Establishing continental backbones "The DANTE/GEANT experience"

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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

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What is GÉANT2?

• 7th generation of pan-European research network
  infrastructure first international hybrid
  network
• Project partners include 30 of Europes 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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What is GÉANT2?

• Provide international connectivity to other world
  regions
• Funded jointly by NRENs and European Commission
• Project timescale September 2004 - August 2008

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GÉANT2s 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 Europes research
  and education community

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Research Networking in Europe

• Where did we start?

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EUROPANET
1996/97 Topology
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October 1996 Topology
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January 2000 Topology
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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 NREN International 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.
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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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Participants
INFN (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