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RMDCN status & plan
WG-TDI meeting, Prague, February 2013
K. Rebai (on behalf of M. Dell’Acqua)
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Agenda
RMDCN Configuration RMDCN Next Generation Migration
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RMDCN configuration
RMDCN currently provides connections to 49 sites :
45 national meteorological services
ECMWF EUMETSAT (2 sites) 1 disaster recovery site for
The Netherlands Access bandwidth ranges
from 128kbps to 100 Mbps
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RMDCN Geographical coverage
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RA VI countries not connected to the RMDCN
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Agenda
RMDCN Configuration RMDCN NG Migration
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Key dates in procurement process
30-31 January 2012 - TAC Subgroup on the RMDCN (Meeting 3)
15 February 2012 - ITT issued 23 April 2012 - Deadline for responses
– several bids had been received
May – October 2012 - Evaluation and negotiation 8-9 October 2012 - TAC Subgroup on the RMDCN (Meeting
4)– Members of the WMO Task Team on the RMDCN and two other WMO
observers attended the TAC Subgroup on the RMDCN
4-5 December 2012 - ECMWF Council December 2012- Contract signature
ECMWF/2012/207 Evaluation 7
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New RMDCN Contract – con’t
Similar terms and conditions to the current RMDCN contract The main contract applies to all users of the RMDCN
– ECMWF, ECMWF Countries and Acceding Parties
In addition Acceding Parties will have to sign an Accession Agreement with the Contractor
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Agenda
RMDCN Configuration RMDCN NG Migration
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Pilot Network
The first step of the migration plan is to deploy a Pilot Network in the first half of 2013 in order to check out the new provider’s capabilities – sites that are representative for the whole community : ECMWF
Member States, RA VI sites and sites outside Europe
The sites participating in the Pilot Network are: Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, Japan and ECMWF
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Migration timetable
Following acceptance of the Pilot Network, orders will be submitted on 1 July 2013 for all sites that have agreed their configuration– cut-off date for sites to be part of the so-called Initial Deployment
As part of the migration, ECMWF will act as a gateway between the
current OBS network and the new network– all RMDCN sites to continue to inter-communicate during the migration
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Migration
To minimise the overhead of running parallel networks, ECMWF plans to cancel their connection to the OBS network shortly after completion of the one-month migration window
– currently planned to end on 6 February 2014
ECMWF’s gateway function will continue to be available for a further 3 months (until early May 2014)
– Once the gateway function is stopped, RMDCN sites that are not connected to the new network will not be able to communicate with the RMDCN community
All currently connected sites are strongly advised to sign their Accession Agreements, if required, and to order their connections before 1 July 2013, so that they can be part of the Initial Deployment
Sites ordering their connection to the new network after 1 July 2013 will not be connected to the RMDCN until after the end of the one-month migration window (February 2014), on a business-as-usual basis
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Migration plan for RMDCN-NG
Event Due Date
Contract Signature December 2012
ECMWF submit order forms for all Pilot Sites By 4 February 2013
Interoute will hand over all Pilot Sites 26 May 2013
Successful completion of Pilot Network Reliability Acceptance Test30 June 2013
ECWMF to submit order forms for all User Sites that have agreed their configuration. These sites make up the Initial Deployment and can take part in the Global Network Reliability Acceptance Test
1 July 2013
Interoute to provide Operational Readiness Dates for all User Sites in the Initial Deployment
1 August 2013
Start of User Site Reliability Acceptance Tests & Global Network Reliability Acceptance Test (minimum of 70% of User Sites of Initial Deployment to be handed over)
20 November 2013
Successful completion of Global Network Reliability Acceptance Test
Formally acceptance of new network 20 December 2013
Network Migration starts for all sites part of the Initial Deployment 6 January 2014
Network Migration finishes 6 February 2014
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