Global Collaboration Framework between Asia (Japan) and South America (Chile)

AccessNova

Program for Applied Research in Advanced

Communications and Information

Technologies

Global Collaboration Framework between

Asia (Japan) and South America (Chile)

Eduardo Vera

AccessNova Research

Department of Electrical Engineering (DIE)

University of Chile

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Outline

• Information and Communication and

Information Technologies (ICT) R&D

Collaboration between Chile and Japan

•Remote Mining

•Remote Astronomy

•Background of ICT in Chile

•National Infrastructure

•AccessNova Research (DIE)

(FONDEF-CONICYT, Corporate Projects)

•AccessNova Incubation (DII)

(FDI-CORFO, World Bank)

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NICT Kashima

MusashinoR&D Centre

NICT

Usuda Deep Space Centre

Nobeyama Radio Astronomical Observatory

NTT Ohtemachi

Abilene (USA)

NII

Pacific Wave

SINET

International link

Super high definition

video

Verification of AWG-STAR

Traffic engineering

Verification of DWDM and OXC

e-VLBI

Verification of CWDM

DWDM networkCWDM network

OC-48 (2.4Gbps)AWG-STAR network

Distributed Processing

YokosukaR&D Centre

AtsugiR&D Centre

NAOJ

NTT Yokohama

Geant (Europe)

UCSF

NCCHD

Fig. 3 Configuration and research topics of GEMnet2

Tokyo

Seattle

Santiago

Rio de Janeiro

Geant

CENIC

Red

CLARA

Round trip delay

route1: 440 msec

route2: 250 msec

route2

route1

Fig. 4 International connection by collaboration with R&E networks

Fig. 1 Remote Operation of Astronomical Telescope

Cerro Calan, University of Chile

Tokyo

International

Forum

Fig. 5 Telescope in University of Chile

Server for

handling

CCD

General

Server for

telescope

(GOTO

CATS3)network

Client PC for

Telescope

User Interface

Fig. 6 System Diagram of the remote telescope operation

GOTO INC

450mm Cassegrain

SBIG-ST8

ChileJapan

TV Conference

Terminal

TV Conference

Terminal

MPEG2

Decoder

MPEG2

Encoder

Video camera

- movement of Telescope

- Sky

Video

Monitor

Web Server

with

Web Service

Fig. 7 Client system at the event site

Fig. 8 Observed Image (1): The Tarantula Nebula (NGC2070)

Fig. 9 Observed Image (2): The Saturn

Fig. 2 Remote operation of copper mine hammers

Andina Underground Mine

Tokyo

International

Forum

Fig. 10 Remote mining system based on AWG-STAR network

AWG

WDM IF

Ethernet

Voice

Video

IF Camera

WDM

IF

EthernetVoiceVideo1

WDM

Andina underground mineAWG-STAR equipment

Hammer equipment

Control room

Optical fiber

IF

Video2

Remote operating office

in Los Andes

Rock crushing site

Hammer

Entrance base

PLC

server

PLC

Controller

Sofa

PLC

Controller

Sofa

PLC

Controller

Sofa

PLC IF

Fig. 11 Node distribution in Chile

AWG-STAR installed area

Andina mine

Pacific ocean

Chile Argentina

100 Mbps link

Santiago

Los AndesA

ndes m

ounta

ins

GEMnet2

MPEG2

Encoder

NAT Router

Switch

REUNA router

PLC

Controller

H.323

Video Conference

Terminal

Control PC

PLC Server

REUNA Office in Santiago

D/A

Remote mining

NW / AWG-

STAR

NTSC

CODELCO in Los Andes

and Andina mine

Sofa

Fig. 12 Network Configuration for remote hammer control

Fig. 13 Remote operating room in Los Andes

Fig. 14 Expo site and received video signal

(a) Expo site (b) Received video signal of hammer

High-Speed Networks

• University of Chile (UChile)

- First connection to Internet in Latin America (early 80s)

- First ATM Campus Network in Latin America (1994)

- Strong R&D Effort: AccessNova Program (since 1995)

AN-FONDEF Research Projects (1997-2000, 2001-2003)

AN-FDI Incubation Projects (1998-2000, 2001-2003)

AN-InfoDev/WorldBank Project (2003-2005)

AN-Bicentennial Program (2007-2009)

•REUNA (National University Network)

- ISP for Chilean universities WAN (Reuna-1, early 90s)

- High-Speed Chilean universities WAN (Reuna-2, 1998)

- High-Speed international research WAN (Internet-2, 2000)

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ICT Project Begins (1992)

• Project Inauguration signature

at NTT Kasumigaseki Center

Tokyo, Japan (18 Nov 94)

UChile Technology Programs

AccessNova Research/Incubation

• Advanced Communications Research on

IP Broadband Networks and Applications

– Electronic Commerce (1996)

– Remote Interactive Education (1997)

– Remote Monitoring and Control (1998)

– Digital TV over IP (1999)

– Wireless IP (2000)

– Remote Astronomy (2002)

– Remote Mining (2005)

– Remote Health Care (2006)

• Advanced Communication and Information

Technology Business Incubation

– Low-Cost infrastructure

– 2 year start-up periodSantiago, Chile

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UChile Technology Cluster

• AccessNova ICT Research/Incubation

– Applied Research

– Technology Transfer

– Software Engineering

– Continuous Learning

– Technology Enterprise Incubation

– Exchange, cooperation and competition

– Synergy and Cross-Fertilization

– Provider and Client Contact Network

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UChile Technolgy Program

AccessNova Research

• Faculty Visits to Japan (20+)

– Jaime Lavados

– Víctor Pérez

– Luis Riveros

– Eduardo Vera

– Nelson Baloian

– Ricardo Baeza-Yates

– Pablo Estevez

– Jose M. Piquer

– Raul Monge

– Carlos Alvarez

– Luis Vargas

– Leonardo Bronfman

– María Teresa Ruiz

– Richard Weber

– Alejandro Bassi

– Juan Carlos Letelier

– Juan Velásquez

– Rafael Epstein

– Jean-Jacques Duhart

– Alejandro Maas

• NTT Researchers Visits to UChile (200+)

– Multiple visits from NTT Group executives and researchers

during 1995-2007

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AccessNova Research

• Chilean Students in Japan (22)

– Marcos Contreras (NTT, 1996)

– Claudio Martinez (NTT, 1997)

– Sergio Burdiles (NTT, 1997)

– Tomas Barros (Waseda, 1997-98; NTT 1998-99)

– Hernan Aburto (NTT, 1998)

– Takeshi Asahi (YokohamaU, 1998-2002)*

– Carlos Collao(Waseda, 1998-99)

– Luis Loyola (ElectroC-Com, 1999-2003)*

– Mauricio Cardenas (NTT, 1999)

– Nelson Vidal (Waseda, 1999-2000)

– Alfredo Diaz (Waseda, 2000-2001)

– Miguel Barrera (NTT DoCoMo, 2001)

– Francisco Pellegrini (NTT DoCoMo, 2001)

– Leandro Llanza (Waseda, 2001-2003)

– Juan Velasquez (Todai, 2002-2005)*

– Felipe Baytelman (Waseda, 2004-2005)

– Sebastián Ríos (Todai, 2004-2007)*

– Pedro Morales (Todai, 2006-2010)*

– Carlita Paredes (NAOJ, 2006-2010)

– Carolina Ramirez (Waseda, 2007-2011)*

– Hans Postock (Keio, 2007)

– Carla Alvial (Todai, 2008-2012)*

* doctoral studies (7)

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AN-FONDEF Project (D96I1064)

Director: Eduardo Vera (UChile)

Deputy Director: Rodolfo Feick (UTFSM)

• Infocommunication on

Broadband Networks

– Level 1: Physical Transport

(Rodolfo Feick, UTFSM)

– Level 2: Distributed Systems

(Jose M. Piquer, UChile)

– Level 3: Access Tools

(Ricardo Baeza-Yates, UChile)

– Level 4: Multimedia Applications

(Eduardo Vera, UChile)

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AN-FONDEF Project (D96I1064)

Director: Eduardo Vera (UChile)

Deputy Director: Rodolfo Feick (UTFSM)

• Technology Milestones

– High-Speed Link Santiago-Valparaiso: 1998

(with Telefónica CTC Chile)

– High-Speed Link Santiago-Tokyo: 1997

(with Telefónica Mundo, NTT)

TeleCabinet Meeting, Astronomy Forum

– Mbone System for video over IP: 1998-2000

(with Waseda University, NTT Labs)

– Remote Monitoring & Control System: 1998-2000

(with United Technologies Corp., USA)

– Novel Web Access Tools: 1999-2000

(with Kwan, Brazil)

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FONDEF Project (D00I1048)

Director: Eduardo Vera (UChile)

Deputy Director: Rodolfo Feick (UTFSM)

• Development of Multimedia

Communications over Wireless Networks

– Level 1: Wireless Local Loop

(Rodolfo Feick, UTFSM)

– Level 2: IP-Wireless Interface

(Jose M. Piquer, UChile)

– Level 3: IP-Wireless Applications

(Eduardo Vera, UChile)

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CODELCO-CHILE

2001-2002

Integrated Comunications Systems

for El Teniente Division

UCh: Eduardo Vera, Jose M. Piquer (CS),

Nestor Becerra (EE)

Codelco-Teniente: Fco Amiama (IT),

Cesar Ortega (C), Alvaro Ferra (TDP)

ESO (European Southern Observatory)

2000-2001

A Reliable, Secure and Scalable High-Speed Communication

System for ESO Facilties in Chile (Vitacura, La Silla, Paranal)

including ALMA (Chajnantor)

UCh: Eduardo Vera (EE), Jose M. Piquer (CS)

ESO: Giorgo Fillipi (Germany)

Guillermo Delgado, Christian Saldías (Chile)

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CODELCO-CHILE

2002

C&IT Incubation Process

for IT Headquarters

UCh: Eduardo Vera, Alex Visic (CS),

Codelco: Didier de Saint-Pierre, Francisco Amiama (IT)

SMALCAMERA - Boston, MA USA

2001-2004

Software Development of Drivers for IP to

Camera Communications

UCh: Eduardo Vera (EE), Jose M. Piquer (CS),

Felipe Hoffa, Hernan Sanchez, Andres Plaza, Albise Bolsi,

Carla Paredes, German Parra, Eduardo Abeliuk, Alvaro Palma

SMALCAMERA: Maurizio Arienzo, Keith Fife

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DIBAM - Public Library System

2002

Library Network for the New Millenium

Porject supported by Bill Gates Foundation

UCh: Eduardo Vera, Jose M. Piquer, Ricardo Baeza-Yates (CS)

Fernando Ricardi, Sergio Burdiles, Sebastian Uribe et al

DIBAM: Clara Budnik, German Mateluna

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NTT

Chile

& NAOJ

Waseda U U TokyoKeio U

• Furthest multimedia broadband networks

• Inter-cultural use of Network

Japan

UChile & UTFSM CodelcoTelefonicaENTELREUNA

Virtual Laboratory Using

Networks

Office at NTT Musashino R&D Center

Office at UChile in Santiago

Tokyo-Santiago Virtual Laboratory

Dedicated CircuitInternet2 connections through GEMnet, Abilene, AMPATH and REUNA2

Sept 1997, Tokyo

Remote Chilean Cabinet Meeting

August 1997

Tokyo Santiago

Japan-Chile Academic TeleForum

ALMA Radio Astronomy Observatory

ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array)

Joint Project: Europe (ESO), USA (NRAO) & Japan (NAOJ)

• ALMA will be the world’s most sensitive, highest resolution, millimeter-wavelength

telescope. It will combine an angular resolution comparable to that of the Hubble

Space Telescope with the sensitivity of a single antenna nearly 100 meters in

diameter.

• ALMA will consist of no less than 64 12-meter antennas located at an elevation of

5,000 meters in Llano de Chajnantor, Chile.

ALMA-Japan Project

Scientific Data Transmission,

Remote Monitoring and Control

of First Prototype Antenna

NAOJ, NTT Labs, UChile

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Crucero

S/E Mantos Blancos

S/E Lomas Bayas

S/E LaberintoS/E Oeste

S/E ZaldívarS/E Atacama

Mina Escondida

Rosario

P.de Valdivia

Observatorio

Cerro Paranal

ALMA

S/E Minsal

Chajnantor

m

NAOJ

Base

Remote monitoring of ALMA test instruments with the

cooperation of Internet2, AMPATH and REUNA

NAOJ

Mitaka

Campus

Remote Control of ALMA-Japan Test Instruments

GEMnet2

US

Trans Pacific ChileJapan

NAOJ Test

Instruments

Musashino R&D CenterU. Chile

Partner R&E Networks

San Pedro

de Atacama

GALAXY

NTT’s Research Networks

Future Challenges

Networking

To Connect 80 points like they were on the same local

network with at least 100 Mbps

Computing

To develop the software to control the telescope array and to

handle the data collection, storage and remote access

Communications

High-speed data photonic transmission and switching

(fully optical network)

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Connection between Tokyo and Santiago

Tokyo

Santiago

Internet 2

(Abilene)

AMPATH

REUNA

GEMnet

Codelco-NTT Joint Venture

• MICOMO Ltd.

– Mining information

– Communications

– Monitoring

• Established Apr 10, 2006

– Codelco (66%)

– NTT Advanced Technology Corporation (17%)

– NTT Leasing (USA) Inc. (17%)

MiCoMo

Four different Cultures

ICT

Japan

Mining

Chile

fusion

NEW WORLD

• AN aims to develop and introduce

advanced communications to link

Chile/South America and Japan/Asia.

• AN is an Interdisciplinary,

Interinstitutional, International effort

creating an academic/business

human/technology network

• AN research activities 1995-2000

(electronic commerce, remote

education, remote monitoring and

control)

• AN research activities 2001-2006

(multimedia IP, integration of control

and data IP networks, wireless IP,

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AccessNova Partners

• Japan

– NTT Group

– NTT Research Laboratories

– National Astronomy Observatory Japan (NAOJ)

– University of Tokyo

– Waseda University

– Keio University

• Chile

– University of Chile

– Technical University Federico Santa Maria

– REUNA

– TeléfonicaChile

– ENTEL-CHILE

– MICOMO / CODELCO-CHILE

– VIPNova, SoluNova (spin-off start-ups)

• USA

– National Radioastronomy Observatory USA (NRAO)

– NovaWare Inc.

• Europe

– NTT DoCoMo Eurolabs, Munich

– European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching

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