The Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation IEEAF Global

The Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation IEEAF Global Quilt Update Internet 2 Fall Member Meeting September 19, 2005 Dr. Donald R. Riley Chair, IEEAF (www. ieeaf. org) SURA IT Fellow Professor, Decision Information Technologies Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland, College Park Tel 301 -405 -8855; Fax 301 -405 -8655 Home Office/Mobile: 240 -683 -4564 drriley@umd. edu 1 June 2005 Copyright IEEAF, 2005. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for noncommercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

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 US and Asia-Pacific. • This bandwidth helps enable global collaborations in research and education, in the true spirit of the Global Quilt Initiative. 1 June 2005 2

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) 1 June 2005 3

IEEAF Global Quilt Initiative 9300 km 10 Gbps l + 622 Mbps 7600 km 10 Gbps l + 622 Mbps 17 Time Zones 1 June 2005 4

IEEAF Donation Summary • 10 Gbps l (OC-192 wavelength) plus separate 622 Mbps STM-1. • New York - London - Groningen (Netherlands) • Seattle - Tokyo • Fiber pair: from Tyco Cable Station Groningen to Amsterdam, and to Hamburg co-location facility • Fiber pair: Hamburg facility to 379 Weinderstrasse carrier hotel, where “German rings” meet • Fiber pair: UK • 8, 000 miles of trans-USA fiber donated by AT&T to the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) as SURA-IEEAF partnership • Submarine bandwidth in motion: • To Lisbon • UK-Bilbao-Madrid-Valencia-Barcelona-Marseilles • To Copenhagen and St. Petersburg • A new 10 gigabyte trans-Atlantic connectivity which GEO will use specifically for telemedicine and HEP initiatives. 1 June 2005 5

More Donations Pending • The IEEAF is currently in negotiations for multiple pending donations that if successfully concluded will double the size of the Global Quilt Initiative and span all time zones. • Negotiations for donations are being supported by a global community of Research and Education Visionaries: • to Southeast Asia • in Eastern Europe • to Scandinavian/Nordic countries • to Africa • to India and South Asia 1 June 2005 6

Recent Global Collaborations over IEEAF Links 2005. 01. 18 Presentation by Prof. Larry Smarr for JGN Symposium over uncompressed HD Video Conference, Seattle-Osaka 2005. 01. 14 International Collaboration results in successful transfer of Huygens space probe data from Australian telescopes to the Netherlands http: //mail. canarie. ca/MLISTS/news 2005/0134. html 2004. 11. 09 Supercomputing ’ 05, Pittsburgh. Internet 2 Single and Double Stream TCP Land Speed Record. http: //data-reservoir. adm. s. u-tokyo. ac. jp/lsr/ http: //members. internet 2. edu/newsletter. cfm? date=2005 -01 -01#18 1 June 2005 7

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 • 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 1 June 2005 8

IEEAF Partnership with WIDE • Jun Murai, Keio University and WIDE Project: • • • Asset Steward of IEEAF Trans-Pacific Link from Seattle to Tokyo Established open Tokyo Lambda Exchange (T-LEx) Extending beyond Tokyo Geographical Map of Dark Fiber 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 1 June 2005 NAIST To IEEAF/Asia (in plan) KEIO SFC 9

Thailand Regional Initiative: Next Generation Internet Announced by H. E. Dr. Surapong Suebwonglee, Minister of ICT, Thailand January 26, 2005 1 June 2005 10

SOI and WIDE 1 June 2005 11

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International Connectivity, Open R&E Exchanges, and International Peerings 1 June 2005 13

Atlantic. Wave • IEEAF partnering with SURA, FIUAMPATH-WHREN, MAX, So. X/SLR, Internet 2/MANLAN, and the Academic Network of Sao Paulo (ANSP) to establish Atlantic. Wave • Atlantic. Wave is an International Peering Fabric along the East Coast • US, Canada, Europe, South America Plus…. • Distributed IP peering points: • NYC, WDC, ATL, MIA, SPB 1 June 2005 14

AFRICAN GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE COLLABORATION INTERNET EDUCATIONAL EQUAL ACCESS FOUNDATION (IEEAF) “Significant Broadband Access” Enables “Significant International Collaboration in Research and Education” Leads To “Empowerment and Economic Development” 1 June 2005 15

AFRICAN GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE COLLABORATION INTERNET EDUCATIONAL EQUAL ACCESS FOUNDATION (IEEAF) Thai. REN Atlantic Wave WHREN IEEAF Donations – 10 Gig and STM-4 – 17 Time Zones Tokyo Hamburg African Collaboration Initiative 1 June 2005 16

AFRICAN GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE COLLABORATION INTERNET EDUCATIONAL EQUAL ACCESS FOUNDATION (IEEAF) “Significant Broadband Access” Enables “Significant International Collaboration in Research and Education” Leads To “Empowerment and Economic Development” The Issues: • In-Country “PTT Protectionist” Issues • Local Domestic Politics • Consortium Submarine Cable Operators “Seasoned Monopoly” • Missing International Business Drivers • Sustainability 1 June 2005 17

AFRICAN GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE COLLABORATION INTERNET EDUCATIONAL EQUAL ACCESS FOUNDATION (IEEAF) “Significant Broadband Access” Enables “Significant International Collaboration in Research and Education” Leads To “Empowerment and Economic Development” The Plan: • Bring to bear our experience with “ 17 time zones of critical mass success in bandwidth donations. ” • Add a team with “historical knowledge of projects, participants and government relationships. ” • Team together “International Telecom Knowledge” and their Relationships with “global multinational telecom opportunities and barter. ” • “Establish the beach head – Set-up Hub and Spoke Design” -- the first Quilt patch. 1 June 2005 18

AFRICAN GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE COLLABORATION INTERNET EDUCATIONAL EQUAL ACCESS FOUNDATION (IEEAF) STEP ONE: Submarine Cable Landing Site To First University Asset Steward Exchange Point 1 June 2005 19

AFRICAN GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE COLLABORATION STRATEGIC PLAN: Step One Leverage NSF funding for link to Africa • Submarine Cable Plan from Amsterdam to Portugal to Senegal and Ghana • Terrestrial Fiber plan solution from CHE to University • Collaboration with defined African Research Initiatives Step Two 1 June 2005 • Asset Steward Hub and Spoke to neighboring country design project 20

AFRICAN GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE COLLABORATION INTERNET EDUCATIONAL EQUAL ACCESS FOUNDATION (IEEAF) International and National Neutral Exchange Facility U Donated Backhaul Dark Fiber IEEAF Asset Steward Technology Exchange Point (TEP) TEP Key U University H Hospital 1 June 2005 Global Telemedicine Initiatives Second Phase of donator’s network to neighboring countries R&E Global Community Medical Research Exchange (GMRE) Telecom Neutral Submarine Cablehead End Building Fiber Donators Facility Space Carrier Neutral Exchange Facility H Exchange U Content Services Servicing African R&E Institutions and Government Projects 21

AFRICAN GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE COLLABORATION INTERNET EDUCATIONAL EQUAL ACCESS FOUNDATION (IEEAF) STEP TWO: HUB AND SPOKE EXPANSIONS: Border country telecom donations “linking” back to the newly established international exchange point with IEEAF ‘‘University Asset Steward’’ at sub-cable landing 1 June 2005 22

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AFRICAN GLOBAL QUILT INITIATIVE COLLABORATION INTERNET EDUCATIONAL EQUAL ACCESS FOUNDATION (IEEAF) “Significant Broadband Access” Leads To “Empowerment and Economic Development” The Invitation: • Invite the R&E community starting from today to stand with us for a “FINAL PUSH” • “Alignment”… … Our combined weight, pushing in a single direction, will burst open the “Access Doorways” for our African Colleagues The End Result……… Broadband for Research Project Collaborations equals “Empowerment and Economic Development” 1 June 2005 24

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