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

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

Courtesy of Shiraz Mohammed UWI Caribbean Service Area

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 SETI @ Home - Dan Werthimer,University of California, Berkeley 3

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

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

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-0441095 and FAPESP Projecto #04/14414-2 - AtlanticWave - Global CyberBridges NSF Award # OCI-0636031 - CHEPREO NSF Award # PHY-0312038 Located at the NAP of the Americas, in Miami Ethernet and ATM peering fabrics Connection types are: - 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps and 10Gbps Ethernet - 45 Mbps, 155 Mbps and 622 Mbps ATM - 155 Mbps, 622 Mbps and 2.5 Gbps SDH Jumbo frame support IPv4/IPv6 Collocation Facilities 6

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

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 http://www.redclara.net Florencio Utreras, CLARA 8

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

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

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)

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

Arecibo Current Network Architecture

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

Internet for SETI@home Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico

SETI@home Statistics TOTAL RATE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you! Email: caribinterest@internet2.edu Website:http://international.internet2.edu/intl_connect/carib_sig.html Please subscribe to the mailing list and join our SIG 25