (EUMEDCONNECT) initiative in the region.
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ParticipantsINFN (Italy) Coordinator
CERN (Switzerland)
CYNET (Cyprus)
DANTE (UK)
GARR (Italy)
GRNET (Greece)
RED.ES (Spain)
University of Malta (Malta)
CERIST (Algeria)
CNRST (Morocco)
EUN (Egypt)
HIAST (Syria)
RNRST (Tunisia)
TUBITAK - ULAKBIM (Turkey)
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Work packages
• WP1: Project administrative and technical management• WP2: Requirement capture and analysis• WP3: Pilot infrastructure deployment and operations• WP4: Applications support
– EGEE supported applications– Regional applications– New applications
• WP5: Training and dissemination• 24 Months duration
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Infrastructure