Carlos Casasús Board CLARA CEO CUDI Developments in Research and Education Networks in Mexico and Latin America 1

Global economic environment has slowed us down, but Major developments are continuing 2 In summary…

CLARA Started in June 2003 Non profit corporation based in Uruguay 16 countries are members 3

The scenario during 2008 RedCLARA Network currently connects 12 countries All links at least 34 Mbps, New funding, ALICE2, has been contracted. 4 year poject. – 12 million euros provided by EC – 6 million euros provided by LA NREN´s CLARA has taken over from Dante the management of contracts for the regional network The link to Europe is co-funded by GEANT and CLARA 4

The WHREN/LILA Project WHREN: Western Hemisphere Research and Education Network LILA Links Interconnecting Latin America IRNC Project funded by NSF and leaded by FIU and CENIC in the US. CLARA, CUDI, RNP, ANSP from Latin America Acquired IRU of Dark fiber Tijuana-San Diego. Running GbE on top of it. (to Pacific Wave) 2.4 Gbps Sao Paulo-Miami shared with CHEPREO & ANSP (to Atlantic Wave) 5

Red CLARA Marzo 2010 Porto Alegre ALICE2 CLARA RNP LILA

RedCLARA 2011 Link to Europe should increase to 2.5 Gbps (Sao Paolo prefered) Will be in the market for IRU’s: – Panama-Miami, – Panama- Santiago (west coast) and – Panama- Mexico (Central America) 7

Red CLARA 2011 Porto Alegre Tapachula

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High capacity link between Argentina and Chile Agreement between CLARA-InnovaRed-RNP, AugerAccess and Silica Networks has allowed the first 10 Gbps “lambda” between Buenos Aires and Santiago 10

Proyecto Argentina-Chile Santiago Córdova Rosario Buenos Aires Mendoza Malargüe 11

50 km The Auger Observatory Malargüe ~ 3000 Km 2 covered 160 cosmic ray detectors 24 telescopes in 4 buildings 12

6 Telescopes (30°x30°) 13

Mercosur Proyect Brasil will contribute US$ 10,000,000 over 3 years to finance conections in the Mercosur region, in addition to ALICE 2 funding 14

Buenos Aires- Porto Alegre is now funded Brazil’s contribution has allowed a deal for a fiber link between Asunción and Sao Paolo Working on the Uruguay link (Montevideo- Rivera- Porto Alegre) Mercosur links Buenos Aires Porto Alegre Montevideo Asunción

EVALSO project (Enabling Virtual Access to Latin American Southern Observatories) Install FO from Antofagasta to Cerro Paranal Sinergy with REUNA. Will share capacity Possibility of reaching Peru. Capacity sharing agreements to reach Arica. IRU´s are available to reach Peru, Ecuador and Colombia 16

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 17

333Kms 474Kms 566Kms Larga Distancia : 1373Kms Tramo Local : 115Kms Fibre from Antofagasta to Santiago 18

Developments in Mexico The Mexican government has announced its intention to undertake a major connectivity project – Increase the capacity of the Mexican NREN – Provide connectivity to a majority of public school buildings (≈ 200,000) and health centers (≈20,000) 19

Major policies Develop the backbone Build a Wimax distribution network 20

Develop the backbone 21 Points of presence of the CFE fiber network  The Mexican government owns and operates the electric grid.  The Comisión Federal de Electricidad has 22,000 kilometers of OPGW fiber throughout Mexico  The ministry of Communications and Transport has announced that it will contract capacity with CFE to create a National Network for Broad Band promotion

10 Gbps1.0 Gbps No.OrigenDestinoNo.OrigenDestino 1HermosilloTijuana1 La Paz 2CuliacánHermosillo2TijuanaEnsenada 3GuadalajaraCuliacán3TijuanaMexicali 4México, D.F.Guadalajara4 Tepic 5GuadalajaraMonterrey5GuadalajaraPto. Vallarta 6MonterreyMéxico, D.F.6GuadalajaraColima 7MonterreyCd. Juárez7GuadalajaraMorelia 8GuadalajaraGuanajuato 9GuadalajaraAguascalientes 2.5 Gbps 10MonterreySaltillo No.OrigenDestino 11MonterreyDurango 1México, D.F.Puebla12MonterreyZacatecas 2PueblaTuxtla Gutiérrez13MonterreySan Luis Potosí 3Tuxtla GutiérrezTapachula14Ciudad JuárezChihuahua 4MonterreyMatamoros15MatamorosCd. Victoria 16México D.F.Toluca 17México D.F.Cuernavaca 18México D.F.Chilpancingo 19México D.F.Veracruz 20México D.F.Xalapa 21México D.F.Tlaxcala 22México D.F.Pachuca 23México D.F.Querétaro 24Tuxtla GutiérrezOaxaca 25Tuxtla GutiérrezChetumal 26Tuxtla GutiérrezMérida 27Tuxtla GutiérrezCampeche 28Tuxtla GutiérrezVillahermosa 40 links to major cities of at least 1 Gbps are planned for Gbps. links from Mexico, Guadalajara, Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez already in place

The backbone will serve multiple stakeholders National Backbone 10 Gbps MPLS DWDM STATE NETWORKS CUDI (200 Universidades) EDUCATION (150,000 Escuelas) Voz Datos Video HEALTH ( 30,000 Centros de Salud ) LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Servicios Can impact connectivity of 30 million citizens 23

The Wimax distribution network 24

Backbone CUDI (Internet 2) 27 km 10 Enlaces locales en Villahermosa. Velocidades típicas de 45 Mbits/seg 280 km total 45 Mbits/seg 25 km 45 Mbits/seg 27 km 90 Mbits/seg 20 kms Use existing infrastructure. Tabasco University 25

 Cobertura Total (30 radio-bases)  Los círculos de cobertura son ilustrativos y están sujetos a las condiciones de la línea de vista entre el sitio remoto y la radio- base así como a la condición del espectro radio eléctrico.  La ubicación de las radio-bases de la UJAT es con base en aproximaciones, por lo que debe ser confirmada dicha ubicación por parte de la Universidad. In a typical state you can connect most of the schools and health centers using existing radio infrastructure 26

Costs 27 Less than 2,000 US dollars per connected site

Frequency assignment The Mexican government has assigned the 3.3 Ghz band for the deployment of state run health and education networks 18 states will start deploying state and education networks during

Additional CUDI infrastructure initiatives Dark fiber is beign acquired to establish a 10 Gbps link between Ensenada and California A 1 Gbps link from Mexico City to Chicago connecting the HEP community to CERN is in the planning process for 29

Central America Plan Puebla Panamá( building an electrical network with 36 fiber OPGW) has been interrupted by political and economic events in the region. However comercial providers are now in a position to quote IRU´s. CLARA currently negotiating quotes CUDI is soliciting a border crossing permit in Guatemala to connect Central American links into Mexico INFORMACION CONFIDENCIAL

The Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) ( 31 The GISELA (Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America) has been presented to the FP7. Very high evalution

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