Infra-structure
AI3
Promote collaboration and capacity-building for emerging issues.
Collaboration with Research and Educational Network
Strengthening research communities in Asia Pacific.
About AI3
The AI3 (Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives/read: ei-triple-ai) Project is an international research consortium among research institutes in Asian region and is aiming to form a group of researchers to develop leading edge technologies for the Internet, including in non-terrestrial networks, IPv6, network monitoring and security, and IoT.
Large number of technologies utilized for Internet has been developed and improved continuously from their beginning. These process of technology development and improvement always require the network environment where engineers and researchers can make implementations of the technologies and test and evaluate them.
This network environment is so called a testbed network. It is quite popular for the Internet community to provide testbed networks for specific technology development. Mbone, for example, has been set up and operated since early 1990’s and this network is for IP multicast technology development and deployment. Other example is 6bone which has been composed based on the same idea for IPv6 and operated since mid 1990’s. The testbed network can accelerate process of technology development and its engineering, therefore, it is fairly important for research groups of Internet technologies to construct and operate its testbed network.
Our project is an international research consortium among research institutes in Asian region and is aiming to form a group of researchers to develop leading edge technologies for the Internet, such as IPv6, WWW caching and replication mechanisms, multimedia communication mechanism, and applications for the advanced usage of the Internet. The name of this project is Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives or “AI3” (ei-triple-ai) in short.
About ARENA-PAC
This community aims to continue contributing to the development and the eventual full implementation of resilient internet connectivity. We support research and education infrastructure and collaboration in the Asia-Pacific and, at the same time, provide connectivity in times of disaster and emergency. These objectives will be done in collaboration with the Arterial Research and Educational Network in Asia-Pacific (ARENA-PAC).
This collaboration focuses on the following objectives:
Developing the Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) in the Asia Pacific region
Building inclusive, emergency-ready disaster response networks
Supporting Research and Education Network (REN) technology development and collaboration
Benefits and Contributions to the Community
Universities and research institutions, including those in remote or poorly connected areas, gain main or alternative connectivity for education and research, including network-based experiments.
Rapid restoration of Internet connectivity through NTN in disaster-affected communities.
Increased global collaboration and visibility among REN communities and other strategic partners.
SOI Asia
This project is supported by APNIC Foundation
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