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APAN ’ 05 APAN ’ 05 Keynote Address Keynote Address Next Generation Internet Next Generation Internet and and Asia- -Pacific Pacific Asia H.E.Dr. Surapong Suebwonglee Minister Ministry of ICT, Thailand 1

Digital Divide Digital Divide • Universal access • Research, Education and Development 2

Research, Education and Research, Education and Development Networks Development Networks • Next generation Internet testbed • Experimental and development labs • Human resource development 3

Thailand Thailand • TCSnet (1988-1991) • ThaiSarn 1992- • UNINET 1996- • Thailand Research and Education Network (ThaiREN) 2004- 4

ThaiSarn ThaiSarn 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 5

UniNET UniNET Thai Inter-University Network • linked to Internet*2 Currently 133 members • • Upgrade Backbone to 2.5 Gbps in the next 3 months 6

7 Thailand Research and Education Network DWDM OXC OADM DWDM ThaiSarn ThaiREN ThaiREN APAN ThaiREN Internet2 GIGAPOP RENX TEIN2 UniNet

R&D Network Related Projects 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 8

Major Regional Initiative from Major Regional Initiative from Thailand 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 9

Major Regional Initiative from Major Regional Initiative from Thailand (2) 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. 10

Major Regional Initiative from Major Regional Initiative from Thailand (3) 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 . 11

Sustainable development in the 21st Sustainable development in the 21st Century Century Globalization • E-education • E-business • E-society • . • . • . •We NEED Capable Human Resources Research & Development h Engineering Biotech c e t - o n a N Community Educati on Industry ICT infrastructure Ultra/high-speed internet 12

Urgent Needs from Asia- - Urgent Needs from Asia Pacific Pacific Needs: Human Resource Development • Technological requirements: Multimedia Networks: VDO, HDTV, Voice over IP • Ultra high speed Internet • 13

Digital Gap: R&E networks Digital Gap: R&E networks • Asia-Pacific – Lambda Networks • North Asia and Australia – ATM (155 Mbps) or lower – Commodity networks 14

Global Lambda Integrated Facility Global Lambda Integrated Facility World Map – – December 2004 December 2004 World Map Predicted international Research & Education Network bandwidth, to be made available for scheduled application and middleware research experiments by December 2004. 15 Visualization courtesy of www.glif.is Bob Patterson, NCSA.

Thailand Global Quilt Initiative Collaboration Thailand Global Quilt Initiative Collaboration WIDE and IEEAF 2005 WIDE and IEEAF 2005 To IEEAF 10Gbps Network GigaPOP, Seatle, WA Tokyo- -Lambda Exchange Lambda Exchange Tokyo T- -LEX LEX T 2005 2005 Bangkok Bangkok Lambda Lambda To IEEAF Exchange Exchange 10Gbps Network Future Plan B- -LEX LEX B 16

Bangkok Lambda Exchange Bangkok Lambda Exchange (B- -LEX) LEX) (B • 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 17

Target: Lambda ICT Corridor Target: Lambda ICT Corridor Creating ultra broadband network in • GMS area – Cambodia – China – Laos – Myanmar – Vietnam – Thailand Enhancing GMS ’ s activity • 18

Next Generation Internet Next Generation Internet for for Asia- -Pacific Centers of Pacific Centers of Asia Excellence Excellence Thank You! 19