Connect. Communicate. Collaborate

The GÉANT2 Network

Hans Döbbeling, DANTE

Wien, 5 June 2008

GÉANT2 Project

• FP6 1.9.2004 - 31.8.2008 ca. 90 M€ DG-INFSOM• Extended until spring 2009• 30 (34) partner NRENs

National Research & Education Networks

DANTE as coordinator• Sequence of projects providing a network infrastructure• basic layer of eInfrastructures

(grids, HPC, and data on top)

• Preparation of a FP7 proposal working title GN3

GÉANT2

Backbone

January

2008

Hybrid Networking

?

Wavelength

Deployed

On

GÉANT2

R&E

10 Gb/s

Summer

2004

R&E

10 Gb/s

March

2008

Campus Campus Campus Campus

GÉANT2 Service Model

NREN NREN

GÉANT2Backbone

RegionalNetwork

Backbone and Partner Connectivity Services

uncontended capacity services

Wavelength (Lambda) 10 Gb/s transparent

Ethernet or SDH framing

Circuits 1 Gb/s GE-I/F

any multiple of 155Mb/s (VC-4)

with GE, 10GE, or SDH I/F

IP Servicedual stack, IP V4, IP V6

diffserv, Premium IP

MPLS, LSPs

Multicast

GÉANT2 Service Principles

GÉANT2 customers are NRENs

Can emulate one stop shopping to some extent

DANTE/GÉANT2 will not respond to a commercial tender

GÉANT2Services

End user(10s of 1.000.000s)

Campus(1000s)

NREN(30)

Applications

educonf

Access

Roaming(eduroam)

Authorisation(eduGAIN)

Support

perfSONAR

CERT

PERT

AutoBAHN

Lambdas

Circuits

VPN

IP Access

IPv4, IPv6

IP Multicast

GÉANT2 Global Connectivity

North America Internet2, ESNET, CANARIE, NLR (circuits)Latin America Red CLARA (ALICE)Japan SINETIndia ERNETChina CERNET, CSTNET (ORIENT)South-East Asia, (TEIN2, TEIN3) AustraliaMediterranean North Africa, … (EUMEDCONNECT)South East Africa UBUNTUNET Alliance

Global Connectivity

Thank you, Questions ?

Topology

January 2008

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate

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ALICERedCLARA

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate

Place organisation and project logos in this area

EUMEDCONNECT

R&E

10 Gb/s

Summer

2004

R&E

10 Gb/s

June

2008