Caribbean Research and Education Networking (CaribREN) Special Interest Group Report Spring 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting Crystal City, Virginia

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1 Caribbean Research and Education Networking (CaribREN) Special Interest Group Report Spring 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting Crystal City, Virginia Dr. Heidi L. Alvarez Florida International University April 21, 2008

2 Courtesy of Shiraz Mohammed UWI Caribbean Service Area

3 Caribbean Special Interest Group Presentation Agenda Activities Update since Internet 2 Members Meeting in Fall 2007 Network Infrastructure: CIARA, AMPATH IXP, WHREN-LILA RedCLARA and Collaborators in Latin America Florencio Utreras University of Puerto Rico Jose Conde University of the West Indies Shiraz Mohammed University of the Virgin Islands Kelly Harrigan Application Highlights: Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico - Arun Venkataraman Home - Dan Werthimer,University of California, Berkeley 3

4 About the Caribbean Research & Education Networking (CaribREN) Special Interest Group Mission: To advance the state of high-performance networking for research and education in the Caribbean. Membership is open to all institutions and individuals with an interest in supporting, contributing, or learning more about the mission of the CaribREN SIG. Current membership ranges from Caribbean interests, US and Latin American research & education networks, scientists, and educators. 4

5 Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) CIARA was created in 2003 as a State of Florida Type II Research Center at FIU. CIARA services institutional collaborators in the U.S. and internationally as a bridge linking researchers and educators with the infrastructure and knowledge they need to perform their work. 5

6 AMPATH International Exchange Point (IXP) Enhances research and education collaborations in the Western Hemisphere through highperformance network connectivity Promotes international peering through a distributed exchange point model Projects at FIU served by AMPATH: - WHREN-LILA NSF Award # OCI and FAPESP Projecto #04/ AtlanticWave - Global CyberBridges NSF Award # OCI CHEPREO NSF Award # PHY Located at the NAP of the Americas, in Miami Ethernet and ATM peering fabrics Connection types are: Mbps, 1 Gbps and 10Gbps Ethernet - 45 Mbps, 155 Mbps and 622 Mbps ATM Mbps, 622 Mbps and 2.5 Gbps SDH Jumbo frame support IPv4/IPv6 Collocation Facilities 6

7 Western Hemisphere Research & Education Networks - Links Interconnecting Latin America (WHREN-LILA) NSF International Research Network Connections (IRNC) award for U.S.-Latin American network connections to FIU Coalition with CENIC (US), ANSP (Sao Paulo), CLARA (Latin America), CUDI (Mexico), RNP (Brazil), REUNA (Chile) 2.5Gbps + dark fiber segment U.S. landings in Miami and San Diego Latin America landings in Sao Paulo and Tijuana 7

8 RedCLARA ALICE Project 18 Latin American Countries and 4 European NRENs Creation of CLARA, the organization of LA NREN s - 18 (100%) LA Countries - Legally established in Uruguay - Management structure in place Establishment of RedCLARA - The Network - The Operations are carried out by CUDI in Mexico - The Engineering is subcontracted to RNP in Brazil - The Information Systems is subcontracted to REUNA in Chile Florencio Utreras, CLARA 8

9 Internet2 at the University of Puerto Rico UPR connects to Internet2 through AMPATH. All campuses have Internet2 connectivity. Slides by Jose Conde

10 Streaming of Endoscopic Videos to and from the Johns Hopkins Hospital over High-Speed Networks

11 UPR physicists at the Mayaguez Campus will participate in the CMS experiments at CERN Arecibo Observatory participates in e-vlbi experiments through UPR network (more details in Dr. Venkataraman s slides)

12 Arecibo Observatory evlbi update Dr Tapasi Ghosh, AO Dr Chris Salter, AO Dr Arun Venkataraman, AO

13 Arecibo Current Network Architecture

14 PRISANET (PR) of the Arecibo Obs./UPR. AMPATH (US) of Florida Intl. Univ. Abilene (US) of Internet 2. SURFnet (NL) of SURFnet BV. EXPReS evlbi Project Arecibo is a member of the European EXPReS project. The goal is to achieve up to 1Gbps data rate to a real-time correlator (JIVE) over the internet. Present status :155Mbps shared with three UPR campuses, ATM line Coming Soon: 200Mbps Internet-2 for AO only + borrowed ~300 Mbps from UPR s during evlbi, allowing 512 Mbps observation throughput

15 Internet for Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico

16 Statistics TOTAL RATE

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18 The University of the West Indies Mission: To propel the economic, social, political and cultural development of West Indian society through teaching, research, innovation, advisory and community services and intellectual leadership Slides provided by Shiraz Mohammed

19 UWI - Global Centre of Excellence Pan Caribbean Presence: 40,000 students enrolled St. Augustine Campus - Trinidad and Tobago Mona Campus - Jamaica Cave Hill Campus - Barbados Open Campus Virtual Campus providing access to 16 Caricom countries Regional Linkages Collaborates with the other Universities in the region International Linkages (to name a few ) Emory University Babson College University of Alberta University of Oxford

20 UWI - ICT Infrastructure Each main campus (Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados) has Diverse fibre network connecting all buildings to each resp. campus back-bone Mostly Cisco back-bone and edge devices Campus-wide wireless coverage Intercampus connectivity via leased circuits as well as Internet In 13 other Caricom countries Fully equipped computer labs Teaching centres

21 University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) EPSCoR Grant (NSF) $4.5 million designed to expand and enhance the research capability of scientists to compete more successfully for a portion of the nation's federal academic research and development budget. Master of Marine & Environmental Science EPSCoR is investing in research infrastructure at UVI, including: - New computer system for high performance ocean modeling (HYCOM); improving UVI s intranet and internet capacity on St. Thomas and St. Croix; - Developing high speed internet connectivity at UVI s field station on St. John; and - Trials of electronic delivery of rapid full-text journal access for researchers. Kelly Harrigan, UVI 21

22 University of the Virgin Islands - Planned Kelly Harrigan, UVI 22

23 Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN) Launched by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) in 2004, the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN) is a multilateral project, supported by the OAS, the World Bank, the European Union and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The project is designed to enhance the competitiveness of Caribbean countries, using information and communication technologies to connect the Caribbean to the global pool of knowledge, developing human resources and facilitating greater regional integration 23

24 Next Steps Continue with monthly meetings Update the CaribREN web site with more information about members Work with all potential collaborators Have a face-to-face Meeting in the Caribbean Discussion Q&A 24

25 Thank you! Website: Please subscribe to the mailing list and join our SIG 25

26 MORE SLIDES FOLLOW 26

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28 GE Dark Fibre by Centennial Villa Nevarez HPCF 6513 OC-48 UPR / Centennial ATM Backbone Jardín Botánico UPR GSR Internet 2 Internet 1 University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Guaynabo Angora RUM HPFC ATM UNI Network RCM UPRU UPR ATM UNI Network UPRA UPRH UPR RP UPRP UPRAG Cornell AO Cayey UPRC UPRB Centennial de Puerto Rico UPR / HPCF ATM Project SIZE FSCM NO DWG NO REV OC-12 OC-3 DS-3 DRAWN ISSUED UPR-HPFC mar SCALE n/a SHEET 1 OF 1 A 28

29 EXPReS evlbi test AO-JIVE 5th Feb 2008, test over the existing OC3 (155Mbps-shared with UPR) line: Arecibo data arriving at JIVE Fringe amplitude Fringe amplitude for 128 Mbps Jb - Tr Jb - Wb Jb - Tr Jb - Wb Jb - Ar Tr - Wb Jb - Ar Tr - Wb Tr - Ar Wb - Ar Tr - Ar Wb - Ar QSO 3C395

30 HPCF GigE/EOS UPR Internet2 Guaynabo FIU Miami NAP Centennial MPLS Internet Arecibo GigE AO UPR GigE Solution to AMPATH Miami NAP 30

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32 Eastern Caribbean IPv6 Network - Planned Eldert Louisa SMITCOMS, N.V. 32