International Partnerships

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www.internet2.edu
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Internet2 International Collaborations

• Ana Preston apreston_at_internet2.edu
• Reunion Otoño CUDI 2002
• Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico

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Outline for todays talk

• Quick update on Internet2
• International Partnerships
• International Collaboration Highlights
• Observations

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Internet2 Mission and Goals

• Develop and deploy advanced network applications
  and technologies for research and higher
  education, accelerating the creation of
  tomorrows internet.
• Enable new generation of applications
• Create leading edge RE network
  capability Supporting advanced service efforts
  (multicast, IPv6, QoS, Measurement, Security)
• Transfer technology and experience to the global
  production Internet

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University Leadership

• 200 university members with commitments from
  their Presidents/Chancellors/Rectors
• 60 corporate members
• Over 40 Affiliate Members
• Government Research Agencies
• Internet2/U.S. Government separate but
  interdependent
• Internet2 International Partner Program

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Applications
• Middleware
• Network Engineering
• End to End Performance
• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Partnerships

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Collaborative Partnerships a glimpse of much
work underway

• Advanced Applications apps.internet2.edu
• Middleware middleware.internet2.edu
• Shibboleth (middleware.internet2.edu/shibboleth)
• Security Internet2-Educause Security Task Force
• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Abilene upgrade
• International peering
• Network Engineering
• End to End Performance
• IPv6, Multicast, Measurement
• Partnerships
• International Partners

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The Internet2 Commons

• An effort to encourage and support large-scale,
  distributed collaboration for RE
• Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and
  group-to-group collaboration
• Supporting personal communications, meetings,
  conferences, and teaching and learning
• Share best practices
• Guide to implementations
• facilitate development deployment of projects

• For Internet2 members and their international
  partners

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Internet2 CommonsInternational coordination how
to achieve

• Draw from international RE networks / HW-SW
  standards, training, dialing plans (international
  steering committee)
• Organize workshops and outreach to facilitate
  delivering classes on collaboration services
• Train the trainers emphasis
• Build on common training materials with local
  translations
• Collocated with major regional conferences
• Create speakers, trainers, and consultants
  bureau for referral of experts
• Outreach and resources (e.g. directory of
  international videoconferencing services)
• commons.internet2.edu

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End-to-End Performance Initiative

• To enable the researchers, faculty, students and
  staff who use high performance networks to obtain
  optimal performance from the current
  infrastructure on a consistent basis.

Applications Performance
Raw Connectivity

• True End-to-End Performance requires a system
  approach
• ? user perception, OS, Host IP stack, Host
  network card, LAN, Campus, regional
  network/GigaPoP, link to I2 national
  backbones.all the way to International
  connections!

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E2E piPEline

• End-to-End Performance Initiative Performance
  Environment System
• http//e2epi.internet2.edu/index.shtml
• Goal To allow end-users and network operators to
  determine performance capabilities, locate
  problems, and contact the right person to get a
  problem resolved.
• Approach Collaborative project combining the
  best work of many organizations

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Abilene major updatesNational and International

• Internet2 backbone networks have no non-US
  infrastructure
• Primarily, our partners networks pay to get to
  the US
• Peering at major international exchange points in
  U.S. encouraged
• NSF provides some funding for 3 international
  links and one interconnection point
• TransPAC, EuroLink, MIRnet/NAUKAnet, STAR TAP

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Abilene International Peering (October 2002)
09 January 2002
STAR TAP/Star Light APAN/TransPAC, CAnet4,
CERN, NAUKAnet, GEMnet, HARNET, HEANET,
KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, SURFnet, SingAREN,
TAnet2
Pacific Wave AARNET, APAN/TransPAC CAnet4,
TANET2
NYCM CAnet3, GEANT, HEANET, NORDUnet
SNVA GEMNET, SINET, SingAREN, WIDE
LOSA UNINET
OC3-gtOC12
AMPATH ANSP, REUNA, RNP2, RETINA
San Diego (CALREN2) CUDI
El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso) CUDI

• ARNES, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, JANET,
  NORDUNET, RENATER, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET,
  GARR-B, POL-34, RCCN, RedIRIS
• WIDE/JGN, IMnet, CERNet, CSTnet,

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International interconnection points highlights
Key international exchange points facilitated by
Internet2 membership and the U.S. scientific
community

• MAN Lan (New York)
• Internet2 project
• Site at NYSERNET colo space?
• GbE-switch based
• CALREN2 UTEP
• CUDI connections
• Tijuana San Diego
• Ciudad Juarez El Paso
• Other places
• Los Angeles
• Sunnyvale

• STAR TAP/StarLight (Chicago)
• NSF-funded project
• ATM-based STAR TAP
• StarLight GbE switch-based
• Pacific Wave (Seattle)
• Gigabit Ethernet-based
• Seattle
• Pacific Northwest Gigapop
• AmPATH (Miami)
• Includes Global Crossing links to South America

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Networks reachable via Abilene by country
Europe-Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Americas
Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech
Republic Cyprus Denmark Estonia Finland France Ger
many Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel
Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norw
ay Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain
Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom CERN
Australia China Hong Kong Japan Korea Singapore Ta
iwan Thailand
Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Mexico United States
More information about reachable networks at
www.internet2.edu/abilene/peernetworks.html Also,
see www.startap.net
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PartnershipsInternet2 International

• Strategic importance to Internet2
• Ensure global interoperability
• of the next generation of Internet technologies
  and applications
• Enable global collaboration
• in research and education providing/promoting the
  development of an advanced networking environment
  internationally Build effective partnerships in
  other countries
• With organizations of similar goals/objectives
  and similar constituencies
• Mechanism Memoranda of Understanding

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MoU in brief

• Provide/promote interconnectivity between
  communities
• Collaborate on technology development and
  deployment
• Facilitate collaboration between members on
  applications
• Encourage technology transfer

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International MoU Partners
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MoU Partners Discussions In Progress

• Newest Internet2 MoU Partners Ecuador (CEDIA),
  Slovakia (SANET)
• America
• Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia
• Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba
• Europe
• Russia
• Africa
• South Africa
• Asia
• Malaysia, Asia

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The new science e-science

• Science used to about test tubes, wet labs and
  big instruments
• But increasingly science is moving to networks
  and computers
• Science is more global and distributed

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Remote Instrumentation and Data Analysis
Large scientific projects increasingly draw on
resources from many countries. Scientists can
use high-performance networks for remote
instrument control and to pool computing
resources for data analysis, improving ease of
use and lowering costs.
The Gemini Observatory Twin Telescopes
An international collaboration (US, Australia,
U.K., Canada, Chile, Argentina, Brazil) NSF
funds US participation
Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA
Cerro Pachon, Chile
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Global Terabit Research Network
(GTRN)http//www.gtrn.net/

• Cooperatively, cohesively managed
  intercontinental infrastructure
• Focus on end to end performance on global basis
  for global science
• Initial partners
• Europe NREN Consortium/DANTE
• Internet2
• Need global engagement by continent
• CANARIE (Canada) engaged
• Asian partnership on the works
• Any initiative at continental scale

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GTRN Current Infrastructure

• DANTE-provided router in NYC in GTRN AS
• DANTE-provided 2.5gbps links across Atlantic to
  GEANT
• Abilene providing tunnel between New York,
  (Chicago), Seattle
• NSF-funded StarLight will provide GNAP

• Pacific Wave hosting GNAP in Seattle
• Global NOC at Indiana University

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Europe Connectivity to USA October 2002
Country Network BW(mbps) Interconnect
CERN CERN (thru GEANT) Star Light/710 NLSD
France RENATER 45 STAR TAP/AADS
Ireland HEANET 465 NYC/STAR TAP
Netherlands SURFnet 1244 Star Light
Nordic Countries NORDUnet 622 NYC/Star Light
Russia Naukanet (nee MIRnet) (NSF funded) 155 STAR TAP
Europe GEANT 7500 NYC
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Europe highlights

• TERENA (Trans European Research and Education
  Network Association)
• Membership association of National Research
  Networks (NRNs)
• No network, but technology and applications
  working groups
• TERENA organization undertaking middleware
  deployment issues
• GEANT
• Pan-European network (connects together National
  Research Networks) 31 countries
• Operated by DANTE

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Europe highlights

• Several key global science facilities in Europe
• - CERN
• - radio astronomy facilities
• e-LVBI very long baseline interferometry High
  speed astronomy data transmission
• Starting October, set of experiments online
• - number of grid projects European-wide
• IPv6 focus
• 6Net testbed

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GEANThttp//www.dante.org.uk

• 31 countries connecting
• Operated by DANTE
• 10gbps core backbone
• Connectors at 2.5gbps and below
• 3x2.5gbps across Atlantic
• Outreach to SE Europe (Balkans), Med. (N.
  Africa), S. America (_at_LIS-CAESAR), Asia (TEIN)

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Asia Connectivity to USA(October 2002)
Country Network BW(mbps) Interconnect
APAN/US TransPAC 622 Tokyo to P. Wave
(NSF funded) 622 Tokyo to Star Light
Australia AARNET 310 Pacific Wave
Korea KOREN/KREONET2 45 STAR TAP
Hong Kong HARNET 45 STAR TAP
Japan SINET 155 Abilene, Sunnyvale
Japan WIDE (ipv6 only) 155 Abilene, Sunnyvale
Japan GEMNET 33 Sunnyvale
Singapore SingAREN 155 STAR TAP, Sunnyvale
Taiwan TANET2 155 Pacific Wave
Thailand UNINET 45 Abilene, LA
WIDE-JGN, IMNet, CERNET/CSTNET, ThaiSARN,
SingAREN, TANET, KOREN/KREONET2
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Asia-Pacific highlights

• APAN Asia-Pacific Advanced Network
• Partner in TransPAC link
• Several national networks moving to 10Gbps
• APAN network made up of country-owned p2p links
  contributed to APAN
• Trans Eurasia and Trans Pacific connectivity
  increasing

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TransPAChttp//www.transpac.org

• Connections APAN to US
• OC-12 POS Seattle (Pacific Wave) to Tokyo
• OC-12 ATM Chicago (StarLight) to Tokyo
• Together 1.244 Gbps Tokyo to the US

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Asia-Pacific whats coming up?

• CJK Hub
• Genkai project GbE between Japan and Korea
• Korea China link?
• TEIN
• Korea to France link
• 45mbps
• RENATER managing, European Commission interested
  in taking on broad European context

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Genkai/Hyunhae
Korea
Seoul
Busan
250?
Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan
GbE

• KJCN (Korea-Japan Cable Network)
• Starting in 2002.3
• 12 fiber pairs with no relays
• Starting from 50Gbps ?2.88Terabit
• (current traffic volume between KR and JP about
  500Mbps)

By Koji Okamura
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America Connectivity to USA (October 2002)
Country Network BW(mbps) Interconnect
Canada CAnet3/4 465 S.T., Pacific Wave, NYC
Mexico RED-CUDI 255 Tijuana-San Diego (CALREN2), Juarez/El Paso
Chile REUNA 45 AmPATH
Brazil RNP2 45 AmPATH
ANSP 45 AmPATH
Argentina RETINA2 45 AmPATH
Gemini/NOAO (funding from NSF) 10 SFGP
Puerto Rico (Arecibo Observatory) To Abilene-U.S. (funding from NSF) 45 SFGP
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America highlights

• Canada CANet4
• Mexico IPv6 first native international peering
• CLARA
• Cooperacion Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas
• Driven by opportunity to participate in GTRN,
  European interest
• Formal organization
• European interest/money
• _at_LIS project, CAESAR study

• AMPATH Florida International University
• Potential to connect 10 countries at 45mbps each
• Global Crossing
• Peering through Miami (collocated with SFGP)
• Now has some NSF funding

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CU
AMPATH
MX
Centroamérica y Caribe
GEANT
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America CLARA highlights
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Africa highlights

• No dedicated RE network connectivity from
  African continent
• European Commission funding connections from
  northern Africa to GEANT

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EUMEDCONNECT

• Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,
  Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian authority, Syria,
  Tunisia, and Turkey
• Egypt Egyptian Universities Network (EUN)
  http//www.frcu.eun.eg/
• Morocco Maroc Wide Area Network (MARWAN)
  http//www.marwan.ac.ma/

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Other university networks, research links

• South Africa Tertiary Education Network (TENET)
  http//www.tenet.ac.za/
• National Institutes of Health MIMcom project
• Satellite connectivity to malaria research sites
  in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania
• http//www.nlm.nih.gov/mimcom/locations.html

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Resources

• www.internet2.edu/international
• Links to most of the networks/organizations
  listed
• ARENA (funded in part by NSF)
• Links to research and education networks
• NOC and technical contact information
• Who connects to which network
• Which networks are connected together (peer)
• Pathfinder tool draws a path and shows bandwidth
  from one institution to another
• http//arena.internet2.edu
• Contact Ana Preston ltapreston_at_internet2.edugt or
  Heather Boyles ltheather_at_internet2.edugt

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Summary

• Leading-edge, high-performance network
  infrastructure is being put in place to support
  science, research, teaching and learning in
  countries around the world
• As a global community, we need to work even more
  closely together to ensure support for global
  applications on an end to end basis

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www.internet2.edu
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International Partners

• The following slides contain more information on
  some of our Internet2 International Partners.
• We start with Asia, follow with Europe and then
  with the Americas.

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Asia / Pacific Rim
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APANhttp//www.apan.net

• APAN is Asian partner on TransPAC link
• APAN network made up of country-owned p2p links
  contributed to APAN

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AARNEThttp//www.aarnet.edu.au/

• 155Mbps
• Plan to run unprotected and utilize double
  bandwidth
• Connects at Pacific Wave
• Supports academic and research community in
  Australia

Source George McLaughlin, AARNET
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CERNEThttp//www.edu.cn/

• 10Mbps to Japan (APAN)
• Within China
• 16x2.5G DWDM system (two lambdas are currently
  running)
• OC48 POS links to 8 cities
• OC3 POS SDH links to all provincial capitals
  (except Lhasa)
• unicast and multicast

Source Xing Li, CERNET
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KOREN/KREONET2http//www.koren21.net,
http//www.kreonet2.net

• Sharing 45mbps link across Pacific to STAR TAP
• KREONET2 is led by KISTI and funded by Ministry
  of Sci Tech
• KOREN is funded by Ministry of Info and Comm and
  operated by Korea Telecom

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SINEThttp//www.nii.ac.jp/network-e.html

• SINET national backbone network for higher
  education
• SuperSINET for research projects (14 versus 300
  SINET universities)
• 10gbps backbone in Japan
• 155mbps Abilene in Sunnyvale

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WIDE IPv6 Connectionhttp//www.wide.ad.jp/

• First international, native IPv6 connection
• 45mbps Tokyo to Sunnyvale
• Connects to Abilene IPv6 router in Sunnyvale
• DV over IP applications development
• Fujitsu at University of Maryland

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GEMNET

• NTT Labs-owned and operated network
• Connects NTT Research Labs in Japan
• Plus several radio telescope installations
• Plus U. Kyoto and U. Tokyo
• 2.4Gb/s circuits
• 33mbps connection to US, of which 10mb PVC to
  Abilene, also to STAR TAP

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SingARENhttp//www.singaren.net.sg/

• Currently 27mbps across Pacific
• Peers with Abilene in Sunnyvale
• 45mbps PVC to STAR TAP/AADS switch

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TANET2http//www.tanet2.net.tw/

• Recently upgraded to 90Mbps connection to Pacific
  Wave, Seattle
• Connects select few, high-end research
  institutions in Taiwan
• Peers with several nets at Pacific Wave

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UNINNEThttp//www.uni.net.th/index_e.html

• Funded by Ministry of University Affairs in
  Thailand
• Connects most universities in Thailand
• Via 155mbps links
• Currently has 10mbps PVC to Los Angeles
• Peers with Abilene in L.A.
• Other major net in Thailand is run by NECTEC
  (Ministry of Science Tech funding)

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Europe
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JANEThttp//www.ja.net

• 2.5gbps backbone in UK
• Connects MANs connecting universities
• Supporting UK govt funded e-Science projects
• Utilizing GEANT connection to peer with Abilene
  currently

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SURFnethttp//www.surfnet.nl/

• 2x622mbps to StarLight (production)
• Lambda for research (2.5gbps)
• StarLight counterpart in Amsterdam

Source Erik-Jan Bos
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CERNhttp//www.cern.ch

• Currently behind GEANT
• Sept 2002 DataTag OC48 (2.4gbps) to StarLight

Source Paolo Moroni, CERN
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HEANEThttp//www.heanet.ie

• Serves the Irish universities
• Using 2 of several OC3 (155mbps) links to peer in
  NYC
• Upgrading backbone to 155mbps

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NORDUnethttp//www.nordu.net/

• Connects together networks of Denmark, Iceland,
  Finland, Norway and Sweden
• Reworking 622mbps to New York (plus 155 to
  StarLight)

Providing transit to RUNNET (Russia), EENET
(Estonia), UARNET (Ukraine) and NASK (Warsaw,
Poland)
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CAnethttp//www.canarie.ca

• Currently procuring CAnet4 network
• Wavelength-based
• Connects provincial networks
• 1st Internet2 MoU Partner

Source Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE
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America
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Mexicohttp//www.cudi.edu.mx

• Connecting 41 universities in México expected 80
• Connecting to U.S.
• - via Tijuana San Diego (with transit from
  CALREN2 to Abilene) at 155mbps
• 100mbps between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso
• Convenios internacionales with CANARIE,
  Internet2/UCAID, CENIC, REUNA, RETINA

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Brazilhttp//www.rnp.br

• Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP
• Connecting 27 Brazilian states at 155 Mbps.
• RNP2 AmPATH via DS-3

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Brazilhttp//www.ansp.br

• ANSP
• Academic Network at Sao Paulo
• AmPATH via 45Mbps

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Argentinahttp//www.retina.ar

• Red Teleinformática Académica
• Red RETINA
• Connecting 25 institutions
• Retina2 via AMPATH

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Chilehttp//www.reuna.cl

• Red Universitaria Nacional REUNA
• 10 POPs from Arica to Valdivia
• 155 Mbps ATM/SDH Network
• Centrally operated from Santiago
• Basic Internet and Internet2 services
• REUNA3 Gigabit Backbone Project

Geographical Distribution of REUNA2 POPs
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Costa Ricahttp//www.crnet.cr

• National Research Network - CRNet

• Internet2 connectivity possibly through Los
  Arcos