HD TEN-155: Europe Moves into the Fast Lane Howard Davies DANTE

HD TEN-155 and QUANTUM TEN-155 Network Service –Successor to TEN-34 QUANTUM Project –funded by EC ACTS, Esprit and Telematics Programmes –Same consortium as TEN-34 (plus Ireland) –Q-MED: complementary project adding Cyprus and Israel (not yet approved) –Includes technology testing programme

HD TEN-155 Network Access capacities of 10, 34/45, and 155 Mbit/s 155 Mbit/s SDH rings and partial rings ATM as bandwidth management tool “Best efforts” IP service (using most of capacity) Managed Bandwidth Service (VC/VPN) - to be introduced progressively Each NRN chooses IP-over-ATM or IP-over- SDH

Available Access Capacity: 155 Mbps 34 /45 Mbps 10 Mbps TEN-155 July 1998 Available Access Capacities in Mbit/s

HD US Connectivity US circuit (ATM, total 140 Mbit/s) for sub-set of NRNs DANTE PoP in New York Links to Perryman and StarTap (?)

HD TEN-155 Timetable ITT issued 23 Dec 97 Contract with principal supplier 26 Aug 98 RFS of 155 Mbit/s accesses 1 Dec 98 MBS alpha phase starts 1 Dec 98 US connection 1 Jan 99

HD The Impact of TEN-155 Demonstration that liberalisation works (More) cost-effective services International bandwidth equivalent to national capacities Scope for exploitation of MBS –support of project groups –guaranteed QoS

HD MBS Issues Phased introduction Development needed for (semi-) automated management Use by multi-national research groups Strong preference for access via NRN Provision of end-end service User charging - scheme to be defined Investigation of both ATM and IP QoS facilities