Brief Update on Asian Networking
| Trans-Pacific connectivity | |
| Within country connectivity plans | |
| Areas of continuing concern | |
| The TransPAC2 project |
| The “bandwidth problem” between the US and Asia has been solved! | |
| I can easily count 6 10G links between the US and Asia, as of 4/1/05. | |
| There are many other links that contribute to nearly 100G of high-performance Trans-Pacific bandwidth available for researchers. This is comparable to US-EU bandwidth. |
| Many countries within Asia have deployed high-performance (10G or multiple 10G) research and education backbones [China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan to name a few]. | |
| Other countries are reorganizing their R/E network administration in preparation for this type of deployment [Thailand, Singapore and others]. | |
| Soon many Asian counties will have national R/E networks that can meet the needs of the next generation of research. | |
| Access to high-performance bandwidth is still difficult for many countries. | |
| Related to this, north-south bandwidth within Asia is limited and expensive to deploy | |
| Even in countries where there is access to high-performance bandwidth, the network service infrastructure needs additional improvement (as it does in the US) in areas like measurement, security and GMPLS-lightpath integration. |
| Continue high-performance connectivity across the Pacific Ocean [OC-192 connection between US and Tokyo] | |
| Enhance connectivity by assisting in the development of an inter-Asia backbone [Tokyo-Hong Kong-Singapore] or beyond |
TransPAC2 Service Organization and Goals
| Primary IRCN goal: Facilitating global production research collaborations, including grid, climate, HEP and earthquake research activities | ||
| Infrastructure partnerships | ||
| We must extend both high-performance infrastructure and access to that infrastructure. The extension of TransPAC2 north-south in Asia is extremely important. | ||
| Operational partnerships | ||
| Operational cooperation between all countries is important (NOC operations, security incident reporting…); | ||
| Research and development partnerships | ||
| Collaborations between network researchers in Asia and the TransPAC2/Internet2 team are needed in areas like HOPI research; measurement activities; security cooperation; AAI activities and circuit allocation mechanisms | ||