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The Central Asian Research and Education Network

Current satus of the Central Asian Research and Education Network (CAREN)

Prof. Askar Kutanov, Regional coordinator of EC CAREN Project Academician, National Academy of Sciences, Kyrgyz Republic

Eastern Partnership Event 8 November 2011, Bucharest,


What is CAREN?

!   EC-funded project to establish high-capacity R&E network in Central Asia !   Beneficiary countries/NRENs:

–  Kazakhstan – KazRENA –  Kyrgyzstan – KRENA –  Tajikistan – TARENA –  Turkmenistan – TURENA –  Uzbekistan -

!   Aims terrestrial fibre connection (34 or 155 Mbps for each CA country)

!   Will serve 1 million users at over 200 universities and research institutes in the region

!   With direct link to GÉANT, CAREN will provide Central Asia with a gateway to global collaborations in R&E

The Central Asian Research and Education Network 19.05.03 Terena Silk Paper - 5-03 3

Virtual Silk Highway Project


CAREN as part of global research and education community


CAREN Launch and Steering Group meeting Bishkek, September 22-24, 2010


Network Operation Center


TeliaSonera Commodity Internet

GEANT EU(COP)

TEIN3 HK

CAREN HK PoP

TURENA

eBGP

eBGP

AS51327

AS24489

AS1299

GEANT / DWS

CAREN FR PoP

KRENA

eBGP

TARENA KAZRENA

eBGP eBGP eBGP

AS 41419 AS 197119 AS 43030

AS197118

GRE Tunnel / iBGP

CAREN Network Diagram


GEANT / DWS

CAREN FR PoP

KRENA TARENA KAZRENA

62.40.125.220/30

195.54.180.0/24

195.54.180.244/30

178.217.168.0/21 77.95.0.0/21 89.250.80.0/20

NOT YET CONNECTED

195.54.180.252/30 195.54.180.248/30

IP diagram for CAREN Frankfurt PoP


TeliaSonera Commodity

Internet TEIN3 HK

CAREN HK PoP

TURENA

213.248.78.237/30 202.179.241.93/30

195.54.181.253/30

195.191.230.0/23)

195.54.181.254/30

202.179.241.94/30 213.248.78.238/30

IP diagram for CAREN Hong-Kong PoP


Network Opera,on Center / FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES

CAREN NOC AVAILABILITY

Jul-1

0; 9

9.50

%

Aug

-10;

99.

50%

Sep

-10;

95.

96%

Oct

-10;

100

.00%

Nov

-10;

99.

88%

Dec

-10;

100

.00%

Jan-

11; 1

00.0

0%

Feb-

11; 1

00.0

0%

Mar

-11;

100

.00%

Apr

-11;

100

.00%

May

-11;

100

.00%

Jun-

11; 9

9.96

%

Jul-1

1; 1

00.0

0%

Aug

-11;

100

.00%

Sep

-11;

100

.00%

93.00% 94.00% 95.00% 96.00% 97.00% 98.00% 99.00%

100.00% 101.00%

NOC Web Server / Monthly Availability %

Jul-10 Aug-10 Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10 Jan-11 Feb-11

Mar-11 Apr-11 May-11 Jun-11 Jul-11 Aug-11 Sep-11


Network Opera,on Center / FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES

CANREN NREN’s NETWORK TRAFFIC

!   Other charts show the traffic growth too

!   Consistent use

!   More details in CAREN Network Service monthly

reports


Joint CAREN-APCICT workshop on Module 9 “ICT and Disaster Risk Management” and Module 10 “ICT and Climate Change” Yssyk-Kul, September 7-9, 2011, Kyrgyzstan


Applications development

•  Central Asia real-time monitoring of natural processes and phenomena, disaster prevention • Distance learning • Telemedicine • Regional collaboration in sustainable water resources management • GRID computing • IPv6 implementation

Areas for regional collaboration :


Concept of the Information - Communication System


Geohazards: landslips - the prospective concept


Central Asian Distributed Computing Infrastructure proposal to EC !  The project will support the establishment of National Grid

Initiatives in the Central Asian region . This project will support the creation of new Desktop Grids in Central Asian countries and the connection of these Grids to European DCIs.

!   Application areas primarily targeted by the project: 1. Seismology; 2. Weather research and forecast 3. Water risk mitigation


Cooperation with University of Pittsburg on Supercourse on Public Health

!   Presidential Supercourse on Turkmenistan's Global/Public Health in Millenium Development Goals !   "Let us act, looking at the decades ahead, and thinking over

what kind of world we want to leave future generations ...."

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov

!   Supercourse is a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention. Supercourse has a network of over 48000 scientists in 174 countries who are sharing for free a library of more than 4800 lectures in 31 languages

!   http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/national/PresidentialSupercourseE.htm !  


ELEVATE – E-Learning Variations for Transition Economies. Its goal is to use e-learning tools to assist in solving transitional justice issues in Central Asia , by making the connections between the rule of law and sustainable development. CAREN management team and CA NRENs expressed interest to implement “rule of Law education” as non-classical application for CAREN at CAREN ExCo –meeting in Dushanbe, March 11-12,2011. CAREN could provide network infrastructure with high-speed channels and technical support for implementation of Programme Elevate.

Cooperation between CAREN and University of Graz (Rule of Law Education)


International conference RULE of LAW EDUCATION FOR CENTRAL ASIA

University of Graz, May 6, 2011


CAREN support high quality video conferencing


Conclusions

!   CAREN network is established and operate !   The new POP at Frankfurt was established !   The new circuits to Dushanbe and Bishkek are operational !   The CAREN network service is up and running: 1.  CAREN provides managed IP service for the participating NREN-s 2.  NOC is continuously monitoring the network, external monitoring too 3.  Available 7*24, attended 5+*24 4.  Portal for general communication 5.  Monthly Sevice reports

!   Main open question is how to improve network resiliency !   CAREN network is IPv6 ready !   Further steps :

!   Upgrading KRENA to 155Mbps from January 2012 !   Connecting Kazrena at 155Mbps from January 2012


Thank you

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