A Practical Introduction to Advanced and High Speed

Networking

NATO Advanced Networking Workshop

Ljubljana, 15-19 September 2001

TERENA, the TERENA Technical Programme and

the NATO Science Programme

Valentino Cavalli, TERENA

Acknowldgement to John Dyer, TERENA

NATO Science Programme

• supports collaboration between scientists in Partner countries or Mediterranean Dialogue countries and scientists in NATO countries

• Science Fellowships allow scientists of Partner-countries to study in NATO countries, and vice-versa

The TERENA Membership

• the national research and education networks of 34 countries

• CERN, ESA, ECMWF

• associate members (regional organisations, industry)

The Mission of TERENA

• representation of the common interests of TERENA’s members• political, policy and industrial contacts• liaison with other continents

• the Technical Programme• developing, testing and promoting new networking

technologies, services and applications• workshops, task forces, projects

• knowledge transfer• conferences, workshops and seminars• assistance to less-advanced networks

• providing a “cradle” for new services

Special Interest Areas

• Lower Layers• Quality of Service• Video Conferencing & Streaming• Content Delivery, Indexing,

Searching• Middleware• (mobility)

SIA - Lower Layers

• TF-NGN•Forum for Information Exchange•Development and Testing

• Includes the piloting of the new services on the GEANT backbone. DANTE is the responsible GEANT partner.

TF-NGN

• Started Activities in November 2000

•Quality of Service Issues• AF, Premium IP, Over Provisioned, Delay &

Jitter . . .

• Improvement of Multicast•Optical Networking Issues•Network Monitoring• IPv6 deployment

European Testbed Activities

Activities NetworksIP Premium Service

TempGARR-G, PLAGE, Quaser(DE)-pt SEQUIN/NGN

MPLS Temp PLAGE

IPv6 Perm Own Network Infrastructure

Shaping Temp GARR-G or PLAGE

Monitoring Perm Unknown

LambdaUnspec

Unknown

SIA – VideoConf / Stream

• TF-STREAM closed June 2001• 3-4 Meetings per year• 20 active members 9 countries• Recommendations• Best Practice• Information Source

TF-STREAM Highlights

• Meetings carried out using video-conferencing facilities

• Investigating European Videoconference Service

• Loan Codecs for HiQ videoconferencing

• Web site information

SIA - Middleware

• Directories TF-LSD• Certification Authorities – PKI (ad-

hoc)• Security TF-CSIRT

• All these activities have direct relevance to the emerging GRID

TF-LSD Highlights

• 20 Active members• Experience with OpenLDAP• Need for EuroEDUPerson

ObjectClass• Internet2 EDUPerson, GRIDPerson

• Issues of pan-European PKI

TF-CSIRT

• NRN and Commercial Involvement• Sept 2000, • Jan 2001, • May-June 2001• Next Meeting, fall 2001

• Major Activities• Team Accreditation• Information Exchange• Development of Training Workshop

CSIRT Accreditation

• CERT-NL (The Netherlands) 1. January 2001.

• CSIRT.DK (Denmark) 20. April 2001.

• GARR-CERT (Italy) 1. January 2001.

• IRIS-CERT (Spain) 23. March 2001.

• JANET-CERT (United Kingdom) 1. January 2001.

• NORDUNET CERT (Scandinavia) 6. April 2001.

• SIEMENS-CERT (Germany) 23. March 2001.

• UniNett CERT (Norway) 1. April 2001.

Training Workshop

Legal Issues CERT-NL

Organisational Issues †

BTSS-CSIRT

Technical Issues † DFN-CERT

Marketing Issues JANET-CERT

Operational Issues † BTSS-CSIRT

† Indicates practical / workshop element

TF-CSIRT Activities

• Seminars•Best Practice•Experience and Demonstrations Tools

• Technical •Development of Incident Exchange XML•Security Entry in RIPE database

• Relations with the CEC

PKI BoF at TNC2001

• Attendance around 30• Wide Representation: Europe / US• Major Issue of Discussion:

• Bridge Model versus Hierarchical• EuroPKI (IT) Hierarchical• Federal (US) Bridge• GRID – undecided

• ACTIONS taken by Europe & US• STRONGER COORDINATION with US

GRID

• Monitoring GRID Activities• Presentation at the TERENA community• Building Cooperative Links with GRID-

FORUM• Areas of Overlap (Middleware)

• Security• Authentication• Directories, Certification, PKI• QoS

Minor Project Proposals

• Pilot IODEF implementation

• EuroEDUPerson Object Class Definition

• Certificate Retrieval in OpenLDAP

SCAMPI

• IST-2001Thematic Priority IV-2.2• Scalable Monitoring Platform for

the Internet• Active & Passive Measurement

100Gbps• Using affordable components• Initial filtering on NIC

SCAMPI

• TERENA, NL• IMEC, BE• FORTH, GR• LEIDEN University, NL• NETIKOS, IT• UNINETT, NO• CESNET, CZ• FORTHnet, GR• 4Plus, GR• SIEMENS, DE

• Total Cost 5.6 MEUR• EU 2.9 MEUR• 473 person/months• 30 months duration

• TERENA• 322 kEUR• 39 person/months• Web Server• Workshops

IPv6 Testbed Project6NET

• Phase 1 duration 3-6 months• Introduction of an IPv6 Infrastructure over IPv4

tunnels

• Phase 2 duration 3-6 months • Build a dedicated link layer for native IPv6

• Phase 3 duration 24 months• dual stack network

• Phase 4 - Exploitation

6NET Project Partners

• Management - CISCO• Infrastructure - DANTE• IPv4/v6 - SURFnet• Applications -

RENATER• Trial - UKERNA• NetMan -Switch• Dissemination -

TERENA

• ULB• SONY• IBM• NTT• NORDUNET• DFN• ACONET• GRNET• GARR• UCL• Uni Southampton• Uni Lancaster• Others (~30 total)

TEQUILA

• Quality of Service• TERENA’s role – Dissemination

•Workshop on SLS – Jan 2001, Amsterdam

•Focus SLS and Traffic Engineering•50 attendees

• http://www.ist-tequila.org/• Tequila workshop 2002

PortalContent Delivery, Indexing Searching

• Closed Workshop • Action Plan

•Approaches : Formal and ad-hoc

• Open Workshop• An implementation• Exploring links with Suppliers

GNRT

• Third Edition •Available on-line late 2001•Manuscript to publishers 11 June

• Future •Modular on-line approach•Continuous updating

International Lambda Workshop

• Amsterdam, 12-13 September 2001• Organised by TERENA in

collaboration with StarLight, CANARIE, SURFnet, Internet2

• Aimed at NRENs (interested in) running lambdas internationally, equipment providers, telcos, (research &) development institutes