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Global Interoperability of Broadband Networks
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:29:51 -0800
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Seeking Research Projects that Require High-bandwidth Networking to Support International Collaborations
The U.S. government, as a participant in the G-7 Global Information Society Initiative (on the World Wide Web, see http://info.ic.gc.ca/G7 for additional information) seeks to identify U.S. projects that wish to participate in high performance computing and communications applications that would require high performance international communications links with North American neighbors and abroad. Such networks would be used to support collaborations between U.S. researchers and their colleagues in Canada, France, the U.K., Germany, Italy, and Japan (the other countries besides the U.S. in the so-called "G-7") Steve Goldstein at NSF is the U.S. coordinator for the "Global Interoperability of Broadband Networks" (GIBN) theme of the G-7 GIS initiative, assisted by Charlie Catlett, NCSA, and Tom DeFanti and Maxine Brown, Electronic Visualization Laboratory. A meeting will be held in Paris January 23-24, 1996 at which a preliminary list of such projects will be presented.
The Japanese have identified 23 projects, many of which have U.S. collaborations. But it is important for the U.S. and Canada to also be well represented. The projects should focus on HPCC applications with high-speed international collaboration components and will underscore the need for more international high-bandwidth networks. This initiative has the support of President Clinton who pledged to help achieve the Global Information Infrastructure during recent talks in Helsinki.
Therefore, we ask you to identify projects and international collaborators who would make use of these networks by e-mail NO LATER THAN JANUARY 10 to g7@ncsa.uiuc.edu. This is the information that is needed:
(Note: This format was originated by the Japanese who head the Applications Working Group of the GIBN project.)
1. Name and address of participant e.g., Communications Research Laboratory Koganei-City, Tokyo, Japan 2. Application experiment site e.g., Koganei-City, Tokyo, Japan 3. Name of foreign partner e.g., Communication Research Center, Canada 4. Main feature of application e.g., Video transmission 5. Brief description of application e.g., Experiment with various video-compression methods, including MPEG-2 through ATM. Video includes high-definition TV. 6-1. Domestic high-speed network to be connected to application sites e.g., Testbed for joint utilization tests of multimedia communications 6-2. Availability of access lines e.g., Established by the end of March 1996 7. Required network interface by experiment e.g., ATM (native ATM) 8. Required speed by experiment e.g., 45 Mbit/s 9. Expected duration of experiment e.g., April 1996 - December 1997 10. Contact point of each country for coordination of application experiments e.g., name, address, telephone, fax, e-mail
Those who have filled out the user-friendly NLANR/vBNS applications will already have developed most of this information, though for domestic collaborations. Please also include a SHORT paragraph introducing your application ("this is a simulation of galaxies colliding..."). If you do not have international collaborators identified, please include a phrase to the effect that "international collaborations will be sought."
NSF has no new program for this. Grant supplements up to 10% of the original amount of a grant can be requested, though these should be coordinated with the cognizant NSF program officer first.
The carriers have responded quite well. AT&T has donated 45 Mbps to Japan, with a promised upgrade to 155 Mbps after three months (total duration promised is nine months). Sprint, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and Teleglobe Canada have promised a Canada/U.S./France/Germany "rectangle" with at least one 155 Mbps cross-Atlantic link (the U.S.-France link will be 155 or 45 Mbps). The federal government still has to work out two aspects of the architecture in the U.S.: (1) how to continue the work of SC'95 and connect domestic nets and (2) how to make the international connections under the policy constraints placed on the use of the domestic U.S. nets. This appears to be a good opportunity to figure out how to internetwork existing "islands" of broadband connectivity in the U.S. The OC-3 bandwidth to Japan, Canada, and Europe will not do a lot of good unless some mechanism can be implemented to interconnect broadband networks across the nation.
For more information, please contact:
Charlie Catlett, NCSA catlett@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tom DeFanti, EVL tom@evl.eecs.uic.edu
Maxine Brown, EVL maxine@eecs.uic.edu
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