ORIENTplus: The super highway for R&E collaboration between Europe and China

Jennifer An(CERNET) Jiangning Chen(CSTNET)

Contents

History

ORIENTplus Project

Updated status

Use case examples

Future plans

ORIENTplus, start

ORIENTplus started as a continuation from the ORIENT project

History

ORIENT: 2007 – 2010

IP routed link between Copenhagen and Beijing

Speed: 2.5 Gbit/s

ORIENTplus, an Introduction

Time period: 2011 – 2014Partners:

– China: CERNET and CSTNET– Europe: European NRENs and DANTE (coord)

Budget: 4 million euroSponsored by the European Commission, Chinese

Government and the partner in Chinese and European NRENs

Aims:– To continue a direct link between China and Europe for

R&E, and increase its speed– To stimulate further development of services– To promote the use of the services

Partner list of ORIENTplus

ORIENT ORIENTplus

CERNET, CN CERNET, CN

CSTNET, CN

DANTE (coordinator) DANTE (coordinator)

CESNET, CZECH Repbulic CESNET

DFN VEREIN, GERMANY DFN

GARR, ITALY GARR

GRNET, GREECE GRNET

JANET, UK Janet

RENATER, FRANCE RENATER

NORDUnet

PIONIER/PSNC

E-ARENA

UIIP NASB

ORIENTplus Link Planning

Timeline for the Link:

– 2011: Copenhagen-Beijing at 2.5G (CERNET, supplied by TeliaSonera)

– 2012: London-Beijing at 2.5G (CSTNET, supplied by China Unicom as result of tender)

– 2013&2014: London-Beijing at 10G (EU partners, supplied by China Unicom as result of tender)

ORIENTplus, the move to 10G

10 Gbit/s milestone reached on January 2nd, 2013A 10G lambda between London and Beijing

CERNET: biggest NREN in China

• Fibre network backbone 100G(40λ) DWDM

• Core IP network backbone 100G

• 31 provinces and over 200 cities

• 38 PoPs• Over 2000

universities and institutes

• 30M users

CSTNET: S&T Network in China

• Backbone 10G• 12 sub centers• Over 20 provinces• Over 100 research

institutes • Over 1M end users

ORIENTplus, a more technical view

Schematic of the 10 Gbit/s link engineering

London OLE, part of GÉANT Open

London OLE schematic in London, UKPart of GEANT Open

CNGI-6IX schematic in Beijing, China

CNGI-6IX in Beijing

Back-up for ORIENTplus

Distance London – Beijing: 8250 km (ATCF)

IP backup for ORIENTplus link through:– 10G Internet2/NSF link Beijing – Los Angeles– Internet2's routed IP network– ACE Project's multi-10G North Atlantic lambdas

ORIENTplus is also backup for Beijing-Los Angeles, as a mutual backup

Thus, creating a multi-G IP routed infrastructure for R&E across the Northern Hemishpere

Link Usage (1)

Over 25 substantial scientific and educational collaborative projects and programmes are using the ORIENT/ORIENTplus route: CERN Collaboration: LHC project (IHEP-IN2P3),

South East University with CERN Shanghai Astronomical Observatory – JIVE INFN-ARGO YBJ EMBnet EUChinaGrid GEONETCast- EUMETSAT 1000 Genomes Project

INWA-GRID CEOP-AEGIS and DRAGON2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University – University of

Essex Bridge-Grid ITER - the global fusion energy programme Global atmospheric research, remote robotic

experiments, etc.

Link Usage (2)

Future Plans

Further develop shared operations of the link between CNGI-6IX NOC and GEANT NOC

Deployment of tools and services for R&E such as:– PerfSONAR– eduroam– Dynamic point to point links, using the Open

Grid Forum's NSI Architecture

Stimulating the use of the link

Thank you! Questions?