RNP High Speed Networking Infrastructure, Services and Applications as Enablers for e-Science in Brazil

Encuentro internacional de e-ciencia y educación apoyadas por redes de tecnología avanzada: Nuevas posibilidades para el desarrollo académico y científico del paísBogotá, September 2008

Marcio FaermanRede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP

marcio@rnp.br

e-Science is About

• Bringing distant people closer– From far away places– Across diverse disciplines– Helping those who express themselves differently to

understand each other• Exchanging information – ideas, models

• Complementing work

• Building together

• Cyberinfrastructure as technological response– Integration of processing, storage, communication– Complexity is a major issue– What is the Network role?

RNP – Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa

• RNP is the Brazilian NREN– maintained by the Brazilian government (since 1989) to enable network

access to the national research and education community

– provides national (inter-state) and international R&E connectivity for more than 300 public and private universities and research centers through the provision of advanced networking infrastructure

• also provides national and international commodity access

– promotes the development of advanced networking and applications

• Since 2000, RNP is managed for the federal government by a non-profit private company, RNP-OS, legally recognised as an “Organização Social”, which allows the government to contract its services without competitive tender.

Rede IPÊ – national backbone networkLast major reform in 2005

Capacity reflects available telco infrastructure

Currently composed of:• Multigigabit core network

– 4 PoPs at 10 Gbps, and 6 PoPs at 2.5 Gbps

– IP over lambdas (12.000 km)

• Terrestrial SDH connections to 15 PoPs– Most links are 34 Mbps– Some at 2 Mbps– Some upgrades in 2007

and 2008 to 102, 155 Mbps and 1 Gbps

• 2 PoPs connected by satellite at 4 Mbps

Communitary Metropolitan Networks

• It is not enough to bring high speed connectivity to each city – it is necessary bring it to the university campus / research lab as well.

• The metropolitan network is the solution– Infrastructure sharing to support:

• Campi interconnection of each partner institution• Access to RNP national network backbone

– This sharing substantially reduces deployment costs– Preferably, the infrastructure will be owned by the partners

themselves (reducing operating costs)

Community-based optical metropolitan networks• Since 2004, RNP has also concentrated its attention on metropolitan

networks, to provide adequate access to the multigigabit IPÊ network – Funding provided by Science and Technology ministry, complemented by

contributions from state and city governments and by private R&E participants

• These metro networks are based on owned dark fiber networks, shared between the R&E institutions served– typically operate at 1 Gbps and permit:

• interconnection of the campi of the participating institutions• access to RNP´s IPÊ network PoP• reduction of current costs• easy to upgrade (e.g. to 10 Gbps) – just replace the terminal equipment

• Pilot project: o projeto MetroBel na cidade de Belém do Pará, whose metropolitan area has a population of 2.2 millions– network was inaugurated in May 2007

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MetroBel• 12 institutions with 32 campi• each institution has its own

pair of fibers (for internal connectivity)

• 30 km ring (48 fibres)• 10 km extension to

Ananindeua (36 fibres)• 12 km access links (6

fibres)

Institution A

Institution C

Institution B

RNPPoP

to IPÊ network

Community metro networks nationally

• By late 2008, RNP expects to have deployed all 27 of these networks, reaching all the metropolitan campi of around 250 R&E institutions countrywide at 1 Gbps

• In most of these the local governments are participating for internal IT and for connecting schools and hospitals

• This digital empowerment is expected to have significant consequences for the use of the national and international networks for scientific collaboration

Example: Rio de Janeiro metro network

Largest project

Collaboration involves:• R&E community• City government• Suburban railway• Metro railway

Details• 123 points• 236 km of cabling• extensible

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Rio de Janeiro metro network map

POP – Points of Presence (Backbone Central)

Total extent: 236 Km Central Backbone: 72 Km Other links: 164 Km

Total extent: 236 Km Central Backbone: 72 Km Other links: 164 Km

Infrastructure: Community optical metro networksRedecomep• By beginning of 2009 RNP expects to have concluded

building out optical metro networks in 27 capital cities

Redecomint• Extension of optical metro networks to larger non-

capital cities, with important federal institutions: São Carlos, Niterói, Petrópolis, ...

• Other (wireless) technologies under study

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RNP’s external R&E links (until March 2008)

• via WHREN/LILA

– to USA (Atlantic Wave): 2.5 Gbps (with ANSP, RedCLARA)

• Financed by NSF + FAPESP

– Appears on 2005 GLIF map

• via RedCLARA (ALICE project):

– Latin American backbone

– to Europe (GÉANT2)622 Mbps

• Financed by EU (in part)

– Mexico – USA (Pacific Wave): 1 Gbps

• Financed by NSF

Where are we now?

• Infrastructure– national backbone– community optical networks (Redecomep, Redecomint)– campus networks

• User communities– early adopters: physics, astronomy, climate, Earth

observation– emerging: health, culture

• Networking architecture– traditional IP network– emerging end to end circuit provisioning– testbed facilities

Evolution of academic networks in Brazil

RNPPhase

Year Technology Link capacities Comment

1988 BITNET up to 9.6 kbps first national network

1 1992 Internet 9.6 and 64 kbps first national IP network (RNP)

2 1995 up to 2 Mbps also: commercial IP deployed

3 1999 IP/ATM, IP/FR

VC up to 45 Mbps, access up to 155

Mbps

RNP2 national backbone;

testbed metro networks in 14 cities (using ATM/dark fiber)

4 2003 IP/SDH 34, 155, 622 Mbps also: IP/WDM interstate testbed network (Project GIGA)

5 2005 IP/WDM 2.5 and 10 Gbps IPÊ national backbone;

metro networks in 27 capitals

What will be Phase 6 of RNP?

• Almost three years have passed since inaugurating the multigigabit core of the IPÊ backbone

• It is already time to plan the next step – it usually takes 2 to 3 years to implement such a change

• Very important to track changes in more advanced networks, to see where the world is going

• Based on recent experience with the growing demand for e-science and other high-bandwidth applications, especially with international partners, we need:– Continued increase in available bandwidth– Increase in international bandwidth

• Upgrade BR-US link to 10 Gbps in 2008

– Adoption of hybrid (packet + circuit) architecture

Hybrid Network New backbone technology

• Migrating until 2009 to provide hybrid network technology in the production backbone– Dyamic Circuit Provisioning with IP packet switching

– End to end reservation of Bandwidth and Paths on demand

– Network becomes a dedicated grid resource, which can be deterministically allocated

– Development on GIGA Optical Testbed

– Motivation – e-Science applications in Brazil

Hybrid networks in Brazil?

• The main argument for hybrid networks is cost – they are the cheapest way to deploy really high capacity networks

• Collaboration with international partners is already limited, because RNP has NOT normally provided support for end-to-end circuits, and has insufficient international bandwidth

• RNP feels it cannot ignore this tendency, without restricting certain classes of scientific collaboration.

• The hybrid architecture will be probably not be adopted everywhere at the same time, but will be introduced together with higher bandwidth links

GLIF 2008 - www.glif.is

GLIF 2008 - Brazil

Participating networks:• Ipê (RNP)• GIGA • KyaTera (FAPESP)

New GOLE (lightpath exchange) in São Paulo: SouthernLight

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New fibre link in 2006

How do we get there?

Big Pushers – Great Motivators

• Astronomy

• High Energy Physics

• Climate

• Earth Observation

• Sharing high traffic and quality of service demand

• Networks to meet fast evolving requirements

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• Hospital São Paulo e Escola Paulista de Medicina - Unifesp, (São Paulo) • Hospital das Clínicas - FM USP, (São Paulo) • Hospital Universitário de São Paulo/LSITEC - USP (São Paulo)• Hospital das Clínicas da Unicamp (Campinas/SP)• Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia (São Paulo) • Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto - UERJ (Rio de Janeiro) • Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, (Rio de Janeiro)• Hospital Universitário Prof. P. E. de São Thiago - UFSC (Florianópolis) • Hospital das Clínicas Prof. Arnóbio Marques - UFPE (Recife)• Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio - UFC (Fortaleza)• Hospital da Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia, (Porto Alegre)• Hospital Universitário Getúlio Vargas - UFAM (Manaus)• Hospital das Clínicas – UFMG, (Belo Horizonte) • Hospital Universitário - UFES (Vitória)• Hospital Universitário Prof. Alberto Antunes - UFAL (Maceió)• Hospital Universitário Prof. Edgar Santos - UFBA (Salvador)• Hospital das Clínicas - UFMA (São Luís)• Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley -UFPB (João Pessoa)• Hospital Universitário - UFPR (Curitiba)

Institutions participating – January 2006Institutions participating – January 2006

Plantão Médico de TelecardiologiaPlantão Médico de TelecardiologiaMinas Telecárdio ProjectMinas Telecárdio Project

Microcomputador com multimídia e webcam

Eletrocardiógrafo digital de 12 derivações

Câmera digital

Impressora

Estrutura Tecnológica nos PontosEstrutura Tecnológica nos PontosMinas Telecárdio ProjectMinas Telecárdio Project

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R&D for Innovation Project GIGA – optical networking testbed• Partnership between

– RNP – CPqD (telco industry R&D centre in Campinas, SP) www.cpqd.com.br– R&D community in industry and universities

• Objectives:– build an advanced networking testbed for development and demonstration

purposes– support R&D subprojects in optical and IP networking technology and

advanced applications and services• Industry participation

(telcos provide the fibres without cost; technology transfer of products and services to Brazilian Industries and telcos required)

• Government funding of US$ 20 M (via FUNTTEL/Finep) – project started December 2002

FUNTTELFUNTTEL

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GIGA testbed network - objectives

• explore user control of optical fibre infrastructure– interconnect 20 academic R&D centres in S.E. Brazil– use of IP/WDM with Ethernet framing

• provide Networking Research Testbed for optical and IP network development

• provide Experimental Infrastructure Network for development and demonstration of applications

• Network was inaugurated in May 2004 – it was then the highest capacity research network in Brazil

• Provided expertise for the future Ipê network and the optical metro networks of the Redecomep project

Network and Distributed Applications R&D - The GIGA Project

• Optical Network Testbed

• 30 R&D projects• Grids, e-Science, VOs• Collaboration environments, • Communication Protocols• Network Management• 45 Brazilian Institutions involved

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GIGA testbed network - location

UniversitiesIMEPUC-RioPUC-CampinasUERJUFFUFRJMackenzieUNICAMPUSP

R&D Centers CBPF CPqDCPTECINCORCTA FIOCRUZ IMPA INPE LNCC LNLS

R&D for Inovation

• High Speed Transport WG• Diagnostics and Failure Recovery Automation WG• e-Learning Infrastructure WG• e-Education WG• Virtual Community Grid WG• Virtual Museum WG• Overlay Network WG• Public Key Infrastructure for Education• Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure• MonIpê –End to End Monitoring Service• TV Content Exchange between universities

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Interoperable Network Monitoring

• Compatible with perfSONAR

• Collaboration with Internet 2, GEANT and other NRENs

• Goal is to provide uniform monitoring across multiple domains

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Logistics to fill up network pipe

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Communicating Cyberinfrastructure and e-Collaboration• Virtual Community Grid WG (partnership with LNCC)

• National Public key infrastructure for Education

• Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure

• Partnership with National System of High Performance Computing - SINAPAD Program led by LNCC

• The EELA-2 Project – E-science Grid Facility for Europe and Latin America

• “Programa de Fomento al Uso de Redes Avanzadas en Latinoamérica para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación”, OEA/FEMCIDI/CLARA

• RINGrid Project – Remote Intrumentation Grid

• HEPGrid, Sprace

• Brazilian e-Science collaboration36

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Brazilian e-Science Collaboration Network: major objectives

• Promote colaboration in e-Science and provision of Cyberinfrastructure amongst its members;

• Encourage the expansion of the Collaboration Network;

• Promote Collaboration Network participation in national and international e-Science projects;

• Contribute to the discussion and formulation of public policy for the development of e-Science and investment in Cyberinfrastructure.

General Considerations

• Multiple network domains must be taken into consideration for end to end quality services– Both nationally and internationally– Seamless coordinated inter-operation between academic

networks still a challenge– A lot of progress being made lately thanks to big pushers /

early adopters• Astronomy, High Energy Physics Community, Climate, Earth

Observation

• Integration between network, data repositories, compute, storage resources, applications and users is key– Cross disciplinary engagement

• Need broad strategical planning for partnerships, collaborations and funding

• Looking forward to increasing collaboration with Colombia

Muchas Gracias!

Marcio Faerman

RNP – Red Nacional de Enseñanza e Investigación

http://www.rnp.br

marcio@rnp.br

+55-21-2102-9660