Conference: e-AGE ConferenceDate: December 12, 2011Place: Amman, Jordan

Florencio I. UtrerasExecutive Director of CLARA

Florencio.Utreras@redclara.net

RedCLARA2: An Advanced

Collaboration Tool for Latin America

RedCLARA• Created by ALICE Projects

– ALICE• € 10 Million from EuropeAid• € 2.5 Million from LA NRENs

– ALICE2• € 12 Million from EuropeAid• € 6 Million from LA NRENs

• Not for Profit International Organization based in Uruguay• 15 Partners, 13 connected, 2 in stand by• 6 Existing NRENs at the beginning of the ALICE Project

– Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela• 8 created during the ALICE Project

– Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Uruguay • 3 more during the ALICE2 Project

– Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay

Building the Infrastructure

• ALICE Tenders:– Open Tenders + Negotiated Procedures– From 2004 the total lease cost for the backbone

decreased by a factor of 10 and its speed increased 34 times

• Sinergy with other projects: Astronomers, Cosmic Ray Observatories.

• Cooperation with local or regional initiatives: MERCOSUR

Sinergies with Internal Networks

• Strategy of building Terrestrial networks with ability to carry internal traffic– Terrestrial Networks linking countries often go

through main cities in countries• Dark Fibre wherever that is possible– Low cost to upgrade– Flexibility to use the adequate technology at any

time– Flexibilty to create different physically separated

networks for special purposes

Key Factors

• Strategic– Continent wide network is best suited to work with other

continental networks: GEANT, APAN, Internet2+CANet, etc.

• Short/Medium term– Construction of internal networks– Technical support– Economies of Scale for bandwidth purchases

• Long term– Added value of collaboration to tackle regional issues– Federated services– Negotiation power for services: clouds, content, etc.

LA Before ALICE2

45 Mbps

RedCLARA2 at the end of ALICE2

155 Mbps

622 Mbps

2488 Mbps

10096 Mbps

User Communities and Research Projects

• Building regional user communities is key to underline the importance of horizontal collaboration and hence regional connectivity

Services for Communities

http://www.redclara.nethttp://alice2.redclara.net