Advanced Networks in Latinamerica Deploying IPv6

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Advanced Networks in LatinamericaDeploying IPv6

• GAC Regional Forum
• April 2005

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Agenda

• Brief description of RETINA
• Brief description of CLARA
• IPv6 deployment in RETINA and future plans
• IPv6 deployment in CLARA

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RETINA

• Red TeleINformática Académica
• Research and Education Network of Argentina
• Around 60 RE institutions connected
• Administration of the 36 Public Universities
  Network
• Connected to Internet2 since 2001 and member of
  Clara since 2002

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RETINA main facts

• International Representation of the RE network
  since 15 years
• Project always running during that period
• Highly involved together with other LA NRENs in
  joint projects like Clara, Alice, LACNIC, ENRED,
  etc.

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RETINA RIU
ARN CONAE CNEA CLACSO TANDAR MRECIC SFP SAFJP AMSA
T UDESA IFEVA UNA UTN Antorchas Arauz Tarea Darwin
ion
UNCPBA UNGS UNGSM UNLM UNLP UNLZ UNLu UNMP UNQ UNr
ef
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RETINAs Backbone
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RETINAs Backbone
Rosario
Rio IV
La Plata
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CLARA Cooperación Latinoaméricana en Redes
Avanzadas

• Coordination amongst LA-NREN and other
  stakeholders
• Cooperation for the promotion of scientific and
  technologic development
• Planning and implementation of a Regional
  Advanced Network for LA-NRENs interconnection
• Linking the region with other Advanced Networks
  in the world

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CLARA members and number of RE institutions

• Argentina (60)
• Brasil (382)
• Bolivia (6)
• Chile (14)
• Colombia (43)
• Costa Rica (-)
• Cuba (21)
• Ecuador (9)
• El Salvador (7)
• Honduras (-)

• Guatemala (10)
• México(69)
• Nicaragua (-)
• Panamá (10)
• Paraguay (28)
• Perú (11)
• Rep. Dominicana (-)
• Uruguay (7)
• Venezuela (7)

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Topology of RedClara
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IPv6 in RETINA - Goals

• Testing the protocol over different access and
  transport technologies
• Investigate the facilities and features of the
  protocol
• Study transition mechanisms
• Testing of traditional and advances applications
• Implementation of advanced services over IPv6
  (QoS, Multicast, VPN)
• Write documentation useful for the institutions
  members of RETINA
• Supply a useful infrastructure for research
  projects of the Argentinian institutions

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IPv6 in RETINA Key facts

• 2002
• First pNLA block, received from UNAM
  (3ffe80701019/48)
• First tunnels UNAM, RAU, ITESM, RedIRIS, UACH,
  UBA, UTN-FRLP, CRIBABB y UNSL.
• 2003
• 6BONE addressing allocated (3ffe401a/32)
• Requested a production block from LACNIC
  (20011318/32).
• Native IPv6 in RETINAs NOC and with UTN.
• IPv6 prefixes of RETINA (and its members)
  published in Internet2.
• 2004
• UNSJ and Codarec (Mendoza) connected via tunnels
• UNLP connected in native mode
• Design of an addressing plan for the Academic
  Backbone

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Actual Conections
IPv6 Native
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National RE Backbone
200113184000/36
200113185000/36
Rosario
200113188000/36
200113183000/36
200113189000/36
Rio IV
200113181000/36 - 200113182000/36
200113186000/36
20011318A000/36
La Plata
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Advanced Backbone

• Native IPv6 in each node
• Native Multicast in each node
• Prefix 20011318/32 for IPv6 native connections
• Deploying IPv6 and Multicast in the Institutions
  of the backbone region 2004-2006

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Main activities using RETINAs IPv6 network

• UNSJ
• Access to Clinical Information and Medical
  applications
• UBA
• Remote Operation of microscopes (telemicroscopy).
  
• Codarec Mendoza
• Codarec Test Bed research, difussion and
  technology transfer of IPv6 based systems.
  Regional IPv6 network.
• UNLP
• QoS and VoIP6 thesis and seminars
• RETINA
• DNS research on A6 records
• Training for Universities and other RETINAs
  institutions
• Training and joint workshops with a regional ISP
  (IMPSAT).
• FLIP6 participation.

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UNSJ Access to a Medical system

• Users, groups, and entities access control
• Complete patients list
• Record of medical activities with services and
  variables.
• Record of precedents and events
• Storing and visualization of signals in standard
  formats
• Possibility to adapt the interfaces to different
  views
• Automatic form generation
• Multi purpose database
• Flexible technology that allows to use the
  service in relationship with other areas in the
  center

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UBA Telemicroscopy

• Colaboration between MEDICINA UBA y National
  Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research San
  Diego, California
• Access to microscopes not available in Argentina.
  Also to analysis programs and image
  visualizations.

Francisco Capani y Erik Bushong
Projection of a series of optical sections
through a Purkinje neuron revealing both the
overall morphology (red) and the denditric spines
(green). The unconjugated red dye fills the
entire dendritic tree when injected, including
shafts and spines. In contrast, the
phalloidin-Alexa 488 conjugate selectively labels
the spines.
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Next steps

• Migration of the institutions connected via
  tunnels to native mode
• Train the administrators of the Institutions
  networks in the use of IPv6
• Extend the work done with IMPSAT to other
  providers
• Continue to generate documentation about the
  different features of the protocol

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IPv6 in CLARA

• Implementation of native IPv6 during second
  semester of 2005
• Activation of IPv6 routing
• GEANT in first instance
• NRENs that already have IPv6 infrastructure
  (Reuna, RNP, CUDI, RETINA)
• Encourage the implementation of IPv6 in the other
  NRENs (2006)

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IPv6 in CLARA

• Need for an IPv6 block to assign addressing to
  NRENs that still dont have own IPv6 addresses
• Assignment plan
• 2001xxxx0000/36 backbone CLARA
• 2001xxxx1yyy/40 NRENs in South Am.
• 2001xxxx2yyy/40 NRENs in Central Am.

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CLARA next steps

• Discuss the strategy for IPv6 adoption within
  RedClara and the NRENs
• Request of an IPv6 block from LACNIC
• Definition of the procedure to assign addressing
  to the NRENs
• Next Technical Meeting Veracruz, MX, 25-29 April
  2005

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Acknowledgment

• Mariela Rocha, Daniel Bellomo and the technical
  team of RETINA
• Florencio Utreras and Eriko Porto
• UNSJ, UNLP, UBA, CODAREC and other institutions
  for providing the information on their projects

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Thanks!

• Guillermo Cicileo
• www.retina.ar