Development of NRENs in Latin America Florencio I. Utreras Executive Director of CLARA June 6, 2005 The RedCLARA Evolution and Present Status GEANT April 2005 RedCLARA: The LA Network Provided by ALICE RedCLARA is also connected to the US GEANT Internet 2 Advances in CLARA, the Organization The Clara Organization General Assembly Board of Directors Executive Director Accounting Public RelationsOperations (NOC) Engineering (NEG) CLARA Administration Principles Small highly professionalized management team (extremely small for the time being!) Subcontract specific functions as needed Accounting and Legal Assistance subcontracted in Uruguay Network Operation to CUDI (Mexican NREN) Network Engineering to RNP (Brazilian NREN) CLARA Members ArgentinaRETINAOperational BrazilRNPOperational BoliviaBOLNET (ADSIB)Operational ColombiaRAC In deployment Costa RicaCRNetOperational CubaRedUnivOperational ChileREUNAOperational EcuadorCEDIAOperational El SalvadorRAICESIn deployment GuatemalaRAGIEOperational HondurasRHUTAIn deployment MexicoCUDIOperational NicaraguaRENIEOperational PanamRedCytIn deployment ParaguayRedUNAOrganizing PerRAAPOperational UruguayRAUOperational VenezuelaREACCIUNOperational NRENs Created during Period Backbone Node International Network Aggregation Point Participant Institution 45 MBPS 11 MBPS 4 MBPS CEDIA: Ecuador Academic Network RAAP: Peruvian Network Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Per PUCP UNI UNMSM La Molina IPEN INICTEL ACADEMIC NAP 2 Mbps UPCH To RedCLARA POP 10 Mbps RED MPLS - VPN - RED MPLS - VPN - CISCO 3725 FE T3 CISCO 7204 FE LAN PUCP LAN PUCP Valores iniciales. Se incrementar RAC: Colombias Network Clear Channel RAGIE: Guatemalas Network Agronoma Ciencias Ingeniera Medicina Hospital de Clnicas Qumica INIA LATU Inst. Invest. Biolgicas Clemente Estable Polo Tecnolgico Pando CUTI Universidad ORT RedCLARA Red ATM 155 Mbps 100 Mbps 10 Mbps 34 Mbps Seciu ATMeth ATM RAU2: Uruguays Advanced Network REACCIUN2: Venezuelas Advanced Network ULA UCVIVICUC UCLA USBUDOUPEL 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 34Mbps 155Mbps 155Mbps CNTI GLOBAL CROSSING Sao Paulo REDCYT: Panamas Network RedCLARA Cisco Global Crossing Cisco 7513 Senacyt Domestic Carrier Switch Cisco 2950 REDCYT Node Panam Cisco 7513 SENACYT Building Firewall Domestic Carrier MINSA USMA UNIPAN ULAT UDELAS Univ. Interamericana UTP FSU Tech Monterrey RedUNIV: Cubas Network RED 3 RED 1 RED 2 RED 24 Central Node INFOMED Node CUBARTE Node MINED Node REDUNIV All Frame Relay Links RENIE: Nicaraguas Network RedCLARA RHUTA: Honduras New NREN Domestic Fiber Network UNITEC UNAH UNICAH COHCIT UPN Others Initially Ethernet Final Remarks NRENs are being created and deployed all over Latin America Domestic Operators are highly involved Huge differences between countries, both in technical and funding resources But all are getting organized, connected inside their countries and connected to RedCLARA The ALICE dream is creating a future in LA Free version of Victor Hugos words