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-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Greg Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: I2-NEWS: World-Wide Next Generation Internet to be Established for > Research and Education > Date: 18 Feb 2002 15:46:09 -0500 > > February 18, 2002 > > WORLD-WIDE NEXT GENERATION INTERNET TO BE ESTABLISHED FOR RESEARCH AND > EDUCATION > > Key leaders in advanced networking announced today the formation of the > Global Terabit Research Network (GTRN - http://www.indiana.edu/~gtrn) > -an international partnership to establish a true world-wide next > generation Internet to interconnect national and multinational high > speed research and education networks. The partnership initially > involves North America through Internet2 in the US and CANARIE in > Canada, and Europe through the NREN Consortium. Participation of the > Asia Pacific and other regions is expected soon. > > "The scientific community is now truly international in just about all > fields, and many vitally rely on the integration of computation, data, > instruments and arrays of sensors that enable e-science," said Douglas > Van Houweling, president and CEO of Internet2. "The GTRN will provide a > framework in which the advanced networking community can collectively > manage and provision the global-scale, high-performance, persistent > infrastructure required by the research and education community." > > Added Fernando Liello, Chairman of the European NREN Consortium, "The > GTRN will provide the connectivity and advanced Internet services needed > by major multinational scientific collaborations in areas such as high > energy physics, radio and optical astronomy, weather forecasting and > climatology, biological sciences and earth sciences." > > Recent years have seen the creation of a number of very successful > national and multi-national advanced high speed research networks such > as the Internet2 Abilene network in the United States, the Canadian > CA*net3 network in North America, and the pan-European GEANT network. > Though these networks provide the bandwidth needed for e-science > nationally and regionally, development of e-science on an international > scale has been hampered by a lack of a global backbone comparable in > speed and reliability to these networks. > > The GTRN will provide a coherent global solution to this problem by > providing a high speed stable production-quality global backbone. This > will allow next generation advanced Internet services to be provided to > the global research and scientific community. > > "Global availability of services such as quality of service, multicast > and IPv6 are an important prerequisite for a truly converged and > scalable global research network," said Andrew Bjerring - President and > CEO of CANARIE Inc., Canada's advanced Internet development organization > and a leader in the development, coordination and implementation of the > national optical Internet network - CA*net3. "Pervasive global access to > applications such as reliable high quality video, telephony, remote > instrument control and numerous other applications that are incompatible > with the current 'best efforts' IP networks, requires that these > advanced services be an integral part of a global research network." > > "What has been seriously lacking is a true, persistent, > production-quality global research and education network - one that is > capable eventually of data rates of terabits per second," said Michael > McRobbie, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at Indiana > University and Chair of Internet2's GTRN Committee. "The GTRN will > provide this true global research network connectivity, offering the > very high bandwidth connections that allow the national and regional > networks to properly interconnect." > > "All those involved in establishing the GTRN are to be congratulated on > taking a major step forward in establishing the kind of advanced global > network that is required by many international scientific research > projects," said Aubrey Bush, Director of the Advanced Networking > Infrastructure and Research Division in the National Science Foundation. > "The NSF contributes funding to many of these projects and regards a > stable world-wide research and education network that offers advanced > services as being essential to them." > > The GTRN will support global research and education requiring access to > advanced high performance Internet services. The GTRN will be run in a > highly transparent manner so that end-to-end performance characteristics > will be easily accessible to all parties responsible for ensuring the > appropriate quality of service. > > "The GTRN will provide both an application deployment infrastructure and > a network test-bed in support of advanced network services," said Dai > Davies, General Manager of DANTE which built and manages GEANT. "This > will be an invaluable resource for the development of joint > international research initiatives, such as grids of various types as > well as for joint network research initiatives." > > The GTRN will consist of a global backbone initially connecting national > and multi-national networks in North America and Europe. Later it is > expected to be expanded to Asia, Latin America, Russia, the Middle East > and Africa. Access to the GTRN will be provided at a number of points of > presence (GTRN Network Access Points - GNAPs). > > The GTRN backbone will initially be composed of two OC-48 2.4 Gbit > circuits acquired by DANTE connecting the Internet2 Abilene network and > the CANARIE CA*net3 network to GEANT. These connect to the GEANT > backbone in Europe at GNAPs in London and Frankfurt and to Abilene and > CA*net3 in North America at the New York GNAP the GTRN partners have > established. Additional high speed connections from North America to > GEANT to complement those acquired by DANTE are being actively pursued, > as are connections to other regions. > > Internet2 will provide additional capacity on the Abilene network > connecting the New York GNAP to Starlight in Chicago and to the Pacific > Wave GigaPoP in Seattle to allow for the eventual connection of the Asia > Pacific to the GTRN. > > "StarLight is hosting experiments with dedicated end-to-end wavelengths > coming from Holland, CERN, Canada, Illinois, Indiana, Washington and > California. Starlight will thus be a vital GNAP in the GTRN," said Tom > DeFanti, Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at > the University of Illinois at Chicago, and principal investigator of the > NSF Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point (STAR > TAP/StarLight). "The GTRN will connect StarLight and several other GNAPs > in North America to several points on the GEANT network. As such the > GTRN complements the StarLight wavelength experiments, offering a > unified solution to connectivity between North America and Europe." > > Ron Johnson, Vice President for Information Technology at the University > of Washington responsible for Pacific Wave, commented, "Pacific Wave is > pre-positioned to be a key GNAP for integrating the Asia Pacific into > the GTRN. Pacific Wave already has connections to, and selective ultra > high performance exchange among Japan, Australia, Canada and Taiwan > network fabrics, and the GTRN is the next logical step in the > development of connectivity across the Asia Pacific and evolution of a > global teragrid." > > These resources will form the initial GTRN backbone and Internet2, > CANARIE and the European NREN Consortium have agreed to manage all these > facilities in a coordinated and cooperative way. The Global Network > Operations Center (GNOC) at Indiana University will provide NOC services > to the GTRN as will the DANTE NOC and eventually a NOC in the Asia Pacific. > > Related Links: > > DANTE/GEANT > (http://www.dante.net/) > Internet2 > (http://www.internet2.edu) > CANARIE/CAnet3 > (http://www.canarie.ca/) > NSF > (http://www.nsf.gov/) > STAR TAP/Starlight (http://www.startap.net/starlight/) > Pacific Wave (http://pacificwave.net/) > Global NOC (http://globalnoc.iu.edu/) > > Contacts: > > Dai Davis (DANTE, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +44 1223 302992) > > Greg Wood (Internet2, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +1-202-331-5360) > > Susan Baldwin (CANARIE Inc., [EMAIL PROTECTED], 612-943-5399) > > Karen Adams (Indiana University, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 812-856-5596) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news-+ > For list utilities, archives, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. please visit the > ListProc web interface at > > http://archives.internet2.edu/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------i2-news-- > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. 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