Development of RE Networks in Egypt Mostafa Abdel

Development of R&E Networks in Egypt Mostafa Abdel Wahed Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Egypt Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Road Map. . • Egyptian R&E Community • National Network for Universities and Research Centers • ENERGI Initiative • Highlights on R&E Activities in Egypt • Collaborative Research Work Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Egyptian R&E Community • 124 Research Centers and Institutes covering 32 Ministries • 16 Governmental Universities • Private Universities and Research Centers • Bibliotheca Alexandrina Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

The National Network for Universities & Research Centers Partnership between The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research • Interconnect 16 universities and 9 research centers with Giga Ethernet via an MPLS backbone • Establish two centers for Scientific and Research Content • Connect to International Networks Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

The National Network for Universities & Research Centers Network Highlights • Fiber Optic Infrastructure providing high reliability and full redundancy via 2 NOCs at EUN and ENSTINET • High network security measures • Advanced network management systems • 24/7 Technical support Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

ENSTINET NOC Core Router The National Network for Universities & Research Centers EUN NOC Core Router Single Fiber Cable Connection (24 Core) Operating Bandwidth n. STM 1 Backup Link (Giga Bit) Provider Edge Router Data Carrier Network Operating Bandwidth n. STM 1 Provider Edge Router (MPLS-based Network) Provider Edge Router POP 1 Single Fiber Cable Connection (12 Core) Access Router R. C. A Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting POP 2 POP 3 Operating Bandwidth E 3/T 3/STM 1 Access Router Univ. X R. C. B MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

ENERGI Egypt Network for Education and Research on Next Generation Internet Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

About ENERGI. . Vision To serve as … A catalyst in the development of the Egyptian information economy and a partner in the emerging information society. Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

About ENERGI. . Mission To provide access to specialized and state of the art resources specific to the needs of the Egyptian R&E community through effective management of resources. Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

About ENERGI. . Scope & Objectives • Supporting advanced networking and next generation Internet technologies in Egyptian R&E networks • Interconnecting Egyptian R&E networks with Internet 2 and other international peers to facilitate research activities • Providing the R&E community in Egypt with high speed access to global information resource Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

ENERGI Partnership Agreement Partners: • Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MCIT) • Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network (ENSTINET) • Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) Agreement effective as of February 1 st 2005 Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

ENERGI Highlights • International partner of Internet 2 as of April 2005 • STM 1 international connection to MAN/LAN exchange • National distribution facility providing connectivity to: – Partners (MCIT – EUN – ENSTINET) – Bibliotheca Alexandrina – Egyptian R&E entities (academic – governmental – nongovernmental – private sector) • Operational starting May 2005 • Mirror 34 Mbps link to GÉANT at EUN via EUMEDCONNECT project Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Highlights on R&E Activities in Egypt Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

IPv 6 Task Force Test Bed Activities Date Status Establish E-IPv 6 Sep 04 Done Obtain IPv 6 address cluster from Afri. NIC Dec 04 Done Implement IPv 6 Test Lab Mar 05 Done Test IPv 6 over IPv 4 Tunnels with international Apr 05 & local providers Tunnels with Sprint and 4 NSP’s Test basic services (DNS, E-mail, Web, etc…) Apr 05 DNS and Mail are up and running Connect to GEANT & Internet 2 Apr 05 GEANT link is under test Test Dual Stack operation with local providers Jul 05 Not Started Test security and other advanced services (Vo. IP, video streaming, etc…) Aug 05 Not Started Test Dual Stack operation with international providers Sep 05 Not Started Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

IPv 6 Task Force Test Bed Architecture Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Telemedicine • Connecting National Cancer Institute in Cairo with similar institutes in rural areas such as Tanta, Damietta, Luxor, Assiut • Connecting National Cancer Institute in Cairo with the Cancer Institute in Paris • Establishing a Telemedicine project between The Ahmed Maher Burn Institute in Cairo and at John Hopkins School of Medicine in US Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

GOTHI e-Connect Project • General Organization for Teaching Hospitals and Institutes (GOTHI) • 17 teaching hospitals and institutes • Video Conferencing • Medical Health Record via Smart Cards Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

GOTHI e-Connect Project GOTHI Telemedicine Network Copper Wire (nx. E 1) Ahmed Maher Hospital (NOC) Copper Wire (E 1) Exchange GOTHI HQ Roda Exch Talaat Harb Exch ENSTINET MPLS Data Network Exchange Hospital Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting Hospital MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Video Conferencing • • • National Cancer Institute Egyptian Society for Surgeons Mostafa Kamel Military Hospital GOHTI Hospitals and Institutes Azhar University, Faculty of Medicine Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Tele-immersion • Establishment of a solid videoconferencing infrastructure • Next step will be to establish Teleimmersion system would allow individuals at different locations to share a single virtual environment, jointly participating in simulations and models of molecular, physical or economic constructs Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Virtual Laboratories • Proposed project to establish a virtual laboratory, heterogeneous distributed problem solving environment, enabling researchers located around the world to work together on a common set of projects and sharing the basic infrastructure requirements across disciplines Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Virtual Laboratories • The following applications will work best via Internet 2: – Applications used by a relatively small number of technically competent trusted users working with large datasets – Applications which open many parallel network streams to diverse locations – Applications where there is a large discrepancy between bandwidth available via commodity network connectivity and bandwidth available via high performance networks (e. g. , overseas sites in many regions, provided that the overseas site has access to high-performance network connectivity) Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Digital Library • Commitment to developing digital libraries in Egypt • Internet 2 will significantly enhance development of digital libraries • New services and capabilities envisioned for Internet 2 offer important opportunities to move the Digital Libraries program into new areas • Very high bandwidth and bandwidth reservation will allow currently exotic materials such as continuous digital video and audio to move from research use to much broader use Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Digital Library • Images, audio and video can, at least from a delivery point of view, move into the mainstream currently occupied almost exclusively by textual materials. • This also facilitates more extensive research in the difficult problems of organizing, indexing, and providing intellectual access to these classes of materials. Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Medical Data Analysis • The National Research Center in Cairo is developing a Medical Data Analysis, a non -intrusive method for capturing the electrical activity in the brain • This project will help the practitioner to diagnose certain brain illness • Data transfer, analysis and diagnosis are applied in the computing grid Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Protein Alignment • The National Research Center in Egypt is trying to establish a project of Protein Alignment • In this project discovered new protein sequence will be analyzed by comparison with genetic sequence databases, which are growing exponentially • To speedup the analysis, a sequence database will be portioned and the tasks of sequence alignment will be distributed over a computational grid Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

High Speed Computing Hierarchal Performance Model 1. MC 12 in Application parameters n l a 1 ss+ 2 1 P t PPP) t 1 B PPP 111 M M B s 2 Pm 2 P 122112 1 ts P 1 2 s n n 1 2 B mn 2 n. M 1 n 1 m i n i t n c* 1. Grid parameters n + + n e e 1 2 F P 1 P 2 3. Scheduling J e 3 e P 3 P 4 4 P 5 Application Model Grids/clusters are geographically distributed (one exists between university of Connecticut (US) and Electronics Research Institute (Egypt)) Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Other Activities Other activities that would benefit from connecting to Internet 2 include: • Remote Sensing & Space Science • Capacity Building Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Collaborative Research Work Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Collaborative Research Work Future Cooperation with Internet 2 Community • Content Delivery – Egyptian R&E Repository • Medical Applications – Telemedicine (Tele-surgery, Tele-radiology, Tele-pathology. . etc) • High Speed Computing – Grid Computing • Applied Sciences – Genetics Engineering – Biotechnology Applications – Nanotechnology Applications Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Collaborative Research Work Future Cooperation with Internet 2 Community • Renewable & Sustainable Energy • Remote Sensing & Space Sciences • Astronomy & Geophysics – – – – Solar Research, Seismology, Geomagnetism, Geo. Electricity, Geothermal, Gravimetry, Geodesy, and Geodynamics Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Collaborative Research Work Future Cooperation with Internet 2 Community • Digital Library & Interlibrary Loan • Virtual Reality Applications • Virtual R&E Community – Virtual Universities – Virtual Labs • E-Learning Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Thank You … Spring 2005 Internet 2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINET