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TEIN2-VN: Vietnam participation in TEIN2

Tran Ba Thai thai@netnam.vn

TEIN2-VN TETF

Taipei, 2005/Aug/27

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Some legal steps by VN gov

2004/Apr. Education Minister signs LOI to DANTE

2004/Oct. ASEM-VN secretariate sends formal letter to VN gov and relevant ministeries on joining TEIN2

2004/Dec. VN gov gives green light to join and assigns MOST (Ministry of Science & Technology) as country co-ordinator for TEIN2

2005/Jan. MOST sends LOI and financial contribution to DANTE

2005/May. MOST sets up TEIN2-VN TETF

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VN Tech Task Force – VN TETF

VN-TETF is composed of Technical taffs of: HUT (Hanoi University of Technology), Ministry of

Education & Training

IOIT (Institute of Information Technology), Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology

Drafting TEIN2-VN NOC project (for 2005-2006)

Assisting MOST to draft TEIN2-VN project (for 2006 and beyond)

Assisting MOST in negociation of Hanoi – HK link with local telcos

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Current status Context: telecom market has been open for local telcos.

There is a chance to have similar price as in the region MOST:

Okey with TEIN2 topology to VN, but 155Mbps to HK is prefered Negociating with local telcos (Viettel, VNPT, VPT) for special

price for R&E refering to regional price (TH - SG: 812K Euro for 155Mbps/year)

Asking Ministry of Post & Telematics (MPT) to have official approval for the special price

Letter of Commitment (LOC) shall be sent when negociations are finished (hopefully, early September)

Drafting TEIN2-VN project for the next financial year, 2006

VN-TETF: Trying best to have a “mini” VN-NOC ready by 2005/Dec at the Hanoi University of Technology

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Current status: AI3-SOI

Satellite-based: birectional and unidirectional Vietnam partner: Institute of Information Technology

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Next phase: Vietnam (VinaREN) in TEIN2

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VinaREN backbone

Mid 2006: To be set up officially To join APAN

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Planning

Phase 1A: -> 2005/Dec. setting up HK-NOC and VN -NOC/Hanoi University (HUT) link with 45/155Mbps

Phase 1B: -> 2006/Jun. Lauching VinaREN setting up links NOC/HUT to

Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST), Ministry of Education & Traing (MOET) Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology (VAST) Vietnam National University (VNU)

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Planning

Phase 2B: -> 2006/Dec. Setting up VinaREN backbone Hanoi/North –

Danang/Central – HochiminhCity/South ->2007/Jun. expending to 3-8 universities per region

Phase 3A: -> 2007/Dec. expending to 50 universities and research institutes Upgrading int’l bandwidth accoding to TEIN2 planning

Phase 3B: 2008 and beyond: sustainable development of VinaREN

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Conclusion

Setting up VinaREN, joining TEIN2, APAN shall be a substantial step for R&E community in VN

We hope for a new “era”

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Thank you!

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LOIs of VN sent to DANTE