GRNET - Development of eInfrastructures in SE-Europe Internet2 International Task Force (ITF) Tryfon Chiotis, Technical Director GRNET - Greek Research & Technology Network Arlington, May 2005

2 GRNET – Role National Research & Education Network (NREN) of Greece Interconnect academic and research institutions (more than 80 today), primary and secondary schools (more than ) a total of up to end-users Continuously upgrade the NREN backbone (currently towards 2.5/10 Gbps), institutions access (currently to Gbps), and schools access (to Mbps) Operate the Athens Internet Exchange (AIX) interconnection point among major Greek Internet ISPs Cooperate with Greek and international research and academic institutions for the development of innovative networking services

Arlington, May GRNET-2 (ΕΔΕΤ-2) Core 1/2,5 Gbps based on leased lambdas Access 2/34 Mbps – 1Gbps International 2x2.5Gbps (to be upgraded to 2x10Gbps – 3Q05)

Arlington, May Services – Distributed NOC (VNOC) Outsourced by category to five (5) University NOCs, coordinated by GRNET NTUA: Management & control of routers and switches AUTH, UoA: RTS, PKI, CERT UoC: Web services TEIATH: Helpdesk, basic services CTI: Advanced services development (MPLS VPNs, QoS)

Arlington, May IPv6 deployment in Greece GRNET dual stack IPv6 network GRNET2 (Cisco GSR12400) since December GRNET1 (Cisco 7500) since March 2004 Basic networking services, e.g. DNS, and monitoring Gradual increase of IPv6 traffic towards GEANT, e.g. 52GByte in Feb2005 IPv6-only test network since 2002 – 6NET Connect Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra and Herakleio via ATM PVCs Validate protocols and routers functionality IPv6 support in Universities NTUA, CTI, Aegean Un., AUTH, TEIATH, UoA, TEI Ion., etc. Address allocation, native connectivity, servers, multicast, etc. Greek IPv6 Forum ISPs, Mobile Operators, Telcos, Vendors, Software developers, Governmental Agencies, etc.

Arlington, May IPv6 deployment in School Network Deploy IPv6 services to the national School Network dual stack core network + ADSL access for 150 schools Plan smooth migration IPv6 – Avoid degradation of production services, e.g. , dialup, web filtering, etc.

Arlington, May Next steps (1) Dark fiber spans contracts under final negotiation RFI/RFP published for transmission & switching equipment

Arlington, May Next steps (2) GRNET WAN based on dark fiber (2Q06)

Arlington, May Next steps (3) Cover most Greek cities with Universities or Research Institutes using dark fiber By extending optical- based GRNET to the borders, cross-border fiber is becoming a feasible solution

Arlington, May easing the digital divide in SE-Europe Establish a networking environment for research & education, linking NRENs of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, FYROM, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia- Montenegro – easing the digital divide in SE-Europe Access (2-34 Mbps) to the Pan-European research network through the major GÉANT PoPs in the area (Athens, Bucharest) Bulgaria already connected to GEANT/GN2 Proposal for SEEREN2 has be submitted to EC VNOC Concept, Know-how Transfer Development, Operation & Management services distributed to NREN NOCs ( VNOC Concept, Know-how Transfer ) Athens Bucharest Skopje Sofia Tirana Belgrade Sarajevo to GEANT SEEREN

Arlington, May IPv6 deployment in SEEREN 6PE services over Carrier Supporting Carrier (CsC) Basic interconnection services achieved – Monitoring infrastructure deployed Extend the deployment of IPv6 services in SEEREN2 (phase 2)

Arlington, May DISS-Dissemination and Exploitation 30-month project, 9 partners, 0.9 M€ Objectives: Transfer knowledge and deployment experiences from European IPv6 projects (6NET, Euro6IX, GEANT), TERENA, European NRENs, etc. to research network operators, universities, commercial organizations, governments and regulators in various regions in the world Organise 8 workshops to disseminate IPv6 awareness Target areas: Balkan countries (inc. Bulgaria, Rumania, Moldova & Turkey) Mediterranean countries Central Asia Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa The Caribbean Asia-Pacific region South and Central America. … and will exchange information with such organisations in India & China Expertise & material from 6NET, Euro6IX, GEANT, NRENs, … IPv6 modules tuned for each Workshop Workshop organization & technical support Support for IPv6 deployment & future IST participation

Arlington, May SEE-Light Proposal to be submitted to the Greek HIPERB programmee (Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkans) to acquire access to dark fiber and interconnections in SEE Target: The implementation of a regional optical network, a viable infrastructure for the development and operation of the national research networks in SEE

Arlington, May SEEFIRE South-East European Fibre Infrastructure for Research and Education Target: to build on the success of SEEREN and the results obtained by GN1 and SERENATE and the best practices in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia-Montenegro and Greece. Τhe project will produce a study on the availability of options for networking infrastructures, as well as on the possible strategies for R&E Networking development in SE Europe Budget: € Project Coordinator: TERENA

Arlington, May The HellasGrid Initiative Deployment of National GRID Infrastructure with 6 installation sites (770 CPUs, 34 TBs storage) Involves all major research and academic institutes working on Grids- eScience all over Greece High Energy Physics, Bio-informatics, Meteorology, Astronomy, Computer scientists-Virtual Collaboration Environments Providing services to the Pan- European GRID community through the EGEE Project

Arlington, May Contribute to building a Pan-EU eInfrastructure by expanding the “eInfrastructure inclusion” into South-East Europe SEEREN Contract No.: FP6-RI Project type: Specific Support Action (SSA) Start date: 01/05/2004 Duration: 24 months Total Budget: 1,215,000 Є SEEREN > The SEE-GRID initiative

Arlington, May Further develops the successful GN1 (FP5) project which has created the GEANT pan-European network Upgrade of the network backbone: GEANT2 Emphasis on switched end-to-end provision of services across multiple interconnected networks Migration from IP services to combination of routing and switching A number of Joint Research Activities are working towards this direction Greece a hub for Turkey, Cyprus and Israel Participation to GN2

Arlington, May Large scale IPv6 networks GEANT ( Native IPv6 interconnection services (2Q2003), multicast (1Q2004), IPv6 traffic monitoring tools. - Similar policy for IPv6 and IPv4 traffic & services Most of the NRENs are already connected: REDiris, Renater, FCCN, GARR, SURFNET, Heanet, IUCC, PSCN, Litnet, EEnet, Switch,... Interconnection with other research, e.g. Abilene, and commercial networks

Arlington, May NET 3½ year project, ~37 partners, ~18.4 M€ Objectives: Operate a large scale native IPv6 network and validate / gain experience with protocols, applications and new services Services: DNS (DNSSec), Multicast, DHCPv6, Routing policies & RPSLng, Security, IPv6 QoS, Mobile IPv6, VPNs, etc. Application, e.g. Videoconferencing, Streaming, Online Games, etc. Management, e.g. ASPath, Looking Glass, Weathermap, IRRToolSet, MRTG, Nagios, rancid,etc. Technical Workshops – “Cookbooks” Migration, Security, Advance services, Management, etc Similar projects: EURO6IX ( 6TAP ( etc.