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GN3 PROJECT

Karel Vietsch, TERENAGN3/NA3/T4 Campuses Best Practice meeting, Trondheim, 27-28 May 2009


History

2000-2004: GN1 projectGÉANT network

2004-2009: GN2 projectGÉANT2 network

Other services

Joint Research ActivitiesNetworking Activities

2009-2013: GN3 project (started 1 April 2009)GÉANT network

Wider range of services

Joint Research ActivitiesNetworking Activities


Final GÉANT2 topology

GÉANT topology –April 2009


GN3 project partners

DANTETERENA


GN3 vision statement

To create an innovative multi-domain hybrid networking environment, using advanced transmission and switching technologies

To enable research and education users through their organisations with flexible and scalable production quality services via their constituent National Research and Education Networks

To be an enabler for global research and education networking supporting international e-Science initiatives, creating a Global Virtual Village to house researchers and educators around the world

To contribute to standards as a key participant in European and global efforts towards the Network of the Future


Structure of GN3 project

Joint Research Activities:JRA1: Future NetworkJRA2: Multi-domain Resources and ServicesJRA3: Enabling Communities

Networking Activities:NA1: ManagementNA2: Joint Dissemination and OutreachNA3: Status and TrendsNA4: Liaison and Support

Service Activities:SA1: GÉANT Network Architecture Design and Planning, Procuring, Building and OperatingSA2: Multi-Domain Service OperationSA3: End-User Services in a Federated EnvironmentSA4: Software Governance


GN3 budget (for 4 years)

SA1

SA2

SA3

SA4

JRA1

JRA2

JRA3

NA1

NA2

NA3

NA4

Total 181.4 M€

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EU contribution (93 M€) Project partners (88.4 M€)


SA1: GÉANT Network

Leader: Marian Garcia Vidondo (DANTE)

Task 1: Network Planning and Procurement Preparation Michael Enrico (DANTE)

– Produce optimal network designs driven by requirements and value for money– Look at the long term strategy– Look at reaching new NRENs partners

Task 2: Procurement of the Network ElementsMatthew Scott (DANTE)

– Tender for new network elements and re-tender for those elements with short-term commitments

Task 3: Provisioning and Operation of the GÉANT NetworkXavier Martins-Rivas (DANTE)

– Provisioning and operating the GEANT backbone network– Providing mature advanced services across the backbone– Creating a platform for implementing latest technologies and trialling new

operational developments


SA2: Multi-Domain Network Service Operation

Leader: Ann Harding (SWITCH, Switzerland)

Task 1: Multi-domain Network Connectivity Services Development Brian Bach Mortensen (NORDUnet, Nordic countries)

– Life cycle management of: multi-domain provisioning of wavelengths and sub-lambda circuits, QoS treatment of selected IP traffic flows, multi-point virtual networks, Optical Private Networks

Task 2: Service Coordination and OperationsEmma Apted (DANTE)

– Develop the existing co-ordination functions – Define the operational procedures to be used by the various domain NOCs

Task 3: Service Monitoring Tools and PerformanceSzymon Trocha (PIONIER, Poland)

– Define and manage a monitoring service portfolio – Organise collaborative performance activities via a federated PERT

Task 4: SecurityMaurizio Molino (DANTE)

– Provide security expertise for the development of multi-domain services Task 5: Tools to support Multi-domain Workflows

Marcin Wolski (PIONIER, Poland) – Development of tools for multi-domain service delivery: AutoBAHN, AMPS, cNIS,

I-SHARe…


SA3: End-user Services in a Federated Environment

Leader: Josh Howlett (JANET(UK), United Kingdom)

Task 1: European PKI Coordination

Licia Florio (TERENA)

– Continue the work of TACAR

– Establish a Policy Management Authority (PMA) that will set standards for European PKIs and accredit them

– Establish a Certificate Authority for end-users whose NREN does not operate an accredited CA

Task 2: Roaming Access Services

Miroslav Milonović (Srce, Croatia)– Maintain and extend the established eduroam service at the European

(confederation) level– Develop the technology and policy infrastructure

Task 3: eduGAIN Service Introduction and Operation

Valter Nordh (NORDUnet, Nordic countries)

– Establish pan-European Web SSO and authorisation services


SA4: Software governance

Leader: Cezary Mazurek (PIONIER)

Task 1: Software Best Practice

Branko Marović (AMRES, Serbia)

– Set overall software architecture strategy and issua quality assurance guidelines

– Address access to, and use of, software by intended users

Task 2: Software Quality Assurance

Maciej Labedzki (PIONIER, Poland)

– Supervise quality of software production and assess compliance to guidelines

Task 3: Software Development Support InfrastructureWaldemar Zurowski (DANTE)

– Specify, build and operate software development support infrastructure for all software development teams in GN3

– Specify and deploy the infrastructure for allowing users to access, download, upgrade and apply patches to the software products


JRA1: Future Network

Leader: Tony Breach (NORDUnet, Nordic countries)

Task 1: Carrier Class Network Transport Technologies

Alberto Colmenero Sánchez (NORDUnet, Nordic countries)– Research into exploitation of hybrid infrastructure by connection-oriented

transport technologies such as Carrier Class PBT and T-MPLS

Task 2: Photonic Switching and Experimental Photonic FacilitiesLars Lange Bjørn (NORDUnet, Nordic countries)

– Photonic technologies, photonic interoperability, transmission capacity and granularity, control and management plane, OAM&P (Operation, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning)

Task 3: Federated Network ArchitecturesPaul van Daalen (SURFnet, Netherlands)

– Paper describing different GÉANT, NREN and third-party network architectures

– Test case involving GÉANT, NREN and vendorsTask 4: Current and Potential Uses of Virtualisation

Reza Nejabati (University of Essex, United Kingdom)

– Analysis, prototyping, test case


JRA2: Multi-domain Resources and Services

Leader: Afrodite Sevasti (GRNET, Greece)

Task 1: Control and ManagementPavle Vuletić (AMRES, Serbia)

– Investigate a common, cross-activity framework harmonisation and integration of the control and management functions required in a multi-domain environment

Task 2: Hybrid Network ProvisioningRadek Krzywania (PIONIER, Poland)

– Enhance AutoBAHN prototype with functionality, extending it to other layers and technologies for dynamic circuit provisioning and improving existing modules (e.g. path-finding computations) or revising its functions

Task 3: MonitoringRoman Łapacz (PIONIER, Poland)

– Investigate new demands, derive requirements and elaborate new concepts for network monitoring to foster GN3 multi-domain services

Task 4: SecuritySimona Venuti (GARR, Italy)

– Introduce new, innovative methods for incident and security threat detectionTask 5: Network Factory

tbd– Provide to the user community an infrastructure independent of the production

environment to perform tests


JRA3: Enabling Communities

Leader: Licia Florio (TERENA)

Task 1: Roaming developments

Stefan Winter (RESTENA, Luxembourg)

– Develop a new eduroam architecture to increase security and usability Task 2: Identity Federations

Andreas Solberg (UNINETT, Norway)

– Enhance inter-operability of Identity Federations and provide ease-to-use services

– Coordinate the usage of SAML2 profiles amongst the Identity Federations to ensure compatibility

Task 3: Composable Services

Diego López (RedIRIS, Spain)– Enable users not only to request GN3 services, according to users rights, but

also to define new services by composing the existing ones


NA1: Project Management

Leaders: Dai Davies (DANTE) and Hans Döbbeling (DANTE)

Project Consortium

Project Board

Project Management Team (Activity Leaders)Project Office:

– Technical Coordination (DANTE)

– Security Coordination (GARR, Italy)– IPR Coordination (???)

– Service Coordination (DANTE)

– Standards Coordination (DANTE)

– Financial Administration (DANTE)– Meeting Logistics Support (TERENA)

– Training (DANTE & TERENA)

– Technical Authoring (DANTE)– Systems Support (DANTE)


NA2: Joint Dissemination and Outreach

Leader: Melanie Pankhurst (DANTE)

Task 1: Strategy, Planning, MessagingMelanie Pankhurst (DANTE)

Task 2: Partner Services PromotionLaura Durnford (TERENA)

– Promote the deployment and use of services offered by NRENs to institutions and end-users

Task 3: Web-based CommunicationsPaul Hasleham (DANTE)

Task 4: Materials – Printed and Audio-VisualHelen Martindale (DANTE)

Task 5: Press and newsHelen Martindale (DANTE)

Task 6: External eventsDale Robertson (DANTE)

Task 7: Focussed Market OutreachDale Robertson (DANTE)


NA3: Status and Trends

Leader: Karel Vietsch (TERENA)

Task 1: Compendium of National Research and Education NetworksJohn Dyer (TERENA)

– Publish annual editions of the TERENA Compendium of NRENs in Europe

Task 2: Coordination of Task Forces

Valentino Cavalli (TERENA)– Provide support to technical TERENA task forces

Task 3: Foresight Update

Karel Vietsch (TERENA)– Smaller scale than SERENATE or EARNEST; starts in 2011

Task 4: Campus Best Practice

Vidar Faltinsen (UNINETT, Norway)

– Compile, roll out and disseminate best practices in networking campus Task 5: Study of Environmental Impact

Mike Norris (HEAnet, Ireland)

– Make sure that GÉANT meets ambitious sustainability goals – Promote energy-saving and ecologically sound applications layered over the

GÉANT infrastructure


NA4: Liaison and Support

Leader: Cathrin Stöver (DANTE)

Task 1: International Cooperation (outside GÉANT service area)

Tom Fryer (DANTE)– Carry out the dialogue of the project with research and education organisations

across the globe Task 2: Internal Cooperation (consultation with partners)

John Chevers (DANTE)

– Maximise involvement of GN3 project partners

Task 3: Liaison with Projects and InitiativesRichard Hughes Jones (DANTE)

– Liaise with projects and user groups to encourage productive use of the GÉANT network for new users and applications

Task 4: Contributions to Standardisation Bodies

Guy Roberts (DANTE)

– Support contributions from GN3 project to global standardisation process Task 5: Networking Development Support

Valentino Cavalli (TERENA)

– Support to the development of research and education networking in less advanced regions


And now?

These are the plans

All work was scheduled to have started on 1 April 2009

Obviously no results yet

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