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from GIBN to GLIF

from Teleglobe and Tyco to Tata Communications

Partners in R&E

Yves Poppe

Director Business Development IP Services

Terena Conference Bruges, Belgium, May 2008

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Member of the Tata Group

125-year old largest private sector group

$29 billion in revenues

Acquired VSNL in February 2002 VSNL acquired Tyco in Nov 2004 VSNL acquired Teleglobe in Feb 2006

Teleglobe, Tyco, VSNL and VSNL International become Tata Communications on February 13th 2008

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

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Teleglobe and R&E: the early days

1993: Teleglobe- CRC MoU Teleglobe and the federally funded Communication Research Center sign MoU Cooperate on a number of intercontinental premieres including interactive HDTV

transmission, telemedicine, remote collaboration and advanced protocol testing such as native IPv6.

Teleglobe becomes member of CRC Board of Directors

1994: Teleglobe member of Canarie Canadian Network for Advanced Research for Industry and Education, Canadian

federal Government answer to the NSFnet Teleglobe provides some of the first international connectivity Teleglobe becomes member of the technical Advisory Board

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Teleglobe and R&E: the early days

July 1994: G7 meeting in Naples With the end of NSFnet and the nascent commercial internet President Clinton urges

the G7 nations to develop an international information infrastructure G7 decide on ministerial conference on Information Society in Brussels, hosted by the

European Union and combined with a major industry leaders meeting and technology showcase

Feb 1995 Brussels meeting Teleglobe provides a transatlantic STM-1 (155mb) on the brand-new Cantat-3 cable

linking CRC and Canarie to Europe for the showcase; Deutsche Telekom connects the European continental part through James, ancestor of Géant.

11 pilot projects are identified including the Global Interoperability of Broadband Networks (GIBN)

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GIBN

First GIBN meeting January 1996 in Paris At the initiative of the NSF and spearheaded by Steve Goldstein, the United States

proposes a number of high-performance computing and communications candidate applications that would utilize intercontinental high-performance communications links.

As part of the Canadian contribution Teleglobe donates the Cantat-3 STM-1 to Canarie for a two year period and connects Japan with a 45mb satellite link. And participates actively.

After a series of meetings, GIBN completes its mandate in 1998 with the creation of STARTAP in Chicago and laying the foundation for STARLIGHT

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Lake Cowichan

KDD/NTT ATM R&DNetwork(JAPAN)

Ibaraki, Japan

45 Mb/s (in trial)

TeleglobeATM TestNetwork

SIRIUSATM Network

(ITALY)

RENATERATM Network(FRANCE)

DTATM Network

SWITCH(Switzerland)

SprintATM Network

(US)

STARTAP(Chicago)

Iceland PTTATM Network

Berkom

B-WIN(DFN)

SuperJANETATM Network

(UK)

155 Mb/s CT-3

JAMES

45Mb/s

155 Mb/s CT-3

45Mb/s

MCI vBNSNetwork

CANARIECA-Net-2Network

(CANADA)

45Mb/s

183

45Mb/s

34 Mb/s

34Mb/s

34Mb/s

34Mb/s

34Mb/s

34Mb/s

45Mb/s

45Mb/s

Vancouver.BC

Montreal

Pennant Point

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Lake Cowichan NodeCERNET

Beijing

MIMOSKuala Lumpur

R

Toronto/Des Laurentides Node

Pennant Point Node

R

R

New York City60 Hudson Node

NORDUnetStockholm

SURFnetAmsterdam

UKERNALondon

New York City25 Broadway Node

LAN

Univ. of Costa RicaSan Jose

SingARENSingapore

CA*Net

ESnetvBNS

NREN

TeleglobeInternet

MIRNetMoscow

CANARIEMontrealPalo Alto Node

Univ. of Kuwait

Customer ManagedRouter

Backbone Router

ATM Switch

R

PlannedConnections

KEY:

Ministry of Univ.Affairs

Bangkok

NACSISTokyo

Multicast InterneteXchangePalo Alto

Multicast InterneteXchange

NASA Ames

Abilene

MIMOSKuala Lumpur R

Los Angeles Node

TeleglobeATM

Multicast InterneteXchange

Pennsauken

R

DANTELondon

STAR TAP

Seoul NationalUniv.Seoul

OnetOntario

RISQQuebec

R&E Connections 1998-2002

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Evolution of R&E market for IP transit

Strict AUP continues to segregate R&E and commodity internet traffic in North-America, not so strict elsewhere

Pre 2000: internet content is US centric Major overseas R&E networks operate managed routers in North-America with the same

international circuits carrying segregated R&E and commodity internet The R&E sector becomes Teleglobe Center of Excellence

Post 2000 : internet goes global and becomes multipolar R&E networks increasingly connect locally to the public internet. Aggregation of transatlantic R&E capacity under Dante’s Géant The focus of R&E networking shifts to very high speed point to point connections and to

lambda switching

Tata Communications remains a major provider of IP transit to R&E but the business model has evolved to reflect the growing role of gigabit speed

connectivity & lambdas

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Teleglobe and gigabit R&E connectivity

Teleglobe provides first transatlantic gigabit cct 2001: 2.5 gig Surfnet to Chicago Starlight

Teleglobe and KDD : first transpacific STM-4’s 2001: two Transpac STM-4’s

2002: first transatlantic 10gb Led by Surfnet to be ready for Amsterdam iGrid 2002

The big R&E scare of spring 2002: KPNQwest disappears, Teleglobe reorganizes Level 3 provides Surfnet a 10gig and Tyco one to Abilene and save the day and make a

success of iGrid 2002

Global Crossing, Level3 and Tyco become the major transcontinental lambda providers to the R&E world.

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Amsterdam, early lambda capital

First lambda workshop, Amsterdam sept 2001 iGrid2002 focuses lambdas on Amsterdam

2.5 Gbit/s

2.5 Gbit/s SURFnet

2.5 Gbit/s SURFnet

10 Gbit/sLevel3

10 Gbit/s Tyco

2.5 Gbit/sCERN

DWDM SURFnet

ChicagoStarLightChicagoStarLight

New YorkNew York

CERNCERN

DwingelooASTRON/

JIVE

DwingelooASTRON/

JIVE

AmsterdamNetherLightAmsterdamNetherLight

CAnet

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Tyco and R&E: The early days

Tyco and subsea cables: 1997: Tyco buys AT&T Submarine Systems 1999: Tyco buys Telefonica owned Temasa June 2002: Tyco Atlantic cable January 2003: Tyco Pacific cable

The IEEAF donations gave early visibility a transatlantic and a transpacific 10 gig donated to IEEAF (Internet Educational Equal Access

Foundation) for five years plus a lambda on the Tyco owned fiber pair in C2C in exchange for favourable cable station lading terms with GEO.

Tyco becomes a major lambda provider together with Level3 and Global Crossing.

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Tata Communications and gigabit R&E connectivity

2002: iGrid2002 Amsterdam, Tyco provides a 10gig connection between Netherlight and Abilene in NY. Level3 provides the second transatlantic link. 2002: IEEAF five year donations (10G and STM4 in Atlantic)2003: Tyco provides the Pacific and Atlantic connectivity for «little Gloriad». Teleglobe had provided the predecessor project Naukanet. 2004: 10gig to Surfnet, 2nd 10G Donation to IEEAF in Pacific2005: Gloriad expands with a Tyco/VSNL 10 gbps link between Korea and the US and 2.5G between China and US. 2nd SURFnet 10G2006: Tata provides STM4 for CHEP06 in Mumbai to TIFR location for 2 month demo2007: Tata announces new cables to Singapore and India, hosts R&E forum at PTC 2008 to foster discussions around broader India R&E connectivity

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The GLIF (Global Lambda Integrated Facility)

created at the third lambda workshop; Reykjavik aug 2003 Major impetus from Canarie (Bill St.Arnaud) and Surfnet (Kees Neggers) Grew to include

                 

   

                                       

                                                 

                                              

                                               

                                                              

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DWDM SURFnet

10 Gbit/s

SURFnet10 Gbit/s

SURFnet10 Gbit/s

IEEAF10 Gbit/s

PragueCzechLight

NORDUnet2.5 Gbit/s

NSF10

Gbit/s

LondonUKLight

StockholmNorthernLight

CESNET10 Gbit/s

10 Gbit/s

10Gbit/s

10 Gbit/s

2x10 Gbit/sIEEAF

10 Gbit/s

2x10 Gbit/s

10 Gbit/s

2.5 Gbit/s

2.5 Gbit/s

TokyoAPAN

GenevaCERN

Chicago

SydneyAARnet

10 Gbit/s

10 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s

Seattle

Los Angeles

TokyoWIDE

New YorkMANLAN

Amsterdam

SURFnet

10 Gbit/s

DwingelooASTRON/JIVE

R&E lambda switching by late 2004

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Tata contribution to GLIF – Atlantic

Tata

GTS

Tata

GTS

Tata GTS

Tata GTS

TataL

GTS

Source: http://www.glif.is/

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Tata contribution to GLIF - Pacific

Source: http://www.glif.is/

Tata GTS

TataL

GTSTataL

GTS

TataL

GTS

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Spring 2008: Amsterdam is still the lambda capital

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Research and Development in the Tata Group

Tata and R&D

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Founded in 1945 located in Mumbai Developed TIFRAC, the first Indian computer in 1956 Obtained full university status in 2003 Focus on mathematics and natural sciences very active in High Energy Physics and astronomy

Connectivity with CERN e-VLBI connectivity for NCRA in Pune

TIFRAC-2

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India Knowledge Grid

ERNET, India’s R&E network connects around 1500 institutionsGARUDA project connects 45 institutions at 100mbps

R&DInstitutions

UNIVERSITY

COLLEGES

IISC/IIT’s/NITMHRDMHRD

STATEEDUCATION

Depts.

NCERTUGC

AICTE

KNOWLEDGEKNOWLEDGEGRIDGRID

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In conclusion

Tata Communications is a champion of R&E networking

Reflects the Tata Group philosophy of sharing and distributing knowledge and closing the digital divide.

Provides the Research Groups of the various Tata Group companies access to and participation in fundamental research databases, grid computing, remote collaboration and experiments in their respective fields of activity.

Provides steady revenue source and positions the company as a technology leader in the global market place

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