Brazilian Collaborative Projects in Advanced Networking

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RNP2 Brazilian Collaborative Projects in Advanced Networking

Brazilian Collaborative Projects in Advanced Networking

Márcio L Bunte de Carvalho

mlbc @ rnp.br

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Topics

• The Brazilian Strategy

• ReMAV

• National Backbone

• Internet2 Interconnection

• Advanced Networking Development

• Ongoing Collaborations

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Brazilian StrategyBrazilian Strategy

ReMAV

• Government sponsored Call for Proposals

• Consortium between universities, infrastructure providers and application-driven institutions to:

• implement advanced MANs

• train people on how to use and operate advanced MANs

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ReMAVs

• First ReMAV begin operation in 1999

• 14 cities (34 to 622Mbps)

• 79 institutions: universities, research institutions, government, telecom, cable TV companies, electrical, hospitals and TV stations

• total investment $20 M

• 10+ different applications


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Current Applications at ReMAVs

• Digital/Virtual Libraries• Distance Learning• Network Management• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)• Tele and Videoconferencing• Health and Medicine• Video on Demand


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RNP2: National Research and Education Backbone • ATM in 13 cities (155 to 34Mbps)

• Frame relay in 14 cities (2 Mbps increments)

• Finished Sep ‘2000

• Transit for 15 regional backbones

• Differentiated services: production and experimentation


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O NOVOO NOVOBACKBONEBACKBONE

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Interconnection with Internet 2

• OC3 link from Advanced ANSP (Academic Network of São Paulo)

• OC3 link from RNP2

• AmPath (and RNP2) – DS3 link – Spring 2001


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Advanced Networking Development

• Government Sponsored: S&T and Education

• Collaboration Objectives:

• Consolidate collaboration between ReMAVs

• Enhance collaboration with internet2 and other international initiatives


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Advanced Networking Development

Area coordinators:

• Engineering: José Suruagy Monteiro [email protected]

• Middleware: Michael Stanton [email protected]

• Applications: Liane Tarouco [email protected]


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Remote Collaboration

• Richard Walters - UCDavis - RCT http://escher.cs.ucdavis.edu:1024/

• Liane Tarouco - UFRGS - EQUITEXT http://equitext.pgie.ufrgs.br/

Ongoing CollaborationOngoing Collaboration

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Integrated Environment for Collaborative Work Across Internets

• Integrate network of reflectors

• CERN & CALTECH

• Philippe Galvez

• UFRGS

• Liane Tarouco

• Fabricio Raupp Tamusiunas


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Capture of Synchronous Meetings

(and the corresponding generation of MM hyperdocuments)

• Gregory Abowd - College of Computing - GeorgiaTech

• Maria da Graça Campos Pimentel - USP - S. Carlos

• http://eclass.icmc.sc.usp.br:8080/inca-serve/


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Earth Observation System Data Information (EOSDIS)

• Related topics: vegetation, oceanography (Tropical and South Atlantic), agriculture, meteorology, climatology, mineral resources, etc.

• INPE - (Brazilian) National Institute of Space Research

• NASA

• http://www.atsme.inpe.br


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Application Level Adaptation and Control for Retrieval and Delivery of Continuous Media over the Internet (COMIT)

• Edmundo de Souza e Silva - UFRJ

• Bethier Ribeiro Neto - UFMG

• Richard Muntz - UCLA

• Donald Towsley - UMass, Amherst

• Leana Golubchik - Univ. of Maryland

• http://www.land.ufrj.br


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Species Analyst - distributed database for biodiversity data

• Fundação André Tosello – Campinas SP

• The University of Kansas

• http://habanero.nhm.ukansas.edu/TSA


Brazilian Collaborative Projects in Advanced Networking

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