Update on ERNET, South AsiaSpecial Interest Group Meeting 14 August08, Kathmandu

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Update on ERNET,South Asia-Special Interest
Group Meeting14 August08, Kathmandu

• Dipak Singh
• ERNET India
• deepak_at_eis.ernet.in

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Content

• History of ERNET
• Infrastructure
• User Groups
• Content Hosting
• Campus Networking
• International Connectivity
• Indian Grid - GARUDA
• Other International projects
• Future Plans

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History

• Started as UNDP Dept. of Electronics,Govt. of
  India funded project in 1986 to develop
• National capabilities in the field of Computer
  Networking
• To run multi-protocol network supporting OSI
  TCP/IP
• To do R D in networking
• All IITs, IISc Bangalore NCST Mumbai were
  partners in the project
• Started with dial-up connectivity between all
  partners
• Initially, UUCP mail was service
• .in DNS at NCST Mumbai
• Migrated to 9.6 kbps leased lines in 1990
• Got 64 kbps international gateway to UUNet in
  1991
• Brought Internet in India

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ERNET India

• Govt. of India converted this project into an
  autonomous organisation in 1998 with funding for
  4 years
• Today ERNET India is self-sustaining
• Main Objectives
• Network for Educational and Research Community
• RD in Networking
• Training and consultancy
• Hosting of Indian content
• Domain Registrar for domain ac.in res.in
• Collaboration with academic and research
  Institutes

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Network for Educational Research Community

• 15 Point of presence (POPs) at premier ER
  institutions in the country
• User base 1300 institutes
• Terrestrial links, VSAT
• Dual stacked(IPv4 IPv6), MPLS enabled STM-1
  Ready Backbone
• Satellite Hub in C-band at Bangalore

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ERNET User base

• All Universities (Not private)
• All Agricultural Universities Research
  Institutions
• RD Institutions
• Engineering colleges
• Schools

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UGC Infonet

• 157 Universities connected over ERNET Backbone
• UGC provides full funding through the
  Universities
• Scalable Network Architecture
• Integrated Campus LANs
• Terrestrial and VSAT based connectivity
• Multimedia capabilities for video conferencing
  and distance learning

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Indian Council for Agriculture Research-ICARnet

• Established Intranet Internet for Agricultural
  Universities and Research Institutions affiliated
  to ICAR on ERNET backbone World Bank Funded
  Project.
• Institutions/CAUs/SAUs Connected
• Institutes 64
• Central Agricultural Univ. 17
• State Agricultural Univ. 19
• Regional Stations 41
• Research Centers 77
• Agricultural Colleges 56
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Digital Library hosted at ERNET

• University e-journals
• Mirroring of NASA database
• Entire publications of Encyclopedia Britannica
• Medical databases Provided by World Health
  Organization (WHO)
• Educational content for schools
• complete curriculum for classes 1 to 12 as per
  CBSE syllabus under project Vidyavahini.
• India education and Research portal.
• An exhaustive database of over 3000 educational
  institutions providing details of admission
  procedures, examination dates, courses offered
  and online forms.
• Digital Library of India
• Implemented jointly by IISc Bangalore and ERNET.
• More than a million books on various subjects
  digitized and put on the web

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Campus Networking

• Turnkey deployment of campus network for
  universities other institutes
• Delhi University, Delhi
• IIT Madras, Chennai
• Rajasthan University, Jaipur
• Allahabad University, Allahabad
• Annamalai University, Tamilnadu
• Manipur University, Manipur

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Vocational Centers for Disabled Children

• The programme was designed for inculcating
  the computer literacy, enhancing the skills
  and providing job-oriented training to the
  disabled children to obtain employment in the IT
  and IT enabled service industry
• Course module content created
• Training for Teachers
• Internet connectivity

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International Connectivity

• 320 Mbps commodity Internet bandwidth
• 45 Mbps link between ERNET- GEANT operational
  since August06
• Upgraded to 100 Mbps on 25 July08
• 1 Gbps link between TIFR Mumbai CERN Geneva

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GEANT ERNET Connectivity
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Applications over ERNET-GEANT Link

• Access to LHC grid for Indian scientist
• Relay of surgery from Korea Japan to Tata
  Memorial Hospital, Mumbai since Jan 2007 for
  tele-education
• Regular DVTS session during APAN meetings on
  Healthcare
• DVTS session from Delhi on 6 August08 during
  APAN-NZ meeting

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National Grid Computing Initiative - GARUDA

• National initiative for grid computing as Proof
  of Concept
• 45 institutes connected in 17 cities
• 2.4 Gbps bandwidth for grid fabric
• More than 300 CPU computing resource available in
  grid

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WLCG Network in India

• Two Tier II centers in India of world LHC grid
• TIFR Mumbai VECC Kolkata
• Ten Tier III centers
• ERNET had set-up network for LHC grid in India

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Other International Projects

• EU-India Grid
• BELIEF - Bringing Europes eLectronic
  Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers
• 6Choice - India-Europe Cooperation to promote
  IPv6 adoption

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EU-India Grid

• To support the interconnection and
  interoperability of the prominent European Grid
  infrastructure(EGEE) with the Indian Grid
  infrastructure (GARUDA) for the benefit of
  eScience applications
• Application Area
• High Energy Physics, Material Science, Biological
  Science, Earth Atmoshperic Science

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EU-India Partners

• Metaware SpA, Italy
• Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics,
  Italy
• GARR Italian Education Research Network
• Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
  Physics, Italy
• Cambridge University, UK
• Tata Insititute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
• National Centre for Biological Science, Bangalore
• ERNET India
• University of Pune, Pune
• Centre for Development of Advance Computing,
  Bangalore
• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
• Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

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BELIEF

• Support the Research Infrastructure
  Communities to maximimise synergies in promoting
  the understanding and the adoption of
  eInfrastructure developments

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BELIEF - Partners

• Metaware SpA ( ITALY)
• The Institute of Information Science and
  Technology CNR ISTI (ITALY)
• The University of Athens (GREECE)
• The Education Research Network ERNET (IN)
• ENGITECH (IE)
• ESCOLA POLITECNICA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO
  PUSP (BRAZIL)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

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6Choice

• Strengthen co-operation between research
  communities in India Europe
• Promote deployment of IPv6 in India using
  experience of Europe

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6Choice -Partners

• Telscom Consulting, Switzerland
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• ERNET India
• HP Labs India, Bangalore
• University College of London
• Sify, Chennai
• Renator, France
• Telefonica, Spain

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Future Network

• For learning knowledge sharing, Education
  Research community need applications such as
• E-learning
• Multimedia Conferencing
• E-access
• Telemedicine for Health
• Video Conference for Telemedicine
• Distance Education
• Video streaming
• E-books
• e-labs
• e-Research

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National Knowledge Network

• Integrated National Knowledge Network proposed by
  National Knowledge Commission
• Govt. had accepted the proposal
• Initial fund had been allocated
• Process had started
• DIT is responsible for implementation
• ERNET National Informatics Centre(NIC)

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NKN

• High level committee has been set-up to oversee
  implementation of NKN
• Sub-committee have been formed for various
  activities
• Detail project plan has been made
• Approval for Expenditure is to be taken

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Target Users

• National Universities
• Colleges
• Medical Colleges
• Agriculture Institutes
• Education Institutions
• Scientific Research Institutions
• Government and non- government organizations

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Network Architecure

• The Network Architecture has been made
• More than 1000 institutes are proposed to be
  connected on 3 Tier architecture in a phased
  manner
• Core 10Gbps
• Distribution 1Gbps
• Edge 622 Mbps, 100 Mbps
• The network is to be sustained through continuous
  govt. funding

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Thank You