Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Developments in RedIRIS as seen in the Context of Developments in other NRENs

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Conclusions RedIRIS is one of the leading NRENs in Europe It can be proud of its achievements over the past years But…

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Structure of talk What is TERENA? RedIRIS (compared with selected other NRENs) Conclusions

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October A not-for-profit association of European National Research & Education Networks Governed by the General Assembly of the Members, larger members have more votes Funded through Membership Fees and project funding Secretariat located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands 14 staff (13 FTE) 33 National Members 2 International Members: CERN, ESA 10 Associate Members (including DANTE, equipment vendors and telecoms operators) TERENA Organisation 34

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October TERENA’s Mission Represent common interests and opinions of members –Make political and industrial contacts –Lobby European Union and national governments –Liaise with other continents Knowledge Transfer –Conferences, Workshops & Seminars. –Developing informational, best-practice and training material Technical Programme –Developing, testing and promoting new technologies, services and applications –Task Forces, Projects and Workshops. Fostering new services Does not run a network! – DANTE does

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Task Forces Small groups of volunteers working on specific problems. Limited duration, typically 2 years. Open to any individual or representative offering expertise, manpower, equipment or services. Set of defined tasks and deliverables. Each task force has its own mailing list & web space. TERENA provides organisational and secretarial support. Under the GN2 project, collaboration between the Joint Research Areas and the Networking Activities and the work of most of the Task forces, but: –The Task Forces have a mandate that is not limited by the terms of the GN2 project –The Task Forces are open

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Task Forces (cont..) TF-NGN (started December 2000) –Tests suitability of new networking technologies for use in future European backbone, NREN or campus networks. –Mandate expiring, new mandate being discussed. TF-CSIRT (started September 2000) –Promotes collaboration and knowledge transfer between European CSIRTs. –Oversees training workshops for CSIRT staff that are part of the TRANSITS project

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Task Forces (cont..) TF-Mobility (started January 2003) –Evaluate mobile equipment and software. –Evaluate possible authentication and authorisation techniques (e.g. web-based, 802.1X, VPNs) –Defined an inter-NREN roaming architecture (802.1X based). EduRoam – 17 countries connected, –Investigate and address security issues. TF-VVC (started September 2004) –Advice on setting-up videoconferencing rooms. –Survey national streaming media content. –Develop an announcements portal. –Develop a common metadata model. –Contribute to international dialling and numbering plans. –Establish academic netcasting channel.

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Task Forces (cont..) TF-EMC2 (just started) –Stands for European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration) investigates the development and deployment of middleware infrastructures at campuses and NRENs level and their interoperability issues. Chair: Diego López TF-PR (started September 2003) –Aims to improve public relations and information dissemination for research and education networking. –Allows exchange of ideas, experiences and methods. –Operates a server for news exchange. ¡ Hola PAPI !

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October SERENATE Study into European Research and Education Networking as Targeted by eEurope EC-funded project led by TERENA: 1 May December 2003 Studied the evolution of networking over the next 5-10 years. Produced set of recommendations for future research and education networks in SERENATE countries.

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October NREN Compendium Compendium has been published annually since Collection of relevant information about European NRENs: –Administrative data and legal form. –Number of users and market share. –Internal and external connectivity, and capacity of links. –Network traffic, load and congestion indicators. –Services, staffing and funding. Provides overview of network status in each country edition now available on TERENA website, A good tool for lobbying governments and/or funding bodies!

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Other interesting TERENA publications IP Telephony Cookbook –basic and advanced services; –regulatory and legal aspects; –interoperability –available as book and online PDF Guide to Network Resource Tools –published since 1996 –Aimed at users and support staff –Provides basic introduction to the Internet –May be freely distributed by TERENA members, who may also acquire the local translation rights (e.g. Slovenian). –

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October EGEE Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe. TERENA is the lead dissemination partner: –Providing web services. –Assisting with PR. –Organising conferences (every six months). Next event is in the Hague (NL), November 2004 Project has many Spanish participants.

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October TERENA Networking Conferences In a tradition of > 20 years Next one will take place in Poznań, Poland, from 6 to 9 June, 2005 Call for Papers is on the web and has just come from the printers

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Other Projects … we will save for another time

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Warning! Don’t take what will follow too seriously! Based on data provided by the NRENs to the Compendium questionnaires Differences in interpretation (diminishing) NRENs are difficult to compare Leads to more questions than answers… Will give you data from France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain (plus some from Portugal and from The Netherlands)

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Topology of the RedIRIS Network, 2001/2002

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Final eEurope Benchmarking Report, COM(2002) 62 final of February 2002:

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Comparison perhaps not completely fair… RedIRIS had 17 connections at 155 Mb/s GARR had just upgraded 3 centres to 2.5 Gb, but each via 2 routes, so they claimed to have 5 Gb/s Many other centres in Italy in fact connected only at 34 Mb/s (yellow lines)

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Today, the situation is very different Note the redundancy aren’t they looking at the stars from here?

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Other countries: France (redundancy?)

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Germany (redundancy!)

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October UK (redundancy?) 10 Gb/s on backbone

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Poland

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Italy

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Architecturs improving; more bandwidth now; more on the way Core Capacity on the networks, RENATER DFN GARR SURFnet PIONIER RedIRIS UKERNA

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October When will we enter the 100 Gb era? (log scale in Mbps) Although it is not always easy to predict… (slide from 2001)

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Budgets have gone down, rather than up

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Connectivity remains expensive…

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October (does RedIRIS need more budget and more staff??) It seems like it… but NRENs are very different, I cannot give that answer for you…

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Dark fibre becoming an option for some countries

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Traffic load now no problem

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October But needs continued attention

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Traffic growth is high (and not likely to get less)

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Traffic

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Is there congestion? If so, where? The bottleneck is now at the University level!

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Progress in connecting Universities at higher speeds 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% RENATERDFNPIONIERGARRUKERNARedIRISSURFnet #≥ 1 Gb %< % up to 100 Mb % up to 10 Mb % up to 2 Mb %= ISDN A few things to point out… Not much change here Can 2 Mb/s be enough for a University?

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Differences between NRENs… e.g.: who gets connected?

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Is the funding model relevant for the success of the NREN? … although diversifying funding sources (e.g. by getting it from various Government Departments) can be a wise strategy…

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Is legal form relevant?

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Conclusions African saying: “A pound of feathers will only fly if there is a bird inside”

Bert van Pinxteren Jornadas Técnicas RedIRIS, 26 October Conclusions RedIRIS is indeed one of Europe’s leading NRENs Assume ownership of your network! Congratulations on your Jornadas Técnicas Times ahead are challenging