FAQ  

Q1: Who manage the APAN?

A4:

Central hub system of APAN	APAN consortium
Backbone link connected to the central hub	APAN consortium
other links connected to the central hub	link by link (arranged by the concerned parties)

Q2: who could be consortium members
A2:

regular member:	owners of links and hubs
associate member:	PTT, ISP, user's group, company, government
liaison member:	international organization and network

Q3:. can we allow commercial traffic in backbone?
A3:

resource / traffic	research (non profit)	commercial
Central hub system of APAN	OK	OK
link connected to the central hub system	OK	depend

 

Q4: Why we need a research network run by governmental budget, while there are several large scale commercial internets?
A4: test bed, making statistics, high-bandwidth for advancedapplications, standardization,...

Q5: Is there any possibilities that the APAN suppress the progress of commercial NSPs?
A5: No, because; APAN will promote good interconnection for commercial NSPs as well as research NSPs. <-> APAN will not allow pure commercial purpose traffic so that it does not interfere commercial NSP's business. technology transfer from APAN to commercial NSPs.

Q6:Can a research section of commercial company use the APAN?
A6:Yes.

Q7: Can APAN allow transit traffic between commercial NSPs?
A7:Yes, if the commercial NSPs pay for the bandwidth for the transit traffic.

Q8:Can APAN allow traffic between a commercial NSP and a nonprofit / R&E NSP?
A8:Yes.

Q9:Who can use the test bed portion of the APAN?
A9:Research entities recognized by the APAN consortium.

Q10: How does the consortium pick research entities which can use the test bed portion of APAN?
A10:Eassignment of the priority ?Eguideline of bandwidth allocation

Q11:Who will manage NOCs?
A11: see NOC institutions

Q12:Will the APAN project support/promote/coordinate regional hubs?

Q13: Can every region connect to the APAN if they pay for the link to APAN's NOC?
A13: Yes.

Q14:Who will take a responsibility for the contents carried by the APAN. (IPR, porno,...)
A14: controled by each region. --

Q15: is APAN production network or test bed?
A15: it is the production network, and it supports test bed applications with stable ATM and/or IP.

Q16: who could be consortium members
A16: regular member: owners of links and hubs associate member: PTT, ISP, user's group, company, government liaison member: international organization and network

Q17: how do we backup the APAN links?
A17: this depends on nature of failure and agreement on backup. with other links of the same region-pair, and/or (example: jp-usa link may be backed up by another jp-usa link.) other region's links (example: jp-usa link may be backed up by kr-usa link.)

Q18:. can we allow commercial traffic in backbone?
A18: the backbone is for general traffici with bias toward academic traffic. we allow commercial traffic in the backbone. access link to the backbone in each region may be regulated by each region.

Q19: who does funding for each link?
A19: each link funding is arranged by the concerned parties.

Q20: how do we collaborate with other programs?
A20: APAN has the open policy on collaboration, and would promote the internationalcollaboration actively. examples may include the following; ?ENSF Connections Program plan to submit the proposal by anap's us member(s). ?EG7/GIBN plan to have cooperation. ?ETestbeds plan to have cooperation with various testbeds, in particular for broadband application R&D. ?EInternational Commercial ISPs plan to cooperate with various commercial ISPs, and accommodate anap's hubs for exchanges.

Q21: what user communities does APAN plan to serve
A21: primarily research and education communities, but serve general users.

Q22: does APAN support ATM?
A22: each link may be based on ATM, or without atm. anap has open policy to be flexible.

Q23: what bandwidth do you operate?
A23: ?Ethe backbones starts at 45/155 mbps, and are expected to double their bandwidth every year for coming years. ?Eothers starts at lower bandwidth at T1~E2. we even allow lower bandwidth as appropriate.

Q24: why do we have European link? is the fat pipes to usa good enough?
A24: to make APAN global. one of the benefits is to support real-time traffic such as Mbone, which is very delay sensitive, and the direct link is very important.

Q25: how do you support real-time traffic?
A25: we try to optimize the network topology to accommodate real-time traffic such as mbone; having the fat pipe and minimizing hop counts.