the gigacampus initiative collaborate campus networking in norway vidar faltinsen uninett may 18...
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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
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
