Interconnected NRENs in Europe & GÉANT: Mission & Governance Issues Vasilis Maglaris maglaris@netmode.ntua.gr Professor, National Technical University of Athens - NTUA Chairman, NREN Policy Committee GÉANT Consortium e-infrastructures for e-science: 7 th Concertation Meeting Brussels, October 13 th 2009
The GÉANT Evolution 7th generation of pan-european research network federated infrastructure: A 20 year success story EuropaNET TEN34 TEN155 GÉANT (GN2 GN3) Connects 36 European countries through 32 NREN partners Over 3,500 Research & Education (R&E) campuses across Europe Over 30 million users Total GÉANT Cost: 40 M /year (shared equally by the EC & NRENs) GÉANT EC Subsidy < 10% of total European R&E Networking Cost Provides extensive international connectivity to other world regions Governance by NREN PC, Exec Project co-ordination by DANTE via the PMT (Project Management Team) complemented by TERENA and involving > 400 NREN staff Plan to evolve DANTE into a Legal Entity (Company Limited by Guarantee) of all GÉANT NRENs
Map of the GN3 Consortium
GÉANT Topology GÉANT topology April 2009
The GN3 Mission To create an innovative multi-domain hybrid networking environment, using advanced transmission & switching technologies To enable R&E users through their Organizations with flexible and scalable production quality services via their constituent NRENs To be an enabler for Global R&E networking supporting international e- Science initiatives, creating a Global Virtual Village to house researchers & educators around the world To contribute to standards as a key participant in European & Global efforts towards the Network of the Future
NREN GÉANT Ecosystem Including R&E communities across Digital Divides Leverage collaboration via virtualization Enable access to the Knowledge Society Make Big Science affordable at the desktop Creating a distributed Critical Research Infrastructure Provision & manage Optical Private Networks for Science: LHC OPN, evlbi Expected to serve International Demanding Projects (FEDERICA, ESFRI Priorities - PRACE, ITER ) Fostering European innovation by sustaining a vast Network of Excellence in Test & deploy bleeding-edge networking technologies (e.g. 100 Gigabit/sec per wavelength) Advance INTERNET multi-domain toolsets & federal services
Birth pains of federalism in the extended ERA: Governance Models 1. NREN Policy Committee + Exec/Board: Current GÉANT scheme Consensus building, easing divides, encouraging wider participation in joint research, networking and service activities Simplify common procurement of unified e-infrastructures Problems: Cost, complexity, limited membership to DANTE CLG One-stop shopping for e-science initiatives: NRENs & subsidiarity? Adopted model for NRENs in Latin America (& Eumed?) 2. Federation of regional clusters: EGEE (and the NORDUnet precedence) 3. ESFRI models ERIC? Role of National Governments and the EC? Generated by Foxit PDF Creator Foxit Software 4. Member model: US Internet2 established by UCAID (University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development) Moving to an NREN like federation: Role of regionals connectors? Role of industry observers, strategic allies? 5. Multiple, overlapping NRENs: US, Russia, China
GÉANT Global Connectivity GÉANT global connectivity April 2009
GN3 Challenge: A Mature Federation for a Tsunami of Global Requirements 10 Gig+ NREN GÉANT Footprint March 2008 www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://wwp.mega-tsunami.com/ High-End Users Require Stable Production Services: Provisioning 10-40-100 Gbps networks Robustness, reliability, security requirements Multi-domain e2e monitoring & on-demand resource allocation Managing converging e-infrastructures as a cloud HPCN Future INTERNET Services