The National Research and Education Network of Armenia (ASNET-AM) provides networking solutions and services to academic and research organizations in Armenia. It was created in 1994 and has over 20 years of experience in networking and IT. ASNET-AM operates fiber optic networks and provides services such as cloud storage, email, web hosting, and access to computational facilities. It faces challenges such as unreliable bandwidth and equipment, and aims to address these through server virtualization, alternative network paths, and backup power generators. ASNET-AM collaborates on international projects and provides key infrastructure to support research and education in Armenia.

1. The National Research and
Education Network.
Problems and Solutions
ArmIGF 2015
8 September, 2015, Yerevan
Vladimir Sahakyan
Director of the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems
of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

2. Presentation Overview
• Basic Data
• International Collaboration & Projects
• Computational Facilities
• Services
• Challenges & Opportunities

3. Presentation Overview
• Basic Data
• International Collaboration & Projects
• Computational Facilities
• Services
• Challenges & Opportunities

4. • The Academic Scientific Research Computer Network of
Armenia (ASNET-AM) is the National Research and
Education Network (NREN) of Armenia.
• Created in 1994 - over 20 years of experience in
Networking & IT
• Provides various networking solutions to the Academic,
Scientific, Research, Educational, Cultural and other
organizations of Armenia, which are engaged in scientific
and educational activity.
• The structure and policy of operation was developed and
implemented by the Institute for Informatics and
Automation Problems of the National Academy of
Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (IIAP NAS RA).
ASNET-AM

5. • ASNET-AM functions as a joint structure of several
networking centers and departments within the IIAP
NAS RA.
• ASNET-AM – leading developer of Clustering
technologies and Scientific GRID infrastructure in
Armenia and South Caucasus Region.
• Projects: ArmCluster, SEE-GRID-SCI, HP-SEE,
Black Sea Interconnection, EGIInSPIRE, GN3plus,
etc.
• ASNET-AM – supports of Armenia-GÉANT Link
ASNET-AM

6. More than 60 organizations are members of ASNET-AM:
• National Academy of Sciences of RA
(Presidium and 36 Research Institutions and Centers)
• Yerevan Physics Institute
• Yerevan State University
• State Engineering University of Armenia - "Polytechnic"
• Artsakh State University
• Armenian State Pedagogical University
• Yerevan State Medical University
• Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture
• National Library of Armenia
• State Committee of Science MES RA
• Supreme Certifying Commission of MES RA
• Armenian State Hydrometerological and Monitoring Service
MES RA
• Environmental Effect Monitoring Center MNP RA
• …
Member Organizations

7. Topology

8. Presentation Overview
• Basic Data
• International Collaboration & Projects
• Computational Facilities
• Services
• Challenges & Opportunities

9. Collaboration: Membership
• GÉANT Association has been formed by re-organising
TERENA and DANTE under a unified governance structure.
• EGI.eu is a not-for-profit foundation to coordinate and
manage the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) federation
on behalf of its participants: NGIs and European
International Research Organizations.
• CEENET (Central and Eastern European Network) is a
private association of Connecticut professionals interested
in fostering stronger ties between Connecticut and Central
and Eastern Europe.
• ISOC AM (Internet Society) is a non-for-profit NGO of the
Local Internet Community in Armenia.
• Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and
parts of Central Asia

10. GÉANT is the pan-European research and education network that interconnects
Europe’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).

11. Collaboration: Projects
Networking Layer
• European Commission Horizon2020 Programme,
GEANT2020 (GÉANT Research and Education
Networking) /2015-2020/
• European Commission 7th Framework Programme,
GN3+ (Multi-gigabit european research and
education network and associated services) /2013-
2015/
• European Commission 7th Framework Programme,
CEENGINE (Central and Eastern European
Networking Engine) /WP4 expert/

12. Collaboration: Projects
Networking Layer
• European Commission Directorate-General for Neighbourhood
and Enlargements Negotiations, EaPConnect (Eastern Partnership
Connect) /2015-2020/
AZRENA
URAN
BASNET
RENAM
GRENA
10Gbps- CBF
Belarus - Poland
10Gbps- CBF
Belarus - Ukraine
10Gbps- CBF
Ukraine - Moldova
10Gbps- CBF
Moldova - Ukraine
10Gbps
OverGEANT
10Gbps – CBF
Ukraine - Poland
10Gbps – CBF
Ukraine – Moldova -
Romaina
Kiev1Gbps
ASNET-AM
1Gbps
1Gbps
1Gbps
1Gbps
GEANT
Poznan
Tbilisi
10Gbps
10Gbps
1Gbps
Bucharest
1Gbps1Gbps
1Gbps

13. Communicational Layer
Collaboration: Projects
• European Commission Horizon2020 Programme, VI-SEEM (VRE
for regional Interdisciplinary communities in Southeast Europe and
the Eastern Mediterranean) /2015-2018/
• Black Sea Economic Cooperation, Experimental Deployment of an
Integrated Grid and Cloud Enabled Environment in BSEC Countries on the
Base of g-Eclipse
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SCOPES), Deploying ARmenian
distributed Processing capacities for Environmental GEOspatial data
/2011-2013/
• European Commission 7th Framework Programme, EGI-InSPIRE
(Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in
Europe)
• European Commission 7th Framework Programme, High-Performance
Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities

14. Presentation Overview
• Basic Data
• International Collaboration & Projects
• Computational Facilities
• Services
• Challenges & Opportunities

15. Computing Resources

16. Presentation Overview
• Basic Data
• International Collaboration & Projects
• Computational Facilities
• Services
• Challenges & Opportunities

17. Services
• NETWORK CONNECTIVITY (Fiber-optic,Copper,Wireless,VPN)
• IP CONNECTIVITY (IPv4/IPv6) & ROUTING (OSPF,BGP)
• PROXY
• CLOUD STORAGE
• E-MAIL
• WEB HOSTING
• SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS ACCESS
• 3G
• ARCHIVE BACKUP
• NETWORK MONITORING
• MAILINFORMER / WEBSMS / MAIL2SMS
• VPN
• DNS
• ARMCLUSTER/ARMGRID ACCESS
• MULTIMEDIA STREAMING
• TELECONFERENCING
• VoIP
• FEDERATED IDENTITY (AFIRE)
• eLEARNING

18. Services: Eduroam
• EduRoam is a federated authentication trust
framework for wireless networks, which allows roving
researchers to login with their standard user name
and password

19. Services: Eduroam
www.eduroam.am

20. Services: Edugain

21. Services: Cloud VMs
The service providing VMs to the user communities is
based on the OpenStack middleware, which controls
large pools of compute, storage, and networking
resources throughout OpenStack API.

22. Services: Cloud Storage
There are a lot of files and you need to store them on a
secure server to prevent data loose!!!
The cloud storage is the best solution...........

23. Services: eLearning
Scalable – Elearning enables us to quickly create and
communicate new policies, training, ideas, and concepts.
Time and Money Savings
Immediate Results and Feedback
Flexible – Using elearning, you can give employees and
students the freedom to learn at their own convenience

24. Services: Computing
Satellite Image Processing
① An Interoperable Cloud-based Scientific Gateway for NDVI
Time Series Analysis, Elsevier Computer Standards &
Interfaces, 2015, 31(40), pp. 79–84, doi:
10.1016/j.csi.2015.02.001.
② An Interoperable Web Portal for Parallel Geoprocessing of
Satellite Image Indices, Springer Earth Science
Informatics, 13 June 2014, DOI: 10.1007/s12145-014-
0165-3.

25. Services: Computing
Weather Forecasting
The ultimate goal is to develop an early
warning system for the south and
southeast regions of Armenia (11 in total)
by defining specific thresholds for issuing
alerts for adverse and severe weather
phenomena (high temperature, wind and
precipitation weather elements).
① WRF-ARW Model for the Prediction of High Temperatures in South and
South East Regions of Armenia, In IEEE eScience, Munich, Germany,
2015.

26. Presentation Overview
• Basic Data
• International Collaboration & Projects
• Computational Facilities
• Services
• Challenges & Opportunities

27. Challenges and
Opportunities
Problems
• Unreliable and low bandwidth fiber-optic lines in
Yerevan and outside
• Unreliable and non powerful servers and network
devices
• Difficulties on the replacement of equipment in
connection with the increase in traffic
• External security (hacking attacks, the abduction and
destruction of data)
• Internal security (viruses, certificates)
• Failure Recovery
• AC power failures

28. Solutions:
• Minimization of traffic between nodes through optimal
allocation of network servers and creation of
alternative paths
• Virtualization of servers and communication devices
• Creation of the Administrators group, similar to CSIRT
• Fast recovery of images from storages on virtual
machines
• Applying of a powerful AC power generator, energy-
saving equipment
Challenges and
Opportunities

29. ASNET-AM
http://www.asnet.am
Thank you!