1. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista GARR The Italian National Research and Education Network

2. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 2 Some pills of history….  1973 - 1990 Many independent networks (INFNet, CNRnet, Universities Consortium, ecc)  1987 the Gruppo Armonizzazione Reti della Ricerca (GARR) is born  The goal of the group is to interconnect the different sub-network  1990-1994: GARR-1  The first unified academic and research network in Italy but based on distributed management  1994-1998: GARR-2 improves the management (by INFN-CNAF)  Sharing of the national backbone costs  Development of international connectivity  1998-2003 GARR-B(roadband)  co-funded by the Ministry of University and Research, using european funds for underdeveloped regions  it’s the first national infrastructure shared by the whole GARR user community  2001 Consortium GARR is born as a legal entity (Fond. CRUI, CNR, ENEA, INFN)  2003-2008 GARR-G(iganet)  2009-2015 : GARR-X(cross-connect) ….

3. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 3 Who is GARR?  GARR has 4 founding members and shareholder  CNR  National Research Council  ENEA  National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment  Fondazione CRUI  the Conference of Italian University Rectors Foundation  INFN  National Institute of Nuclear Physics  Associated members

4. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 4 Funding sources  The 4 Founding Members  They share the financial risks related to GARR activities and contribute directly to the budget  Contributes based on n. of links, aggregated access bandwidth, end-to-end links, ecc..  The Associated members  They contribute to GARR budget only in proportion to the services they receive from GARR local loops  the costs of the local loops for each connected site access  the access to the GARR network and the transit to other networks (NREN’s and general Internet) Services  the GARR Services  Some of them contribute through special projects funded by the supervisor Ministry (for ex. Institutes for Research in Health Care IRCCS)  National and International Projects

5. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 5 The GARR budget  GARR annual budget  ~ 25 M€ covered by  Founding Member : ~ 75%  Associated Members : ~ 20%  European R&D projects : ~ 5%

6. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 6 Consortium GARR Organization Chart Director (CEO) Scientific and Technical Committee Financial Auditors General Assembly Finance & Administration Personnel & Secretariat External Relations & Communications Network Engineering & Planning Network Management & Operations Applications Support Services Research & Development Projects President Board of Directors Members & Partners Relations GARR Network (CTO)

7. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 7 Consortium GARR Organization and Strategy  GARR Founding Members are represented in the Board of Directors and in its Technical Scientific Committee  They actively participate in defining the GARR strategy

8. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 8 The GARR staff  Less than 50 persons, most of them in the headquarter at Rome Christmas lunch - 2009

9. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 9 The User Community (cont.) Universitá Statali e non Statali MiU R

10. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 10 The User Community (cont.)  The GARR network and its services are dedicated to the Italian Research, Academic and Education communities  Research Organizations, Universities, Observatories, Laboratories, Institute for Research in Health Care (IRCCS), Academies of Art and (some) Music Conservatories …  few Schools  few Libraries and Museums, despite the huge Italian cultural and artistic heritage  other Scientific and Educational Facilities of national and international relevance  more than 2 Millions end users  more than 400 sites connected  most of them directly to GARR PoP’s

11. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 11 129 Laboratories and Research centers of major Scientific organizations in Italy 88Universities 31Music Conservatories and Academies of Art (AFAM) 38Institutes for Research in Health Care (IRCCS) 26National and University libraries 74 other Research and Education facilities of national and international interest 17Astronomical and astrophysical observatories The User Community (cont.)

12. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 12 The User Community  Users in this vast community may widely differ from one another in terms of their use cases, demands and expectations  GARR does not operate a “strict” users’ segmentations and does not have specific groups portfolios  GARR adapts services and their understanding to users environment  GARR tries to create new services crossing users’ groups boundaries, and drawing from users’ common practices in their “traditional” enrironment

13. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 13  43 PoP (> 90% hosted by Universities or research labs)  Backbone Aggregate Capacity  ~ 120Gbps  n. of backbone links : ~ 70  Backbone links: 34Mbps  10Gbps  User Access Aggregate Capacity  ~ 70Gbps  Access links: 2Mbps  10Gbps  n. of access links: > 400  8 national TLC operators  TI, Infracom, Fastweb, Atlanet Interoute,Wind,BT-Italia,COLT  2 International IP Carrier  Global Crossing and Telia  several local TLC operators  Municipalities, ecc  integration with MAN and RAN The GARR network today GARR-G

14. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 14 GARR User’s Access Capacity High Speed Links Low Speed Links 10Gbps334M23 1Gbps6320M3 155M3210M17 100M658M6 L2-CAR 12 2M198 L341

15. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 15 The interconnection to GEANT network  10Gbps IP primary access  2.5Gbps IP secondary access  dedicated end-to-end links  2 x 10GE LHC Project  10GE DEISA Project  4 x 1GE FEDERICA Project  1GE e-VLBI Project  4 x 1Gbps spare

16. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 16 The interconnection to general Internet  International peering  Global Crossing 2 x 2.5 Gbps  TELIA 2 x 2.5 Gbps  Peering in the National Internet Exchange Points  MIX Milano 4 Gbps  NAMEX Roma 13 Gbps  Peering in the regional Internet Exchange Points  TOPIX Torino 1 Gbps  TIX Firenze 1 Gbps  VSIX Padova 1 Gbps

17. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 17 The GARR peerings map

18. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 18  GARR-X is the Project for the GARR network evoultion in the next (at least) 6 years  The GARR-X network implementation starts second half of this year (GARR-X Phase 0)  Fibers and circuits procurement issued  Contracts subscription is underway  Equipment procurement to be issued in the next month  The transition from GARR-G network to the new infrastructure will take place through a continuous process The GARR network tomorrow

19. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 19  Increasing the flexibility and the efficiency of the technical and economic model of the network  Keeping pace with user requirements  Providing the same services everywhere in the country Why GARR-X?

20. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 20 The key evolution factors  Long term leasing of optical fibres (both for backbone and access) under the exclusive control of GARR  Acquiring and installing new generation equipments (router and photonic)  High level of reconfiguration  Multi lambda capacity on the same fibre pair (10 Gbit/s, 40 Gbit/s and transition to 100 Gbit/s when available)  The direct control and management of the whole network infrastructure (today only at IP level)

21. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 21 The GARR-X network characteristics  Low incremental costs for the network infrastructure evolution (after the first bulk investment)  Flexibility to satisfy the (present and future) users requirements  Implementing dedicated networks on GARR-X infrastructure for special groups of users in order to support specific services or applications  Integration with extended Campus LAN, MAN and RAN  Low cost and high bandwidth guaranteed access to the network  FastEthernet, 1Gigabit and 10Gigabit Ethernet on  Optical fibre (preferred solution  1Gbit/s)  Direct circuit by telco operators (<1Gbit/s)  Circuits aggregations by means of telco operators network (<100Mbit/s)

22. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 22 The GARR-X optical fibre backbone At a glance  45 main GARR PoPs  99% hosted by users premises  60 optical transmission equipments  150 amplifications nodes (~ one each 70km of fibre)  10.500 km dark fibre on the backbone  1.500 km dark fibre for the acces (not present in the map) PD MI TO PI FI NA GE CT PA RC CZ CS AN TS CO BA SA CA Olbia PZ MT TN BR LE UD PG PV Civit. RM SS AQ FE Mazar. ME CB VE BO TA

23. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 23  Today operational international fibre links  International fibre links to be implemented in GARR-X PD MI TO PI FI NA GE CT PA RC CZ CS AN TS CO BA SA CA Olbia PZ MT TN BR LE UD PG PV Civit. RM SS AQ FE Mazara ME CB VE BO TA Malta Tunisia Greece Slovenia France General Internet General Internet GEANT EUMEDCONNECT2 Switzerland The fibre based interconnections to other NRENs

24. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 24 The users’ benefits (1/2)  Higher network access capacity  The aggregate network access capacity will raise of about 50% in the first year and four times in 6 years  Better performances  Reduced delay and jitter for the Real-time applications  Reduced time for faults detection and resolution  New services  Dedicated end-to-end circuits on the whole country  Bandwidth on-demand  Optical private networks and L2/L3 MPLS VPN  Storage and Local Area Network Extension (Disaster Recovery applications)  … also extended to international multi domain level

25. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 25 The users benefits (2/2)  Improve and extend the user applications support  Grid and Cloud Computing  Telemedicine  E-learning  Multimedia content access (Museums, Libraries, Music Conservatories, Public record offices)  Voice over IP (VoIP)

26. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 26 INAF Radio astronomy OPN (eVLBI project) PD MI TO PI FI NA GE CT PA RC CZ CS AN TS CO BA SA CA Olbia PZ MT TN BR LE UD PG PV Civit. RM SS AQ FE Mazar. ME CB VE BO TA GEANT INAF-SRT INAF - Medicina INAF-Noto INAF - Bologna

27. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 27 OPN of GRID Projects in the south of Italy PD MI TO PI FI NA GE CT PA RC CZ CS AN TS CO BA SA CA Olbia PZ MT TN BR LE UD PG PV Civit. RM SS AQ FE Mazar. ME CB VE BO TA GEANT

28. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 28 INFN T1-T2 national OPN (LHC project) PD MI TO PI FI NA GE CT PA RC CZ CS AN TS CO BA SA CA Olbia PZ MT TN BR LE UD PG PV Civit. RM SS AQ FE Mazar. ME CB VE BO TA GEANT T2-Pi T1-CNAF T2-LNL T2-To T2-Mi T2-Rm T2-Ca T2-Ba T2-Na T2-Ct

29. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 29 GARR Services – The connectivity  Connectivity Services  IP connectivity  higher availablity is requested  Link, equipment and PoP redundancy  Dedicated circuits/VPNs  Optical networks for big users  LHC, e-VLBI, DEISA, GRISU  L2/L3 VPN for traffic segregation or site management aggregation  Guaranteed Bandwidth (QoS)  Very few requests  Probably more request due to VoIP diffusion  Multicast  Few sites  distributed monitoring system on user sites

30. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 30 GARR Services - Operational Support (cont.)  NOC  Network Control, statistics collection, alarms management (through HW e SW monitoring tools)  Interaction with providers for fault management and circuit activation  national and international IP routing configuration  Operations and Engineering  planning and implementation of network upgrades (HW and SW) and new backbone circuits installation  IP routing planning and implementation  complex fault solution  end-to-end and VPN use cases engineering

31. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 31 GARR Services – Operational Support  Security (GARR-CERT)  alerts, guidelines and best practices  Domain Names (GARR-NIC)  handling procedures for “it” and “eu” registrations  Local Internet Registry (GARR-LIR)  Provides IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

32. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 32 The GARR Application Services  Certification Authority (GARR-CA)  issuing users’ personal certificates  EduRoam  mobility  AAI Federation (GARR-IDEM)  services unified access  Mirror (GARR-Mirror)  packages distribution  Usenet News (GARR-News)  news feeds and news uploads  Vconf, and audio/video services (H)DVTS,...  Virtual Congress Centre, high end interactive services

33. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 33 Ancillary Services (last but not least)  System Support  provides support to computing equipment for all GARR activities (network, administration, research projects, development, …) for about 100 nodes  Software Development  Engineers and develops the software tools used by GARR for network analysis, maintenance (GarrDB) and monitoring (GINS, ecc)  Contributes to EC projects (GN3, GRID projects)

34. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 34 GARR activities - not only network management  GARR participates in international and national innovation projects  in order to gather knowledge and best practices in the networking and computing area, to improve existing services and to implement new ones  GN3, FEDERICA, EGEE, EUMEDGRID-support  in order to increase the intercontinental connectivity  EUMEDCONNECT, ALICE, AUGERaccess, ecc  GARR is going to play a key role in the development of “human network” and “interdisciplinarity” to support the more recent users  Health care and Cultural & heritage collaborations  DECIDE  Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence by an International Distributed Environment  EU commision hearing next week  DC-NET  Digital Cultural heritage NETwork

35. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 35 The end

36. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 36 The User Community (cont.)  This vast user community belongs to:  4 GARR Founding Members  The Associated Members  Research institutes under the authority of the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)  ASI, INAF, INGV, and other Organizations  University supercomputing consortia  CASPUR, CILEA and CINECA)  Research and heritage institutes under the authority of other Ministries, such as the  Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC) or the Ministry of Healthcare  Other institutes of cultural or scientific relevance, including Music Conservatories and Academies of Art (AFAM), National Libraries and Archives, Museums, schools  International education, research and heritage organizations based on the national territory

37. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 37 Universities Traffic Rate ~ 1.50 /year

38. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 38 Universities 1.89 Gbps 8.49 Gbps

39. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 39 INFN (HEP) traffic Rate ~ 2.20 /year

40. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 40 INFN (IP + E2E) 1.53 Gbps 17.90 Gbps

41. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 41 GARR Traffic Trends 3.84 Gbps 30.67 Gbps

42. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 42 GLOBAL INTERNET r ~ 1.4/y Traffic Evolution 200120022003200420052006200720082009 NATIONAL INTERNET r ~ 1.6/y RESEARCH TRAFFIC r ~ 2.0/y E2E

43. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 43 GARR-X Networking Layers Leased Lines GARR-X Optical Infrastructure GARR-X Switching Infrastructure GARR-X IP Network L3-VPN 1 O-VPN L3-VPN 2 L3-VPN 3 L2-VPN

44. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 44 Logical access and transport scheme Switching Access gathering Edge IP Switching + WDM E2E access Users sites IP access MPLS legacy aggregation L2 switch IP Router Global Internet Research Network Peering Nazionale Peering VoIP Voice Gw

45. TF-MSP meeting, Rome 4 february 2010 Claudia Battista 45 Type of Traffic  IPv4 best effort  Ipv6 best effort  Ipv4 Multicast  MPLS L3 VPN  Customer Private network  HA applications  E2E Circuits  on GN2+ Infrastructure  on GARR CWDM equipment  IP Premium (EF Traffic)  GEANT2 Links:  10G primary access (Milan)  2.5G backup access (Genève)  E2E on 10G Links:  DEISA Milano-Frankfur  LHC Milan-CERN  LHC Milan-Karlsruhe (CBF)  E2E on 1G Links:  EXPReS Milan-JIVE Rate ~2.5/y Max Input: 10.90 Gbps Average Input: 4.71 Gbps Max Output: 9.27 Gbps Average Output: 2.32 Gbps Max Input: 10.90 Gbps Average Input: 4.71 Gbps Max Output: 9.27 Gbps Average Output: 2.32 Gbps  IPv4 best effort  Ipv6 best effort Global Internet National Peering