ERNET

Objectives:

• Set up and run a nationwide Academic and Research Network.
• Undertake and promote R&D in the area of computer networking
• Human Resource Development in the area of computer networking.
• Content hosting relating to education and research.
• Registrar for domains- edu.in, res.in & ac.in

Education and Research Network of India (ERNET):

• ERNET operates through Point of Presence (POP) located at premier educational & research institutes
• 15 PoPs at various cities of India
• 400 Mbps of Aggregate Internet bandwidth
• 100 Mbps connectivity to global research network through GEANT 2
• ERNET Network- GARUDA Network (GRID)
• National Knowledge Network (NKN)

JGN, JGN2, & JGN2plus

Japan Gigabit Network (JGN) is High Speed Advanced Testbed Network for Research and Development (R&D), which is operated by National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT). JGN is promoted with cooperation among government, industry and academia, and also collaborated with communal and international networks.

On 1999, JGN started operation of domestic optical fiber network. From 2004, As JGN2, We added domestic and international access point, increased network bandwidth, stared IPv6 routing and installed optical switches. Moreover, From 2008, As JGN2plus, ''Service Platform Architecture Research Center''(SPARC) is operating testbed network which is providing various services for research and development of next generation network.

CERNET, CNGI, & CERNET2

CERNET

• CERNET project was started in 1993. It is the first nationwide TCP/IP backbone and the 3rd largest ISP in China.
• CERNET owns its own transport network : 30,000KM darkfiber, 800G DWDM system.
• CERNET has PoPs in 73 cities, covering all the provinces.
• There are about 2,000 universities, schools and research institutes connected.
• The end users reaches 25M : There are 320M students/school kids in China

CSTNET, CNGI & CSTNET2

I just tracked RE networking in China. China shall have at least two main RENs : CSTNet and CERNET, cmiiw!

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China Science and Technology Network (CSTNet) is one of the earliest internet networks in China, and is extended upon the base of Chinese Academy of Sciences Network (CASNet). In April 1994, CSTNet opened the first official Internet link in China. Since then, CSTNet has been responsible for operation and management for the top domain of China (.cn).

ThaiREN : UniNet, UniNet2

To be honest, when I was in Europe several years ago, I never thought that RE networking in ASEAN (except Singapore) could be that as what I see right now. Thailand is currently in a very good track; Malaysia, Vietnam will follow it shortly. Indonesia ?? ... still needs much works!

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UniNet/ThaiREN:

• The Project of Inter-University Network (UniNet) is established by notification of Ministry of University in 1996. This year the project is 12-year- in operating and serving for universities and institutions.
• UniNet has provided hi-speed information network linked to universities, institutes, and campuses 180 sites over the country. Linking with foreign countries research network enables Thai universities/institutes to manage virtual classrooms with universities/institutes abroad.
• This project improves Thai education to be comparable to other countries. And now UniNet is developing particular research network which enables members to reach the source effectively.

SINET3

It seems that this is a GMPLS-Playground. *Work-in-progress :-D *

SINET3 is the new Japanese academic backbone network launched in April 2007 for more than 700 universities and research institutions. It has 63 edge and 12 core nodes and deploys Japan’s first 40 Gbps lines between Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka.

SINET3 emphasizes four service aspects: transfer layer, virtual private network (VPN), quality-of-service (QoS), and bandwidth on demand. It provides all services on a single network platform, and users can freely choose the best transfer layer services for their applications.

TWAREN & TANet

TWAREN stands for "TaiWan Advanced Research and Education Network", while TANet "Taiwan Academic NETwork".

TWAREN :

• A physical network serves multiple purposes and logical networks : TANet, connects to commodity Internet; TWAREN research network; experiment, testbed, special research
• Provisioning services on multiple layers : L1 Lightpaths; L2 VLAN, VPLS VPN; L3 IPv4, IPv6, Multicast ; SSL VPN

TEIN3

Yes, TEIN2 is retired! It's replaced by TEIN3. Well, in the networking world, naming convention is (still) more conservative than, say, in the Linux world .. :-D .. The successor of TEIN3 shall be named TEIN4 in place of e.g. TEIN "Potato" or TEIN "Reloaded" ... :-D

DANTE

DANTE stands for Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe Ltd , a not for profit limited company, UK-registered. Its shareholders are Europe’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). Till early 2008, they operate pan-Europe GÉANT2 serving >30M users on 34 NREN national networks. Additionally:

• Their annual telecoms spends c 30 - 40M Euro, all tendered
• We also manage R&E regional networks outside Europe: North Africa and Middle East (EUMEDCONNECT), Latin America (ALICE), Asia (TEIN)

TEIN : TEIN1, TEIN2 & TEIN3

The first TEIN (TEIN1) linked Korea and France (2 Mbps) in 2001.

TEIN2 network started Jan 2006, connected:

• 30M researchers and students
• 4000 institutions
• 10 countries

TEIN2:

VinaREN

VinaREN (VIetNAm Research and Education Network) is currently coordinated by NACESTI (National Centre for Scientific and Technological Information).

VinaREN as of 03/2009 :

• Total 7 NOCs: NOC (VNNOC; NOC-HN; NOC-TN; NOC-DN; NOC-HUE; NOC-HCM; NOC-CT) and 02 POP (POP-VAST; POP-WRU). To be expanded more POP in some City.
• 53 Members (Universities and Institutes in whole country) connected directly to the backbone and manage about 200 Km fiber optic cable.
• Conneted 11 provinces and major Cities in Vietnam

MYREN, & MYREN2

Malaysian Research & Education Network (MYREN):

• officially launched in March 2005
• spearheaded by the Ministry of Energy, Water & Communications (MEWC)
  
• a network linking 17 universities and research organisations throughout Malaysia
• centered at the MSC Malaysia Innovation Centre in Cyberjaya(the country’s first intelligent city)

First generation (MYREN):

• Telco managed network
• Connection speed range from 1Mbps to 8 Mbps.
• 5 universities have 34 Mbps but rate-limited to 8 Mbps :

• University Malaya (UM)
• National University of Malaysia (UKM)
• University PutraMalaysia (UPM)
• University of Science Malaysia (USM)
• UniverisityTechnology Malaysia (UTM)

MYREN2:

SingAREN

singaren.net.sg
Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN) is a non-profit organisation. We are Singapore’s national research and education network (REN) and part of the Internet2 community. We started as a national project funded by the government to take on the challenge of ensuring that Singapore’s Research and Education community is connected to the international community.

SingAREN maintains close working relationship with the Next Generation Internet community such as Internet2, APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Network), and RENs in various countries.

Lambda Providers

In early 2006, at APAN meeting, Yves Poppe has pointed three (early) transoceanic lambda providers (Yes, it's lambda, not just sub-wavelength capacity): Global Crossing, Level 3 and Tyco (now Tata). Currently, it shall be more than three of course. The interesting point is that demands for lambda services were initially coming from Research and Education (R&E) networking sector - in early 2000s. Well, it's no doubt, SURFnet was at a prominent role at those times.

National Lambda Rail (NLR)

This is a work-in-progress & will be updated soon! :-D

Source Reese/NLR

Internet2 + Internet2 Network (formerly Abilene)

This is a work-in-progress & will be updated soon! :-D

Internet2 Network (formerly Abilene) - Source internet2.edu

GEANT2

What is GEANT2?

• 7th generation of pan-European research network infrastructure – continuation of a success story
• Project partners include 30 of Europe’s national research and education networks (NRENs), DANTE (coordinator) and TERENA
• Connects 34 European countries and serves over 3500 research and education establishments across Europe
• Over 30 million users
• Provides extensive international connectivity to other world regions
• Funded jointly by NRENs and European Commission
• Project timescale September 2004 – mid 2009
• Planning underway for GÉANT3; GEANT3 planned from Q3 2009 to Q2 2013
• Features: Hybrid network, 34 European Countries, International Connections

TEIN2

TEIN stands for Trans-Eurasia Information Network. It was "one of the new initiatives endorsed by ASEM III (October 2000, Seoul, Korea) to connect research networks between Asia and Europe by linking EU's GEANT, the pan-European gigabit research network, with Asia's research networks such as the APII Testbeds in order to promote information exchanges in research and development and education".

TEIN2 is the second generation of the TEIN project and the first large-scale research and education network for the Asia-Pacific, which connects ten (10) countries in the region, and provides direct connectivity to Europe’s GÉANT2 network.

EUMEDCONNECT

EC has also pioneered investment to connect mediterranean countries (North Africa and Middle East) to support research and education networking between them internally and between them and Europe as well : the EUMEDCONNECT. The role of the governments and/or mediterranean NRENs to support this project and their national networks has contributed to the success of the initiative: user community starting to rely on the infrastructure.

National and Regional RENs

Actually since a long time ago I want to write threads about RENs (Research and Education Networks). Why? Simply because they were the origin of the current Internet and they still have a major role in creating advances in networking technologies. This time I would not start with an indonesian case (if INHERENT or Jardiknas can be categorized as a National REN/NREN), but with european cases.