Introducing GÉANT

GÉANT
Providing for Global R&E Collaboration
Thomas Fryer, DANTE
Trobada de l'Anella Científica
Wednesday, 19th June 2013
What are R&E Networks?
Why are They So Important?
 R&E Networks provide high-bandwidth
connectivity for research and education
communities.
 The connections are reliable and deliver defined
and predictable speeds and quality of service.
 The greater speeds, timely delivery, and very high
levels of resilience enable researchers, teachers
and students to benefit fully from advanced datasharing techniques and collaboration tools.
 R&E Networks enable better collaboration, and integration within and between
geographically distributed research and education communities.
 R&E Networks are dedicated to meeting the needs of the academic and research
communities.
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How are R&E Networks Organised?
 Within a country, a national research and education network
(NREN) links together some or all of the universities, research
institutions, schools, hospitals and museums. In some countries,
the national network interconnects regional networks, such as the
Anella Científica, which connect the institutions.
 NRENs join together to form regional R&E networks.
 Regional R&E networks are connected together to create a global
research and education networking infrastructure
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What Technical Features do R&E
Networks Offer?
 Without the narrow commercial criteria of the public internet, R&E networks
deliver faster speeds and higher capacities in a more stable environment.
 R&E networks avoid the congestion, delays, interruptions and limitations caused
by overbooking and competing traffic on public internet services.
 R&E networks offer dedicated on-demand capacity and end-to-end support for
time-critical research applications.
 Resource usage is monitored in real time
 Network repair, maintenance and
development activities are managed centrally,
with 24-hour central support.
 R&E networks are generally one generation
ahead of commercial networks that focus
more on mass-market needs.
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What are the Benefits of R&E Networks
for Users?
 R&E networks provide the bandwidth and reliability
that large-scale and time-critical projects depend
on.
 Researchers and students are able to use dataintensive and time-critical applications such as:
 Large file transfers;
 Computer modelling and simulations;
 Application sharing;
 Remote instrumentation and visualisation
 Videoconferencing.
 Global connectivity enables users to
access the research and education
communities in over 100 countries
around the world.
 R&E networks help people work better as
well as faster, enabling, encouraging and
enhancing collaboration.
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Who Provides R&E Networks?
 National Research and Education Networks:
 Fund their own in-country costs
 Contribute to the costs of the regional network
 Pay their share of the global link costs
 European Commission co-funded projects, past and present, support the
establishment and expansion of networks in many world regions:
Europe
Central Asia
The Caribbean
North Africa &
The Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Latin America
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Europe’s 100Gbps Network
- e-Infrastructure for the “data deluge”
Latest transmission and
switching technology
Routers with 100Gbps capability
Optical transmission platform
designed to provide 500Gbps
super-channels
Hybrid network
– GÉANT IP: packet routed –
and VPNs
– GÉANT Plus: switched
point-to-point circuits
– GÉANT Lambda: dedicated
wavelengths
12,000km of dark fibre over
100,000km of leased capacity
(inc. transatlantic links)
28 main sites covering European
footprint
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GÉANT Global Connectivity
- at the heart of global research networking
GÉANT connects 66 countries outside of Europe,
reaching all continents through international partners
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GÉANT:
The Best-connected R&E Network
66 countries outside Europe connected to GÉANT
Americas & the Caribbean
 CANARIE
 C@ribNET
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CEDIA
CUDI
ESNet
INNOVA|RED
Internet2
NISN (NASA)
NLR
RAAP
RAGIE
RAICES
RAU2
REACCIUN2
Red CoNARE
RedCyT
RENATA
REUNA
RNP
USLHCNet
Middle East & Africa
Canada
Anguilla, Antigua,
Barbados, BVI,
Dominica, Dominican
Rep., Grenada,
Jamaica, Montserrat,
St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St.
Vincent, Trinidad
Ecuador
Mexico
USA
Argentina
USA
USA
USA
Peru
Guatemala
El Salvador
Uruguay
Venezuela
Costa Rica
Panama
Colombia
Chile
Brazil
USA
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ANKABUT
ARN
ENSTINET
KENET
MoRENet
PalNREN
Qatar Foundation
SARInet
SUIN
TENET
TERNET
ZAMREN
United Arab Emirates
Algeria
Egypt
Kenya
Mozambique
Palestinian Territories
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
South Africa
Tanzania
Zambia
Asia & Oceania
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AARNet
AfRENA
NAS RA
ASGC
AzRENA
BdREN
CamREN
CERNET
CSTNET
INHERENT/ITB
Australia
Afghanistan
Armenia
Taiwan
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Cambodia
China
China
Indonesia
Asia & Oceania (cont.)
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JGN-X
HARNET
KazRENA
KOREN/NIA
KRENA-AKNET
LEARN
MAFFIN
MYREN
NKN
NREN
PERN2
PREGINET
REANNZ
SINET3/NII
SingAREN
TARENA
ThaiREN/ThaiSARN
ThaiREN/UniNet
TuRENA
TWAREN
VINAREN
Japan
Hong Kong
Kazakhstan
Korea
Kyrgyzstan
Sri Lanka
Japan
Malaysia
India
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
New Zealand
Japan
Singapore
Tajikistan
Thailand
Thailand
Turkmenistan
Taiwan
Vietnam
http://global.geant.net/
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GÉANT (GN3plus)
- vital to the EU’s e-Infrastructure strategy
Key Facts
GN3plus
Start date
April 1 2013
Duration
24 months
Total budget
€84,283,018
EC contribution
€41,800,000
Participants
250+
41 Project Partners:
38 NRENs, DANTE, TERENA,
NORDUnet (representing 5 Nordic countries)
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
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Innovation through collaboration
- for delivery of advanced networking services
Building the GÉANT “eco-system” through
development and delivery of a world-class networking
service portfolio:
Flexible connectivity options & test-bed facilities
Performance tools & expertise
Advanced AAI, cloud and mobility services
Collaborative research into state-of-the-art technology
network architectures - mobility, cloud, sensor,
scientific content delivery, high-speed mobile
identity and trust technologies
paradigm shifts in service provisioning and
management
influencing global standards development
Delivering innovative
services to end users,
their projects and
institutions
across Europe
and beyond:
secure access to the
network and resources
they need, when and
where they want it.
Open Calls to widen the scope and agility for
innovation
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GN3plus in numbers
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Activities
58
Tasks
250+
People
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Partners
50,000,000 users
Reaching over
10,000 institutions
across Europe
100 countries
worldwide
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Network Performance:
perfSONAR MDM
perfSONAR MDM (Multi-DomainMonitoring) is the multi-domain
monitoring service for the GÉANT
Service Area (GSA)
Based on the perfSONAR protocol
Interoperable with hundreds
of deployments around the
world
Easy to integrate into other
visualisation tools
perfSONAR MDM used to assess the link
between Brasilia & Barcelona
www.geant.net/Services/NetworkPerformanceService/Pages/perfSONARMDM.aspx
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Network Performance:
eduPERT – Getting the Best from the Network
A federated PERT (Performance and
Enhancement Response Team) that
combines independent PERTs (the GÉANT
PERT and the National, Local and Project
PERTs) with a portfolio of central services to
aid them in their network investigations.
www.geant.net/Services/NetworkPerformanceService/Pages/eduPERT.aspx
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eduroam:
Roaming access for the R&E community
Eduroam is the secure, world-wide roaming access service
developed for the international research and education community.
eduroam allows students, researchers and staff from participating
institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campus and when
visiting other participating institutions by simply opening their laptop
Having started in Europe, eduroam has gained momentum
throughout the research and education community and is now
available in 60 territories world-wide.
www.geant.net/Services/UserAccessAndApplications/Pages/eduroam.aspx
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eduGAIN –joining identity federations
The eduGAIN service is intended to
enable the trustworthy exchange
of information related to identity,
authentication and authorisation
between the GÉANT (GN3plus)
Partners’ federations.
The eduGAIN service will deliver this
through co-ordinating elements of
the federations’ technical
infrastructure and a policy framework
controlling the exchange of this
information.
www.geant.net/Services/UserAccessAndApplications/Pages/eduGAIN.aspx
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ELCIRA: Supporting Europe-Latin
American Collaboration
ELCIRA
Europe Latin America Collaborative e-Infrastructure for Research Activities
Coordinating the expansion and interoperability of collaboration tools and
services to the benefit end users in Europe and Latin America:
Supporting the establishment of identity federations in Latin America
Aligning GÉANT and RedCLARA videoconference room certification and
directories
Expanding the reach of eduroam in Latin America
Creating a suite of collaboration tools for EU-LA collaboration (large file
transfer, webconferencing, wiki service, community management)
Fostering collaboration
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Supporting the growth of R&E Communities
- transforming how researchers collaborate
GÉANT delivers real value and benefit to society by enabling research
communities to transform the way they collaborate on ground breaking research
Together with
Europe’s NRENs,
GÉANT connects
50 million users in
10,000 institutions
across Europe
Health and Medicine | Energy | Environment | Particle Physics
Radio Astronomy | Arts & Education | Society
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Who Uses R&E Networks? (i)
Radio astronomy
 BIG
SCIENCE
The Large Hadron Collider
- PIC, Barcelona, is a Tier 1 site
 SUPERCOMPUTIN
G
BSC, Barcelona, is a
PRACE participant
Source of image: CERN
 E-HEALTH AND THE BIOMEDICAL
SCIENCES
 ELEARNING
Benefits teachers,
lecturers and
students
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Who Uses R&E Networks? (ii)
 EARTH
OBSERVATION
Environmental monitoring
 THE
ARTS
 TELEMEDICI
NE
Musicians have
new ways to
create music,
rehearse and
perform together.
Disaster warning and
recovery
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LHC Optical Private Network
and Open Network Exchange
LHC OPN
To facilitate Tier 0 –Tier 1 and Tier 1 –Tier 1 traffic flows
10 Gigabit Lambdas form a dual star on 2 routers at CERN
Fibre routes designed to provide resiliency
LHC ONE
For Tier 1 –Tier 2 data flows
Uses routed IP on dedicated VPN
Edoardo Martelli
ATLAS @ LHC
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Two New Key Users:
1) ITER / IFERC (Fusion Energy Reactor)
GÉANT is providing dedicated
10Gbps connectivity to meet a
reciprocal Japanese link in
Washington (US). Engaged with
European sites and planning a
dedicated network topology
comparable with LHCOPN for later
in 2013
Benefit – Providing high-capacity
connectivity between the
experimental site in France and
the compute facilities in Japan.
Fusion is essential to clean, secure
energy supply post-fossil fuels
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Two New Key Users
2) CERN: the first 100Gbps Lambda service
• Connecting CERN data centre in Geneva to the new
remote data centre at the Wigner Centre in Budapest
• Now Operational!
CERN data centre,
Geneva,
Switzerland
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Wigner Centre,
Budapest,
Hungary
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