1. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 UK National Network, Campus and Regional Issues People Networks Linda McCormick Director of Computing Service University of Glasgow

2. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 Overview Physical Networks Organisations & relationship Challenges for institutions

4. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004

5. Kentish MAN Northern Ireland TVN South Wales MAN SWAN & BWEMAN NorMAN MidMAN EastNet External Links LMN YHMAN Scotland via Edinburgh Scotland via Glasgow NNW LeNSE EMMAN WorldCom Glasgow WorldCom Edinburgh WorldCom Leeds WorldCom Warrington WorldCom London WorldCom Reading WorldCom Portsmouth WorldCom Bristol 155Mbps 622Mbps 2.5Gbps

6. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 ClydeNET upgrade (2002) incorporating high speed links to all Sites

7. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 All Circuits Dark Fibre unless stated otherwise Curran Building R/K JWN Bld Paisley Anniesland Stow GSA RSAMD CaledonianGCBPFood TechCommerce Cardonald Langside Nautical John Wheatley Dual Diversely routed Ducts Single Duct BT LES 100 New ClydeNET Metro Area Circuits Implemented over THUS 48 Fibre Ring 48 Fibre Ring Site Link Backbone Link North Glasgow

8. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 UKERNA Development, management & operation of JANET to JISC SLA Not for profit company limited by guarantee Funding Councils (not RCs) nominate Directors & have full voting rights Membership classes HE & Research ) vote for 1 director Individual members )

9. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 UK-MANs Formed in 1998 as a self help group Completely independent Why? - Share experience - Avoid duplication - Maintain consistency www.lmn.net.uk/ukmans

10. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 UK-MANs (2) All 19 MANs represented Who? - Technocrats - Executives - Chairs Diversity of expertise is a strength

11. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 UK-MANs (3) What? - negotiation of RPAN contract - information interchange with UKERNA - liaison with OFTEL on licensing issues - development activities Watch this space!

12. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 Regional Network Operators (RNOs) Legally constituted bodies – companies or consortia Manage JANET connectivity for the primary sites in their region Operate under contract with UKERNA to deliver JANET SLA

13. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA ) - Members are institutions - 98% of HE community - Groups are primary focus of activity - Dependent on immense voluntary effort www.ucisa.ac.uk

14. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 Aims of UCISA To identify and promote best practice through conferences, seminars, workshops collaboration between institutions publications (mainly electronic) promoting development and research To inform and support policy-making processes on information systems, both nationally and within institutions

15. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 UCISA Groups - CISG Corporate Information Systems - NG Networking - SDG Staff Development - TLIG Teaching, Learning & Information - IG Infrastructure

16. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 What’s UCISA doing about e-Science? - Talks at Annual Conference - Managers’ Forum - Establishment of IG - BUT only no. 16 in Top Concerns http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/activities/surveys/tc/2004

17. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 RUGIT Forum of IS/IT Directors in the 19 research led universities “Promote, maintain, improve facilities & services for C&IT in the research led universities” UKERNA is a member! www.rugit.gla.ac.uk

18. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 What should central service in University do? Personnel – Grid aware; bridge between IT services and e-Science Resources – network, computational, middleware, access grid Procedures – User authentication, authorisation; Registration Authority Engage with GOSC

19. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 Issues Startup – SRIF funds? Sustaining – extra resources OR stop doing something else Overheads – money from projects into augmenting the infrastructure – needs an internal procedure

20. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 Security Virtual organisations are not real – where does buck stop? “Trust at a distance” Firewalls challenge diversity and throughput General move to “default deny”

21. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 End to End 1 mgt domain60% Up to 3 domains14% Up to 5 domains3% Up to 1011% Up to 203% Over 209%

22. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 Resilience 83% - have resilient backbone 46% - extra resilience in links 77% - have UPS at JANET access 73% - implemented security policies that could impact e-Science

23. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 Conclusion Partnership - all service providers - service and research groups

24. Study Visit Programme to NeSC – October 2004 Questions?