RENATER The National Research and Education Network in France

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RENATERThe National Research and Education
Network in France

• Dany.Vandromme_at_renater.fr
• www.renater.fr

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The network infrastructure

• Based on 30 Points of Presence (NR) in mainland
  France
• 7 Points of Presence overseas (worldwide)
• Backbone infrastructure provided by several
  telcos (CEGETEL, France Telecom, Level3,
  9Telecom)
• WDM lightpaths and dark fibres
• A unique NMS provider Communications Systems
  (CS)

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The network infrastructure

• 2 components
• IP routed on a meshed architecture provided by
  telcos lightpaths
• Switched lightpaths produced by RENATER from
  leased dark fibres

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The network infrastructure

• IP routed
• Nodes equipments are routers to interconnect WDM
  circuits
• Dual stack IPv4/IPv6 multicast (v4 and v6)
  MPLS
• VPN capabilities CNES, DEISA, GRID5000, etc

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Infrastructure RENATER-4
Corte
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Infrastructure RENATER-3
SYRHANO
NOROPALE
RELIER
TELEMUS
VIKMAN
PICARDIE
Lille
LOTHAIRE
Rouen
Compiègne
MEGALIS
Strasbourg
Caen
Reims
Alsace
Paris
Nancy
Rennes
CLONYS
Nantes
Dijon
MEGALIS
E-BELIN
Besançon
Orléans
Poitiers
CRATERE
SRHD
Clermont-
AMPLIVIARMU
Ferrand
Lyon
Limoges
RECIA
Bordeaux
AMPLIVIATIGRE
Grenoble
ESRA
RRHDCNRS-UNSA
Montpellier
Sophia
Pau
CORSE
Toulouse .
DOM - TOM
Marseille
Corte
ASTERREMIP
R3LR
RRHD PHOCEAN
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PACRET
RAP
ROYAL
RUBIS
REMUS
REVE
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The network infrastructure

• Lambdas switched
• Nodes equipments are switches to interconnect WDM
  circuits produced by RENATER optical equipments
• Required for expansion in general 10G world
• Optical private networks for DEISA and GRID5000.

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R4 Project infrastructure
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