Sustainable Collaborative Efforts in Internet Development in Asia: A13 Phase II
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Date
1997
Authors
Yamaguchi, Suguru
Izumiyama, Hidetaka
Murai, Jun
The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), University of Oregon
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INET
Abstract
The AI3 (Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives) Project started in 1995 as an R&D project for the Internet research community in Asia. The project installed its testbed network in Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Thailand in 1996. On this network, several research activities and experiments, such as the WWW cache mechanism using a new management scheme, the distant learning system called "Virtual University" over the Internet, and video multicasting over
this infrastructure using IP multicasting, were undertaken with AI3 research partners.
In 1997, we are going to expand this effort to four or five more countries using a new datalink technology: TDM multichannel access with C band satellite links. In this system, we assign a single transponder (30 megabytes per second [Mbps] total) for traffic between a hub station in Japan and AI3 regional stations in partner's countries. We are developing a new interface hardware to manage this "fat pipe" in a TDM manner. Using this mechanism, we can handle unbalanced traffic over international Internet links more effectively.
In this paper, we report several results from the ongoing research project on the AI3 testbed and introduce a new approach, called "AI3 phase II," to expand its efforts to more countries.
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9 pages
Keywords
Asia, Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives, internet, internet research, AI3