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APAN 05 APAN 05 Keynote Address Keynote Address Next Generation Internet Next Generation Internet and and Asia- -Pacific Pacific Asia H.E.Dr. Surapong Suebwonglee Minister Ministry of ICT, Thailand 1 Digital Divide Digital
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(ThaiREN) 2004-
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to promote the use of the Internet in Thailand. ThaiSarn is currently in its third generation, denoted as ThaiSarn3
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linked to Internet*2
in the next 3 months
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RENX UniNet ThaiSarn
Internet2 TEIN2 APAN
OXC
DWDM DWDM
OADM
GIGAPOP
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– Expand Hotspots in 12 State Universities under budget around 72 million Baht – Expected more than 250 Wireless Access Points expansion per university
– Setup national-wide Grid facilities and infrastructures (budget 211 million Baht) – Expected 1 Teraflops machine
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– 30 Dec 03: MICT to connect all provinces in LAO PDR.
and dispatching technical staffs to conduct training and installation the Internet System in Vientiane, Luang Prabang and Champasak provinces as well as computers and accessories
– In addition, MICT provided computers to Supanuwong University, Luang Prabang, LAO PDR – Acceded to extend a sponsorship of the free bandwidth for another year according to Laos’ request
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– 20-22 Feb 04: Thai-Vietnam Joint cabinet meeting- both countries agreed to develop cooperation on ICT related fields such as Open Source Software, Intellectual Properties, Human Resources, e-Government and so on. Apart from these, Thailand also proposed the ICT Corridor Project which was adopted by Vietnam – 20-22 Mar 04: Thai-Laos Joint cabinet meeting- Thailand proposed the ICT Corridor Project and Laos accepted the proposal. Both countries agreed to extend the cooperation of the Thai-Laos Internet Connectivity Project into the ICT Corridor Project.
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Development organized by the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT), Mr. Xi Guohua, Vice Minister of Information Industry of China PRC make a courtesy call to Minister of MICT on June 30, 2004 when he expressed a great interest in the ICT Corridor Project and its collaboration framework.
Information Industry of China, arranged a discussion among the GMS Ministers during the 4th TELMIN on 5 August 2004 at the Shangri La Hotel,
Forward the Construction of the Information Superhighway in the Greater Mekong Subregion. The Ministers expressed their support to the proposal and agreed to hold a Telecommunications Senior Officials Meeting in China to further discuss a Memorandum of Understanding on the Joint Cooperation in Pushing Forward the Construction of the Information Superhighway in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
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Ultra/high-speed internet
ICT infrastructure Globalization
Human Resources
Engineering
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Biotech
Educati Community
Research & Development
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Needs:
Technological requirements:
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Predicted international Research & Education Network bandwidth, to be made available for scheduled application and middleware research experiments by December 2004. www.glif.is
Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA.
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10Gbps Network GigaPOP, Seatle, WA
10Gbps Network Future Plan
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GMS area
– Cambodia – China – Laos – Myanmar – Vietnam – Thailand
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