connect communicate collaborate GÉANT has just about been Reloaded! Michael Enrico Chief Technology Officer, DANTE TERENA Networking Conference Maastricht, 3 rd - 6 th June 2013

connect communicate collaborate Agenda GÉANT Today some reminders What’s happening right now rolling out new equipment, fibre infrastructure improvements GÉANT Tomorrow new services, features coming soon, potential new users and unusual apps 22

connect communicate collaborate  40 European Countries  Dark Fibre + DWDM  Hybrid network: Routed IP IPv6, multicast, VPN Point-to-point Circuits typically 1Gbps Dedicated Lambdas Full 10Gbps  Bandwidth on Demand  Network monitoring  Security  Mobility/AAI (edu*) To download this map: About GÉANT

connect communicate collaborate A strongly federated e-Infrastructure (from leased circuits to 100Gbps over dedicated fibre) 2012 The GÉANT Service Area is built on a federation of the infrastructures of 32 NRENs with GÉANT acting as the backbone

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Transmission platform Switching platform Converged (P-OTS) platform? An architectural view of GÉANT FibreLeased circuits TDM (SDH) DWDM IP GR BETRIL EELV LT SK HRSIUK NL DE FR ES PTDKCZ AT ITHUCH RO BGPL IE LU MTCY “Routerless”“Fully featured”Off fibre net IP/MPLS only NREN POPs (Routerless) RU Circuits over GÉANT Leased circuits MKRSME 6

connect communicate collaborate We selected… (for transmission) DTN-X solution from Infinera Why? Photonic integration Large pools of “virtualised” BW Ease of use Excellent service wrap 7

connect communicate collaborate  B/W Virtualization transforms waves into resources A large pool of intelligent capacity  GMPLS allocates resources to service demands Same concept as data center virtualization  Enables shared mesh restoration B/W Virtualization DWDM OTN Switching GMPLS Control Plane B/W Virtualization DWDM OTN Switching GMPLS Control Plane 2x10GbE service demand 100GbE service demand 500Gb/s total 95Gb/s in use 115Gb/s in use 215Gb/s in use Other benefits (efficiency & flexibility through Scalable BW Virtualisation) 8

connect communicate collaborate We selected… (for switching) MX series of IP/MPLS switch/routers from Juniper Why? Supports a wide array of switched services (based on EoMPLS) Includes MP2MP as well as P2P Optimised for Ethernet Supports 100GE 120Gbps/slot (new SCBs) Also good at routing… …and ready for “virtualisation”… …and SDN 9

connect communicate collaborate New GÉANT DF footprint 10 We also reprocured the GÉANT fibre footprint

connect communicate collaborate New GÉANT DF footprint 11 New GÉANT fibre footprint To Frankfurt To Milan Example of improved fibre diversity

connect communicate collaborate Converged (P-OTS) platform IP Transmission platform Switching platform Results in… improved service access & nice options to “converge” FibreLeased circuits Packet transport DWDM IP GR BETRIL EELV LT SK HRSIUK NL DE FR ES PTDKCZ AT ITHUCH RO BGPL IE LU MTCY “Routerless”“Fully featured”Off fibre net IP/MPLS only NREN POPs RU Circuits over GÉANT Leased circuits MKRSME 12 “Converged” (packet transport) platform “Fully featured” “Better featured” ALL now “Better featured”

connect communicate collaborate Transmission rollout/migration (early January) 13 CH FR IT NL HRSI FINK DE CZ SK HU AT BE DK IE ES UK MAR

connect communicate collaborate The First 100Gbps GÉANT Lambda service CERN data centre, Geneva, Switzerland Wigner Centre, Budapest, Hungary Connecting CERN data centre in Geneva to the new remote data centre at the Wigner Centre in BudapestConnecting CERN data centre in Geneva to the new remote data centre at the Wigner Centre in Budapest Part of a diversely routed pair of 100Gbps servicesPart of a diversely routed pair of 100Gbps services RFS: 1 st February 2013RFS: 1 st February 2013 GÉANT section ready 21 st Dec 2012GÉANT section ready 21 st Dec 2012

connect communicate collaborate Transmission migration (today) 15 CH FR IT NL HR SI FINK DE CZ SK HU AT BE DK IE ES UK MAR

connect communicate collaborate 16 New GÉANT footprint (complete)

connect communicate collaborate 100G trunks (for new L2/3) KEY 100G lambda Nx10GE lambda Nx10GE lambda (detail TBD) Nx10G leased lambdas RO PT LTLVEEBG GR HU Fink ES LUBENLUKCZSK HR AT SI PLDK RU DECH IT 17 FRIE

connect communicate collaborate An interesting application… (this one is of protection in the [DWDM+OTN] layer)

connect communicate collaborate 100G Trunk Protection GÉANT “Western Ring” consists of 5 links each running 100GE Upgrade Path (near term)? Upgrade all five trunks to 2x100GE OR… FR UK NL DE 100G CH UK NL DE 100G FR CH UK NL DE 2x100G FR CH

connect communicate collaborate 100G Trunk Protection GÉANT “Western Ring” consists of 5 links each running 100GE Upgrade Path (near term)? Upgrade all five trunks to 2x100GE OR… Add a “direct” fully protected link between two sites UK NL DE 100G FR CH 100G FR UK NL DE CH working path prot/rest path

connect communicate collaborate 100G Trunk Protection GÉANT “Western Ring” consists of 5 links each running 100GE Upgrade Path (near term)? Add a “direct” fully protected link between two sites If there is a fibre cut between CH & DE the “direct” link between CH & NL will get restored dynamically in ~50ms (with 1:1 protection) The IP traffic will use the same physical path it would have used if the ring was 2x100GE There will be no increase in traffic on IP link FR-UK or UK-NL or FR-CH Traffic between CH & DE will go via NL making CH only 2 IP hops away rather than 4 FR UK NL DE CH working path prot/rest path

connect communicate collaborate GN3 Plus project (recently started)…

connect communicate collaborate 23 GN3 Plus project – what’s new? OPEN CALLS

connect communicate collaborate GÉANT Open Call - Overview Theme 1: Innovative Uses of GEANT facilities Beneficiaries: up to 11 Topic 1: Photonic Level Access to Long Haul DF (3) Topic 2: Software Defined Networking Open Flow facility use (4) Topic 3: Dynamic Circuits - Novel uses of Bandwidth on Demand (2) Topic 4: Terabit Transmission Trial (2) Theme 2: JRA work packages Beneficiaries: up to 14 Topic 5: Clean Slate Design for FI Architecture (1) Topic 6: Flexible Optical Network (1 ) Topic 7: Multi-Domain Optical Modelling Tool (1) Topic 8: Alien Wavelength over GEANT (1) Topic 9: Network as a Service (2) Topic 10: OGF NSI compliant CTS (1) Topic 11: CDN capabilities for REN (1) Topic 12: High-Availability Networking (1) Topic 13: Dynamic trust model protocols (1) Topic 14: Authentication mechanism supporting higher LOA (1) Topic 15: Building support for external attribute authorities (1) Topic 16: IEEE802.1X and EAP – standards based approach (1) Topic 17: Scalable ubiquitous access to networks & Cloud services (1) Theme 3: Innovation Beneficiaries: up to 5 Topic 18: Hardening Network Management, Deterministic behaviour of multi- domain networks, Networks without borders (5) For more information see: BUT… Closing date was last week - May 29 th 2013!!!

connect communicate collaborate 25 GN3 Plus project – what’s new? (2 new service activities)

connect communicate collaborate Looking to the (longer term) future… (2 potential new big science users)

connect communicate collaborate SKA – Square Kilometre Array 27 Southern Africa Western Australia

connect communicate collaborate ITER – Nuclear Fusion Demonstrator 28

connect communicate collaborate In summary The GÉANT backbone has almost finished being substantially upgraded The bywords of which are: “More for all” – more bandwidth at our disposal – more flexibility – versatile & rapid service provisioning – more function – leading to more service offerings – more accessibility to GÉANT users Real Future Proofing … towards the Horizon (2020) And finally there is even more to come: Transatlantic 100G pilot starting now! An expansion of GÉANT’s peering, exploration of the Cloud More support for SDN (at the packet and optical layers) Explore support for more exotic services (e.g. photonic services) 29

connect communicate collaborate Thank you for listening! Questions?