1. Networking to Services
Recent developments as documented by the TERENA Compendium
TERENA Networking Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 23 May 2012
Bert van Pinxteren

2. Structure of talk What will I concentrate on?
Connectivity Services: a look back at 2001 (about incorrect predictions…)
A look at the services hierarchy
Developments over the past decade and the past years
What does this mean for the work of NRENs?

3. When will we enter the 100 Gb era?
A look back at
When will we enter the 100 Gb era?
(log scale in Mbps)
Belgium was at 622 Mb, Czechs were at 2.5 Gb
In 2001, Slovakia’s backbone was at 4 Mb

4. When will we enter the 100 Gb era?
A look back at
When will we enter the 100 Gb era?
(log scale in Mbps)
The Czechs predicted 100 Gb by 2005, the Belgians by 2005
Slovakia predicted a growth from 4 Mb in 2001 to 4 Gb in 2006

5. But of course that did not happen...
Slovakia did not reach 4 Gb in 2006, but went to 622 Mb. However, they are now at 10 Gb.
Belgium and the Czech Republic did not go to 100 Gb yet – Belnet is at 20 Gb, CESNET at 10 Gb.
In 2011, the highest capacity on the backbone was 40 Gb/s, deployed by JANET (UK).
 In 2001, connectivity was the name of the game.
In 2011, connectivity is still important – what is new,
is deployment of services other than connectivity services.

6. What do we mean by ‘services’?
Hierarchy proposed by Koen Schelkens in 2006:
Network & Connectivity Services
Security Services
Authentication & "Mobility Service"
Housing – Storage – hosting – Content delivery services
Network collaboration tools & conferencing
Network computing resources
E-learning / Distance teaching & Learning : E-research
User interaction – knowledge dissemination
NREN side activities/services (not NREN user specific)

7. What services will I talk about?
Modified hierarchy, used for the 2012 Compendium questionnaire:
Connectivity services
Network & Connectivity Services
Middleware services
Security Services (includes DNSSEC)
Authentication & "Mobility Service" (includes eduroam, digital certificates)

8. What services will I talk about?
Collaboration support services
Housing – Storage – Hosting – Content delivery services (including multimedia repositories, storage services, content servers, content mirroring)
Network collaboration tools & conferencing (including voice services, videoconferencing, web conferencing, supporting group collaboration)
Network computing resources (Clouds, grids)
E-learning / Distance teaching & Learning : E-research
User interaction – knowledge dissemination (broker services, consultancy, security audits)
NREN side activities/services (not NREN user specific) (e-government, software development, IPR)
This IS a hierarchy: FIRST connectivity, THEN middleware, THEN collaboration – if you want the collaboration, you need the connectivity and the AAI…

9. Overall developments: one indicator: how much did we write about it?
The real explosion was in 2005/2006…

10. Middleware: PKI/CA in 2001 Provided Not provided No answer
Not in GÉANT

11. Middleware: Certificates in 2011
Provided
Not provided
Planned
Not in GÉANT

12. Next step: eduGAIN (2012)

13. But how about collaboration support services?
Housing – Storage – Hosting – Content delivery services
Network collaboration tools & conferencing
Network computing resources
E-learning / E-research
User interaction – knowledge dissemination
NREN side activities/services
These services have developed tremendously since 2005.
In addition, existing services (e.g. ) are starting to change, making use of the new federation services.
But – the picture is uneven.

14. Example: Grid services in 2005 and in 2010

15. So – were there less Grid services in 2010 than in 2005?
Of course, Grid services developed tremendously since 2005
But – in many cases, the providers of these services are not the NREN
(although more often than not, there is some sort of NREN involvement)
Many other new services are now being explored and discussed in the NREN community.

16. New in 2011 New services included in the 2011 Compendium:
Security services, including DNSSEC;
Two-factor authentication;
Supporting Group Collaboration;
e-Learning.

17. Example: platform of bundled services for supporting group collaboration

18. New in 2012: NREN involvement with e-government, public services
NREN rights to software, software repositories
And there is more, of course, that is not in the Compendium but that is still happening (for example Filesender, BoF yesterday).

19. What does that mean for the NRENs?
NRENs seem to be becoming more
labour-intensive and less capital-intensive

20. What will the future bring?
Connectivity and Authentication, but no monopoly on collaboration support services
Centre of expertise
Know what’s being developed elsewhere
Aggregate demand
Listen to users, act on their wishes
Perhaps more in the ASPIRE BoF tonight!
See, for example, the NORDUnet inspiration paper. One keyword there is ‘easy to use’. What does that require? (

21. Structure of talk