european research networking kevin meynell, terena ([email protected])
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European NRNs
• Approximately 40 countries in Europe + assorted international treaty organisations.
• All have some form of academic/research network.
• Generally three types:
– Run by government department.
– Run by non-governmental organisation.
– ‘Private’ initiative (non-profit company, bilateral agreements or single institution lead).
• Most (if not all) funded directly or indirectly by national governments.
• Some additional funding from EU, NATO etc..
• Different stages of development, esp. Eastern Europe.
Pan-European Organisations
• TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association)
– Formed through merger of RARE and EARN (BITNET) in 1994.
– Consists of over 40 national, international and associate members.
– Not-for-profit association funded mainly by subscription.
• DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Networking to Europe)– Formed in 1993 as a limited non-profit company.
– 15 shareholding NRNs. EU + Czech Rep, Slovenia & Poland
• CEENet (Central and Eastern Europe Networking Organisation).
– Loose association of Eastern European and FSU countries.
TERENA• Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 10 staff.
• Runs Conferences and Workshops:– TERENA Networking Conference (formerly JENC)
– NATO Advanced Networking Workshops
• Provides legal framework for new services:– EuroCERT
– RIPE NCC
• Lobbies EU and national governments + represents membership at external organisations
• Technical Programme– Task Forces (TF-TANT, TF-CACHE, TF-ESME)
– Projects (SCIMITAR, REIS)
• Doesn’t run a network!
DANTE• Based in Cambridge, UK. 15 staff.
• Established to operate pan-European Research Network.
• Extremely expensive to lease cross-border lines.– EU telecommunications deregulation on 1 Jan 1999 (except Portugal and Spain)
should reduce costs, but still monopolies in non-EU countries.
– Would actually be cheaper to interconnect via US!
• Funded 40% by European Union, remainder by fees from NRNs.– Networks planned on EU funding cycles (4th & 5th FP).
– Current projects = QUANTUM & Q-MED.
• Also have 2 x 155 Mbps to US used by smaller NRNs.
• Connections to STARTAP and Japan (2 Mbps) planned.
QUANTUM & Q-MED
• QUANTUM (QUALity Network Technology for User-oriented Multimedia) project funded by 5th Call of EU Fourth Framework Programme.
• 3 goals:– A pan-European network running at speeds of up to 155 Mbit/s.
Known as TEN-155.
– Provision of bandwidth for research purposes.
– Advanced technology testing programme.
• Q-MED is a complimentary project to connect Cyprus and Israel to TEN-155.
TEN-155
• Pan-European network based on ATM over STM-1 circuits.
• Single provider unlike previous networks (KPN).
• Managed bandwidth provides a number of services (production IP traffic, VPN for research, Mbone, native IPv6).
• ATM considered the only mechanism that is capable of fulfilling these requirements (at the moment).
• Research VPN allocated 2-15 Mbps.– Access speed can be determined by each NRN.
– May be used by approved EU projects + TF-TANT
– Usage charging applies (in theory).
– Used to determine suitability of new technologies for production environment.
TF-TANT
• Joint activity between TERENA and DANTE.
• Works on voluntary basis. NRNs + commercial vendors.
• Determines suitability of new technologies for future networks (also applicable to NRNs).
• Test programme includes:– MPLS (completed).
– Differentiated Services & RSVP (in progress).
– Native IPv6 network (established).
– Mbone running MBGP (established).
– ATM SVCs with QoS (part of acceptance tests).
– Policy Servers (in progress).
– Traffic charging mechanisms (in progress).