Development of R&E Networks in Egypt

1. Development of R&E Networks in Egypt Mostafa Abdel Wahed Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Egypt

2. Road Map .. • Egyptian R&E Community • National Network for Universities and Research Centers • ENERGI Initiative • Highlights on R&E Activities in Egypt • Collaborative Research Work

3. Egyptian R&E Community • 124 Research Centers and Institutes covering 32 Ministries • 16 Governmental Universities • Private Universities and Research Centers • Bibliotheca Alexandrina

4. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research The National Network for Universities & Research Centers Partnership between The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology • Interconnect 16 universities and 9 research centers with Giga Ethernet via an MPLS backbone • Establish two centers for Scientific and Research Content • Connect to International Networks

5. The National Network for Universities & Research Centers Network Highlights • Fiber Optic Infrastructure providing high reliability and full redundancy via 2 NOCs at EUN and ENSTINET • High network security measures • Advanced network management systems • 24/7 Technical support

6. EUN NOC ENSTINET NOC Core Router Core Router Single Fiber Cable Connection (24 Core) Single Fiber Cable Connection (24 Core) Operating Bandwidth nSTM1 Operating Bandwidth nSTM1 Backup Link (Giga Bit) Data Carrier Network (MPLS-based Network) Provider Edge Router Provider Edge Router Provider Edge Router POP1 POP3 POP2 Operating Bandwidth E3/T3/STM1 Single Fiber Cable Connection (12 Core) Access Router Access Router Access Router R.C. A Univ. X R.C. B The National Network for Universities & Research Centers

7. ENERGIEgyptNetworkforEducationandResearchonNextGenerationInternetENERGIEgyptNetworkforEducationandResearchonNextGenerationInternet

8. About ENERGI .. Vision To serve as … A catalyst in the development of the Egyptian information economy and a partner in the emerging information society.

9. About ENERGI .. Mission To provide access to specialized and state of the art resources specific to the needs of the Egyptian R&E community through effective management of resources.

10. About ENERGI .. Scope & Objectives • Supporting advanced networking and next generation Internet technologies in Egyptian R&E networks • Interconnecting Egyptian R&E networks with Internet2 and other international peers to facilitate research activities • Providing the R&E community in Egypt with high speed access to global information resource

11. ENERGI Partnership Agreement Partners: • Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MCIT) • Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network (ENSTINET) • Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) Agreement effective as of February 1st 2005

12. ENERGI Highlights • International partner of Internet2 as of April 2005 • STM1 international connection to MAN/LAN exchange • National distribution facility providing connectivity to: • Partners (MCIT – EUN – ENSTINET) • Bibliotheca Alexandrina • Egyptian R&E entities (academic – governmental – non-governmental – private sector) • Operational starting May 2005 • Mirror 34 Mbps link to GÉANT at EUN via EUMEDCONNECT project

13. Highlights onR&E Activities in Egypt

14. IPv6 Task Force Test Bed

15. IPv6 Task Force Test Bed Test Bed Architecture

16. Telemedicine • Connecting National Cancer Institute in Cairo with similar institutes in rural areas such as Tanta, Damietta, Luxor, Assiut • Connecting National Cancer Institute in Cairo with the Cancer Institute in Paris • Establishing a Telemedicine project between The Ahmed Maher Burn Institute in Cairo and at John Hopkins School of Medicine in US

17. GOTHI e-Connect Project • General Organization for Teaching Hospitals and Institutes (GOTHI) • 17 teaching hospitals and institutes • Video Conferencing • Medical Health Record via Smart Cards

18. Copper Wire (nxE1) Copper Wire (E1) Ahmed Maher Hospital (NOC) GOTHI HQ Roda Exch Talaat Harb Exch ENSTINET MPLS Data Network Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange Hospital Hospital Hospital Hospital Hospital GOTHI e-Connect Project GOTHI Telemedicine Network

19. Video Conferencing • National Cancer Institute • Egyptian Society for Surgeons • Mostafa Kamel Military Hospital • GOHTI Hospitals and Institutes • Azhar University, Faculty of Medicine

20. Tele-immersion • Establishment of a solid video-conferencing infrastructure • Next step will be to establish Tele-immersion system would allow individuals at different locations to share a single virtual environment, jointly participating in simulations and models of molecular, physical or economic constructs

21. Virtual Laboratories • Proposed project to establish a virtual laboratory, heterogeneous distributed problem solving environment, enabling researchers located around the world to work together on a common set of projects and sharing the basic infrastructure requirements across disciplines

22. Virtual Laboratories • The following applications will work best via Internet2: • Applications used by a relatively small number of technically competent trusted users working with large datasets • Applications which open many parallel network streams to diverse locations • Applications where there is a large discrepancy between bandwidth available via commodity network connectivity and bandwidth available via high performance networks (e.g., overseas sites in many regions, provided that the overseas site has access to high-performance network connectivity)

23. Digital Library • Commitment to developing digital libraries in Egypt • Internet2 will significantly enhance development of digital libraries • New services and capabilities envisioned for Internet2 offer important opportunities to move the Digital Libraries program into new areas • Very high bandwidth and bandwidth reservation will allow currently exotic materials such as continuous digital video and audio to move from research use to much broader use

24. Digital Library • Images, audio and video can, at least from a delivery point of view, move into the mainstream currently occupied almost exclusively by textual materials. • This also facilitates more extensive research in the difficult problems of organizing, indexing, and providing intellectual access to these classes of materials.

25. Medical Data Analysis • The National Research Center in Cairo is developing a Medical Data Analysis, a non-intrusive method for capturing the electrical activity in the brain • This project will help the practitioner to diagnose certain brain illness • Data transfer, analysis and diagnosis are applied in the computing grid

26. Protein Alignment • The National Research Center in Egypt is trying to establish a project of Protein Alignment • In this project discovered new protein sequence will be analyzed by comparison with genetic sequence databases, which are growing exponentially • To speedup the analysis, a sequence database will be portioned and the tasks of sequence alignment will be distributed over a computational grid

27. P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Hierarchal Performance Model 1.Application parameters 1. Grid parameters e1 e2 ) lass 1 11 P11 F P11 P12 3. Scheduling P1m 22 P21 J e3 P22 1+2++n int inc P2m e4 ts1 tsn ts2 Pn1 Cin nn Pn1 1 Application Model Grid Model Pnm M 2 M M M B B B n * High Speed Computing Grids/clusters are geographically distributed (one exists between university of Connecticut (US) and Electronics Research Institute (Egypt))

28. Other Activities Other activities that would benefit from connecting to Internet2 include: • Remote Sensing & Space Science • Capacity Building

29. Collaborative Research Work

30. Collaborative Research Work Future Cooperationwith Internet2 Community • Content Delivery • Egyptian R&E Repository • Medical Applications • Telemedicine (Tele-surgery, Tele-radiology, Tele-pathology ..etc) • High Speed Computing • Grid Computing • Applied Sciences • Genetics Engineering • Biotechnology Applications • Nanotechnology Applications

31. Collaborative Research Work Future Cooperationwith Internet2 Community • Renewable & Sustainable Energy • Remote Sensing & Space Sciences • Astronomy & Geophysics • Solar Research, • Seismology, • Geomagnetism, • GeoElectricity, • Geothermal, • Gravimetry,   • Geodesy, and Geodynamics

32. Collaborative Research Work Future Cooperation with Internet2 Community • Digital Library & Interlibrary Loan • Virtual Reality Applications • Virtual R&E Community • Virtual Universities • Virtual Labs • E-Learning

33. Thank You …