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SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Research Infrastructure FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2 – INFRA-2010-1.2.3: Virtual Research Communities Combination of Collaborative Project and Coordination and Support Actions (CP‐CSA) LinkSCEEM-2 Linking Scientific Computing in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean – Phase 2 Grant Agreement Number: RI-261600 D7.2 Report on Connectivity Options Version: 1.0 Author(s): Hank Nussbacher, IUCC & Marina Andreou, Cynet Date: 07/09/2011 D7.2 Report on Connectivity Options Project and Deliverable Information Sheet LinkSCEEM Project Ref. №: RI-261600 Project Project Title: LinkSCEEM-2 Project Web Site: http://www.linksceem.eu Deliverable ID: < D7.2> Deliverable Nature: <DOC_TYPE: Report> Deliverable Level: Contractual Date of Delivery: PU * 31 / 08 / 2011 Actual Date of Delivery: 08 / 09 / 2011 EC Project Officer: Leonardo Flores Anover * - The dissemination level are indicated as follows: PU – Public, PP – Restricted to other participants (including the Commission Services), RE – Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services). CO – Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services). Document Control Sheet Title: Report on Connectivity Options Document ID: <D7.2> Version: <1.0 > Status: Draft Available at: http://www.eniac.cyi.ac Software Tool: Microsoft Word 2007 File(s): LinkSCEEM-2-D7.2.docx Written by: Hank Nussbacher, IUCC & Marina Authorship Andreou, Cynet Contributors: Despina Saparilla, CaSToRC Antonis Tzirkallis, Cynet Reviewed by: PMO Approved by: PMO Document Status Sheet Version Date Status Comments 0.1 17/07/2011 Draft First version – based on Deliverable 11 from Linkschem WP5 0.2 24/07/2011 Draft Second version – based D7.2 on updates from Cynet and IUCC 0.3 11/08/2011 Draft 0.4 29/08/2011 Draft 1.0 07/09/2011 Final Contributions by CaSToRC and review by PMO LinkSCEEM-2 - RI-261600 D7.2 Report on Connectivity Options Document Keywords Keywords: LinkSCEEM-2, Computational Science, HPC, e-Infrastructure, Eastern Mediterranean D7.2 Table of Contents PROJECT AND DELIVERABLE INFORMATION SHEET........................................ 2 DOCUMENT CONTROL SHEET ............................................................................... 2 DOCUMENT STATUS SHEET.................................................................................... 2 DOCUMENT KEYWORDS ......................................................................................... 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................. 5 REFERENCES AND APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS.................................................... 6 LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS......................................................... 6 1 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................... 9 1.1 Purpose of the document.............................................................................................................................. 9 1.2 References...................................................................................................................................................... 9 1.3 List of Acronyms and Abbreviations........................................................................................................ 10 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................................... 11 3 REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY OPTIONS ............................................................. 13 3.1 Existing Submarine Cables........................................................................................................................ 13 3.1.1 Cyprus-Syria ......................................................................................................................................... 14 3.1.2 Cyprus-Lebanon ................................................................................................................................... 15 3.1.3 Cyprus-Jordan....................................................................................................................................... 15 3.1.4 Cyprus-Israel......................................................................................................................................... 16 3.1.5 Cyprus-Palestine ................................................................................................................................... 18 3.1.6 Cyprus-Egypt........................................................................................................................................ 18 3.1.7 Cyprus-Europe...................................................................................................................................... 20 3.1.8 Cyprus-Turkey...................................................................................................................................... 24 3.1.9 Syria-Lebanon (BERYTAR) ................................................................................................................ 24 3.1.10 Syria-Egypt (ALETAR)...................................................................................................................... 24 3.1.11 FLAG (FEA)....................................................................................................................................... 24 3.2 PLANNED Submarine Cables .................................................................................................................. 26 3.2.1 IMEWE................................................................................................................................................. 26 3.2.2 MENA................................................................................................................................................... 26 3.2.3 Other Relevant Announcements........................................................................................................... 27 3.3 Traditional Terrestrial Interconnectivity................................................................................................. 29 LinkSCEEM-2 - RI-261600 D7.2 Report on Connectivity Options 3.4 Alternative optical Infrastructures ........................................................................................................... 32 3.4.1 Jordan.................................................................................................................................................... 33 3.4.2 Egypt..................................................................................................................................................... 34 3.4.3 Syria...................................................................................................................................................... 34 3.4.4 Lebanon ................................................................................................................................................ 35 3.4.5 The Palestinian Authority..................................................................................................................... 35 3.4.6 General remarks.................................................................................................................................... 35 3.5 GLORIAD ................................................................................................................................................... 36 4 REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY COSTS ................................................................. 39 4.1 Bandwidth Procurement schemes and Competition Overview.............................................................. 39 4.2 Bandwidth Procurement............................................................................................................................ 39 4.3 Competition Overview ............................................................................................................................... 39 4.4 Bandwidth Pricing – The EUMEDCONNECT Experience ................................................................... 40 4.4.1 2009 Pricing Facts and Topologies....................................................................................................... 42 4.4.2 LinkSCEEM-2 Call for Information..................................................................................................... 46 5 CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................... 47 6 APPENDIX ........................................................................................................... 49 References and Applicable Documents [1] http://www.linksceem.eu [2] http://www.prace-project.eu [3] LinkSCEEM-2 Project Execution Plan List of Acronyms and Abbreviations ACF Advanced Computing Facility API Application Programming Interface CaSToRC Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre of the CyI CPU Central Processing Unit CUDA Compute Unified Device Architecture (NVIDIA) CyI The Cyprus Institute CyNet The Cyprus NREN DEISA Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications. EU project by leading national HPC centres. EC European Community EoI Expression of Interest D7.2 ESFRI European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures; created roadmap for pan- European Research Infrastructure. FP Floating-Point FPU Floating-Point Unit FZJ Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) GB Giga (= 230 ~ 109) Bytes (= 8 bits), also GByte Gb/s