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HIGH-SPEED PAN-ASIAN TEIN3 RESEARCH NETWORK LAUNCHED IN VIETNAM. US$25 million investment to reduce the digital divide across Asia-Pacific
The 20th March 2009, Hanoi-Vietnam – Researchers and citizens across Asia-Pacific, including Vietnam, will benefit from the new TEIN3 high-speed research and education data-communications network. The three year, US$25 million investment by the European Union and the Asian project partners will support critical collaborations between research centres, educators and students across the region and the globe in fields of high societal benefit, such as telemedicine, e-learning, disaster warning and crop research. Network capacity is also being provided by some project partners, making this the largest international research network in Asia.
TEIN3 was launched today in Vietnam at the the Fourth National VinaREN Forum in Hanoi. This national event follows the endorsement of TEIN3 by Asian and European Heads of State at their ASEM 7 Summit in Beijing in October 2008.
VinaREN connects to TEIN3 at speeds of 155 Mbps, enabling closer collaboration between its researchers and educators and their colleagues around the globe. The launch event will showcase projects across the region that are benefiting from TEIN3.
Researchers in Vietnam are relying on the advanced high-speed TEIN3 research network to collaborate with their colleagues in Asia Pacific and in Europe and beyond in the field of science, technology, education, public health, agriculture, culture and so on.
“Only by pooling resources across the globe can we meet today’s challenges in areas such as climate change, development and health,” said Dr. Ta Ba Hung, Director, NACESTI/VinaREN. “The TEIN3 network will enable us to cost-effectively collaborate with our colleagues across the globe, not only benefiting scientists and researchers but directly improving the lives of everyone. We welcome the launch of TEIN3 and our participation in this strategic and far reaching project. Today it is impossible to imagine not being a part of TEIN3 – it is our connection to the rest of the academic world.”
Following a highly successful tender process, TEIN3 entered service at the beginning of 2009. It replaces the successful TEIN2 network which already connected China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Australia. Over 30 million users in 4,000 research and education institutions are already connected across the region and with their peers in Europe, via direct links to the high-speed pan-European GÉANT2 network. Studies are underway to extend Asian network coverage including into the South Asian sub-region and Cambodia.
TEIN3 is the third generation of the ASEM Trans-Eurasia Information Network initiative and builds on the achievements of its predecessor networks.
It will be the fastest, highest capacity and most extensive Asian research and education network ever. The US$25 million funding is provided by the European Union, continuing its backing of the TEIN project, and by contributions from Asian partners. The TEIN3 project is co-ordinated by DANTE, a not-for profit organisation which currently operates regional networking projects for research and education in Europe, Latin America and the southern Mediterranean rim. DANTE is partnered in Vietnam by NACESTI which runs the VinaREN. A key aim of TEIN3 is to help create a long-term, sustainable future for regional research networking in the region.
"I am very pleased that the TEIN
programme, which provides a regional backbone for research and
education across Asia Pacific, has made collaboration between European
and Asian scientists straightforward and seamless," said Viviane
Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media.
"Through the link between TEIN3 and GÉANT2 we bring the best minds
together, irrespective of location in order to benefit society as a
whole."
“The launch of TEIN3 marks the opening of a major new chapter in research networking across Asia-Pacific,” said David West, TEIN3 project manager. “Building on the considerable achievements of TEIN2, the new network will enable the connection of more countries at higher speeds, delivering faster collaboration that benefits both researchers and society as a whole.”
VinaREN(Vietnam Research and Education Network), a non-profit private-use telecommunication network, is a national research and education network of Vietnam. VinaREN’s goals are to facilitate and coordinate the establishment, development, deployment, operation and technology transfer of advanced network based applications and network services to improve effectiveness and to further national and international collaboration in research and education. VinaREN has been nationally launched on 27th March 2008. It has been developed and managed by the National Centre for Scientific and Technological Information (NACESTI) that belongs to Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam. VinaREN’s members are the leading research institutions, universities, hospitals, information centres of Vietnam. VinaREN connects Vietnamese researchers and educators with community of 30 million peers in the Asia Pacific and Europe and beyond. For more information, please visit www.vinaren.vn.
TEIN (Trans-Eurasia Information Network) – creates the first large-scale research and education network for the Asia-Pacific region. It connects regional researchers with their counterparts in Europe via GÉANT2, the world’s most advanced international research and education network, providing the Asia-Pacific countries with a gateway for global research collaboration. TEIN3, the latest generation of the network is set to receive €18 million of funding from the EU and Asian partners.
First conceived in 2000 and now due to run until 2011, the TEIN project is contributing to the further development of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN) initiative, which was an outcome of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) to improve research networking between Europe and Asia-Pacific. Through TEIN, the first Europe-Asia link dedicated for research and education was established bilaterally between RENATER in France and KISDI in South Korea, with the installation of a connection in December 2001.
Working in collaboration with DANTE on TEIN2 and TEIN3 are RENATER, SURFnet and UKERNA, the National Research and Education Networks of France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, respectively. The Asian partners are China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam; Australia is also actively participating. For more information please visit www.tein3.net
DANTE is a non-profit organisation whose primary mission is to plan, build and manage research and education networks. Established in 1993, DANTE has been fundamental to the success of pan-European research and education networking. DANTE has built and operates GÉANT2 which provides the data communications infrastructure essential to the success of many research projects in Europe. DANTE is involved in worldwide initiatives to interconnect countries in other regions to one another and to GÉANT2. DANTE currently manages projects focused on the Mediterranean, Latin American and Asia-Pacific regions through the EUMEDCONNECT, ALICE and TEIN2 projects respectively. For more information, please visit www.dante.net
The launch of TEIN3 in Vietnam at the Fourth National VinaREN Forum marks the maturity in either network scale or technology level of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network-TEIN3 and Vietnam Research & Education Network – VinaREN. From now on, Vietnamese researchers, educators and students will have more opportunities and increase access to scientific knowledge and most advanced network applications in order to implement collaborations in research and education at regional, national and global scale. TEIN3-VinaREN is a super highway connecting science, technology and education in Vietnam with the rest of the world, and an effective tool to narrow the digital gap between Vietnam and developed countries.