Research Networking in Europe

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Research Networking in Europe

• Fernando Liello
• Quantum Policy Committee
• INFN - Trieste

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The Basic Question

• Many People Believe That ISPs Can Provide
  Everything
• At an Affordable Price
• Latency Management
• Stream Synchronization
• Will Research Use Only Commercial Services in the
  Future?

3
European Infrastructure

• Not the Very Highest Performance in the World
• Very Solid
• Bears Global Comparison in All Aspects
• Leads in Some

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TEN-155 Topology (2000)
TEN-155 Transit PoP
TEN-155 PoP
PT
SE
IE
BE
GR
CY
Interconnections
LU
IL
NL
UK
PL
US
SI
FR
AT
DE
622 Mbps
310 Mbps
155 Mbps
CH
CZ
HU
lt100 Mbps
155 Mbps
ES
34/45 Mbps
IT
10 Mbps
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Geographic Scope

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Estonia
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary

• NorduNet
• Denmark
• Finland
• Iceland
• Norway
• Sweden
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Latvia
• Lithuania

• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovenia
• Slovakia
• Spain
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom

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NRENs Capacity Trends
7
Users Requirements

• General Connectivity
• Distributed Data And/Or Computing Resource Access
• Remote Use/Control of Instruments
• Virtual Experiments
• Distributed Design and Manufacturing

8
TEN-155 Experience

• Quality of Service
• Managed Bandwidth Service
• End-to-End Capacity Allocation
• Guaranteed Delay and Latency
• Virtual Private Networks
• Privacy
• Services for Mission Oriented Communities
• Distributed Data-Bases

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GEANT Infrastructure

• Multi-Gigabit Core
• 2.4 Gbps in 2000
• Dark- or Gray-Fibers in Future?
• European Distributed Access (EDA)
• AUP-Free for Research Education
• Intercontinental Connections
• N.America, AsiaPacific, S.America,

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New Strategic Attitude

• Support Global Research Traffic
• Promote Interconnect With Research Networks in
  Other World Regions
• Share Costs of Intercontinental Capacity
• Distinguish Between Research and Commodity
  Traffic?

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GEANT Service Offer

• Best Effort IP
• Research Traffic Interchange
• End-to-End Quality of Service
• Virtual Private Network
• Bandwidth Allocation / Reservation

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Economically Reasonable

• Modest Investment Increase
• Scale Economies
• Co-ordinate Bandwidth Purchase
• Intercontinental Capacity Redundancy
• Better Peering Negotiating Position
• EC Support
• Easily Scalable in Future

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Procurement Approach

• Public Procurement Rules
• Phased Approach
• Guaranteed Service Continuity
• Non-homogeneous technology

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GEANT Timetable

• EC Produces Framework for RN1
• GEANT Detailed Specifications
• Start Element Procurement
• Evaluation / Negotiation Phase
• Funding for TEN-155 Expires
• GEANT

• January 2000
• March 2000
• April 2000
• September 2000
• October-November 2000
• December 2000