GANT as a Research Infrastructure Interconnecting NRENs in

GÉANT as a Research Infrastructure: Interconnecting NRENs in Europe & Beyond Vasilis Maglaris maglaris@netmode. ntua. gr Professor, National Technical University of Athens - NTUA Chairman, NREN Policy Committee – GÉANT Consortium EU - India Workshop on Research Infrastructures INSA, New Delhi, 12 January 2010 Innovation through participation

The GÉANT Evolution 7 th generation of pan-European research network federated infrastructure: A 20 year success story Europa. NET TEN 34 TEN 155 GÉANT (GN 2 GN 3) Connects 36 European countries through 32 NREN partners Over 3, 500 Research & Education (R&E) campuses across Europe Over 30 million users Total GÉANT Cost: 40 M€/year (shared equally by the EC & NRENs) Provides extensive international connectivity to other world regions Governance by NREN PC, Exec Project co-ordination by DANTE via the PMT (Project Management Team) complemented by TERENA and involving > 400 NREN staff Innovation through participation

The GÉANT Sequence 2000 -2004: GEA project GÉANT network 10 Gigabit/sec IP 2004 -2009: GN 2 project GÉANT 2 network Dark fiber core “Hybrid” Packet - Circuit Services Joint Research Activities Transition to Service 2009 -2013: GN 3 project GÉANT network End-to-End Multi Domain Services Service Activities/Joint Research Activities Networking Activities Innovation through participation

Map of the GN 3 Consortium Innovation through participation

GÉANT Topology GÉANT topology – April 2009 Innovation through participation

The GN 3 Mission To create an innovative multi-domain hybrid networking environment, using advanced transmission & switching technologies To enable R&E users through their Organizations with flexible and scalable production quality services via their constituent NRENs To be an enabler for Global R&E networking supporting international e. Science initiatives, creating a Global Virtual Village to house researchers & educators around the world To contribute to standards as a key participant in European & Global efforts towards the Network of the Future Innovation through participation

NREN – GÉANT Ecosystem Including R&E communities across Digital Divides Leverage collaboration via virtualization Enable access to the Knowledge Society Make Big Science affordable at the desktop Creating a distributed Critical Research Infrastructure Provision & manage Optical Private Networks for Science: LHC OPN, e. VLBI… Expected to serve International Demanding Projects (FEDERICA, ESFRI Priorities - PRACE, ITER…) Fostering European innovation by sustaining a vast Network of Excellence to Test & deploy bleeding-edge networking technologies (e. g. 100 Gigabit/sec per wavelength) Advance INTERNET multi-domain toolsets & federal services Innovation through participation

LHC Tier 0 – Tier 1 Optical Private Network RAL NORDUGrid FNAL BNL TRIUMF UK DK CERN ASCC CH T 0 SARA NL GÉANT DE GRIDKa FR IT ES IN 2 P 3 PIC CNAF Innovation through participation

10 Gig (+) Research & Education European Footprint: June 2009 Map Combined effort by: - NRENs - GÉANT Backbone - Cross Border Links Innovation through participation

NRENs & GÉANT as Future Internet Infrastructures The European Future Internet (FI) Research & Experimentation (FIRE) facility: Supporting experimental networking research in the ERA and beyond Federating industrial – academic testbed facilities & virtualization platforms Interworking with International FI Initiatives (US GENI, Japanese AKARI…. ) The NREN - GÉANT Community contributes resources for experimental research towards the FI via: Dedicated virtual networks within its advanced hybrid infrastructures Virtualization-aware computing and networking resources for emulations of disruptive research ideas, the e-Infrastructures FP 7 project FEDERICA Innovation through participation

The FEDERICA Concept Federated E-Infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing Networking Architectures Router/Switch Host for Virtual nodes Raw Ethernet 1 Gbps (Fiber later) Innovation through participation

GÉANT Global Connectivity GÉANT global connectivity – April 2009 Innovation through participation

Innovation through participation

ITER: Currently Proposed Connectivity Shorter alternative: ORIENT/TEIN 3 Innovation through participation

GN 3 Challenge: A Mature Federation for a Tsunami of Global Requirements 10 Gig+ NREN – GÉANT Footprint June 2009 www. google. com/imgres? imgurl=http: //wwp. mega-tsunami. com/ High-End Users Require Stable Production Services: • Provisioning 10 -40 -100 Gbps networks • Meeting robustness, reliability, security requirements • Enabling multi-domain e 2 e monitoring & on-demand hybrid resource allocation • Managing converging e-infrastructures as a Innovation through participation cloud HPCN Future INTERNET Services