1. Current satus of the Central Asian
Research and Education Network (CAREN)
Prof. Askar Kutanov, Regional coordinator of EC CAREN Project
Academician, National Academy of Sciences, Kyrgyz Republic
Eastern Partnership Event
8 November 2011, Bucharest,
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2. What is CAREN?
! EC-funded project to establish high-capacity R&E network in Central Asia
! Beneficiary countries/NRENs:
– Kazakhstan – KazRENA
– Kyrgyzstan – KRENA
– Tajikistan – TARENA
– Turkmenistan – TURENA
– Uzbekistan -
! Aims terrestrial fibre connection (34 or 155 Mbps for each CA country)
! Will serve 1 million users at over 200 universities and research institutes in
the region
! With direct link to GÉANT, CAREN will provide Central Asia with a
gateway to global collaborations in R&E
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3. Virtual Silk Highway Project
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4. CAREN as part of global research and
education community
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5. CAREN Launch and Steering Group meeting
Bishkek, September 22-24, 2010
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6. Network Operation Center
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7. CAREN Network Diagram
GEANT / DWS TeliaSonera
Commodity Internet
AS1299
GEANT
EU(COP)
eBG
eBGP AS24489 P
TEIN3 HK
eBG
AS197118 P
CAREN FR CAREN HK
GRE Tunnel / iBGP
PoP PoP
eBGP eBGP eBGP
AS 197119 AS 43030 AS 41419 AS51327
KRENA TARENA KAZRENA TURENA
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8. IP diagram for CAREN Frankfurt PoP
GEANT / DWS
62.40.125.220/30
195.54.180.0/24 CAREN FR PoP
NOT YET CONNECTED
195.54.180.248/30 195.54.180.244/30
195.54.180.252/30
KRENA TARENA KAZRENA
178.217.168.0/21 77.95.0.0/21 89.250.80.0/20
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9. IP diagram for CAREN Hong-Kong PoP
TeliaSonera
Commodity TEIN3 HK
Internet
213.248.78.237/30 202.179.241.93/30
213.248.78.238/30 202.179.241.94/30
CAREN HK PoP
195.54.181.253/30
195.54.181.254/30
TURENA
195.191.230.0/23)
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10. Network
Opera,on
Center
/
FUNCTIONS
AND
SERVICES
CAREN
NOC
AVAILABILITY
NOC Web Server / Monthly Availability %
101.00%
100.00%
99.00%
May-11; 100.00%
Dec-10; 100.00%
Aug-11; 100.00%
Sep-11; 100.00%
Feb-11; 100.00%
Mar-11; 100.00%
Oct-10; 100.00%
Jan-11; 100.00%
Apr-11; 100.00%
Jul-11; 100.00%
Nov-10; 99.88%
Jun-11; 99.96%
Aug-10; 99.50%
Jul-10; 99.50%
98.00%
Sep-10; 95.96%
97.00%
96.00%
95.00%
94.00%
93.00%
Jul-10 Aug-10 Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10 Jan-11 Feb-11
Mar-11 Apr-11 May-11 Jun-11 Jul-11 Aug-11 Sep-11
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11. Network
Opera,on
Center
/
FUNCTIONS
AND
SERVICES
CANREN
NREN’s
NETWORK
TRAFFIC
! Consistent use
! Other charts show
the traffic growth too
! More details in
CAREN Network
Service monthly
reports
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12. Joint CAREN-APCICT workshop on Module 9 “ICT and Disaster
Risk Management” and Module 10 “ICT and Climate Change”
Yssyk-Kul, September 7-9, 2011, Kyrgyzstan
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13. Applications development
Areas for regional collaboration :
• Central Asia real-time monitoring of
natural processes and phenomena, disaster
prevention
• Distance learning
• Telemedicine
• Regional collaboration in sustainable
water resources management
• GRID computing
• IPv6 implementation
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16. Concept of the
Information - Communication System
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17. Geohazards: landslips - the prospective concept
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18. Central Asian Distributed Computing
Infrastructure proposal to EC
! The project will support the establishment of National Grid
Initiatives in the Central Asian region . This project will support
the creation of new Desktop Grids in Central Asian countries
and the connection of these Grids to European DCIs.
! Application areas primarily targeted by the project:
1. Seismology;
2. Weather research and forecast
3. Water risk mitigation
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19. Cooperation with University of Pittsburg
on Supercourse on Public Health
! Presidential Supercourse on Turkmenistan's Global/Public
Health in Millenium Development Goals
! "Let us act, looking at the decades ahead, and thinking over
what kind of world we want to leave future generations ...."
President of Turkmenistan
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
! Supercourse is a repository of lectures on global health and prevention
designed to improve the teaching of prevention. Supercourse has a
network of over 48000 scientists in 174 countries who are sharing for
free a library of more than 4800 lectures in 31 languages
! http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/national/PresidentialSupercourseE.htm
!
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20. Cooperation between CAREN and University of
Graz (Rule of Law Education)
ELEVATE – E-Learning Variations for Transition Economies. Its goal is
to use e-learning tools to assist in solving transitional justice issues in
Central Asia , by making the connections between the rule of law and
sustainable development.
CAREN management team and CA NRENs expressed interest to
implement “rule of Law education” as non-classical application for
CAREN at CAREN ExCo –meeting in Dushanbe, March 11-12,2011.
CAREN could provide network infrastructure with high-speed channels
and technical support for implementation of Programme Elevate.
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21. International conference RULE of LAW
EDUCATION FOR CENTRAL ASIA
University of Graz, May 6, 2011
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22. CAREN support high quality video
conferencing
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23. Conclusions
! CAREN network is established and operate
! The new POP at Frankfurt was established
! The new circuits to Dushanbe and Bishkek are operational
! The CAREN network service is up and running:
1. CAREN provides managed IP service for the participating NREN-s
2. NOC is continuously monitoring the network, external monitoring too
3. Available 7*24, attended 5+*24
4. Portal for general communication
5. Monthly Sevice reports
! Main open question is how to improve network resiliency
! CAREN network is IPv6 ready
! Further steps :
! Upgrading KRENA to 155Mbps from January 2012
! Connecting Kazrena at 155Mbps from January 2012
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24. Thank you
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