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Research Networking: A “20/20” Vision UAE Forum in Information and Communication Technology Research 2010

Dai Davies, DANTE

9 May 2010

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Who are we and what do we do?

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Who are we?

GÉANT is the high-speed pan-European infrastructure serving Europe’s research and education community

Together with Europe’s NRENs, GÉANT connects 40 million users in over 8,000 institutions

Co-funded by Europe’s NRENs and the European Commission (EC)

32 European NRENs

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The pan-European infrastructure

Resilient Infrastructure

Common Governance

Central Operations

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Vital for European Research

GÉANT supports researchers and students in a wide variety of work:

Medicine and healthcare

Particle physics

Earth observation

Radio astronomy

Disaster warning and crisis support

Arts and culture

“Without GÉANT a significant bulk of pan-European research cooperation would simply not function. GÉANT is a critical infrastructure for many projects*.”

Source: European Commission (2010): The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Creation of Global Virtual Research Communities.

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The 3 Ages of Research Networking

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The 3 Ages of Research Networking

1990-2000 Age of Rationing

Monopoly infrastructure

Simple technology

2000-2010 Age of Development

Liberalising infrastructure

Bandwidth galore

2010-2020 Age of Service

Reliable performance

Focus on user needs

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1990-2000: Age of Rationing

Monopoly infrastructure Much of Europe at mercy of monopolistic providers

Data networks dictated what would happen

Provision of services was not user-focused

Simple technologyConnectivity itself was an achievement

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1990-2000: Age of Rationing

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2000-2010: Age of Development

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2010 – 2020: Age of Service

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GÉANT NOC

Day-to-day management of the GÉANT network

GÉANT Network Control Centre (NCC)

– diagnosing network problems, organising repairs and maintenance, configuring new services. 

GÉANT Service Desk (SD).

– first point of contact 24/7

Well defined multi-domain operational procedures

Close collaboration between the NREN’s NOCs

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Projects using GÉANT

FEDERICA

Point-to-point 1G Ethernet MPLS tunnels over IP

Point-to-point 1 G Ethernet MPLS tunnels over IP

Radio Astronomy eVLBI

Point-to-point 1G Ethernet circuits to the telescopes

DEISA European Supercomputing

10G Ethernet Lambdas all sites connect to a 10G Ethernet switch

Large Hadron ColliderExperiments at CERN

10G Ethernet Lambdas dual star + backup links connects data centres to CERN

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DEISA: GÉANT lambdas and E2E monitoring

10G Ethernet links connecting Supercomputers to a 10GE switch in DFN FrankfurtEnd-to-End monitoring service (E2EMon)Also use the routed IP service

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The move to user focused services

R&D User

The transition to service: before

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The move to user focused services

The transition to service: during

R&D User

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The move to user focused services

The transition to service: after

R&D User

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Global Connectivity

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GÉANT global connectivity

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EUMEDCONNECT2 network update

Connects:

7 MED countries

700 academic and research sites

2m + users

Still 34 – 155 Mbps capacities

Telco markets are still largely uncompetitive

EUMEDCONNECT provides the only R&E links to GÉANT

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