Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 (and 3) CCIRN XiAn 26 August 2007 David West DANTE

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 7th generation of pan-European research network infrastructure Project partners: 30 NRENs and over 3500 research and education establishments Funded jointly by NRENs and European Commission Project timescale September August 2008 –Extension to Q –Four year project, GEANT3 planned from Q to Q2 2013

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Current topology 2006/2007

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 Connect. Communicate. Collaborate 25 POPs km of fibre ILA sites 50+ x (own) 10G lambdas Additional leased 10 and 2.5 Gbps circuits Router tender underway NREN accesses at up to 10Gbps (+ backup) + P2P connections to other R&E networks: Abilene, ESnet, CA*net4, SINET, TENET, RedCLARA, EUMEDCONNECT, TEIN2

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Overall increase of ~50% From 59 to Gb wavelength spans

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GEANT2 operational services Basic IP access via the GEANT2 router GEANT+ service: a point to point (P2P) service typically of GE paths within a 10 GE access Managed wavelength service: P2P service of full rate 10 Gb wavelength

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate P2P Circuits

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 P2P Circuit Orders –by Project LHC: –3 x GE – 9 x 10Gbps DEISA –5 x 10Gbps Phosphorus –4 x GE EXPReS (eVLBI) –4 x GE LHC DEISA EXPReS Phosphorus Other

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 P2P User Group 1: Large Hadron Collider Providing 10Gbps circuits on the primary Tier 0 to Tier 1 routes: 9 delivered so far Additional 1Gbps circuits provided on some Tier1-Tier1 routes IP backbone supports further international data transfers

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 P2P User Group 2: eVLBI Aim to connect all European telescopes using dedicated 1Gbps wavelengths –Already connected at 1Gbps via GÉANT2 Medicina (Italy) Cambridge (UK) Jodrell Bank (UK) Torun (Poland)

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Example of new service developments Provision of PerfSONAR Monitoring services –In an Environment that is: Multi-domain Using multiple transmission technologies

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Problem space Point A PointB Domain A Domain B Domain C Goal: (near) real-time monitoring (link status) of constituent DomainLinks (and links between domains) and whole end-to-end Link A-B. E2ELink A-B

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Approach Point A PointB Domain A Domain B Domain C E2ELink A-B perfSONAR MP or MA perfSONAR MP or MA E2Emon correlator perfSONAR Measurement Point (MP) or Measurement Archive (MA) DomainLink and (partial) ID_Link info Weathermap view for users E2ECU operators

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT3 (from 2009) Planning has started! Building on conclusions of EARNEST foresight study Exploit and extend dark fibre investment Focus on improving performance for users: –further service development –Inter-regional co-operation