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Conference: e-AGE ConferenceDate: December 12, 2011Place: Amman, Jordan
Florencio I. UtrerasExecutive Director of CLARA
RedCLARA2: An Advanced
Collaboration Tool for Latin America
RedCLARA• Created by ALICE Projects
– ALICE• € 10 Million from EuropeAid• € 2.5 Million from LA NRENs
– ALICE2• € 12 Million from EuropeAid• € 6 Million from LA NRENs
• Not for Profit International Organization based in Uruguay• 15 Partners, 13 connected, 2 in stand by• 6 Existing NRENs at the beginning of the ALICE Project
– Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela• 8 created during the ALICE Project
– Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Uruguay • 3 more during the ALICE2 Project
– Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay
Building the Infrastructure
• ALICE Tenders:– Open Tenders + Negotiated Procedures– From 2004 the total lease cost for the backbone
decreased by a factor of 10 and its speed increased 34 times
• Sinergy with other projects: Astronomers, Cosmic Ray Observatories.
• Cooperation with local or regional initiatives: MERCOSUR
Sinergies with Internal Networks
• Strategy of building Terrestrial networks with ability to carry internal traffic– Terrestrial Networks linking countries often go
through main cities in countries• Dark Fibre wherever that is possible– Low cost to upgrade– Flexibility to use the adequate technology at any
time– Flexibilty to create different physically separated
networks for special purposes
Key Factors
• Strategic– Continent wide network is best suited to work with other
continental networks: GEANT, APAN, Internet2+CANet, etc.
• Short/Medium term– Construction of internal networks– Technical support– Economies of Scale for bandwidth purchases
• Long term– Added value of collaboration to tackle regional issues– Federated services– Negotiation power for services: clouds, content, etc.
LA Before ALICE2
45 Mbps
RedCLARA2 at the end of ALICE2
155 Mbps
622 Mbps
2488 Mbps
10096 Mbps
User Communities and Research Projects
• Building regional user communities is key to underline the importance of horizontal collaboration and hence regional connectivity
Services for Communities
http://www.redclara.nethttp://alice2.redclara.net
