1. Janet Update GridPP – 22 Aug 2014 - Ambleside David Salmon

2. Topics Jisc / Janet status Janet6 GriddPP Networking forward look Test networks E-Infrastructure & industry – Janet Reach… Cloud & datacentre comments

3. Jisc / Janet Two companies – Jisc - now a charity – the holding company – Jisc Collections and Janet – a wholly owned subsidiary Governance – Universities UK, Guild HE, Association of Colleges (AoC) - 30% each – Institutional - 10% Janet network charge / Jisc subscription model – Jisc wrote to all organisations connected to Janet – Charging model changed – commencing this August (14/15) – Details on Jisc web site Some rationalisation taking place – See Jisc web site – “Front of House”

4. Janet 6 Optical 40/100G Long term – 10+ years for fibre leases Transmission equipment refresh after ~7+ years Roadmap to next capacity increment per wavelength (400G ?) More flexible optical architecture Direct management of optical infrastructure Huge capability for additional capacity Continued integration of Regions

6. Janet6 and e-Infrastructure fibre

7. GridPP Networking forward look Paper from GridPP management board – Very helpful – thanks ! Discussions with Janet operations colleagues to incorporate into planning

8. Site connectivity to Janet Current Janet policy - provide IP capacity according to need NO special arrangements for any T2 site - all Janet capacity provided to organisations – some sites have local arrangements permitting PP groups to route traffic selectively over site connections to Janet Janet Network inherently very capable – enormous latent capacity – does cost money to enable this (and take time) light extra 40/100 Gbit/s wavelengths Procure extra access circuits

9. London Brunel - * Imperial - * QM - * RHUL - * UCL - * Key: * means connected to Janet fibre

10. NorthGRID Lancaster - * Liverpool – NNW fibre, should remain on fibre following regional reprocurement Manchester - * Sheffield – subject to YHMAN reprocurement

11. ScotGRID Edinburgh (ECDF - ACF) - * Glasgow - * Durham – regional re-procurement - looking into fibre options

12. SouthGRID Birmingham -* Bristol -* Cambridge -* (Culham) -* Oxford -* RAL -* Sussex – Janet fibre to Hove – University has Dark Fibre to connect

13. Ones to watch – no specific concerns though (Liverpool) Sheffield Durham NB – not on fibre doesn’t mean poor service ! – But, access circuits needed to provide connection – Extra capacity implies eithe rupgrades or additional circuits

14. Janet Testbed facilities Aurora2 / NDFIS SDN overlay

15. NDFIS Topology

16. NPL Harwell Oxford Campus – Satellite applications Broader collaboration – NPL & Europe

17. SDNs / Openflow Strong theme at the conference (other talks) Desire to collaborate Broader UK discussions Maybe 10+ UK Universities interested in some way Janet will help – modest Openflow overlay to interconnect/interact Research Council funded projects – TOUCAN – EPSRC Programme Grant Bristol, Edinburgh, Lancaster £12M (£6M+£6M) – 5 Years Photonic – Layer2 – Access (Wireless +??) – Other smaller individual projects Connecting “Testbeds”

18. Four node topology London Bristol North Edinburgh Lancaster Bristol GEANT…Wor ld Midlands Maybe 2 physical 10G paths per node Others would be VPNs/logical paths Not determined precise configuration yet NOT Exclusive, but only TOUCAN lead sites shown

19. SDN Overlay & Aurora2 Janet service components Layer 3 (IP) – Tunnels/VPNs Layer 2 – Janet “Lightpaths” Ethernet / MPLS – committed capacity – VPNs – uncommitted capacity - future Layer 1 – Optical: whole wavelengths – 40G / 100G in core Londo n Bristol North Edinburgh Lancaster Bristol GEANT …Worl d

20. Janet - e-Infrastructure & Industry Outreach with moonshot pilot (AAI) Connecting to Janet – Janet Reach – State aid compliant scheme – Industry organisation must apply Innovative project Meet state aid funding proportionalities – Janet connection value / total project value Should be a high-capacity need – Scheme operating on 2 monthly cycles until around April 2015 (perhaps a little longer)

21. Datacentres Slough – Procurement & contracting complete – Janet Network provision in progress – Major centre on Janet – Very open - Tenants install their own racks & equipment Anchor tenants – QM, Kings, LSE, UCL, Crick, Sanger – Open to all Strong interest, probably more to come…

22. Cloud Building on brokerage work in past Looking a central procurement of cloud “capacity/capability” Cost savings through economies of scale ? Soliciting requirements – what do people want ? – c.f. yesterdays discussions – Is there a requirement for elastic expansion into commercial capacity ? – Very interested in peoples views here