GN3 PROJECT. Karel Vietsch, TERENA GN3/NA3/T4 Campuses Best Practice meeting, Trondheim, May connect communicate collaborate

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1 GN3 PROJECT Karel Vietsch, TERENA GN3/NA3/T4 Campuses Best Practice meeting, Trondheim, May 2009

2 History : GN1 project GÉANT network : GN2 project GÉANT2 network Other services Joint Research Activities Networking Activities : GN3 project (started 1 April 2009) GÉANT network Wider range of services Joint Research Activities Networking Activities

3 Final GÉANT2 topology GÉANT topology April 2009

4 GN3 project partners DANTE TERENA

5 GN3 vision statement To create an innovative multi-domain hybrid networking environment, using advanced transmission and switching technologies To enable research and education users through their organisations with flexible and scalable production quality services via their constituent National Research and Education Networks To be an enabler for global research and education networking supporting international e-science initiatives, creating a Global Virtual Village to house researchers and educators around the world To contribute to standards as a key participant in European and global efforts towards the Network of the Future

6 Structure of GN3 project Joint Research Activities: JRA1: Future Network JRA2: Multi-domain Resources and Services JRA3: Enabling Communities Service Activities: SA1: GÉANT Network Architecture Design and Planning, Procuring, Building and Operating SA2: Multi-Domain Service Operation SA3: End-User Services in a Federated Environment SA4: Software Governance Networking Activities: NA1: Management NA2: Joint Dissemination and Outreach NA3: Status and Trends NA4: Liaison and Support

7 GN3 budget (for 4 years) SA1 SA2 SA3 SA4 JRA1 JRA2 JRA3 NA1 NA2 NA3 NA Total M SA1 SA2 SA3 SA4 JRA1 JRA2 JRA3 NA1 NA2 NA3 NA4 EU contribution (93 M ) Project partners (88.4 M )

8 SA1: GÉANT Network Leader: Marian Garcia Vidondo (DANTE) Task 1: Network Planning and Procurement Preparation Michael Enrico (DANTE) Produce optimal network designs driven by requirements and value for money Look at the long term strategy Look at reaching new NRENs partners Task 2: Procurement of the Network Elements Matthew Scott (DANTE) Tender for new network elements and re-tender for those elements with shortterm commitments Task 3: Provisioning and Operation of the GÉANT Network Xavier Martins-Rivas (DANTE) Provisioning and operating the GEANT backbone network Providing mature advanced services across the backbone Creating a platform for implementing latest technologies and trialling new operational developments

9 SA2: Multi-Domain Network Service Operation Leader: Ann Harding (SWITCH, Switzerland) Task 1: Multi-domain Network Connectivity Services Development Brian Bach Mortensen (NORDUnet, Nordic countries) Life cycle management of: multi-domain provisioning of wavelengths and sublambda circuits, QoS treatment of selected IP traffic flows, multi-point virtual networks, Optical Private Networks Task 2: Service Coordination and Operations Emma Apted (DANTE) Develop the existing co-ordination functions Define the operational procedures to be used by the various domain NOCs Task 3: Service Monitoring Tools and Performance Szymon Trocha (PIONIER, Poland) Define and manage a monitoring service portfolio Organise collaborative performance activities via a federated PERT Task 4: Security Maurizio Molino (DANTE) Provide security expertise for the development of multi-domain services Task 5: Tools to support Multi-domain Workflows Marcin Wolski (PIONIER, Poland) Development of tools for multi-domain service delivery: AutoBAHN, AMPS, cnis, I-SHARe

10 SA3: End-user Services in a Federated Environment Leader: Josh Howlett (JANET(UK), United Kingdom) Task 1: European PKI Coordination Licia Florio (TERENA) Continue the work of TACAR Establish a Policy Management Authority (PMA) that will set standards for European PKIs and accredit them Establish a Certificate Authority for end-users whose NREN does not operate an accredited CA Task 2: Roaming Access Services Miroslav Milonović (Srce, Croatia) Maintain and extend the established eduroam service at the European (confederation) level Develop the technology and policy infrastructure Task 3: edugain Service Introduction and Operation Valter Nordh (NORDUnet, Nordic countries) Establish pan-european Web SSO and authorisation services

11 SA4: Software governance Leader: Cezary Mazurek (PIONIER) Task 1: Software Best Practice Branko Marović (AMRES, Serbia) Set overall software architecture strategy and issua quality assurance guidelines Address access to, and use of, software by intended users Task 2: Software Quality Assurance Maciej Labedzki (PIONIER, Poland) Supervise quality of software production and assess compliance to guidelines Task 3: Software Development Support Infrastructure Waldemar Zurowski (DANTE) Specify, build and operate software development support infrastructure for all software development teams in GN3 Specify and deploy the infrastructure for allowing users to access, download, upgrade and apply patches to the software products

12 JRA1: Future Network Leader: Tony Breach (NORDUnet, Nordic countries) Task 1: Carrier Class Network Transport Technologies Alberto Colmenero Sánchez (NORDUnet, Nordic countries) Research into exploitation of hybrid infrastructure by connection-oriented transport technologies such as Carrier Class PBT and T-MPLS Task 2: Photonic Switching and Experimental Photonic Facilities Lars Lange Bjørn (NORDUnet, Nordic countries) Photonic technologies, photonic interoperability, transmission capacity and granularity, control and management plane, OAM&P (Operation, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning) Task 3: Federated Network Architectures Paul van Daalen (SURFnet, Netherlands) Paper describing different GÉANT, NREN and third-party network architectures Test case involving GÉANT, NREN and vendors Task 4: Current and Potential Uses of Virtualisation Reza Nejabati (University of Essex, United Kingdom) Analysis, prototyping, test case

13 JRA2: Multi-domain Resources and Services Leader: Afrodite Sevasti (GRNET, Greece) Task 1: Control and Management Pavle Vuletić (AMRES, Serbia) Investigate a common, cross-activity framework harmonisation and integration of the control and management functions required in a multi-domain environment Task 2: Hybrid Network Provisioning Radek Krzywania (PIONIER, Poland) Enhance AutoBAHN prototype with functionality, extending it to other layers and technologies for dynamic circuit provisioning and improving existing modules (e.g. path-finding computations) or revising its functions Task 3: Monitoring Roman Łapacz (PIONIER, Poland) Investigate new demands, derive requirements and elaborate new concepts for network monitoring to foster GN3 multi-domain services Task 4: Security Simona Venuti (GARR, Italy) Introduce new, innovative methods for incident and security threat detection Task 5: Network Factory tbd Provide to the user community an infrastructure independent of the production environment to perform tests

14 JRA3: Enabling Communities Leader: Licia Florio (TERENA) Task 1: Roaming developments Stefan Winter (RESTENA, Luxembourg) Develop a new eduroam architecture to increase security and usability Task 2: Identity Federations Andreas Solberg (UNINETT, Norway) Enhance inter-operability of Identity Federations and provide ease-to-use services Coordinate the usage of SAML2 profiles amongst the Identity Federations to ensure compatibility Task 3: Composable Services Diego López (RedIRIS, Spain) Enable users not only to request GN3 services, according to users rights, but also to define new services by composing the existing ones

15 NA1: Project Management Leaders: Dai Davies (DANTE) and Hans Döbbeling (DANTE) Project Consortium Project Board Project Management Team (Activity Leaders) Project Office: Technical Coordination (DANTE) Security Coordination (GARR, Italy) IPR Coordination (???) Service Coordination (DANTE) Standards Coordination (DANTE) Financial Administration (DANTE) Meeting Logistics Support (TERENA) Training (DANTE & TERENA) Technical Authoring (DANTE) Systems Support (DANTE)

16 NA2: Joint Dissemination and Outreach Leader: Melanie Pankhurst (DANTE) Task 1: Strategy, Planning, Messaging Melanie Pankhurst (DANTE) Task 2: Partner Services Promotion Laura Durnford (TERENA) Promote the deployment and use of services offered by NRENs to institutions and end-users Task 3: Web-based Communications Paul Hasleham (DANTE) Task 4: Materials Printed and Audio-Visual Helen Martindale (DANTE) Task 5: Press and news Helen Martindale (DANTE) Task 6: External events Dale Robertson (DANTE) Task 7: Focussed Market Outreach Dale Robertson (DANTE)

17 NA3: Status and Trends Leader: Karel Vietsch (TERENA) Task 1: Compendium of National Research and Education Networks John Dyer (TERENA) Publish annual editions of the TERENA Compendium of NRENs in Europe Task 2: Coordination of Task Forces Valentino Cavalli (TERENA) Provide support to technical TERENA task forces Task 3: Foresight Update Karel Vietsch (TERENA) Smaller scale than SERENATE or EARNEST; starts in 2011 Task 4: Campus Best Practice Vidar Faltinsen (UNINETT, Norway) Compile, roll out and disseminate best practices in networking campus Task 5: Study of Environmental Impact Mike Norris (HEAnet, Ireland) Make sure that GÉANT meets ambitious sustainability goals Promote energy-saving and ecologically sound applications layered over the GÉANT infrastructure

18 NA4: Liaison and Support Leader: Cathrin Stöver (DANTE) Task 1: International Cooperation (outside GÉANT service area) Tom Fryer (DANTE) Carry out the dialogue of the project with research and education organisations across the globe Task 2: Internal Cooperation (consultation with partners) John Chevers (DANTE) Maximise involvement of GN3 project partners Task 3: Liaison with Projects and Initiatives Richard Hughes Jones (DANTE) Liaise with projects and user groups to encourage productive use of the GÉANT network for new users and applications Task 4: Contributions to Standardisation Bodies Guy Roberts (DANTE) Support contributions from GN3 project to global standardisation process Task 5: Networking Development Support Valentino Cavalli (TERENA) Support to the development of research and education networking in less advanced regions

19 And now? These are the plans All work was scheduled to have started on 1 April 2009 Obviously no results yet