Networks ∙ Services ∙ People Update on SGA1 Ivan Maric, Oversight Committee Chair 12/10/2015

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Update on SGA1Ivan Maric, Oversight Committee Chair

12/10/2015


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• GN4-1 grant agreement to be signed (mid October)• GN4-1 advanced payment (after SGA signature)• Need to amend FPA to add Latvia (and later (in GN4-2) Azerbaijan, Albania)

Project Update


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Activity Manpower (M1-M4) RAG Status (September 2015) Comments

NA1 69% GREEN

NA2 75% GREEN

NA3 71% GREEN

NA4 95% GREEN

SA1 87% GREEN

SA2 97% GREEN

SA3 74% GREEN

SA4 80% GREEN

SA5 77% AMBER Legal issue

SA6 83% GREEN

SA7 59% GREEN

SA8 54% GREEN

JRA1 71% GREEN

JRA2 78% GREEN

JRA3 97% GREEN

Project Activities RAG Status


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# Deliverable number

Deliverable Title Activity Lead participant Delivery date (project month)

Status

1 D10.1 GÉANT Monthly Service Report 10/SA6 GEANT Limited M02 Done


3 D2.1 Services Marketing and Promotions Strategy 2/NA2 GEANT Limited M03 Technical Authors


5 D9.1 Moonshot Service Specification 9/SA5 JISC M04 Done


7 D1.1 Quarterly Management Reports 1/NA1 GEANT Limited M05 Done

8 D9.2 Market Analysis for Virtual Organisation Platform as a Service 9/SA5 AMRES M05 SME review

GN4-1 Deliverables till the end of September 2015


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• 6/51 Deliverables• 12%

GN4-1 Deliverables till the end of September 2015


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• 24 out of 51 deliverables in M12• More QASPER reviewers invited• Could use extra Technical Authoring resources for a couple of months• Clear message to Activity Leaders to try to finish as soon as possible• Still unclear if everything will be on time• More progress reports will be provided on a monthly basis

Deliverables at the end of the project


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#Milestone number Milestone Title Activity

Delivery date (project month)

Status

1 M1.1 Training Workplan 1/NA1 M1 Done

2 M1.2 PMF/PLM in Place 1/NA1 M3 Done

3 M1.3 Working/ICT Tools and Infrastructure 1/NA1 M3 Done

4 M14.1 Delivery of Software Component Repository and Initial Requirements-to-features matrix

14/JRA2 M3 Done

5 M14.2 Future Network Services Specification 14/JRA2 M4 Done

6 M1.4 GEANT Event 1/NA1 M5 Postponed

GN4-1 Milestones till the end of September 2015


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• 5/30 Milestones• 17%

GN4-1 Milestones till the end of September 2015

May-15 Jun-15 Jul-15 Aug-15 Sep-15 Oct-15 Nov-15 Dec-15 Jan-16 Feb-16 Mar-16 Apr-160

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GN4-1 Milestones

Milestones Submitted


Budget UpdateGN4-1


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Manpower at the end of August ~ 78%


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• On average partners are claiming 78% of budget Manpower during first 4 months

Manpower for M1-M4 GN4-1

actual budget budget

4mths to 31/08/15

4mths to 31/08/15

12mths to 30/04/16

VAR.% - act vs. bud (to date)

MM MM MM

SA 314 400 1,192 -21%

NA 149 200 601 -26%

JRA 98 122 367 -20%

562 723 2,161 -22%

FTE Equiv 141 181 180 -40-22%


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Partner Actual Budget %

GEANT Ltd 209 223 94%

PSNC 55 66 83%

NORDUnet 43 64 67%

DFN 36 36 100%

GRNET 22 31 72%

GEANT Association 21 29 71%

UoB 16 29 55%

CESNET 24 26 93%

SURFnet 13 24 57%

CARNet 24 24 100%

Main GN4-1 project contributors (M1-M4)


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Actual vs Budget position at Cost Category Level M1-M4 (to 31 August 2015)

Actuals 13% favourable to budget after 4 months

33% Project time elapsed >>> 30% of budget spent

4 Months Actual to 31 August 2015

€M Manpower Travel NetworkOther /

SubContract Total

SA 2.3 .2 7.9 .1 10.5NA 1.3 .1 .0 .5 1.9JRA .6 .0 .0 .0 .7 BUDGET

4.2 .4 7.9 .6 13.0total

(12 mths)€mSA 2.8 .3 8.3 .1 11.4 32.3NA 1.7 .2 .0 .7 2.6 7.9JRA .8 .1 .0 .0 .9 2.8

5.3 .6 8.3 .8 15.0 43.1

SA .5 .1 .4 .0 1.0NA .4 .1 .0 .3 .7JRA .2 .1 .0 .0 .3

1.1 .2 .4 .2 2.0

% variance -21% -40% -5% -30% -13%

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• May 2015: 1.7m/2.2m• June 2015: 2m/2.2m• July 2015: 2m/2.1m• August 2015: 1.8m/2.1m

• Overall: 7.7m / 8.65m under claim so far

• Options:• Claim manpower at 125%• Project extension by 1 month

• The Commission services will, in future, more closely examine each request for an extension to the duration of the project to ensure that they are only given where there is a clear added value for the project, or where external events (not reasonably foreseeable at the point of signing the grant) mean that it is impossible to complete the work in the agreed timeframe.

Extension needed? Funding claimed so far


Activities Highlights


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• SA1: Network Services• Internal milestones have been delivered• New performance and traffic monitoring, management and reporting: Requirements of new performance

and traffic monitoring, management and reporting solutions gathering completed.• Scoping of Layer 1 infrastructure study: Scope, information gathering templates and NRENs’ communication

plan developed for Layer 1 infrastructure study scoping completed.• Scoping of multi-domain transit network study: Scope, information gathering templates and NRENs’

communication plan developed for Layer 2/3 infrastructure study scoping completed.• Network evolution plan: Plan for how (and by whom) input will be gathered and the relevant questions

identified scoping completed.• Recommend a solution for network performance assurance and monitoring: Proposal for a network

performance monitoring, traffic monitoring, management and reporting solution. Explore the use of Ethernet OAM. Analysis and design completed.

Some activities highlights/lowlights (from RAG reports & draft Quarterly Management Report)


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• SA2: Testbeds• Carries on further development from the work undertaken in GN3plus by supplying the necessary software to offer

scalable and easy-to-use production-level services from the installed facilities and develops a roadmap proposal for the future.

• SA2 is on track with all tasks making steady progress towards their objectives.

• SA3: Network Delivery and Support• SA3 T1 security specialists have been briefed on the technical aspects of the Firewall on Demand (FoD) system and a

group has been formed to review new features and enhancements for the next upgrade for the GÉANT branch of the FoD codebase.

• SA3 T1, with the support of SA6 T4, has addressed a number of privacy issues and concerns and is in the process of building a security test bed, a NIF is being prepared.

• The Reputation Shield project plan is on track. • The MD-VPN operation task has begun. • VPLS deployment is ongoing. • The first prototype of wireless performance verification has been demonstrated. • A discussion with the eduSAFE team about a proposal for monitoring metrics is ongoing. • eduPERT advanced training and infrastructure tests have been finalised.

Some activities highlights/lowlights (cont’d)


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• SA4 Production Application Services and Infratsructure• challenge: Service portfolio and the current status of services that are the subject of work of SA4 is still not

clear.• All other tasks are on track.

• SA5: Trust and Identity Service Development• Amber code is due to the ongoing legal issue with one profile in eduroam CAT and it's knock-on effects. All

other tasks are on track, and the majority of eduroam operational delivery is also unaffected.

• SA6: Production Support• Firewall on Demand implemented on the network. The Trouble Ticket update SLA was comfortably met,

with 97.4% updated (KPI target is 95%). • The 5th Services and Technology Forum (STF) was hosted by ARNES and attended by 25 NRENs - there were

more presenters from NRENs than from GÉANT. • Traffic growth.



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• SA7: Supply Chain Support• The IaaS tender is attracting a lot of interest from providers.• NRENs are sharing expertise about OpenStack in the SA7 OpenStack operators group.• We have a range of file storage offerings available in our cloud catalogue:

• BOX and Code42 with CrashPlan and Shareplan are already listed• Dropbox and Zetabox will follow shortly

• Several NRENs want to make agreements with those providers, to allow their communities to use those services with an educational discount.

• The cloud activity is suffering a delay in procurement due to lack of harmonisation of the new EU procurement directive.

• SA8: Real-Time Appplications and Multimedia Management• The WebRTC task drafted a straw-man proposal that will form the basis of the WebRTC Roadmap deliverable. • The Open Educational Resources (OER) task reviewed the service architecture inherited from the former

TERENA OER pilot project and suggested five new back-end service components, targeting the content providers of the GÉANT OER platform.



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• JRA1: Future Network Topologies• Tasks are working on a position paper for Zero Touch Connectivity. This will be used for dissemination into

the community and as a strategy document for JRA1.• All other tasks are on track.

• JRA2: Future Network Services• Multi-vendor SDN testbed in Cambridge documented and ready to use for the purposes of JRA2. • Analysis of SDN controllers against the use case requirements and training have resulted in a well-prepared

and up-to-date T2 team that can work on implementation from now on.

• JRA3: Trust and Identity Reseacrh • T2 Worked with NA1T7 to create the MAC (Multiple Acronym Course, i.e.: JW*/OAuth2/OIDC/UMA course).

First trial run (by Roland and Rebecka) to be held at SURFnet offices end of September.• OpenStack AA work makes very good progress indeed. Setup already works with Grouper, PERUN, HEXAA.

Now working on a white paper and screen cast showing all features and benefits of this approach.• New GNTB version released. Now working on Docker support. Continuously contacting potential pilot users.

Update DAME (Dynamic Automated Metadata Exchange) IETF draft.



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• NA1: Project Management and Coordination• GN4 Symposium early March in Vienna. • 1st Quarterly Management Report on time.

• NA2: Communications and Promotion• Participation at TNC15, including new graphics panels for the booth, demonstrations. • 15 project-related presentations and x posters. • Published CONNECT magazine, issue 19, including articles on the GEANT Testbed Service, security and

introducing the new brand. Communications plans established for the GN4-1 year. • Published the GÉANT website with a section devoted to the GN4-1 project; and the responsive website in

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• NA3: Status and Trends• The 2015 Compendium questionnaire was opened on 12 June 2015. NRENs were invited to complete the

questionnaire for submission by 24 July 2015. • Campus Best Practice and the Green team arranged initial meeting in May 2015 to kick off their activities.

The teams agreed to work towards closer collaboration and develop synergies by sharing best practice documents and space on the CBP microsite.

• NA4: International Business Development• Re-prioritisation of NREN support in Task 1.• Nine face-to-face NREN meetings.• A new focus on e-Infrastructure liaison established. • Agreement on GÉANT access for ESA/Copernicus has reached the contractual stage. • Successful IUAC and EAC meetings held.


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Networks ∙ Services ∙ People Update on SGA1 Ivan Maric, Oversight Committee Chair 12/10/2015