Korea on next gen worldwide research network StartapSeul 14 May 2001 Korean advanced research network organisation KOREN/KREONet2, joined Startap, a worldwide cooperation of research networks and partners in America and Europe. In its initial phase, the KOREN/KREONet2 intercontinental link to Startap will have the bandwidth of DS-3 (45Mbps). Depending on bandwidth demand from the advanced projects utilizing the link, it will be progressively upgraded to OC-3 (155Mbps).
Although Korea currently supports two other links to the US dedicated to
education and research traffic, the congested lines are unable to support
intensive joint research projects across the Pacific. Startap, the
Chicago-based, next-generation universal exchange point, now gives Korean
researchers high-speed access to over 180 US universities and national
laboratories, and most of the world's premier networks.
The link will support high-end research projects at the nearly 200 research
institutions linked by KOREN/KREONet2.. Using this link, Korea plans
to participate in multicast, traffic measurement, web cache and IPv6
testing with international research networks.
KOREN/KREONet2 enables Korean university and government-based researchers
to perform international collaborative research in high-end science and
technology, including bioinformatics, meteorology, physics, environment,
life science, pharmaceutical development and Grid development.
One example is the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
(KISTI), which recently acquired a four teraflop-scale supercomputer,
virtual reality equipment and high-tech bioinformatics servers, and is
actively seeking partners around the world. Immediate candidates include
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and University of Illinois at Chicago's
Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL).
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