The Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation IEEAF and

The Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation IEEAF and the Global Quilt June 30, 2004 Dr. Don Riley Chair, IEEAF www. ieeaf. org Ed Fantegrossi Chair and CEO, Geographic Network Affiliates www. geo-usa. com

New Public-Private Partnership: IEEAF • The Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF) is a partnership between the Research and Education Community and the Private Sector whose goal is to obtain donations of international bandwidth to enable a global collaboration in research and education. • Current donations have already linked US and Europe, and are now linking US and Asia-Pacific. • This bandwidth helps enable global collaborations in research and education, in the true spirit of the Global Quilt Initiative. 2

IEEAF Global Quilt Initiative 7600 km 9300 km 10 Gbps l 17 Time Zones 3

IEEAF Donation Summary • 10 Gbps l (optical wavelength) plus separate 622 Mbps. • New York - London - Groningen (Netherlands) • Seattle - Tokyo • Fiber pair: Amsterdam-Groningen-Hamburg • 8, 000 miles of trans-USA fiber • 7, 000 kilometers of trans-European fiber United Kingdom-Netherlands-Belgium-France. Switzerland-Germany 4

More Donations Pending • The IEEAF is currently in negotiations for 44 pending donations that may potentially double the size of the Global Quilt Initiative. • Negotiations for donations in Eastern Europe as well as the Scandinavian countries, to India and Africa are being supported by a global community of Research and Education Visionaries. 5

Partnerships Create Donations • We’re here to help any community trying to establish educational networks • We’re successful because of the partnerships with leaders who share our vision • WIDE and Jun Murai • NTT and Suzuki-san • GEO and Ed Fantegrossi • It’s the partnerships that make it happen. Joining hands completes the ring…. . • A network of networks. . • Community to community and village to village. . . • The Global Quilt 6

New Paradigms Possible • New Conditions for Globalization: increasingly pervasive e. Science needs; political; financial; legal/regulatory • New Technologies enable new options for shared infrastructure: • • • Computing clusters Databases and Digital Libraries Instruments, Facilities People, Training Lambda. Grid (Optical Networking) Global Cyber. Infrastructure • New Relationships: multidisciplinary, multi-agency, multi-institutional collaboration on global basis 7

e-Science and the Grid ‘e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it. ‘e-Science will change the dynamic of the way science is undertaken. ’ Technology John Taylor, 2001 Director General of Research Councils Office of Science and United Kingdom 8

The Grid as an Enabler for Virtual Organizations • ‘The Grid is a software infrastructure that enables flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions and resources’ - includes computational systems and data storage resources and specialized facilities • Enabling infrastructure for transient ‘Virtual Organizations’ 9

Challenge of the Grid for Economies in Transition • e. Science projects use Clusters, Supercomputers, Data Repositories and Remote Facilities • e-Science will produce a deluge of scientific data needing ‘curation’ in scientific data ‘digital libraries’ • Requires Investment in Infrastructure for e. Science • Maximize benefits of good universities and highly educated communities and retain skilled staff • Provide ITC infrastructure for research communities to compete and collaborate globally • Enable growth of e. Business, e. Health, e. Learning, e. Content and e. Government • Universities must provide the seed corn for the companies of the future • Economic growth will be fueled by new forms of e. Utility businesses Tony Hey, Director of UK e-Science Core Programme 10

Lambda. Grid: the New Paradigm • • Goal: Pervasive Global Cyber-Infrastructure Advanced networking enables: science drives development for society which drives commerce…. Society changes at the edges when science enables…. . In the developing world, there are many sophisticated, knowledgeable research institutions that have been hampered, bright people trying to do bright things, but achievements are limited because of resources/infrastructure. Realizing the benefits of these developments for all of society, and creating a sustainable cycle of innovation compels us TO CLOSE the DIGITAL DIVIDE Cutting edge “older brothers” are helping IEEAF – seeks to enable science to help create new directions and opportunities, new dynamics for donations, new infrastructure. 11

Emerging Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) 12

New Technologies, Stewardship and e-Inclusion • Access to and development of leading infrastructures and new classes of informationrich systems carries obligations • Stewardship • Playing a leading role in making these assets usable by a broad sector of the World Community. 13

IEEAF Partnership with WIDE • WIDE and Jun Murai Asset Steward of IEEAF Trans-Pacific Link from Seattle to Tokyo • IEEAF Board Resolution: 18 April 2004: It is therefore RESOLVED, that the IEEAF appoints Jun Murai as the IEEAF sponsored facilitator in working with Asia Pacific countries such that prudent strategies are advanced to secure and leverage network-related assets, and to capitalize on events associated with the build-out of the global submarine and terrestrial fiber optic networks within the Asia Pacific region. 14

IEEAF Partnership with WIDE • It is with great pride that IEEAF recognizes Jun Murai’s vision of a Global Research Fraternity. • Two visions have joined as one vision… it only occurs when both parties see the same end in sight. • WIDE and IEEAF share this common philosophy for the world. 15

Asia Opportunities • How Asia can benefit from IEEAF • APAN - WIDE and IEEAF participation 16

Geographical Map of DF For IEEAF in Japan (as of Oct. 2003) To IEEAF/US Connected site DF 10 Gbps over SONET/SDH To: JAIST To Korea JAIST Univ. of Tokyo NTT/KDD TITECH To: Osaka Kyushu NAIST KEIO SFC To IEEAF/Asia (in plan) 17

IEEAF Vision: The Global Quilt A Network of Networks, “stitched together” to create a common single fabric, and shared equally by all. This will be achieved through collaboration and community effort, until it covers the globe. The IEEAF has no boundaries of “home” territory…. . "Non Nobis Solo" (Not by ourselves alone) 18

THE GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE 19

The Global Quilt Initiative The diverse national and regional Research and Education networks around the world can be represented as individually designed fabric patches, each with unique entities, serving a locally diverse and significant collection of research and educational entities, and each with a desire for international cooperation. The Global Quilt Initiative is the piecing together of these wonderful patches into an equally owned and equally shared Global Quilt Lambda Grid. 20

North America Central America South America Scandinavia Asia Europe Central Asia and CIS Africa Asia Pacific and Australia 21 21

• WIDE and IEEAF join today with a Select Group of Key Industry Visionaries represented by Suzuki-san. NTT. • These “visionaries’ donations and support” have enabled WIDE’s Tokyo Lambda Exchange project for Japan, and further empowered WIDE’s collaboration with IEEAF on the Global Quilt Lambda Grid. • Their donations and support, also represent a clear investment in the future for Japan’s children toward a global marketplace, unimpeded by distance, location, or size. 22

e. Science Applied… Becomes e. Commerce • The next generation Grid Collaborative applications will touch almost every industry with new products, services and markets. • Using Suzuki-sans’ distance medicine example, NTT will be able to empower multinational customers in areas such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, and “hybrid content services”, like that of medical middleware. These New “Research to commercial” application opportunities are enabled by Broadband the “Practice of Science, ” through Grid “Global Teaming”. • Commercial opportunities will develop from Research Hospitals globally linked to regional hospitals; and, hospital services accessible from every home; • Cost saving home services for the sick and “Quality of Life” enhancements for our broadening elderly population. It is “Science transfered into Commerce” from and to anywhere! 23

• This Global Quilt donation catalyst thereby begins the change of conditions, to create the “opportunity rich” world of tomorrow. • In this Global Quilt grid infrastructure, the seeds of socially responsible donations and support grow into new history setting commercial opportunities for economic prosperity. 24

• Thank you to all the WIDE and Tokyo Lambda Exchange contributors, including NTT and Suzuki-san. • Thank you, WIDE and Jun Murai. 25