GÉANT – e-infrastructure for Horizon 2020 Dorte Olesen Chair of the NREN PC and GN3 Plus Assembly Future Internet Assembly Athens, 18 th March 2014

GÉANT – e-infrastructure for Horizon 2020

Dorte Olesen

Chair of the NREN PC and GN3 Plus Assembly

Future Internet Assembly

Athens, 18th March 2014

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What is GÉANT? (more than just a network…)

GÉANT is co-funded by Europe’s NRENs and the European Commission (EC) under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)

Project Partners are 42 European NRENs, TERENA and DANTE

Total European R&E network costs follow the 1/10/100 rule for the International (GÉANT)/National (NREN)/Campus costs

Wide range of services (AAI,BoD,IPv6 etc)

25 European POPs

12,000 km of dark fibre on 18 routes

50,000 km network infrastructure on 44 routes

Widely diversified footprint• Serves 50 million users• 10,000 institutions• Across 43 European

countries and beyond

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Backbone Network Architecture(Major upgrade & rationalisation…)

Fibre Leased Circuits

“Routerless POPs” “Fully featured POPs” Off fibre netPOPs

IP/MPLS only POPs NREN POPs

Circuitsover GÉANT Leased

circuits

DWDM

TDM (SDH)

IP/MPLS

(RouterlessPOPs)

PT LU

RU

GRBE TR ILEE LV LTSK

HR SI

UK

NL

DE

FR

ES DK

CZ

AT

IT

HU

CH

RO BG

PL

IE

MT CY

MK RS

ME

Cutting a rather long story short…(achitectural studies, workshops, consensus building, procurement, rollout, convergence…)

Fibre Leased Circuits

NREN POPs

DWDM

Off fibre POPs

Converged Packet Transport Platform Leasedcircuits

On fibre POPs


GÉANT: Users

GÉANT users include high profile projects such as the Large Hadron Collider, researchers tackling major societal challenges such as ageing and climate change, as well as arts and cultural projects

However, the majority of our users probably don’t know they are using the network – they just enjoy seamless high-speed connectivity at their university or research lab


GÉANT Service Area

Not just the GÉANT backbone – but an orchestrated delivery of services by all NRENs and Campuses to their users

GÉANT services (IP,circuits,wave-lengths)

eduCONF

eduROAM

eduPKI

eduGAIN

Multi domain services (BoD etc)

eduPERT


At the heart of the Global R&E Village – connecting 65 countries outside of Europe


GÉANT community R&D strategy

Deeply rooted in the universities and research centres of Europe, R&D is key to the entire GÉANT ecosystem

GÉANT Insists on creating services which are at the forefront of technology and ahead of the market

Has its R&D effort based in the NRENs and universities

This has produced many services and projects that have been of a defining nature for the community and the industry:

Higher bandwidths than commercially available

Quality of Service based on over-provisioning

eduroam, AAI-federations

Optical wavelength networking and Open Exchanges

Cross-border fibres

…and many more


Guinness World Record

Amsterdam

HamburgAmsterdam to Hamburg

8Tb/s in 19min with ONE engineer

Production equipment

Production link

26.02Tb/s per

hour

The GuinnessWorld Record 8Tb/s =

Average global internettraffic in 2005

&

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=ls5e3bi5vVLM-M&tbnid=TlOxXqhsBGRSBM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=http://global.dante.net/server/show/conMediaFile.2263&ei=J5MQUqStIOKaiQL8sYGQBg&psig=AFQjCNHmpAnd16OmGxbI9m7CNTnQPevxDQ&ust=1376904359605562


An R&D example 2008-2010: The FEDERICA experience, led by GARR

MadridRed.ES

Barcelonai2CAT

MilanGARR

PragueCesnet

AthensNTUA &GRNET

BerlinDFN

PoznanPSNC

BudapestNIIFI

JAN 2014

WWW.FP7-FEDERICA.EU

The infrastructure is active and started as an EC co-funded project from 2008 to 2010. It created a Europe-wide, physical e-Infrastructure based on virtualization in all its components: network elements and computing elements.

The service is to create virtual testbeds for Future Internet Research and Experimentation.

Router/SwitchHost for Virtual Machines

Circuit at 1 Gbps


An infrastructure for exploiting virtualization for any ICT test, any user

The virtual testbeds (or ‘slices’) can support research and experimentation in new ICT architectures and services on networks and distributed systems.

Validation of Software Defined Networking and Network Funtion Virtualization technologies and architectures is easily implemented on slices.

Reproducibility of the experiments is ensured by the substrate configuration capabilities.

FEDERICA substrate (only CORE is shown)

Global Internet

A “topology”

A “slice”akaVirtual testbed

Routers“portal”

VMs

WWW.FP7-FEDERICA.EU


SDN/NFV as a prime example

The Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies are in the roadmap of GÉANT and NRENs R&D effort

NFV has been used by various NRENs since some years to facilitate large scale networking

The interest is on

Operational cost reduction

Faster service provisioning

Compatibility/integration with clouds

SDN/NFV technologies are already trialled by a broad project range (in Open Calls also) relying on GÉANT support and resources. The classic production environment and new technologies can coexist.


New GÉANT 2020 strategy Over the Horizon

New GÉANT strategy on its way – first stage received very positively March 12 by the NREN Policy Committee

Strong focus on SDN in combination with cloud services as an effective delivery mechanism for e-science services

Delivering more services to Future Internet activities – extending and deepening collaboration in all FI areas

More collaboration with industry – identifying opportunities and developing a partnership strategy with industry and SMEs


INNOVATION PROGRAMME

JRA1: Network Architectures for Horizon 2020

JRA2: Technology Testing for Specific Service Applications

JRA3: Identity & Trust Services for GÉANT Services

SA6: Service Management and Operation

NA1: Management

NA2: Comms & Promotion

NA3: Status & Trends

NA4: Int & Business Dev

SA1: Core Backbone Services

SA2: Testbeds as a Service

SA3: Network Service Delivery

SA4: Network Support Services

SA5: Application Services

SA7: Support to CloudsGÉANT Open Calls


SDN/NFV services/projects

SA3: Bandwidth-on-Demand (BoD) and Multi-Domain VPN services- Strictly speaking not SDN in themselves, but they present APIs that enable applications to control configuration of network resources

JRA2, Task 1: OpenFlow/SDN for Specialised Applications

JRA2, Task 2: NaaS, Virtualisation and NSI Developments

SA2: Testbeds as a Service (TaaS) -A comprehensive effort to support any new research in networking

A number of SDN/NFV projects under theOpen Calls umbrella


SDN research activities

Gathering requirements and investigation of solutions to support SDN-enabled network services:

Multi-domain SDN

Monitoring in SDN-enabled infrastructures

Cloud support

Network security based on SDN capabilities

Externalizing network functions, such as traffic engineering

Evaluating and extending SDN software

Network controllers

Virtualization components (Flowspace Firewall)

Network virtualization platforms


NFV-related research activities

Offering Networks as a Service (NaaS) to the NREN community

to overcome several limitations of the current management models: multi-tenancy, dynamicity, automation

Use cases:

Virtual CPE

Network on Demand

IP Network Overlay

DC/NOC Management


GÉANT Open Call – what is it?

• Along with many EC-funded projects (e.g. those under FIRE or FI-PPP initiatives) GN3Plus project used “Open Call” process to realise some of the project objectives

• 50% of JRA budget allocated to Open Calls (3.3 MEUR EC budget)

• Open Call for new collaborators/partners carry out JRA activities in the project use GÉANT infrastructure – e.g. Dark Fibre testbed, SDN/OpenFlow

testbed, Bandwidth on Demand new ideas and innovation flourish

• Any eligible legal entity could apply i.e. companies, Universities/Research Institutes and NRENs

• 18 month projects with budgets of €100k-350k


Open Call Projects funded…..

OPEN CALLPROJECTS

Network Architecture and Optical Projects

Applications & Tools

Authentication

SDN: Software Defined Networking


GÉANT Open Call

Applications and Tools

A range of activities designed to investigate how the GÉANT network can support advanced research activities and projects;

• ARES: Advanced Networking for the EU genomic research

• CEOVDS: Cross-site Evaluation of an OpenFlow-assisted Video-on-Demand Distribution Service

• eMusic: Using GÉANT dynamic circuits to support remote collaboration in musical education and eCulture

• NSI-CONTEST: Network Service Interface Conformance Test Suite

NFV

SDN

SDN

SDN


GÉANT Open Call

Authentication

Secure identity and authentication is essential to get maximum value from distributed systems. These projects help support secure end-to-end authentication of systems and people.

• CLASSe: Cloud-ABFAB Federation Services in eduroam• GEANT-Trustbroker: New Federation Services and Protocols for

Dynamically Building Trust in the R&E Community• HEXAA: Higher Education External Attribute Authorities• MEAL: Multidomain eduroam across LTE• SENSE: Secure Enterprise Networks finally Simple and Easy• WoT4LoA: Web of Trust based Level of Assurance enhancement


GÉANT Open Call

Network Architecture and Optical Projects

Looking forward towards future generations of networking technologies, these projects study future networking systems.

• COFFEE: Coherent Optical system Field-trial For spectral Efficiency Enhancement

• ICOF: International Clock Comparisons via Optical Fiber• IRINA: Investigating RINA as the next generation GEANT and NREN

network architecture• MoMoT: Multi-Domain Optical Modelling Tool• REACTION: Research and Experimental Assessment of Control

plane archiTectures for In-Operation flexgrid Network re-optimization

SDN


GÉANT Open Call

SDN- Software Defined Networking

Software Defined Networking allows greater network flexibility and the potential for new networking paradigms to meet new networking demands.

• AUTOFLOW: Autonomic OpenFlow• CoCo: On Demand Community Connection Service for eScience

Collaboration• DREAMER: Distributed REsilient sdn Architecture MEeting carrier

grade Requirements• DyNPaC: Dynamic Path Computation Framework• MINERVA: Implementing network coding in transport networks to

increase availability• MOTE: Multi-Domain OpenFlow Topology Exchange

SDN

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SDN/NFV – where are the users?

The users are the NRENs themselves – not the end-users, who will barely see this, so much of the effort in this field is driven by the possibilities offered by the technology – not an immediate user demand

This was also the case for Lambda networking and IPv6 in the early days of these services. Today, however, everyone recognizes the need for these services.

Having said this, in reality many users are there already – from radio astronomy and other types of massive data transfer to simple connections to move data between endpoints otherwise not reachable because of firewalls etc (i.e. PACS systems at two hospitals)

The combination of cloud services and SDN/NFV will be increasingly interesting, and GÉANT can expect to serve as a showcase for the rest of society, when cloud vendors with NREN customers start making use of the SDN/NFV services. Here SDN/NFV offers commercial developments.


Summary: GÉANT

SDN/NFV is

The next technology wave to re-define basic networking services

Important as a forefront technology

A paradigm that may support a large wave of innovation in the use of networks

A field where NREN and Dante Staff really can contribute

A field where GÉANT and the NRENs are careful in preserving a neutral and transparent infrastructure to foster innovation

A challenge to implement across multiple domains/operators.

An area for R&D activities for years to come, and in the roadmap for GÉANT and the NRENs


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GÉANT – e-infrastructure for Horizon 2020 Dorte Olesen Chair of the NREN PC and GN3 Plus Assembly Future Internet Assembly Athens, 18 th March 2014