TWAREN and Medical Collaborations

Te-Lung LiuTe-Lung LiuNCHC/TWARENNCHC/TWAREN

http://www.twaren.nethttp://www.twaren.net

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TaiWan

Advanced

Research and

E

ducation

Network

TWARENTWAREN

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What is TWARENWhat is TWARENA physical network serves multiple purposes and logical networks

TANet, connects to commodity Internet

TWAREN research network

experiment, testbed, special research

Provisioning services on multiple layers

L1 Lightpaths

L2 VLAN, VPLS VPN

L3 IPv4, IPv6, Multicast

SSL VPN

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• 4 core nodes

• 20G backbone

• 12 GigaPops

• Connects HPC resources in

North and South Taiwan

TWAREN Architecture

•2G to the venue

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TWAREN’s International Connections

Pacific Crossing to USA’s west coast upgraded to 5 Gb/s Connections between LA, Palo Alto, Chicago, and New York are 2.5 Gb/s Connects to the rest of the world via the U.S.’s Abilene NetworkConnection expanded to Europe in 2006 (IEEAF donated 622 Mbps of bandwidth/fiber optic cable)Collaborate with ASCC and ASGC to connect to Asia countries during APAN27

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TWAREN’s International Peerings

TWAREN made peerings with international NRENs at Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Seattle (through Pacific Wave).

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NCU-15454

TP-15600

TN-15600 TC-15454

HC-15600HC-15454

TN-15454

NCHU-15454CCU-15454NCKU-15454NCSYSU-15454

ASCC-15454

NIU-15454

NDHU-15454

NTU-15454NCTU-15454

NTHU-15454

TP-15454

TWARENOptical Network

Palo Alto 15454

Chicago 15454

LA 15454

NY15454

TAIWANLight

Combined TWAREN/TAIWANLight Lambda Testbed

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TWAREN and Medical Collaborations

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Connecting Hospitals to TWAREN

We provides network access, VPLS VPN and even direct lightpaths to domestic hospitals:

National Health Research InstitutesKaohsiung Medical UniversityNational Defence Medical CenterNational Cheng Kung University Hospital Dou-Liou BranchNational Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch

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International Medical Collaborations

Support of Tele-surgery and medical activities at APAN Medical WG (2005-2009).Global multipoint DVTS videoconference with Japan, Italy, Spain and Czech (2008)Ophthalmology Telesurgery demo collaborated with Czech (CESNET). (2007)

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TWAREN-CESNET connection

A direct lightpath that connects TW and CZ is provisioned through Pacific and Atlantic oceans in 2008/2.Joint work among TWAREN, CA*net, MANLAN, NetherLight and CESNET

IPv6 and Multicast are enabled and several video streams are exchanged between TWAREN and CESNET.Further collaborations on live medical streaming and HPC computing are going on.

TW-CZ LightpathSingle hop

RTT ： 310msBandwidth ： 576Mbps

TWARENCESNET

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TWAREN-CESNET Optical Topology

15454@Chicago

15454@LA

I2 ONS@MANLAN

IEEAF/VSNLAMS/TXO2-NYC/TX01 OC12cS00001

I2 HDXc@MANLAN

15454@Palo Alto

OME 6500Asd002a_ome04

7609P@Hsinchu

15454@Hsinchu

Taiwan U.S.A Europe

622M/s

CA*net4 : NYC-Chicago

Back to backfiber

TAIWANLight/TWAREN : Chicago-Palo Alto-LA-Taipei-Hsinchu

Back to backfiber

15454@Taipei

15454@Praha

E300@Praha

1 GE

s1/p1

s1/p17: 10.1.1.2

applications

Back to backfiber

OC-192c

s7/p1

STS97-108

GEANT2DANTE

OME 6500Asd002a_ome02

OME 6500Asd001a_ome02

OME 6500Asd001a_ome07

GEANT2: ams-pra_LHC_CESNET-SURFNET_06005

HDXc503/0/1

Amsterdam

5002LE-TWHSZ-CZPRG_NL(NBD-TWAREN-CESNET)

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Live Medical Streaming 1Live Medical Streaming 1High-quality video streaming of live surgery with CESNet:• 2007/10: Ophthalmology surgery (NCKU College of Medicine in Taiwan and Central Military Hospital in Czech).

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Live Medical Streaming 2Live Medical Streaming 2•2008/9: Demo of gastrointestinal endoscopy in CESNET08 conference (8 sites in Japan, Taiwan, Italy, Spain and Czech).

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Experiences on APAN 27

TWAREN is the exit to western world. ASCC and ASGC help us to access our asia colleagues.

ASCC to JapanASGC to the rest of countries

Each route has to be chosen carefully Thanks for the network coordination of Prof. Okamura and Mr.Torata from U. Kyushu and dedicated engineers at each site!

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Thank You !For more information, please see :

www.twaren.net

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