MARWANAfrican Research & Education Networking, September 25-27 2005 CERN - Geneva Redouane Merrouch Responsable du Réseau Marwan [email protected] Moroccan

MARWAN African Research & Education Networking, September 25-27 2005 CERN - Geneva

Redouane MerrouchResponsable du Réseau Marwan

[email protected]

Moroccan NREN

MARWAN


01/06/1997 - 31/12/2004

MARWAN 1


MARWAN 1 - Motivations

Infrastructure of Telecommunication dedicated to the Research and educational institutions.

Providing :

• Communication between institutions

• Access and deliver information in best conditions

• Access to the international Networks

• Access to the internet

• Reasonable costs

Rabat

Casa

Marrakech

Fes

Tanger

Agadir

Meknes

Mohammedia

Tetouan

El Jadida

Kenitra

Internet

Oujda

Settat

Layoune

Beni MellalEr Rachidia

Moroccan National Research and Education Network

2MbpsInternet Link - 4 Mbps

100 Km

400 Km


01/01/2005

MARWAN 2


Goals

• Provide to Moroccan Universities a high bandwidth Network

• Increase exchanges between Moroccan Universities by setting up common projects

• Develop the IT in Morocco by allowing the Universities to participate in International Networking projects


• Network dedicated to Education, Training and Research

• “High” bandwidth access : > 2 Mbps

• Connected to GEANT (European NREN)

• Low cost connections

• IPv4 & IPv6 (2006)

• Multicast service (2006)

Characteristics

MARWAN 2

University 1

PEMPLS

PE

Internet GEANT

University 2

ATM

Institution 1

University 3

University 4

2 Mbps34 Mbps

155 MbpsRabatCasa

Tanger

Fes Marrakech

Agadir

Marwan 2 Architecture

Current Topology


EumedConnect - Impact

• Establish an effective network infrastructure in the Mediterranean

Region

• Connect Med-NRENs to GEANT

• Improve the NRENs in the Mediterranean countries and encourage

the creation in the countries where that doesn’t exist

• Transfer of knowledge toward the south Med countries

(Management of NREN,…)

• Benefit from support actions (team of experts from GN2 – NA4

project)

• Makes possible the establishment of new regional project (Ex:

EumedGrid)


• 34 Mbps Links: 10 - 2 Mbps Links: 19

Connections

INSTITUTIONS Count Total %

Universities 13 14 92%

Institutions 74 80 92%

Institutions of Higher Education(Not belonging to universities) 5 60 8%

Institutes and Research Centres 2 - -

Ministries in charge of Education 2 3 67%

National Libraries 1 - -

Faculties and Researchers (universities) 8900 9740 91%

Students (universities) 275400 301500 91%


Capacity

Total Bandwidth Access of all Moroccan

Universities

Before MARWAN 2* 44 Mbps

After MARWAN 2** 378 Mbps

Increase % 859 %

(*) Marwan1 Bandwidth + Internet

(**) Marwan2 Bandwidth only


IP@

• MARWAN (AS30983) is LIR

• IPv4 Allocation

196.200.128/18

• IPv6 Allocation

2001:4310::/32


Evolution

January 2006 :

• Setting up a 34 Mbps Link for Backup and

traffic exchange with Maroc Telecom

• Increasing the bandwidth of the GEANT link

to 155 Mbps


Services

January 2006 :

• IPv6

• Multicast

• Setting up a Certification Authority


Applications

• Moroccan Institute of Scientific and Technical

Information (IMIST)

• Moroccan Virtual University

• Moroccan Grid Computing Initiative


Costs (Institutions)

2 Mbps 34 Mbps

Marwan 2 1 400 € / Month 4 000 € / Month

Internet 4 000 € / Month 24 500 € / Month


Global Cost

MARWAN Internet

External Links (paid by NREN)

200 000 €/YEAR 0 €/ YEAR

Institutions Links(paid by Institutions)

799 200 €/YEAR 3 852 000 €/ YEAR

Total 999 200 €/ YEAR 3 852 000 €/ YEAR

Savings made by the Academic Sector : 2,8 M€ / YEAR


Conclusion

• Marwan impact:

– Improvement of the Universities Networks and increase

of their access capacity

– Development of new IT projects

– Facilitate the participation of Moroccan Researchers in

International Cooperations

• The principal obstacle of the NREN development

in Morocco is the cost of the circuits (20

000€/Mb/Year – LL > 200Km)


Remarques• Appui du gouvernement, des universités et de la communauté scientifique du pays

• Budget de fonctionnement / Moyens Humains

• Identifier les besoins / Approche Application & QOS plus que Bande Passante

• Concurrence dans le secteur

• En cas de monopole (statut de l’opérateur national et sa relation avec le gouvernement)

• Situation Réglementaire

• En fonction des réalités géographiques, des services et de la bande passante souhaités, examiner la possibilité d’utiliser ces propres moyens de transmission et de s’affranchir des opérateurs tiers

• La possibilité de recourir a des opérateurs tiers hors opérateurs Telecom

• Actions d’accompagnement pour la mise à niveau des réseaux des Universités et la création de réseaux de campus

• Possibilités d’adhérer à des initiatives régionales


Thank you for your attention

http://www.marwan.ma

[email protected]

Documents

MARWANAfrican Research & Education Networking, September 25-27 2005 CERN - Geneva Redouane Merrouch Responsable du Réseau Marwan [email protected] Moroccan