1. connect communicate collaborate GÉANT Making the Difference Dai Davies, DANTE 8 th eConcertation Meeting CERN, Geneva 4-5 November 2010

2. connect communicate collaborate The pan-European infrastructure Hybrid network Developing: -Advanced monitoring -Bandwidth on Demand -Virtualisation Multi-Domain Environment

3. connect communicate collaborate GÉANT global connectivity

4. connect communicate collaborate Connectivity Services G ÉANT Plus G ÉANT Lambda eduroam eduPKI eduGAIN Performance monitoring GÉANT Service Portfolio Access and Roaming Network Performance G ÉANT IP Performance enhancement Network provisioning Security

5. connect communicate collaborate Project Challenges Regional differences and geographic divide Common service concept in the GÉANT Service Area Balancing service delivery and continuous innovation Shaping a new architecture Providing a common support interface for European and global organisations Defining appropriate identity service components and trust models for remote access and distributed virtual organisations