Joint TEIN Proposal of KRMY

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South East Asia Backbone
Co Chaired by Sureswaran Ramadass (My) Royol
Chitradon (Th) Lawarance Wong (Sg)
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A Little History.

• The initiative to link some of the ASEAN
  Countries was started by Dr. Kanchana from AIT as
  part of an larger e-learning initiative and also
  to provide a landing point for the TEIN II link.
• A committee was created to develop the
  connectivity document for the region to support
  the TEIN II proposal, and included participation
  of most of the ASEAN countries.
• In parallel, a informal meeting was held between
  Malaysia, Thailand Singapore in Tokyo in July,
  2002, which then mooted the idea of creating an
  independent ASEAN research backbone, starting
  with Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

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A Little History.

• Out of this informal meeting came the general
  agreement that Thailand will try to provide
  linking as the hub for the Northern ASEAN
  countries (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) while
  Malaysia will try to provide linking as the hub
  for the Southern ASEAN countries (Indonesia,
  Philippines Brunei).
• The 3 Backbone countries (Thailand, Malaysia,
  Singapore) will then provide a common shared
  Backbone for all ASEAN countries to connect.
• The backbone will also provide connectivity to
  International Links. The aim is to share such
  International Links rather than each country to
  have its own individual connections.

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Phase SEA-A The First Phase

• Terrestrial links connecting Thailand and
  Singapore to NRGXchg.
• Implementation details to be worked out
  separately between Thailand Sg.

THAILAND (BANGKOK) (Nectec)
SINGAPORE (SINGAREN)
MALAYSIA NRG (Penang)
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Phase SEAB The Second Phase

• Terrestrial links from Malaysia to
• Philippines
• Indonesia
• In Parallel, Thailand will link
• Loas
• Combodia

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SEA-Net Link to North Asia

• SEA-Net will be able to connect to North Asia
  through the KR-MY link Link Owners of the KR-MY
  link will be MIC/KISDI (Korea) and MECM/Malaysian
  Research Net (Malaysia).

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Trans-Eurasia Link to South-East Asia
Korea
France

• Enhancing the existing TEIN connection between
  KR/KISDI-FR/RENATER to 45Mbps.
• Extending TEIN link to MY from KR (March 2003)

TEIN II Link (45 Mbps)
Malaysia
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Joint Proposal (formulated on 27 Nov, 02)

• In principle, Korea and Malaysia accepts to
  create the KR-MY link as link owners, together
  with EC as a main contributor.
• Eventually, the plan is for all the 7 ASEAN
  Countries in ASEM to be connected in one form or
  the other to this network. This network will also
  expand to include any new ASEAN members accepted
  into ASEM.

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Usage Policy

• 1.      The network is for the use of Research
  and Education, non-profit organizations and
  projects.
• 2.      Transit policy between each country was
  finalized by Royol Chitradon / NECTEC, Thailand
  and Lawrence Wong / NUS, Singapore.
• The Transit Policy is an open policy in so far
  that such traffic will not be prejudicial to the
  local conditions of each country.

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Contributions from- North America (James from
Indiana Univ.)- North Asia- Oceania/Australasia
- Europe
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Working Towards a Fully Connected AsiaThe End