Transcript APAN Keynote

APAN’05
Keynote Address
Next Generation Internet
and
Asia-Pacific
H.E.Dr. Surapong Suebwonglee
Minister
Ministry of ICT, Thailand
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Digital Divide
• Universal access
• Research, Education and Development
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Research, Education and
Development Networks
• Next generation Internet testbed
• Experimental and development labs
• Human resource development
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Thailand
• TCSnet (1988-1991)
• ThaiSarn 1992• UNINET 1996• Thailand Research and Education Network
(ThaiREN) 20044
ThaiSarn
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Thai Social/Scientific Academic and Research Network (ThaiSarn) establised in 1992 in order
to promote the use of the Internet in Thailand. ThaiSarn is currently in its third generation,
denoted as ThaiSarn3
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UniNET
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Thai Inter-University Network
linked to Internet*2
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Currently 133 members
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Upgrade Backbone to 2.5 Gbps
in the next 3 months
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ThaiREN
Thailand Research and Education Network
Internet2
TEIN2
APAN
ThaiREN
OXC
DWDM
DWDM
RENX
OADM
GIGAPOP
UniNet
ThaiSarn
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R&D Network Related Projects
• Wireless Campuses
– Expand Hotspots in 12 State Universities under budget around 72
million Baht
– Expected more than 250 Wireless Access Points expansion per
university
• Grid Computing
– Setup national-wide Grid facilities and infrastructures (budget 211
million Baht)
– Expected 1 Teraflops machine
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Major Regional Initiative from
Thailand
• Thai-Laos Internet Project
– 30 Dec 03: MICT to connect all provinces in LAO PDR.
• The provision included: a one-year free 512 Kbps Internet Bandwidth
and dispatching technical staffs to conduct training and installation the
Internet System in Vientiane, Luang Prabang and Champasak
provinces as well as computers and accessories
– In addition, MICT provided computers to Supanuwong University,
Luang Prabang, LAO PDR
– Acceded to extend a sponsorship of the free bandwidth for another
year according to Laos’ request
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Major Regional Initiative from
Thailand (2)
• ICT Corridor Project (Thai-Laos-Vietnam)
– 20-22 Feb 04: Thai-Vietnam Joint cabinet meeting- both countries agreed to
develop cooperation on ICT related fields such as Open Source Software,
Intellectual Properties, Human Resources, e-Government and so on. Apart
from these, Thailand also proposed the ICT Corridor Project which was
adopted by Vietnam
– 20-22 Mar 04: Thai-Laos Joint cabinet meeting- Thailand proposed the ICT
Corridor Project and Laos accepted the proposal. Both countries agreed to
extend the cooperation of the Thai-Laos Internet Connectivity Project into
the ICT Corridor Project.
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Major Regional Initiative from
Thailand (3)
• Information Superhighway in GMS
• During a visit to Thailand for a Ministerial Conference on Broadband and ICT
Development organized by the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT), Mr. Xi
Guohua, Vice Minister of Information Industry of China PRC make a
courtesy call to Minister of MICT on June 30, 2004 when he expressed a
great interest in the ICT Corridor Project and its collaboration framework.
• As a consequence of Mr. Xi Guohua’s visit, Mr. Wang Xudong, Minister of
Information Industry of China, arranged a discussion among the GMS
Ministers during the 4th TELMIN on 5 August 2004 at the Shangri La Hotel,
Thailand. The discussion focused on China’s proposal on Jointly Pushing
Forward the Construction of the Information Superhighway in the Greater
Mekong Subregion. The Ministers expressed their support to the proposal
and agreed to hold a Telecommunications Senior Officials Meeting in China
to further discuss a Memorandum of Understanding on the Joint
Cooperation in Pushing Forward the Construction of the Information
Superhighway in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
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Sustainable development in the 21st
Century
Globalization
• E-education
• E-business
• E-society
•.
•.
•.
•We NEED Capable
Human Resources
Research & Development
Education
Community
Industry
ICT
infrastructure
Ultra/high-speed internet
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Urgent Needs from Asia-Pacific
Needs:
• Human Resource Development
Technological requirements:
• Multimedia Networks: VDO, HDTV, Voice over IP
• Ultra high speed Internet
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Digital Gap: R&E networks
• Asia-Pacific
– Lambda Networks
• North Asia and Australia
– ATM (155 Mbps) or lower
– Commodity networks
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Global Lambda Integrated Facility
World Map – December 2004
Predicted international Research & Education Network bandwidth, to be made available for
scheduled application and middleware research experiments by December 2004.
www.glif.is
Visualization courtesy of
Bob Patterson, NCSA.
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Thailand Global Quilt Initiative Collaboration
WIDE and IEEAF 2005
To IEEAF
10Gbps Network
GigaPOP, Seatle, WA
Tokyo-Lambda Exchange
T-LEX
2005
To IEEAF
10Gbps Network
Future Plan
Bangkok
Lambda
Exchange
B-LEX
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Bangkok Lambda Exchange
(B-LEX)
• HRD for network engineers
• Extend the Lambda link further to ICT Corridor
• Our experiences can be shared to other South East
Asian countries
• Hub of intra-ASEAN R&E network
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Target: Lambda ICT Corridor
• Creating ultra broadband network in
GMS area
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Cambodia
China
Laos
Myanmar
Vietnam
Thailand
• Enhancing GMS’s activity
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Next Generation Internet
for
Asia-Pacific Centers of
Excellence
Thank You!
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