30 September Research Networking in Europe Fernando Liello Quantum Policy Committee INFN - Trieste

30 September The Basic Question n Many People Believe That ISP’s Can Provide Everything n At an Affordable Price n Latency Management n Stream Synchronization n Will Research Use Only Commercial Services in the Future?

30 September European Infrastructure n Not the Very Highest Performance in the World n Very Solid n Bears Global Comparison in All Aspects n Leads in Some

30 September Abilene ESNet JP (mbs) JP (ip) AUCS KPNQwest AUCS TEN-155 Topology (2000) LU IE PT AT CH SE CZ GR HU 622 Mbps 155 Mbps <100 Mbps 310 Mbps NL DE PL ES SI CY US IT UK IL TEN-155 Transit PoP TEN-155 PoP Interconnections 155 Mbps 10 Mbps 34/45 Mbps BE FR

30 September Geographic Scope n Austria n Belgium n Bulgaria n Cyprus n Czech Republic n Estonia n France n Germany n Greece n Hungary n NorduNet n Denmark n Finland n Iceland n Norway n Sweden n Ireland n Israel n Italy n Latvia n Lithuania n Luxembourg n Netherlands n Poland n Portugal n Romania n Slovenia n Slovakia n Spain n Switzerland n United Kingdom

30 September NREN’s Capacity Trends

30 September Users’ Requirements n General n General Connectivity n Distributed n Distributed Data And/Or Computing Resource Access n Remote n Remote Use/Control of Instruments n Virtual n Virtual Experiments n Distributed n Distributed Design and Manufacturing

30 September TEN-155 Experience n Quality of Service n Managed Bandwidth Service n End-to-End Capacity Allocation n Guaranteed Delay and Latency n Virtual Private Networks n Privacy n Services for Mission Oriented Communities n Distributed Data-Bases

30 September GEANT Infrastructure n Multi-Gigabit Core n 2.4 Gbps in 2000 n Dark- or Gray-Fibers in Future? n European Distributed Access (EDA) n AUP-Free for Research & Education n Intercontinental Connections n N.–America, Asia–Pacific, S.–America, …

30 September New Strategic Attitude n Support Global Research Traffic n Promote Interconnect With Research Networks in Other World Regions n Share Costs of Intercontinental Capacity n Distinguish Between Research and Commodity Traffic?

30 September GEANT Service Offer n Best Effort IP n Research Traffic Interchange n End-to-End Quality of Service n Virtual Private Network n Bandwidth Allocation / Reservation

30 September Economically Reasonable n Modest Investment Increase n Scale Economies n Co-ordinate Bandwidth Purchase n Intercontinental Capacity Redundancy n Better Peering Negotiating Position n EC Support n Easily Scalable in Future

30 September Procurement Approach n Public Procurement Rules n Phased Approach n Guaranteed Service Continuity n Non-homogeneous technology

30 September GEANT Timetable n January 2000 n March 2000 n April 2000 n September 2000 n October-November 2000 n December 2000 n EC Produces Framework for RN1 n GEANT Detailed Specifications n Start Element Procurement n Evaluation / Negotiation Phase n Funding for TEN-155 Expires n GEANT