Group 5 Deterrents to Advanced Services Need Control of Campus End-Points Ownership issues for non centrally administered campuses Layer 8 Issues with QOS (Dimples Anyone?) How to implement SLAs How to request services 11/25/2018
Deterrents to Advanced Services Nerd/Node Ratio is Unfavorable Need multi-talented, fast learners Development vs. Production Operations Risk Tolerance No Time for Everything Lack of Instrumentation Application clients and servers & Network Knobs and Dials Never Enough Documentation (Ours/Theirs) Map of all devices end to end 11/25/2018
Deterrents to Advanced Services IGMP snooping Advanced Apps Build them and we will come Make them simple and they will use them 11/25/2018
Ideas to Improve the Road to Advanced Services What can be done for lack of instrumentation? Need coordinated effort to share tools for end to end problems Promoting a mesh of standardized instrumentation Security concerns are important Support Proxy implementations Support limits for use of instruments Make campuses aware of various players such as the Abilene NOC or NLANR teams as resources 11/25/2018
Ideas to Improve the Road to Advanced Services Make sure information that NOC/Abilene and Gigapops have are available to campuses Need more information from Gigapops and campuses on router configurations and topologies etc. Keep in mind that not everyone wants to divulge the same amount of info. update and encourage behaviors the “Good neighbor” documentation http://www.nlanr.net/VBNS/goodneighbor.html Internet2 to help to provide central indexes of web information on the various advanced services 11/25/2018
Ideas to Improve the Road to Advanced Services What can be done to get production quality advanced services from vendors? I2 can make CIOs aware of advanced services so that they can better prioritize resources. Create Public site that has sample information for creating RFPs on network equipment for features necessary for advanced services. 11/25/2018
Ideas to Improve the Road to Advanced Services What be done to promote Apps and Services? Promote campuses to have liaison personnel between the researchers and networking staff in order to better understand research requirements. Also helps researchers learn about potential services. I2 could go out to academic meetings and make the pitch that the advanced services and applications are available and the benefits of same. 11/25/2018
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