Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET Development of R&E Networks in Egypt Mostafa

Spring 2005 Internet2 Member MeetingSpring 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting MCIT-EUN-ENSTINETMCIT-EUN-ENSTINET

Development of R&E Networks in Egypt

Mostafa Abdel Wahed

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Egypt


Road Map ..

• Egyptian R&E Community

• National Network for Universities and Research Centers

• ENERGI Initiative

• Highlights on R&E Activities in Egypt

• Collaborative Research Work


Egyptian R&E Community

• 124 Research Centers and Institutes covering 32 Ministries

• 16 Governmental Universities

• Private Universities and Research Centers

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina


The National Network for Universities & Research Centers

The Ministry of

Higher Education and

Scientific Research

Partnership between

The Ministry of

Communications and

Information Technology

• Interconnect 16 universities and 9 research centers with Giga Ethernet via an MPLS backbone

• Establish two centers for Scientific and Research Content

• Connect to International Networks



Network Highlights

• Fiber Optic Infrastructure providing high reliability and full redundancy via 2 NOCs at EUN and ENSTINET

• High network security measures

• Advanced network management systems

• 24/7 Technical support



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Single Fiber Cable Connection (24 Core)

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ENSTINET NOC

Backup Link (Giga Bit)Backup Link (Giga Bit)


ENERGIEgypt Network for Education and

Research on Next Generation Internet


About ENERGI .. VisionTo serve as …

A catalyst in the development of the Egyptian information economy and a partner in the emerging information

society.


About ENERGI .. Mission

To provide access to specialized and state of the art resources specific to the needs of the Egyptian R&E community through

effective management of resources.


About ENERGI .. Scope & Objectives• Supporting advanced networking and next

generation Internet technologies in Egyptian R&E networks

• Interconnecting Egyptian R&E networks with Internet2 and other international peers to facilitate research activities

• Providing the R&E community in Egypt with high speed access to global information resource


ENERGI Partnership Agreement

Partners:• Ministry of Communication & Information

Technology (MCIT)• Egyptian National Scientific and Technical

Information Network (ENSTINET)• Egyptian Universities Network (EUN)

Agreement effective as of February 1st 2005


ENERGI Highlights• International partner of Internet2 as of April 2005• STM1 international connection to MAN/LAN

exchange• National distribution facility providing connectivity

to:– Partners (MCIT – EUN – ENSTINET)– Bibliotheca Alexandrina– Egyptian R&E entities (academic – governmental – non-

governmental – private sector)

• Operational starting May 2005• Mirror 34 Mbps link to GÉANT at EUN via

EUMEDCONNECT project


Highlights onR&E Activities in Egypt


IPv6 Task Force Test BedActivities Date Status

Establish E-IPv6 Sep 04 Done

Obtain IPv6 address cluster from AfriNIC Dec 04 Done

Implement IPv6 Test Lab Mar 05 Done

Test IPv6 over IPv4 Tunnels with international & local providers

Apr 05 Tunnels with Sprint and 4 NSP’s

Test basic services (DNS, E-mail, Web, etc…)

Apr 05 DNS and Mail are up and running

Connect to GEANT & Internet 2 Apr 05 GEANT link is under test

Test Dual Stack operation with local providers Jul 05 Not Started

Test security and other advanced services (VoIP, video streaming, etc…)

Aug 05 Not Started

Test Dual Stack operation with international providers

Sep 05 Not Started


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Telemedicine

• Connecting National Cancer Institute in Cairo with similar institutes in rural areas such as Tanta, Damietta, Luxor, Assiut

• Connecting National Cancer Institute in Cairo with the Cancer Institute in Paris

• Establishing a Telemedicine project between The Ahmed Maher Burn Institute in Cairo and at John Hopkins School of Medicine in US


GOTHI e-Connect Project

• General Organization for Teaching Hospitals and Institutes (GOTHI)

• 17 teaching hospitals and institutes

• Video Conferencing

• Medical Health Record via Smart Cards


GOTHI e-Connect Project

ENSTINET ENSTINET MPLS Data NetworkMPLS Data Network

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• National Cancer Institute

• Egyptian Society for Surgeons

• Mostafa Kamel Military Hospital

• GOHTI Hospitals and Institutes

• Azhar University, Faculty of Medicine

Video Conferencing


Tele-immersion

• Establishment of a solid video-conferencing infrastructure

• Next step will be to establish Tele-immersion system would allow individuals at different locations to share a single virtual environment, jointly participating in simulations and models of molecular, physical or economic constructs


Virtual Laboratories

• Proposed project to establish a virtual laboratory, heterogeneous distributed problem solving environment, enabling researchers located around the world to work together on a common set of projects and sharing the basic infrastructure requirements across disciplines


Virtual Laboratories

• The following applications will work best via Internet2: – Applications used by a relatively small number of technically

competent trusted users working with large datasets – Applications which open many parallel network streams to

diverse locations – Applications where there is a large discrepancy between

bandwidth available via commodity network connectivity and bandwidth available via high performance networks (e.g., overseas sites in many regions, provided that the overseas site has access to high-performance network connectivity)


Digital Library• Commitment to developing digital libraries in

Egypt• Internet2 will significantly enhance development

of digital libraries• New services and capabilities envisioned for

Internet2 offer important opportunities to move the Digital Libraries program into new areas

• Very high bandwidth and bandwidth reservation will allow currently exotic materials such as continuous digital video and audio to move from research use to much broader use


Digital Library

• Images, audio and video can, at least from a delivery point of view, move into the mainstream currently occupied almost exclusively by textual materials.

• This also facilitates more extensive research in the difficult problems of organizing, indexing, and providing intellectual access to these classes of materials.


Medical Data Analysis

• The National Research Center in Cairo is developing a Medical Data Analysis, a non-intrusive method for capturing the electrical activity in the brain

• This project will help the practitioner to diagnose certain brain illness

• Data transfer, analysis and diagnosis are applied in the computing grid


Protein Alignment

• The National Research Center in Egypt is trying to establish a project of Protein Alignment

• In this project discovered new protein sequence will be analyzed by comparison with genetic sequence databases, which are growing exponentially

• To speedup the analysis, a sequence database will be portioned and the tasks of sequence alignment will be distributed over a computational grid


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Other Activities

Other activities that would benefit from connecting to Internet2 include:

• Remote Sensing & Space Science

• Capacity Building


Collaborative Research Work



Future Cooperation with Internet2 Community

• Content Delivery– Egyptian R&E Repository

• Medical Applications– Telemedicine (Tele-surgery, Tele-radiology, Tele-pathology ..etc)

• High Speed Computing– Grid Computing

• Applied Sciences– Genetics Engineering – Biotechnology Applications– Nanotechnology Applications



Future Cooperation with Internet2 Community

• Renewable & Sustainable Energy • Remote Sensing & Space Sciences • Astronomy & Geophysics

– Solar Research, – Seismology, – Geomagnetism, – GeoElectricity, – Geothermal, – Gravimetry, – Geodesy, and Geodynamics



Future Cooperation with Internet2 Community • Digital Library & Interlibrary Loan

• Virtual Reality Applications

• Virtual R&E Community– Virtual Universities – Virtual Labs

• E-Learning


Thank You …

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