John Dyer Business & Technology Strategist TERENA Business & Technology Strategist 4 October 2013 European NRENs Evolution & Future

EENet 20th anniversary conference Networks, Data & People AGENDA ›About TERENA ›Collaboration ›Evolution of the NRENs & Networks ›Some findings of the ASPIRE Foresight Study ›The future

About TERENA ›Founded June 1986 (RARE) ›A not-for-profit association of European National Research and Education Networks, based in Amsterdam, NL ›Main goals: ›Representing common interests and opinions of membership ›Knowledge transfer ›Developing, testing and promoting new technologies ›Fostering new services ›Sister organisation: DANTE (1993)

Membership ›40 European NRENs ›International Members ›includes: CERN; ESA ›Associate Members ›includes 12 commercials ›EMBL; NORDUnet; DANTE

TERENA Activities ›8 Task Forces ›Security, Middleware; Media; NOC; PR; Business ›Open to all – ; meetings; remote ›Workshops ›Middleware; Network Architects; Security ›Training ›Security; TRANSITS ›Publications ›Compendium of NRENs; ASPIRE reports; TCD; AAI ›TERENA Networking Conference ›Dublin, Ireland May 2014 ›Major Contributor to GN3+ Project

TERENA Compendium of NRENs Twelve Years of Benchmarking //compendium

Growth of NRENs in Europe 40 //compendium

Growth in Capacity

Dark Fibre on the Backbone //compendium

Traffic and Budgets //compendium

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Recommendations on Clouds ›Users: consuming the public cloud: aggregating demand, vendor management and cloud brokering; ›producing community clouds: business cases; ›connecting the clouds, by means of collaboration infrastructures and federations; ›At EU level: legal issues; standardisation, and interoperability Slide 12 /aspire

Recommendations on Data & Middleware ›Collaborate with user communities to fully understand networking requirements ›Define standardised datasets, metadata, middleware and applications ›Globally recognised AAI ›Create common process to certify and authenticate data. ›Common policies and procedures for data curation and preservation. Slide 13

Recommendations on Mobile Services ›Prepare for rapid increase in the demand for mobile connectivity (BYODs) ›Work with Commercial providers to explore innovative solutions for the integration of Wi-Fi and LTE ›Make use of mobile device sensors for innovative location dependent federated access to learning resources. Slide 14 /aspire

Recommendations on Future Roles for NRENs ›Strategic body for R&E networking & single vision ›NRENs need diversified and sustainable models ›Strategic business planning and understanding of their user-base ›TERENA to develop a European user-requirements compendium ›NRENs should partner with commercial providers not compete. Slide 15 /aspire

ASPIRE - Summary ›KEY Asset › G É ANT; NRENs and Community ›Users are key ›Collaboration ›NRENs, R&E, Users; Industry ›Data is not only BIG, it is a valuable resource ›Enablers ›Federation ›Mass Mobile Access ›Collaboration

Users are Key

Technological Evolution Slide 18 ?

Important Technologies ›Authorization and Authentication AAI ›vital to scalable access control ›ease of use ›Integration of Wi-Fi & cellular data networks ›connection of ubiquitous mobile devices ›Simple, easy, reliable, secure way. ›These services must reach the whole of the research and education community not just those close to the NREN.

User Evolution Slide 20 ?

Market of the Evolution Commodity: That which satisfies a demand without qualitative differentiation across a market ›Fixed line telephony ›Mobile telephony ›Internet connectivity ›Storage ›Software as a Service ›Gbps connectivity from ISPs

Why the need for NRENs ? ›Collaboratively unique community ›pan-European / global reach ›Cutting edge multi-domain network ›High Quality & tailored to user needs ›Our users are also customers of big aggregators ›NRENs can act as a BROKER

Influences Slide 23

NREN connections Slide 24 Academic Research Universities Colleges Libraries Museums Schools Commercial Research Broadcasters Local Government Galleries Theatres Hospitals

In Conclusion ›NRENs cooperate and partner: ›Commercial providers (on the supply-side) ›Users (on the demand-side) ›Undertake a business-to-business broker role. ›Adopt sustainable business models ›embrace the availability of commodity: ›Connectivity, Storage, online services ›Diversification ›Products & Services (one size does not fit all) ›New User Communities: PSN and CEF