SURFnet: your NREN - SURFnet is the Dutch National Research &
Education Network (NREN) - Services, innovation, knowledge - Not for profit - Task organisation of Stichting SURF = ICT
collaboration of higher education & research
- A small operation serving a large community: - 85 employees - 160 connected institutions - 1 million end-users - Turnover 35 million Euro; 1/3 innovation
subsidies SURFnet - We make innovation work 1
SURFnet: the Dutch NREN - Our community
- Research universities - Universities of Applied Sciences - Academic & teaching hospitals - Research institutes - Research departments of companies - Scientific libraries - Secondary vocational education & training
- SURFnet characteristics:
- On the demand side of the market - Global collaboration in innovation - Unique relationship with both users and suppliers - Bridge between R&D and market
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Researchers, instructors, and students work together simply and effectively
with the aid of ICT
Vision
Two result areas Network infrastructure A hybrid fixed-wireless network as the basis for all collaboration, providing efficient, unlimited data transport Core services: IP, bandwidth on demand, eduroam
Collaboration infrastructure a pioneering collaboration environment that seamlessly connects systems, services, tools, and people Core services: SURFconext, SURFfederatie, SURFteams, resource broker
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SURFnet6: the hybrid network
• Over 11.000 km dark fiber,
into the connected institutions
• Congestion-free internet connectivity • 1 and 10 Gbit/s • IPv4 and IPv6 • Unicast and multicast
• Lightpaths
• Cross Border Fibers
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SURFnet7 ambition - A new generation network, with a step
improvement in capacity and flexibility
- Lightpath service made scalable and user-controlled
- Enabling Dynamic Services: middleware for a secure and user-friendly integration of ICT infrastructure components
- Heterogeneous network access, including mobile and wireless
- Encourage advanced use cases
- Knowledge made generally available
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SURFnet7: the Scalable, Flexible Hybrid Network
SURFnet provides both fixed and dynamic services
Layer 3 service (IP) Layer 2 service (Ethernet) Layer 0/1 service (Lambda)
Institution
Optical Transport (Layer 0/1)
Next Gen Ethernet (Layer 2)
Routed IP (Layer 3)
Application Application Application Application Application Application
Institution
Bandwidth
Service
Bandwidth
Service
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SURFconext
A next generation collaboration infrastructure that creates new opportunities to collaborate online based on a combination of applications from different providers.
Researchers, educators and students wish to select the tools that best fit their online collaboration needs. Institutions and virtual organizations struggle with the integration of self-hosted services with commercial cloud services and service providers seek for ways to make their services easily accessible for users in higher research and education. SURFconext offers interesting clues to facilitate these needs.