The GigaCampus initiative Collaborate campus networking in Norway Olaf Schjelderup & Vidar Faltinsen UNINETT May

2 Norway in a nutshell 4.5 mill inhabitants Scattered population High mountains, fjords Coastline of km  ~62% of the length of the equator Shortest distance south to north: km  approx 3 days by car  If we rotate Norway upside down Spitsbergen will almost reach Africa.

3 The research network 1 – 2.5 Gb/s Redundancy year IRU 40 universities and university collages Tradition for support for colleges > 200 institutions users Operations in Trondheim Plans for 10G and lambdas

4 SERENATA study: Campus networks are the weakest link in the chain Campus network bottlenecks NREN Frustrated users

5 The problems, more refined … Capacity; gigabit & fiber not reaching all designated corners of the campus. Bottlenecks, VLAN-trombones, duplex conflicts must systematically be removed. Network design must be reconsidered. Functionality; ipv6, multicast, official IP-adresses, mobility etc. available only on parts of the campus network. Lack of efficient management tools covering all networking and services areas. Innovation by use of NRENs often stops somewhere in the campus organization. The unreleased potential for cost-efficiency pan- campus wise.

6 Strategic issues The innovation rationale behind the NRENs must reach the projects and the relevant end-users A lot of intellectual resources at different campuses are still to be brought together – we must identify, harvest and feed the creative experts out there. A lot of good development projects needs support and to be de-institutionalized to obtain large-scale-effects. NREN-efforts on campus may be a brigde to reach and encourage to fruitful projects with a networking imperative. A lot of unused potential for innovation out there and a lot of double work … let’s organize and harvest synergies!

7 In Norway; The GigaCampus initiative Government funding, ~4M Euro  Based on a GigaCampus idea document  … we promised 4 times payback … Four year programme 2006 – 2009  Predecessor after a similar programme  Early start since long tradition in Norway for cooperation in the R&E ICT community Our mission:  Provide and coordinate top international-level campus IT-infrastructures that will promote innovation, cooperation and productive research and education.

8 The GigaCampus engine

9 GigaCampus – seven areas of focus

10 ”UNINETT engineering task force” Working groups in each area of focus  Gather the best there is of engineers at our universities!  New areas may develop Discuss  the further development in campus networking – coming challenges Produce  Common best practice documents  How-to’s Open participation  Regular meetings  Mailinglists  Wiki Participation in international working groups

11 Common call for tender Develop common purchase agreements for the national R&E community  Major savings in overall cost  Major savings in overall spent time on tender processes Many contracts  Network equipment (routers, switches, wireless)  Telephony  DSL  PCs and servers  Application software

12 work Touring the country – out in the field! Participants from UNINETT and from major universities and university collages Collaboration with local IT staff on site  Network design and implementation  Focus on the physical infrastructure  Focus on security Meet the people, discuss ideas and possibillities.

13 Physical reliability Fibre projects for the MANs Network cabling  cat3... multimode... Power and grounding  UPS, diesel power generators Cooling / ventilation Fire detection Physical security Focus area #1

14 High capacity networking Upgrade the campus networks step by step  Gigabit to more and more end users  Scale the campus backbones  Focus on fault tolerance  End-to-end multicast  IPv6 on campus!  Lambdas on campus! 2009: Gigabit capacity for the majority of users Focus area #2

15 Mobility Radio planning workshops Wireless rollout workshops Focus on secure wireless networks Address roaming challenges Support eduroam 2009: Wireless access everywere – on all campuses Focus area #3

16 Person-to-person communication Develop a SIP architecture that supports IP telephony, video conferencing, direct messaging and more. Promote a push from the telephony paradigm to the multimedia paradigm. There are also security issues here … 2009: A common platform for IP-based multimedia communication Focus area #4

17 Security Develop and implement security policies Establish IRTs on all campuses  Thanks to TF-CSIRT TRANSITS! Discuss and elaborate security architecture Develop monitoring and operational security tools The number of security incidents are growing exponentially 2009: Implemented security policies and established IRTs on all universities Focus area #5

18 Service management Discuss best practices for operations  We need to operate 24x7x365 Encourage and support development of useful tools Provide a GigaCampus tool box for all campus networks  Train personel in how to use the tools! Focus area #6 2009: Advanced tools and solutions for proactive operations IN USE on all campuses Giga Campus

19 ” We are convinced that most campuses do not take the task of measuring and understanding their traffic flows sufficiently seriously ” - SERENATE, December 2003 Focus area #6

20 NAV – Network Administration Visualized Network management system developed by NTNU and UNINETT since Open source More information on Is included on the GigaCampus toolbox. Focus area #6

21 NAV – key features Autodetect network topology (L3, L2, per vlan) Network maps Machine tracker / L2 traceroute delay / loss service monitor network explorer traffic map RRD cricket tabular reports machine tracker NAVdb report generator status monitor threshold monitor www event and alert engine external systems SMS device center Focus area #6

22 Stager Developed at UNINETT since Open source - Generic tool for storage, aggregation and presentation of network statistics  Netflow analysis  Round trip and packet loss  Generic SNMP data gathering Is included on the GigaCampus toolbox Giga Campus Focus area #6

23 Stager screen shot [1] Focus area #6

24 Stager screen shot [2] Focus area #6

25 Focus area #7 End-to-end quality Measuring beacons on all campuses Througput Packet delay and loss Session intensity Available capacity Traffic behaviour

26 MPING NDT Focus area #7

27 UNINETT participate in the PerfSONAR effort Focus area #7

28 GigaCampus measuring beacons contributes to the LOBSTER project A network of passive Internet traffic monitors  Special hardware  MAPI software Cooperation across borders  Exhange information and observations  Correlate results Focus area #7

29 GigaCampus – in summary Conclusion: Bring the NREN visions to the network edges! Question: Should this model include more upward ”layers”?