The GigaCampus initiativeCollaborate campus networking in

Norway

Vidar FaltinsenUNINETT

May 18 2006

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Norway in a nutshell

4.5 mill inhabitants Scattered population High mountains, fjords Shortest distance south to

north: 1 752 km approx 3 days by car If we rotate Norway

upside down Spitsbergen will be south of Catania !

Coastline of 25 148 km ~62% of the length of

the equator

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The research network

1 – 2.5 Gb/s Redundancy 15 + 5 year IRU 40 universities and

university collages > 200 institutions 250.000 users Operations in

Trondheim

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Campus networks are now the weakest link

Campus network bottlenecks

UNINETT

Frustrated users

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The GigaCampus initiative

Government funding Four year programme 2006 – 2009

Predecessor after a simular programme Long tradition in Norway for cooperation

in the R&E IT community Our mission:

Provide and coordinate top international-level campus IT-infrastructures that will promote innovation, cooperation and productive research and education.

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The GigaCampus engine

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GigaCampus – seven areas of focus

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UNINETT engineering task force

Working groups in each area of focus Gather the best there is of engineers at our universities! New areas may develop

Discuss the further development in campus networking – coming

challenges Produce

Common best practice documents How-to’s

Open participation Regular meetings Mailinglists Wiki

Participation in international working groups

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Coordinated call for tender

Develop common purchase agreements for the national R&E community Major savings in overall cost Major savings in overall spent time on

tender processes Many contracts

Network equipment (routers, switches, wireless)

Telephony DSL PCs and servers Application software

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GigaCampus @ work

Touring the country – out in the field!

Participants from UNINETT and from major universities and university collages

Collaboration with local IT staff on site Network design and implementation Focus on the physical infrastructure Focus on security

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Physical reliability

Fibre projects for the MANs

Network cabling cat3... multimode...

Power and grounding UPS, diesel power

generators Cooling / ventilation Fire detection Physical security

Focus area #1

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High capacity networking Upgrade the campus networks step by

step

Gigabit to more and more end users Scale the campus backbones Focus on fault tolerance

End-to-end multicast IPv6 on campus! Lambdas on campus!

2009: Gigabit capacity for the majority of users

Focus area #2

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Mobility

Radio planning workshops

Wireless rollout workshops

Focus on secure wireless networks

Address roaming challanges

Support eduroam

2009: Wireless access everywere – on all campuses

Focus area #3

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Person-to-person

communication

Develop a SIP architecture that supports IP telephony, video conferencing, direct messaging and more.

Promote a push from the telephony paradigm to the multimedia paradigm

2009: A common platform for IP-based multimedia communication

Focus area #4

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Security

Develop and implement security policies

Establish IRTs on all campuses

Thanks to TF-CSIRT TRANSITS!

Discuss and elaborate security architecture

Develop monitoring tools

The number of security incidents are growing exponentially

2009: Implemented security policies and

established IRTs on all universities

Focus area #5

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Service management

Discuss best practices for operations We need to operate 24x7x365

Encourage and support development of usefull tools

Provide a GigaCampus tool box for all campus networks Train personel in how

to use the tools!

Focus area #6

2009: Advanced tools and solutions for proactive operations IN USE on all campuses

GigaCampus

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” We are convinced that most campuses do not take the task of measuring and understanding their traffic flows sufficiently seriously ”

- SERENATE, December 2003

Focus area #6

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NAV – Network Administration Visualized Network

management system developed by NTNU and UNINETT since 1999.

Open source More information on

http://metanav.ntnu.no

Is included on the GigaCampus toolbox.

Focus area #6

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NAV – key features

Autodetect network topology (L3, L2, per vlan) Network maps Machine tracker / L2 traceroute

delay /loss

servicemonitor

networkexplorer

traffic map

RRD

cricket

tabularreports

machinetracker

NAVdb

reportgenerator

statusmonitor

thresholdmonitor

www

event and alert engineexternalsystems

email

SMS

devicecenter

Focus area #6

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Stager

Developed at UNINETT since 2002. Open source - http://software.uninett.no Generic tool for storage, aggregation and

presentation of network statistics Netflow analysis Round trip and packet loss Generic SNMP data gathering

Is included on the GigaCampus toolbox

GigaCampus

Focus area #6

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Stager screen shot [1]

Focus area #6

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Stager screen shot [2]

Focus area #6

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Focus area #7

End-to-end quality Measuring beacons on all campuses

• Througput• Packet delay and loss• Session intensity• Available capacity• Traffic behaviour

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MPING

NDT

Focus area #7

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UNINETT participate in

the PerfSONAR effort

Focus area #7

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GigaCampus measuring beacons contributes to the LOBSTER project

A network of passive Internet traffic monitors Special hardware MAPI software

Cooporation across boarders Exhange

information and obervations

Correlate results

Focus area #7

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GigaCampus – in summary

http://www.gigacampus.no gigacampus@uninett.no