Appendix 30. ICFA-SCIC Update for Russia
Submitted by Slava Ilyin (SINP MSU, ilyin@theory.sinp.msu.ru)
Alexei Soldatov (RRC "Kurchatov Institute", saa@ru.net)
Last updated January 2007
The basic international connectivity for the Russian R&E community is presently provided by
three independent links within the following development of networking infrastructure for
Reseach &Education in Russia:
1.
Installation of the GLORIAD link Amsterdam-Moscow STM-64 (initial capacity is 2.5
Gbps, upgrade up to 10 Gbps is available according to requirements of the users), started
from MoscowLight center (two PoPs in Moscow: M9 telephone station and RRC KI)
ended at the RIPN/Gloriad PoP at NIKHEF and connected to NetherLight in Amsterdam.
The work has been done by RIPN (Russian Institute for Public Networks,
http://www.ripn.net). The further connection to Chicago as part of the GLORIAD ring is
operated at the 2.5 Gbps. For needs of LCG to serve Russian Tier2 centers by CERN T1s
for CMS and LHCb experiments the circuit between RIPN/Gloriad PoP in Amsterdam
and CERN is planned at the 1 Gbps starting capacity for the beginning of 2007 with
possible further upgrade to 2.5 Gbps in 2008. Also the circuit 1 Gbps between
RIPN/Gloriad PoP in Amsterdam and SARA ATLAS T1 is planned to be established in
beginning of 2007 with possible upgrade to 2.5 Gbps in 2008.
2.
The GEANT2 Moscow PoP development has been carried out in December 2006 the
links to Frankfurt and Copenhagen have been upgraded to 2.5 Gbps with a plan ta further
improvements of services available out of Moscow, in particular to introduce circuit
switching capability in the PoP in Moscow. It is under discussion the dedicated circuits to
LHC T1 centers in Europe, first of all to FZK T1 for ALICE.
3.
The aggregated RBNet/RUNNet link to NORDUNet Moscow-St-Petersburg-Stokholm is
operating at 2.5 Gbps overall capacity with plans for 10 Gbps during 2007. This link is
planned for establishing circuits dedicated for LHC needs for institutes located in St-
Petersburg region as well for some hogh education centers in other regions.
Moscow Gigabit Network Access Point (G-NAP) for R&E networks has been put into operation
in the middle of 2005. The G-NAP access system is located on M9 telephone station in Moscow,
operation and monitoring center is organized by RIPN on the territory of RRC "Kurchatov
Institute". At the present moment major Russian R&E networks are connected - RBNet, RUNnet,
RASnet, FREEnet, RSSI, RRC KI, Radio MSU, MSUnet, JINR, CHGnet. With the installation of
Amsterdam-Moscow link, it is under conversion to MoscowLight system, which will provide
possibility for "lightpath" circuit switching.
For internal Russia networking the plans for 2007 are based on the project to provide 622 Mbps
(or 1-2.5 Gbprs) link over Russia - from Moscow to Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk and further to
Hong Kong with connection to GLORIAD Open Exchange in China.
The Moscow HEP institutions SINP MSU57, ITEP58, RRC59 KI and MEPhI60 have 1 Gbps links
(Gigabit Ethernet) to the Moscow Internet Exchange point (M9-IX) and started the upgrade to
2.5-10 Gbps. LPI RAS61 has a 100 Mbps link to M9-IX and has a plan for 1 Gbps during 2007.
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Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University (SINP MSU,
http://www.sinp.msu.ru/eng/sinp.php3)
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Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP, http://www.itep.ru)
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Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" (RRC KI, http://www.kiae.ru)
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Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI, http://intraserv.mephi.ru/eng/second.html
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