Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing network Architectures

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1 Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing network Architectures Mauro Campanella - GARR FP7 Future Networks Concertation Meeting Brussels, March 11th, 2008

2 FEDERICA at a Glance What: European Commission co-funded project in its 7 th Framework Programme in the area Capacities - Research Infrastructures 3.7 MEuro EC contribution, 5.2 ME budget, 461 Man Months When: 1 st January June 2010 (30 months) Who: 20 partners, stakeholders on network operations & research: 11 National Research and Education Networks, DANTE (GÉANT2), TERENA, 4 Universities, Juniper Networks, 1 SME, 1 research centre - Coordinator: GARR (Italian NREN) Where: Europe-wide shared infrastructure, based on NREN & GEANT2 facilities, open to external connections 2

3 FEDERICA objectives Support the research on new Internet architectures and protocols create a European wide technology agnostic infrastructure based on a mesh of 1 Gb/s MPLS and 1 Gb/s circuits from NREN/GÉANT and virtualization nodes providing virtualized network/computing facilities (in form of slices ) to end-users, allowing disruptive emulations open to host researchers hardware and applications Simultaneous use by more than one research group provide full control of the network up the data link layer (later lower layers) and access to monitoring data Develop experience and a model for managing and using virtual infrastructures as a combination of networks and systems Exploit at their best the existing NREN/GÉANT networks and tools Facilitate technical discussion amongst specialist, in particular when based on experimental results and disseminate knowledge and NREN experience 3

4 Work plan outline Networking Activities 1 Management 2 Building the User Community 3 Standardization & Liaisons 4 Dissemination and Training Support Activities 1 Infrastructure Support 2 User Support and Toolbench development Research Activities 1 Network Control and Management 2 Novel Paradigm and User Control 4

5 Issues Virtualization and infrastructure as a Network Factory (network is now as a mix of network circuits and computing elements) Interdomain communication developments (monitoring, services, topology) also between real and virtual networks (scaling) Standardization (control plane, network representation and abstraction, service description) Exploitation of NREN architecture and infrastructures Clean slate (almost) infrastructure Fast ideas-prototypingresults loop Interconnection with production traffic E2E/slice user control Not just a testbed 5

6 Collaboration Opportunities Interdomain communication developments (monitoring, services) between virtual networks (scaling) Requirements for advanced infrastructures for future Internet research ((Vasilis) Clean slate approach architectures (GENI-like) Inter-Infrastructures circuits and experiments End user control Standardization Cloud computing and application platforms network interaction PT ES IE i2cat CH DE IT KTH SUNET NORDUNET PL CZ HU GR 6

7 Backup Slides 7

8 Initial Draft Topology Leverage dark fiber infrastructure and GÉANT+ service. Use as data links GigE in a mesh IE KTH SUNET NORDUNET PL Initial network will be composed by 4 PoPs fully meshed Interconnection with other infrastructures & testbeds possible MPLS L2 LSPs may be added PT ES i2cat CH DE IT CZ HU GR 8

9 Topology version 8.4 NORDUNET SUNET KTH IE DE PL CH IT CZ HU PT i2cat ES GR 1 GbE GN2+ 1 GbE tbd 1 GbE VLAN or L2MPLS Core Nodes 9

10 FEDERICA - Goals Summary In scope Forum and support for researchers/projects on Future Internet Support of experimental activities to validate theoretical concepts, scenarios, architectures, control & management solutions; users have full control of their virtual slice Provide on European scale network and system agnostic e- infrastructure to be deployed in phases. Provide its operation, maintenance and on-demand configuration Validate and gather experimental information for the next generation of research networking also through basic tool validation Dissemination and favor cooperation of NRENs and User community Contribution to standards in form of requirements and experience Out of scope Extended research, e.g. advanced optical technology developments Development and support of Grid applications Offer computing power Offer transit capacity 10

11 Partner Location NORDUnet KTH NREN Univ. or Res. Centre HEAnet PSNC NREN partners provide a European coverage using the GN2+ service and DFN CESNET - allow connection to Univ. and Research Center partners FCCN Red.ES i2cat UPC Dark Fiber GÉANT2 GÉANT+ service Cross Border Fiber or future GÉANT2 PoliTO Switch GARR 11 NIIF Hungarnet ICCS GRNET - Provide HUB functionalities and possibility extend the e- Infrastructure to other countries and projects using physical or logical circuits - Contribute with tools and specific expertise

12 FEDERICA Partners National Research & Education Networks (11) CESNET Czech Rep. DFN Germany FCCN Portugal GARR (coordinator) Italy GRNET Greece HEAnet Ireland NIIF/HUNGARNET Hungary NORDUnet Nordic countries PSNC Poland Red.es Spain SWITCH Switzerland Small Enterprise Martel Consulting Switzerland NREN Organizations TERENA DANTE The Netherlands United Kingdom Universities - Research Centers i2cat KTH ICCS (NTUA) UPC PoliTO System Vendor Juniper Networks Spain Sweden Greece Spain Italy Ireland 12

13 FEDERICA Partners 13