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G) for the T0/CERN-T1/Lyon, but also for the T1/Lyon-T1/Karlsruhe connectivity, while being

also available as secondary for other T1-T1 through Karlsruhe and Lyon.

At the same time, two 1G lightpaths were established between IN2P3/Lyon and FNAL/Chicago

for an specific Grid middleware interoperability testbed project, whil discussion are currently

going on with CSTNET for the establishment of a 1G circuit between HIHEP/Beijing and

IN2P3/Lyon for a T2-T1 service, through the EU-cofunded ORIENT infrastructure.

A specific fibre has being installed between Marseille and Cadarache to support the installation of

ITER site in Europe. This allows interconnecting all project partners with an optical private

network spanning worldwide when needed, especially to provide broadband access to HPC

resources to the fusion community.

The backbone extends also, at lower speeds, to several overseas places (so-called DOM-TOM,

overseas Departments and Territories) like Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Reunion,

Mayotte, New Caledonia and Tahiti.

International connectivity

RENATER has several different links for international connectivity. The primary one is GEANT,

for which the access capacity has been upgraded to n*10 Gb/s in March 2006. Through GEANT,

we can access North America (Abilene, ESNET, Canarie, NASA-REN etc...). There is a 2.5 Gb/s

connection (being upgraded into a 10 Gbps circuit) in place in New York (on the GEANT PoP)

for connectivity with SINET (JP) ­ www.geant.net . Similarly, GEANT is also bringing us

connectivity to Russia (2*622 Mb/s) with a newly created GEANT PoP in Moscow.

RENATER is also partner of DANTE for EUMEDCONNECT (www.geant.net/eumedconnect)

and ALICE (www.geant.net/ALICE). Therefore all connections with Mediterranean and Latin

America countries are also in the portfolio.

RENATER has also terminated the direct link with Korea (www.transeurasia.org), which is

replaced by the TEIN-2 infrastructure, interconnecting all AP partners altogether and to Europe

with 4*622 Mbps (www.tein2.net).

The commodity traffic provided by RENATER is coming from 2*2.5 Gb/s access to France

Telecom worldwide IP transit network and also 3 Gb/s from the SFINX for local Internet actors.

Network services:

The backbone is running IPv4 and IPv6 in dual stack mode, at line speed rates. Similarly,

multicast has been implemented for years and is even available through the peering points for

commercial peers.

For video conferencing, there is not yet a fully deployed service, besides a few long lasting

experiments. However, RENATER is hosting two reflector platforms in Paris and Lyon (within

IN2P3 premises) for the VRVS system. A full mesh of H323 gatekeepers, complemented by

several MCU platforms are in course of deployment with the leading universities and research

organizations.

Four distinct classes of services are available, or which three are extended from GEANT (LBE,

BE and Premium). VPN-type services based on MPLS are also available.

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