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GÉANT: Supporting R&E Collaboration

Thomas Fryer, Senior International Relations Officer, GÉANT Association

NKN Annual Workshop

Guwahati, Assam, India

Monday, 15th December 2014

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The leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe’s economic growth and competitiveness

A first website with basic information is at www.geant.org

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TERENA and DANTE have joined forces!

http://www.geant.org/


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What does the GÉANT Association do?


Europe’s 500Gbps network

- e-Infrastructure for the “data deluge”

Co-funded by the EU and

Europe’s NRENs

Connects NRENs across

Europe

Latest transmission and

switching technology

Routers with 100Gbps

capability

Optical transmission platform

designed to provide 500Gbps

super-channels

27,114km of dark fibre

Over 100,000km of leased

capacity (including

transatlantic connections)

28 main sites covering

European footprint


http://global.geant.net/

Global reach

- At the heart of global research networking

Reaches 106 countries

around the world

• 40 countries in Europe

• 66 countries outside

Europe

Global connectivity over

140Gbps

http://global.geant.net/


GÉANT Open is an open

exchange based in London to

support both European and

worldwide interconnects for

research and education

Production service with full

NOC support and SLA

monitoring

http://www.geant.net/Services/ConnectivityServices/Pages/GEANTOpen.aspx

Users able to connect are:

GÉANT and other international R&E network providers

National and regional R&E networks

Approved commercial operators

Individual research facilities

Connections at 1Gbps, 10Gbps or 100Gbps

Provides for interconnections with all other connected users and GÉANT to

provide inter-organisation connectivity

GÉANT Open

- Open for business

http://www.geant.net/Services/ConnectivityServices/Pages/GEANTOpen.aspx


GÉANT: Extending ESnet Transatlantic

Connectivity in Europe


New action started in 2013 for R&D research within the GÉANT project

€3.3 million of funding for the following areas:

Applications

& Tools Authentication

Network

Architecture &

Optical Projects

Software-Defined

Networking

Awards granted to total of 21 independent projects

Inclusion of additional 30 partners from across Europe

– Enables GÉANT to benefit from expertise in universities, research

institutes and commercial organisations not previously in GÉANT

http://www.geant.net/opencall/

GÉANT Innovation Programme

- Open Call initiative




GÉANT End User Services

Security

Clouds


Now available in 69 territories worldwide, inc. 29 territories outside Europe.

Pilot instances in a further 18 countries outside Europe

eduroam

- Mobility for the R&E community


Continued operation and growth of the eduGAIN service

Global Engagement

(CEO Forum, ELCIRA)

GÉANT CoCo (Code of Conduct) as well as further

develop Data Protection CoCo worldwide

• Member federations in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan & USA

• Federations joining in Argentina, Australia, Japan & New Zealand

eduGAIN inter-federation

- Working globally and across sectors


Previously two versions existed: perfSONAR MDM and

perfSONAR PS

New approach (work with Internet2, ESnet, Indiana University):

Convergence

Creating a new tool

From the best of PS and MDM

Using the same tool

Same documentation, same training, same interface

Tool to monitor network performance:

Bandwidth / Latency / Jitter / Trace route

Performance Monitoring : perfSONAR


A global monitoring tool, a global

success


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eduPERT is a world-wide Open Community for

Performance Enhancement Response Teams,

a virtual organisation covering performance issues

for R&E networks.

eduPERT is moving an extended field

of action towards the end-users, researchers

and academic ICTs – an umbrella for all NREN PERT

teams.

eduPERT supports and is linking new

technologies as clouds and network research

eduPERT

- In a nutshell

Contact: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]




Monthly Calls – Appointment announced on the Mailing list

Discussion eduPERT issues:

Mailing-list: [email protected]

eduPERT – Knowledge Base:

http://kb.pert.geant.net

eduPERT-Workshops, training (Performance U!) and F2F meetings

eduPERT-Portal

http://services.geant.net/edupert/Pages/Home.aspx

Questions, Remarks, Inputs are very welcome

Please contact eduPERT

[email protected]

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eduPERT

- What it involves




http://kb.pert.geant.net







Supporting Users:

GÉANT User Liaison Function

Be “the voice of the customer/user”

within GÉANT

Involve Subject Matter Experts (e.g.

AAI,…)

Works in tight co-operation with “lead

NREN”

International organisations, projects and collaborations

Discuss and understand user requirements

Co-ordinate the formulation of solutions for the user

Technical, organisational, financial

Formulate information on architectures, services needed, financial information,

operational models

Co-ordinate discussion with all relevant stakeholders, above all each NREN


EUMETSAT Multicast of Environmental

Data

• Meteorological data from

EUMETSAT satellites need

to be distributed to sites in

Europe, Asia and USA.

• EUMETSAT requires

network infrastructure that

enables terrestrial multicast

dissemination to end sites.

• EUMETSAT and GÉANT are running a two-year multicast prototype

emulating operational scenarios from the EUMETSAT HQ in Darmstadt,

using GÉANT infrastructure in Europe and global connectivity

• Agreement provides a Single Point of Contact to EUMETSAT for the related

network services across GÉANT and the corresponding National Networks.


EUMETSAT-NOAA Multicast Interconnectivity

• ICTBIOMED: International Consortium for Technology in Biomedicine

• Aims to address challenges in biomedical research, e.g. data

infrastructure for better healthcare

• Participants: Center For Advanced Development of Advanced

Computing, India: PSNC (Poland), University of Notre Dame (USA);

Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden);

• Collaboration between Indian Space Science Data Center & CNES

(Centre National d’Étude Spatiale), Toulouse, France


EUMETSAT-NOAA Multicast Interconnectivity

• agInfra

• An open infrastructure to connect and share agricultural data.

• Led by University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain

• Other participants include the Indian Statistical Institute, 12 other

institutions in Europe, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, and

Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN FAO, and a couple of

commercial partners)

• http://aginfra.eu

• Open Source Drug Discovery

• Lead by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

• Collaboration to solve problems in discovering new therapies for tropical

diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, Leishmaniasis

• Access to global genomics repositories

• Collaboration with institutions outside Europe including Cambridge University

& Indiana University


www.geant.net

www.twitter.com/GEANTnews | www.facebook.com/GEANTnetwork | www.youtube.com/GEANTtv

Connect | Communicate | Collaborate

Thank you! Questions?

[email protected]

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