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?