AsiaPacific Advanced Network APAN August 31 2001 Kazunori
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Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) August 31, 2001 Kazunori Konishi NOC Director http: //www. jp. apan. net/
Why not by commercial Internet? • Researchers should work more for the society. • Local governments can play the key role for fiber/Internet deployments. • Pilot users are required for developing technologies. • New cost model can be applied for the pilot users.
Members(in Japan) • Ministries – Education – Post & Telecom – METI – Agriculture • NGO – WIDE(Keio Univ. ) – Genkai(to be planned)
Topology APAN Topology
Examples of Projects • Region-Oriented: – Earth monitoring – Agriculture/Gene – Remote Education • US-Originated – Vo. IP/Qo. S – Grid/Lambda Network
Grid Architecture Grid Network will be the backbone of next generation research networks. Compute node Compute node Compute node Compute node Compute node Compute node Compute layer Thousands of CPUs Objectivity RAID Objectivity RAID Peta Bytes Database layer RAID High-speed BB Interconnect layer Lambda network Multiple 10 Gbps
Two International Gateways (in future) Qingdao Beijing Seoul Pusan USA Tokyo Shanghai Fukuoka USA
