Networking to Services Recent developments as documented by the TERENA Compendium TERENA Networking Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 23 May 2012 Bert van Pinxteren

Structure of talk What will I concentrate on? Connectivity Services: a look back at 2001 (about incorrect predictions…) A look at the services hierarchy Developments over the past decade and the past years What does this mean for the work of NRENs?

When will we enter the 100 Gb era? A look back at 2001... When will we enter the 100 Gb era? (log scale in Mbps) Belgium was at 622 Mb, Czechs were at 2.5 Gb In 2001, Slovakia’s backbone was at 4 Mb

When will we enter the 100 Gb era? A look back at 2001... When will we enter the 100 Gb era? (log scale in Mbps) The Czechs predicted 100 Gb by 2005, the Belgians by 2005 Slovakia predicted a growth from 4 Mb in 2001 to 4 Gb in 2006

But of course that did not happen... Slovakia did not reach 4 Gb in 2006, but went to 622 Mb. However, they are now at 10 Gb. Belgium and the Czech Republic did not go to 100 Gb yet – Belnet is at 20 Gb, CESNET at 10 Gb. In 2011, the highest capacity on the backbone was 40 Gb/s, deployed by JANET (UK).  In 2001, connectivity was the name of the game. In 2011, connectivity is still important – what is new, is deployment of services other than connectivity services.

What do we mean by ‘services’? Hierarchy proposed by Koen Schelkens in 2006: Network & Connectivity Services Security Services Authentication & "Mobility Service" Housing – Storage – hosting – Content delivery services Network collaboration tools & conferencing Network computing resources E-learning / Distance teaching & Learning : E-research User interaction – knowledge dissemination NREN side activities/services (not NREN user specific)

What services will I talk about? Modified hierarchy, used for the 2012 Compendium questionnaire: Connectivity services Network & Connectivity Services Middleware services Security Services (includes DNSSEC) Authentication & "Mobility Service" (includes eduroam, digital certificates)

What services will I talk about? Collaboration support services Housing – Storage – Hosting – Content delivery services (including multimedia repositories, storage services, content servers, content mirroring) Network collaboration tools & conferencing (including voice services, videoconferencing, web conferencing, supporting group collaboration) Network computing resources (Clouds, grids) E-learning / Distance teaching & Learning : E-research User interaction – knowledge dissemination (broker services, consultancy, security audits) NREN side activities/services (not NREN user specific) (e-government, software development, IPR) This IS a hierarchy: FIRST connectivity, THEN middleware, THEN collaboration – if you want the collaboration, you need the connectivity and the AAI…

Overall developments: one indicator: how much did we write about it? The real explosion was in 2005/2006…

Middleware: PKI/CA in 2001 Provided Not provided No answer Not in GÉANT

Middleware: Certificates in 2011 Provided Not provided Planned Not in GÉANT

Next step: eduGAIN (2012)

But how about collaboration support services? Housing – Storage – Hosting – Content delivery services Network collaboration tools & conferencing Network computing resources E-learning / E-research User interaction – knowledge dissemination NREN side activities/services These services have developed tremendously since 2005. In addition, existing services (e.g. e-mail) are starting to change, making use of the new federation services. But – the picture is uneven.

Example: Grid services in 2005 and in 2010

So – were there less Grid services in 2010 than in 2005? Of course, Grid services developed tremendously since 2005 But – in many cases, the providers of these services are not the NREN (although more often than not, there is some sort of NREN involvement) Many other new services are now being explored and discussed in the NREN community.

New in 2011 New services included in the 2011 Compendium: Security services, including DNSSEC; Two-factor authentication; Supporting Group Collaboration; e-Learning.

Example: platform of bundled services for supporting group collaboration

New in 2012: NREN involvement with e-government, public services NREN rights to software, software repositories And there is more, of course, that is not in the Compendium but that is still happening (for example Filesender, BoF yesterday).

What does that mean for the NRENs? NRENs seem to be becoming more labour-intensive and less capital-intensive

What will the future bring? Connectivity and Authentication, but no monopoly on collaboration support services Centre of expertise Know what’s being developed elsewhere Aggregate demand Listen to users, act on their wishes Perhaps more in the ASPIRE BoF tonight! See, for example, the NORDUnet inspiration paper. One keyword there is ‘easy to use’. What does that require? (http://www.nordu.net/ndnweb/news___events_attchmt/NORDUnet%20NREN%202020%20Inspiration%20Paper.pdf)

Structure of talk