Activities with Kazakhstan Peter T Kirstein Department of

Activities with Kazakhstan Peter T. Kirstein Department of Computer Science UCL Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 1

The Silk Project • Under NATO Science for Peace Programme • I chaired Network Panel 2001 – Started Silk Project in 2000 – Went live Oct 2002 • Provides Internet connectivity to whole region • Supplemented by Network Infrastructure grants • Main Kazakh colleague Prof Boris Japarov, General Director of Kaz. RENA Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 2

Location of Remote Silk Nodes X X X X X Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 3

Configuration of Silk until 2008 Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 4

Silk Parameters • Political Decision of initially same bandwidth for all, one node per country • Technical need to go by satellite at the time • Connects NRENs internationally • NATO helped fund national connectivity via Network Infrastructure Grants • Initially supposed to be 6/24 Mbps for region • Silk-2 supposed to be 30/120 Mbps – Failure of satellite reduced this to about 20/80 Mbps Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 5

Development of Silk • Initially connectivity from NATO, management from EC, Equipment partially Cisco • In 2008 moved all Caucasus to fibre – March 2009 new EC BSI will take all their traffic • Moved KG to fibre end 2009 (6/6 Mbps), and will move KZ 1/3/09 (15/15 Mbps) • Intend to keep operational to 6/10 help transition to EC-funced CAREN, which will start in early 2010 – hopefully with 155 Mbps for KZ Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 6

National Connectivity • NATO provided NIGs to help national build of NRENs • Boris wanted this by satellite – Fibre was prohibitively expensive • Provided funds for 7 -9 sites, but satellite solution turned out to be difficult • Boris persuaded Kazakh. Telecom to give more reasonable tariffs, and uses fibre Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 7

KAZRENA INTERNET TRAFFIC DEMAND # SOURCE FEBRUARY 2009, Mbps DECEMBER 2009, Mbps JUNE 2010, Mbps JUNE 2011, Mbps 1 “SILK” PROJECT 20 20 0 0 2 JSC “TRANSTELECOM” 10 45 0 0 3 JSC “KAZAKTELECOM” 10 15 15 30 4 LLC “INTELSOFT” 3 3 0 0 5 “CAREN” PROJECT 0 0 155 310 43 83 170 340 TOTAL Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 8

Tools for Collaboration • To manage Silk, set up Exco and Silk Board – SB physical meeting in silk countries 2 -3 per year – Exco has weekly TC (Boris represents CA) – Have monthly VCs • To help this have set up Vo. IP and videoconferencing facilities in each country Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 9

CERT, Vo. IP and Conferencing • Under NIG, set up Computer Emergency Response Team in each Silk site (CERT) • Initial pure managerial use of Vo. IP was extended under EC OCCASION plus NATO NIG, RUG donation, Cisco discount to provide ~150 terminals – 50 have been provided to KZ for mainly use domestically amongst administrators • Have provided switches in DESY and UCL that can be used; KZ uses own also • Coul extend this area if of interest • UCL could provide technical assistance Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 10

MAIN KZ GROWTH INDICATORS SEPTEMBER 2003 OCTOBER 2005 FEBRUARY 2009 1 1 9 ORGANIZATIONS 1 38 72 USERS (PEOPLE) 5000 76000 170000 1, 256 Mbps 2, 5 Mbps 43 Mbps NUMBER OF CITIES NUMBER OF USERS: TRAFFIC Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 11

Conclusions • In the network field UCL already has been running a programme which involves KZ • It has included Internet connectivity, training and collaboration tools – Though most UCL activity has been managerial, with funding and manpower from others • The KZ needs are growing rapidly • UCL could assist technically In managing this growth Feb 26, 2009 Presentation on KZ collaboration 12