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TransPAC2US-Asia Connectivity

James Williams – Indiana University

williams@indiana.edu

http://www.transpac2.net

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TransPAC2 Overview

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TransPAC2 Partners

• TransPAC2 Co-investigator partner – Internet2• TransPAC2 Asia regional partner – APAN (http://

www.apan.net)• TransPAC2 Japanese partners - National Institute

of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and the National Institute of Informatics (NII)

• TransPAC2 – EU TEIN2 partnership http://www.tein2.net/

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Leverage and Partnerships

Key IRNC concepts allowing:

1. Much more extensive network development and connectivity than IRNC only funding would permit.

2. Fostering/developing more active relationships between US and non-US network engineers.

3. Leads to better international scientific and technical interactions

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TransPAC2 TOP 10 apps Significant aggregated (In/Out) flows between Institution 1 and Institution 2

One year aggregate data

Institution 1 Instituion 2 Protocol Approx. Pkts

WWW-http, https, http-alt (approximately equal stat significance)San Jose State University Tsinghua University, China TCP 64774MDana-Farber Cancer Inst. The Univ. of S & T of China TCP 64245MWuhan University, China DBCE1, AU TCP 62923MAPNIC Harvard University TCP 60808MUniversity of Tulsa Natl. Chengchi Univ., Taiwan TCP 64642MKorea Institute of S & T Pacific Northwest Gigapop TCP 68078M

FTP-data (approximately equal stat significance)Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab Seoul National University TCP 43623MChiyoda-ku, Tokyo NASA TCP 44945MNIH KRNIC-KR, Korea TCP 42698M

IRDMI (a lot of activity toward the beginning of the year, but tapered off)FUJITSU, Japan University of Maryland UDP 52876M

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Another leverage slide

• This cleaner slide shows more clearly the TransPAC2 – EU/TEIN2 relationship, particularly as it relates to Pakistan.

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Pakistan-Background

• Briefing in preparation for the United States-Pakistan First Joint Committee on Science and Technology (Feb 13-14, 2007).

• From that FJC report, “and introduction of high speed connectivity between the two countries”.

• Cooperative project between TransPAC2 (US-IRNC initiative) and PERN2 (Pakistan-HEC initiative)

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Pakistan-Current Status

• Funding request submitted to NSF and funds allocated for US half of project.

• Pakistan-HEC funding approved and allocated for Pakistan half of project.

• Technical details within Pakistan to be completed around 1/1/2008

• Connection completed in 1st Quarter 2008.

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Pakistan – Technical Details

• Connection from Singapore to Karachi

• Sharing of EU TEIN2 POP in Singapore

• Split costs of the “wet” segment between Singapore-Karachi

• Connection to PERN2 network in Karachi

• Direct NSF and NIH PI support/interest

• Planned US-Pakistan joint science meeting

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POP

HECRA POP

Peshawar Uni

FWU

AUPUET

CUIT

IMS

Gandhara U

Sarhad U

CEOS U

Northern U

Uni of Malakand

Kohat Uni of IT

Preston

Uni of ITBannu

PMA KakoolKIU

Gilgit

Gomal Uni

Qurtaba Uni

Peshawar

Islamabad

HECRA POP

Air ULA POP

FJWMLA POP

COMSATS

FAST

Bahria

AIOU

NUML

IIUFUU

NUST IsbArid

NUST Rwp

PIEAS

IST

NDC

QAU LA POPNCP

Lahore

NCALA POP

HEC RA POP

PULA POP

AUF

AUFRA2 POP

NTUUOF

LSE

IMS

NCBA&E

USA

LUMS

HUL

UOE

MU

SU

UCP

UM&T

FAST UOL VUUHS

UAS GCUL BNU LCWU KCW ICBS FCC PASC LCWUPU Old KEMU

Faisalabad

BURA2 POP

BUITM

IQRA

SBKWU

Quetta

Karachi

HECRA POP

KULA POP 1

CPSPLA POP 2

AGK

JUW

BU

AGU

PIMSAT

KASB

Newport

MAJU

SSUET

DOW IQRAFAST TIP

KIETDDB

SZABIST NVA ZMUGWU

NED

HEJ

IBA

BMC

KIIT

HU

Legends

10 G Link

1 G Link

Metro Ring

SURA2 POP

SU

UET Mehran

LMC

ISRA

Qaid-e-Awam University

Shah Latif University

IBASukkur

Hyderabad

BZURA2 POP

Multan

Tando Jam U

Out Side Region Uni

CIIT

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Not just a network connection

• Partial funding included for a US-Pakistan science meeting to “advertise and encourage scientific interaction using high-performance networking”

• Pakistan desire to promote this as an example of government-government cooperation and the expansion/deepening of civil society.

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India remains difficult

• The same approach which was successful with Pakistan has had no success within India.

• We have been unable to find the government official within India who has both the vision and the authority of Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman in Pakistan.

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Interesting IRNC Side Effects

RENOG - (Research and Education Network Operators Group [CCIRN chartered])

http://www.renog.org

South Asia SIG - (Sub-group of the Internet2 Developing NREN Group)

http://southasia.indiana.edu

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Jim Williams

Indiana University

williams@indiana.edu

Questions