Conference: IRNC Kickoff Meeting Date: July 13, 2010Place: Arlington, Virginia, USA

Florencio I. UtrerasExecutive Director of CLARA

Florencio.Utreras@redclara.net

Michael StantonDirector of R&D, RNP-Brazil

michael@rnp.br

Future Research Requirements in Latin

America

RedCLARA2: Towards an Terrestrial Optical Network

in Latin America

RedCLARA January-September 2009

Including EuropeAid’s ALICE2, CLARA and NSF’s WHREN-LILA

Brazil-US upgrades July-Sept 2009

Before: 2.5 Gbps (NSF + Fapesp) After: 2x 10Gbps(NSF + Fapesp + RNP)

In both cases, shared with RedCLARA (now 1 Gbps)

Technical Description RedCLARA 2009

• Backbone:– 155 Mbps leased SDH circuits– Mostly submarine cable usage– Use of 300 Mbps between Brazil and Miami (WHREN-LILA)

• Access Links– 155 Mbps leased SDH circuits except for– Uruguay 34 Mbps– Colombia 45 Mbps– Ecuador 45 Mbps

• Central American countries connected thru Miami

RedCLARA 1.5 July 2010

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Technical Description RedCLARA 1.5

• Backbone:– 622 Mbps leased SDH circuits

• Brazil-Chile-Panama-Spain

– Mostly submarine cable usage

• Access Links– 155 Mbps leased SDH circuits

• One optical 2.5 Gbps link connecting Guatemala and El Salvador

• 1 Gbps links to the US provided by Brazil and IRNC2 Project (Americas Light - NSF)

Terrestrial FO: Creating Synergy with other Projects I

• Brazil’s RNP, using US$ 10M funding from FINEP (Brazil), is supporting acquisition of dark fiber and optical equipment for Mercosur Countries (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay)

• Additional funding is being provided by Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay for these projects.

Terrestrial FO: Creating Synergy with other Projects II

• The Pierre Auger Southern Cosmic Ray Observatory located south of Mendoza needed connection to InnovaRed (new network in Argentina)

• EC-FP6’s Auger Access + RNP + InnovaRed + Silica Networks + CLARA built the whole Santiago-Buenos Aires backbone and fiber to Malargüe

Terrestrial FO:

• The Observatory is located in Malargüe, 400 km south of Mendoza in the Andes mountains

• Connect the Auger Observatory to InnovaRed (Argentina) and RedCLARA

• Carried out in conjunction with building out the InnovaRed northern backbone

Santiago

CórdovaRosario

Buenos AiresMendoza

Malargüe

The Auger Access Project

333Kms

474Kms

566Kms

Larga Distancia: 1373KmsTramo Local: 115Kms

Terrestrial FO: Synergy along the Santiago-Lima route

RedCLARA1.75 December 2010

Porto Alegre

Tapachula

Antofagasta

Current and developing Large Science Projects in LA

EXPReS: e-VLBI Integrates VLBI around the World

TIGO: the Chilean node

• Geodesic Observatory of Very Long Base Interferometry (VLBI)

• Several observatories around the world are used (Europe, USA, Japan)

• Chilean Node located in the South of Chile is connected to the World thru REUNA and RedCLARA

• UT 1 (Antu) – May 1998• UT 2 (Kueyen) – March 1999

• UT 3 (Melipal) – January 2000• UT 4 (Yepun) – September 2000

The Very Large Telescope (VLT)

ESO – Cerro Paranal

The EVALSO Project

• Paranal Observatory is located 130 Km South of Antofagasta in Chile

• To instal Optical Fibre from Cerro Paranal to Antofagasta and connect there with REUNA and RedCLARA

• Purpose, to develop new modes of observation

50 km

The Pierre Auger Southern Cosmic Ray Observatory

Malargüe

• Total Surface ~ 3000 Km2

• A network of 160 detectors separated 1,5 km among them

• 24 telescopes in 4 buildings

The 6 Telescopes (30°x30°)

The E-ELT Project• European

Extremely Large Telescope

• To be built at Cerro Armazones in Chile (close to Antofagasta)

• 42 m mirror• Building start dates

will be defined at the end of 2010

The ALMA Project

• System of 64 Antennas for Radio Astronomy

• In deployment at Chajnantor Chile

• Begins operation in 2011

• Throuput of data over 1Tbps per antenna per day

The LSST Observatory

• In construction at Cerro Pachón (Chile)

• Surveys the Sky twice a week

• Over 800 high quality images per day

• It will be used to create a 3D map of the Universe

Management of Response to Natural Disasters

• CATHALAC in agreement with UNOOSA • Integrated to UN-SPIDER • To implement a regional surveillance and response system

to natural disasters• Several types of data: Seismic, Tropical Storms, Climate, etc

Biodiversity

• “Species Link” (Brazil) and other databases

• “La Selva" and other biological observation stations (Costa Rica)

• Oceans: Tropical and Subtropical Western South Atlantic (WSAOBIS)

Other scientific and cultural network drivers in LA

e2e Circuit (Lightpath) usage for high-end users

• The first international 10G link between LA (Brazil) and the US was inaugurated in July, 2009, with a lightpath demo involving the digital cinema community with the transmission of compressed 4K digital média (400 Mbps) and uncompressed HD videoconferencing (900 Mbps) between the FILE 4K event in São Paulo, UCSD (US) and Keio University (JP)

• Regular e-science lightpath usage expected in support of Earth observation, Meteorology and Climatology, HEP, e-VLBI and Dark Energy Survey communities

• Presently, about 25% of the total international Brazilian capacity of 20G is being used for routed IP traffic – the remainder is currently available for lightpath use.

FILE 4K: lightpath topology (July 2009)

AmpathGOLE

USP

T-LEXGOLE

UMackenzie

vlans 2712/3

vlan 2713

vlan

271

2

vlan 2711 C-wave

vlans 2711/2

2711: unicast SP <> UCSD2712: unicast SP <> Keio2713: unicast UCSD <> Keio

LHC and High-energy Physics• 2 CMS Tier 2 sites in LA (Brazil) have participated in BWC

(Bandwidth Challenge) demos at Supercomputing since SC04, always limited by the available int’l bandwidth – SC04: 622 Mbps (RedCLARA)– SC05-08: 2.5 Gbps (WHREN-LILA)

• SC09 was the first event after the deployment of the new 2x 10 Gbps Brazilian connectivity to the US.– UERJ (Rio de Janeiro) still rate limited at 1 Gbps

and demonstrated sustained transmission at 850 Mbps– UNESP (São Paulo) was rate limited at 10 Gbps and

demonstrated sustained transmission at 8.2 Gbps

São Paulo - Portland stress test-- 8 + 8 Gbps --

“New record for data flows between Northern and Southern hemispheres”

(Our thanks to Sandor Rozsa, responsible for conducting the transfers at the showfloor)

Future Internet (FI) research and experimentation (R&E)

• FI R&E activities are being carried out in several countries starting around 2005:– US: GENI (Global Envionment for Network Innovation)– EU: FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation)– Japan: AKARI– Korea

• Growing tendency to collaborate through federation of testbed facilities

• Brazilian initiatives in FI R&E are beginning to form partnerships, especially with US and EU projects– By 2011 international federation of testbeds in Brazil

Future terrestrial FO infrastructure in LA

Northern route

Southern route

International link to Brazil

Future closure (redundancy)

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Public Universities (40)

CONICET Research Centres (122/5)

INTA Agricultural Research Centres (240/48/12)

Nuclear Energy Research Centres (3)

P. Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

Argentina: Innova-Red new national backbone planned for 2011

Brazil: RNP phase 6 national backbone planned for 4Q2010

• Agreement with local telco Oi, brokered by regulatory agency

• 3 and 10 Gbps to reach 24 of 27 capitals

– FO to northern capitals only after 2012 (need to cross the River Amazon)

• Last mile access thru optical metro networks in PoP cities, being deployed since 2007

• Hybrid architecture, supporting routed IP and e2e circuit traffic

The aim: RedCLARA2.0

Porto Alegre

Tapachula

Antofagasta

10 Gbps10 Gbps

10 Gbps10 Gbps2.5 Gbps2.5 Gbps

10 Gbps10 Gbps

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