Conversatorio: estado de las National Research and Education Networks (NREN) en Europa y el mundo por Tom Fryer Senior International Relations Officer DANTE - GÉANT

GÉANT:Supporting R&E Collaboration World-Wide

Thomas Fryer

Senior International Relations Officer, DANTE

XI Encuentro Temático Nacional RENATA - RUP

Popayán, Colombia, 22nd August 2014

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Europe’s 500Gbps network - e-Infrastructure for the “data deluge”

40 European countries connected

Latest transmission and switching technology

Routers with 100Gbps capability

Optical transmission platform designed to provide 500Gbps super-channels

27,114km of dark fibreOver 100,000km of leased

capacity (including transatlantic connections)

28 main sites covering European footprint


http://global.geant.net/

Global reach- At the heart of global research networking

Reaches 107 countries around the world• 40 countries in Europe• 67 countries outside

Europe

Global connectivity close to 140Gbps

http://global.geant.net/

4Connect | Communicate | CollaborateObjectives ConclusionsAchievementsBackground Challenges / Mitigations

GÉANT sets Guinness World Record


GN3plus: extension and expansion to 3rd term of the successful GÉANT networking project, vital to the EU’s e-Infrastructure strategy.

GÉANT vision: to become the unified European Communications Commons - driving knowledge creation as the global hub for research networking excellence

GÉANT Mission: to deliver world-class services with the highest levels of operational excellence

Co-funded: by the EU and Europe’s NRENs

Key Facts GN3plus

Start date April 1 2013

Duration 24 months

Total budget €84,283,018

EC contribution €41,800,000

Participants 250+

71 Project Partners:38 NRENs, DANTE, TERENA, NORDUnet (representing 5 Nordic countries), 30 additional partners through Open Call

Beyond GN3plus: Planning for GN4 with continued EC funding is underway

GÉANT (GN3plus)- Vital to the EU’s e-Infrastructure strategy


New action started in 2013 for R&D research within the GÉANT project

€3.3 million of funding for the following areas:

Applications & Tools

AuthenticationNetwork

Architecture & Optical Projects

Software-Defined Networking

Awards granted to total of 21 independent projects

Inclusion of additional 30 partners from across Europe– Enables GÉANT to benefit from expertise in universities, research

institutes and commercial organisations not previously in GÉANT

http://www.geant.net/opencall/

GÉANT Innovation Programme- Open Call initiative




GÉANT Open is an open exchange based in London to support both European and worldwide interconnects for research and education

Production service with full NOC support and SLA monitoring

http://www.geant.net/Services/ConnectivityServices/Pages/GEANTOpen.aspx

Users able to connect are:

GÉANT and other international R&E network providers

National and regional R&E networks

Approved commercial operators

Individual research facilities

Connections at 1Gbps, 10Gbps or 100Gbps

Provides for interconnections with all other connected users and GÉANT to provide inter-organisation connectivity

GÉANT Open- Open for business

http://www.geant.net/Services/ConnectivityServices/Pages/GEANTOpen.aspx


Multi-domain VPN is a new network

connectivity service to complement current IP

and static and BoD point-to-point services

MD-VPN is currently being piloted with

NRENs in Europe

Aims to provide efficient, fast and private data

transfer mechanisms for projects and users

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GÉANT Multi-domain VPN - New network connectivity service

Aims to deliver VPN services to end users seamlessly:

Enables several sites to be connected at Layer 2 or

Layer 3 as if in the same physical location.

Provides a safe environment for international collaboration projects

Enables the sharing of network resources (computing, storage…)

among organisations

Allows regional and local networks to connect users to the service

through their local NREN End-to-End services


Two versions have existed to date: perfSONAR MDM and perfSONAR PS

Original approach (within DICE – US-Europe Technical Collaboration Forum):

Interoperability

Developing compatibility modules

Duplicating components (HADES/OWAMP)

New approach (collaboration with Internet2, ESnet, Indiana University):

Convergence

Creating a new tool

From the best of PS and MDM

Using the same tool

Same documentation, same training, same interface

Tool to monitor network performance:

Bandwidth / Latency / Jitter / Trace route

Performance Monitoring Collaboration- Translate to unite


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eduPERT is a world-wide Open Community, a virtual organisation covering performance issues for R&E networks.

eduPERT is moving an extended field of action towards the end-users, researchers and academic ICTs – an umbrella for all NREN PERT teams.

eduPERT supports and is linking newtechnologies as clouds and network research

eduPERT - In a nutshell


Continued operation and growth of the eduGAIN service

Global Engagement

(CEO Forum, ELCIRA)

Promote uptake of GÉANT CoCo as well

as further develop Data Protection CoCo

worldwide

Investigate interoperability pilot for

government e-ID

eduGAIN inter-federation - Working globally and across sectors


eduGAIN & Federation Status Today

24 eduGAIN Members 6 Joining eduGAIN

1 Candidate Federation16 Other FederationsApril 2014


Open your laptop and be on-line

Now available in 68 territories worldwide

eduroam - Mobility for the R&E community


Improving the Videoconferencing End User Experience

eduCONF - Videoconferencing in Europe


Bringing attractive cloud services to European research & education with the right conditions of use

GÉANT Cloud services - A coordinated approach


BIG SCIENCE

E-HEALTH AND THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

E-LEARNING

The Large Hadron Collider

Benefits teachers, lecturers and students

Disaster warning and recovery

Environmental monitoring

Radio astronomy

TELEMEDICINE

THE ARTSMusicians have

new ways to create music, rehearse and perform together.

EARTH OBSERVATION

http://www.geant.net/Resources/Media_Library/Pages/Case-Studies.aspx

Supporting users- Enabling collaboration worldwide




EUMETSAT Multicast of Environmental Data

• Meteorological data from EUMETSAT satellites need to be distributed to sites in Europe, Asia and USA.

• EUMETSAT requires network infrastructure that enables terrestrial multicast dissemination to end sites.

• EUMETSAT and GÉANT are starting a two-year multicast prototype emulating operational scenarios from the EUMETSAT HQ in Darmstadt, using GÉANT infrastructure in Europe and global connectivity

• Agreement provides a Single Point of Contact to EUMETSAT for the related network services across GÉANT and the corresponding National Networks.


What?• The SuperKEKB 3km circular electron-positron collider in Tsukuba, Japan• 10GeV collisions (electrons need less energy than LHC’s hadrons)• Collider operates as a b-factory (production of b-mesons)• Will produce peak of ~50 Petabytes of data per year

The Research?• “Flavour physics” (b-physics)

• CP-Violation• Matter/anti-matter

research

Timeline?• Q3 2015 – Collider commissioning start• Q3 2016 – Data taking start• 2021 – Peak luminosity (maximum data taking)

Who?• 530 physicists• 94 institutions• 23 countries

GÉANT Users: The BELLE II Experiment- Japanese collider to produce 50PB of data


Distributed computing model based on the Grid paradigm• Tier 0 in Japan (KEK) and US (PNNL)• Tier 1 sites in Europe (Germany, Italy & Slovenia)• Tier 2 sites around the world

Network monitoring based on perfSONAR• Measurement Points at every T0/T1 site• Central Measurement Archive at PNNL• Customised network weathermap

Participation in the ANA-100G testbed• Data Challenge expected for the end of April• Simulation of one day of raw-data movement (25TB)

between US and Europe

Supporting users: The BELLE II Experiment- Japanese collider to produce 50Pb of data


Technology is revolutionising education:

Interactive teaching materials

Use of laptops and tablets in the classroom

R&E connectivity can support global interactions through videoconferencing:

Cultural exchanges between individual classes (Scargill Infants, UK, and Bell Top Elementary, NY State)

Group discussions on current affairs (Teaching and Learning Across the Pond, MegaConference Jr; Alternative Energy Debates – https://k20.internet2.edu/energy)

Continuing the Paralympic Legacy: VC with Paralympic medallists and coaches with pupils in London and New York

Collaboration platforms:

http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org

CAPSpace: http://projects.twice.cc

Muse: http://k20.internet2.edu

Croatian pupils hosting a MegaConference Jr debate, May 2013

Supporting users: Global K12 School Interactions- Revolutionising how education is delivered

http://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/

http://projects.twice.cc/

http://k20.internet2.edu/

http://k20.internet2.edu/


Access to cultural performances for students with an interest in the arts can be limited for cost reasons and if not staged locally.

Òpera Oberta (Open Opera) provides a solution with performances made accessible exclusively to universities registered with the Liceu Theatre in Barcelona, Spain.

Operatic performances are broadcast using multicast technology to participating universities.

Each performance is supported with learning materials, including a lecture before each opera, images and archived documentation.

Students can receive course credits for their virtual attendance.

Average of 1300 students per performance at over 40 universities in Spain, Greece, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico.

“La Fille du Regiment” by G. Donizetti, © David Cabrera

Supporting users: Òpera Oberta- Global access to operatic performances


Network Performing Arts Production Workshops• Facilitate outreach to user groups in the arts &

humanities

• Demonstrate the use of R&E networks for real-time musical, dance and artistic performances

• Held once a year, alternating between US and Europe.

• Organised by a collaboration of TERENA, Internet2, GARR & other European NRENs

2014 Workshop:

26-28 April 2014

Hosted by New World Symphony in Miami

2015 Workshop:

Expected to be held in the UK

Supporting users: Europe-US Arts collaboration- Network performing arts production workshops


Sonification can be helpful in bio-medical science:

Assists in detection of anomalies

Improved recognition of complex shapes

Cancer research

Creating sound representations Map complex cell spectra

into sounds Providing real-time audio feedback for physicians and surgeons

So that their eyes keeps can focus completely on the patient, not a screen

Driving customised sound synthesis in collaboration with researchers

Optimises separation capability (healthy/cancerous)

Supporting users: Data sonification - Helping cancer research and diagnostics


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