General information Project description

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PORTA OPTICA STUDY THE ACADEMIC NETWORKS IN
EASTERN EUROPE Artur Binczewski, Milosz
Przywecki, Maciej Stroinski, Jan Weglarz Poznan
Supercomputing and Networking Center
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Content

• Project overview
• Partners
• Main goal objectives
• Preliminary results
• Next steps

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Overview

• Instrument SSA FP6
• Duration 1 year
• Start 01/02/2006
• End 31/01/2007
• 12 project partners
• 3 main regions
• Eastern Europe Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova
• Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
• Southern Caucasus Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

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Partners
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Main Goal Objectives

• Main Goal
• Stimulation and consolidation of initiatives to
  ensure the successful, dark-fiber based research
  network deployment in the Eastern Europe, Baltic
  states and Southern Caucasus regions
• Objectives
• Identification of user communities and their
  requirements
• Assessment of fiber infrastructure availability
• Performing fiber network case studies and
  deployment scenarios
• Raising project awareness and results
  dissemination

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Estonia
Potential impact 11 cities 732 300 people 80
scientific institutions 50 higher education
institutions 69 114 university students

• EENET, Estonian NREN
• GÉANT2 connection 622 Mbps
• DF 1Gbps Tallin-Tartu, Tallin-Paide, Paide-Tartu
• All other links (2-11Mbps) using leased lines

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Estonia
622Mbps GEANT2
4Mbps
4Mbps
11Mbps
1Gbps
2Mbps
1Gbps
4Mbps
4Mbps
8Mbps
2Mbps
2Mbps
DF 1Gbps Tallin-Tartu, Tallin-Paide, Paide-Tartu
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Latvia
Potential impact 26 cities 1 462 000 people 89
scientific institutions 49 higher education
institutions 121 830 university students

• LATNET, Latvian NREN
• GÉANT2 connection 155 Mbps
• Backbone leased lines up to 2 Mbps
• Last mile fiber optic/radio connections/DSL

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Latvia
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Lithuania
Potential impact 22 cities 1 764 000 people 109
scientific institutions 25 higher education
institutions 137 732 university students

• LITNET, Lithuanian NREN
• GÉANT2 connection 1 Gbps now, soon 2.5 Gbps
• Backbone 1Gbps, 200Mbps, 4-30Mbs,
• Own or leased DF

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Lithuania
1 Gbps
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Belarus
Potential impact 6 cities 3 450 000 people 194
scientific institutions 44 higher education
institutions 273 000 university students

• BASNET, Belarusian NREN
• GÉANT2 connection 34 Mbps
• Backbone
• Minsk MAN FDDI ring 100Mbps
• Intitutions in Minsk connected via FO or radio
  links
• Other cities connected via 2Mbps leased lines

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Ukraine
Potential impact 43 cities 19 517 000 people 600
scientific institutions 384 higher education
institutions 1 342 000 university students

• URAN, association of Ukrainian RENs
• No GÉANT2 connection (in progress)
• Leased channels between major cities
• 155Mbps (Kiev-Lviv), TDM
• 10 Mbps (Kiev-Odessa), Ethernet
• 128kbps-2Mbps (other cities), TDM

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Ukraine
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Moldova
Potential impact 7 cities 1 151 000 people 50
scientific institutions 35 higher education
institutions 78 500 university students

• RENAM, Moldavian NREN
• 16 Mbps GÉANT2 connection
• DF infrastructure in Chisinau (20km)
• Intercity connections up to 8Mbps
  (Chisinau-Balti, radio-relay)
• users connected to NREN using leased lines
  (xDSL), radio links, Gigabit/Fast/Ethernet, WiFi)

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Georgia
Potential impact 6 cities 1 481 000 people 48
scientific institutions 23 higher education
institutions 92 900 university students

• GRENA, Georgian NREN
• No GÉANT2 connection
• Backbone
• Tbilisi Gigabit Ethernet, DF, 15 km
• Regional infrastructure based on leased 2 Mbps
  channels

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Georgia
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Azerbaijan
Potential impact 6 cities 3 634 000 people 186
scientific institutions 35 higher education
institutions 137 184 university students

• AzRENA/AzNET, Azerbaijani RENs
• No GÉANT2 connection,
• Academy of Science buildings in Baku - FO
  infrastructure
• Other institutions connected via radio links and
  leased lines

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Azerbaijan (AzRENA)
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Azerbaijan (AzNET)
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Armenia
Potential impact 8 cities 3 450 000 people 194
scientific institutions 44 higher education
institutions 273 000 university students

• ASnet/ARENA/ISOC/NFSATnet/LIBnet Armenian RENs
• No GÉANT2 connection
• 10Mbps FO connections between network nodes
• Institutions connected via FO, radio links and
  DSL

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Armenia
Gyumri
Yerevan
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Potential beneficiaries Impact of work

• 9 beneficiary countries
• 1400 scientific institutions
• 700 higher education institutions,
• 2 525 260 students
• 135 cities
• 36 641 300 people

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Potential beneficiariesExamples of main
scientific institutions

• Minsk, Unitary Enterprise Geoinformation
  systems, United Institute of Informatics
  Problems, Belarus (development of belorussian
  space system of distance land exploration on the
  base of belorussian space ship "BelKA")
• Chisinau, Faculty of Radioelectronics and
  Telecommunications of Technical University of
  Moldova, (First GRID site in Moldova)
• Kiev, V. M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics,
  Ukraine, (developing system to control problems
  within the framework of cluster technologies)
• Tallinn, National Institute of Chemical Physics
  and Biophysics, Estonia (development of novel
  directions in material sciences, gene- and
  biotechnology, environmental technology, and
  computer science)

• Ventspils, Ventspils International Radioastronomy
  Centre (VIRAC), Latvia

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Summary

• GEANT2 connection 0 2.5Gbps
• Regional infrastructure based on low-speed leased
  lines/DSL/radio
• Research teams cannot effectively collaborate due
  to lack of high-speed network infrastructure

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Next steps

• July 2006, Users database published,
• October 2006, Analysis of deployment
  opportunities ready
• December 2006, Case studies ready,
• January 2006, Fiber optic development plan ready

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• THANK YOU

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