Research Infrastructures and their Structuring Dimension Within the European Research Area 56 March

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Tools for the Knowledge Society Marko
Bonac Arnes
Research Infrastructures and their Structuring
Dimension Within the European Research Area 5-6
March 2008 Brdo, Slovenia
Session N
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• NRENs in Europe
• Data communications infrastructure serving the
  RE community is organised in a hierarchical
  fashion
• Campus, (regional), national, pan-European,
  intercontinental
• National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)
• NREN legal entity, one per country, not for
  profit, public support, AUP, serving RE needs
  (managing network and services), developing new
  technologies
• TERENA (The association of all European NRENs)
• Copendium www.terena.org/activities/compendium
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• Pan-European e-infrastructure GÉANT2
• Project
• 30 of Europe's NRENs
• DANTE, project coordinator, not for profit
  organisation created and owned by Europe's NRENs
• Project timescale Q3 2004 Q2 2009
• Already 7th generation of pan-European
  infrastructure
• GÉANT3 planned from Q3 2009 to Q2 20013
• Project is co-funded by EC Sixth RD FP (93 M
  EUR)
• The remainder of the funding is provided by
  NRENs.

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• GÉANT2 objectives
• Provide gigabit-speeds infrastructure to support
  European RE
• Deploy hybrid network routed IP traffic combined
  with switched point-to-point circuits
• Implement end-to-end QoS provision
• Develop a wider range of network services
• Performance monitoring
• Security
• Bandwidth on demand
• Testbed facility
• Mobility and roaming

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• GÉANT2 objectives (cont'd)
• Provide user support and consultancy
• Coordinate RTD activities
• Extend geographic reach of the network
• Conduct strategic studies into the future of
  European research networking
• Disseminate benefits and achievements of the
  network

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• European NRENs and GEANT2 A success Story
• NRENs established in all European countries
• GÉANT2 interconnects all European NRENs
• Stable governance NREN Policy Committee
• EC subsidy (50/10) sustainability
• Team collaboration from all NRENs
• Liberalization of telco market lowers the cost
• Cost to connect countries on the verge of Europe
  is higher
• International solidarity cost sharing
• GÉANT2 is a fundamental building block of ERA

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• GÉANT2 e-infrastructure
• to connect research infrastructures ?
• Many research infrastructures already use GÉANT2
• As we now plan GÉANT3 we would like to know
  better the requirements of potential users.
• A large scale survay has been done to find the
  requirements of researchers in Europe as part of
  Earnest study (www.terena.org)
• Still any new input will be appreciated