GEANT Strategy A summary SIC Strategy and Inovation

GEANT Strategy A summary SIC

Strategy and Inovation Committee • • Work in the Strategy and Innovation Committee (SIC). – Set up to provide a long-term vision, strategy and innovation agenda for GÉANT. – Governed by the Terms of Reference set by the GN 3 plus Assembly. This draft will be widely discussed by – SIC itself – Policy Committee, GN 3 plus, PMT, DANTE and TERENA staff and other stakeholder groups. – Discussions will provide input to the final proposal for a GÉANT 2020 strategy to be presented for decision in the GN 3 plus Assembly and in the Policy Committee. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 2

What is GÉANT? • • GÉANT is a consensus-driven collaboration. Real progress is only achieved through consensus. We must focus on strategic objectives that are universally shared, or not at all. This does not imply unanimity on specific issues that are subordinate to the strategy – Compromise is often necessary – Multiple approaches can be completed in parallel. – Examples: Deployment architectures, technology choices, or pricing models Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 3

What is GÉANT? • • • GÉANT is an NREN colaboration GÉANT’s strategic objectives have to resonate strongly with the NRENs’ strategic objectives. Other stakeholders need consideration (the EC in particular) – Ultimately the NRENs have to ‘buy into’ GÉANT for it to succeed. – Generous funding is no substitute for intelligent, engaged, and aligned partners – Collaboration should therefore take precedence above securing subsidies. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 4

What is GÉANT? • • GÉANT network is not just another ISP GÉANT’s business is driven by its community. Innovative ideas … – …percolate up from NRENs and their constituencies – …coalescing into propositions – …delivered back to the community. This is a key differentiator from commercial ICT providers. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 5

What is GÉANT? GÉANT is a long term colaboration An endeavour of the scale and complexity of GÉANT …has to be sustained over long cycles. We may not know all the details of the general environment in 2020 …there is little we can do to influence it …but we can be specific about our long-term aspirations. By acting as a coherent entity, organised around common long-term goals, …we can realistically think about shaping the future that we jointly aspire to. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 6

What is GÉANT? • • • GÉANT is a franchise owned by an alliance of NRENs – …to allow the global business of research and education to span between the NRENs. Like an airline alliance… – …GÉANT enables NRENs to share assets – …supported by an underlying framework of contracts and reimbursement models, – …enabling a rapid response to the needs of international projects and organisations. GÉANT must be sufficiently effective in this respect… – …that even the largest and best-resourced NRENs – …choose to use it as their preferred vehicle to support their interests at the European or international levels. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 7

What is GÉANT? • • • GÉANT is a European collaboration. Our geographical proximity…. – …a similar regulatory environment – …with common users – …shared values – …shared funding possibilities …. are powerful incentives – to work together rather than alongside or against each other. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 8

Setting the Scene: The Knowlewdge Economy • The Knowledge Economy in 2020 – …is giving rise to an explosion of data. – – Annual rate of data generation will increase by 4300% between 2013 and 2020 (IDC) Anything that can be digitised will be: – – From quantum to the cosmological From Genomes to organisms From Individuals and the societies The artefacts of the commercial, cultural, and personal activities that they create. …will have profound implications for the research and education communities – …will demand a new kind of information logistics to integrate e-Infrastructures. Information is not the only product that will be affected. – Manufacturing innovations such as 3 D printing – • Will become an integral part of the supply chain in the distributed manufacturing infrastructure Real-time services – Will drive change and innovation in manufacturing business. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 9

Mission Old GEANT mission is: To deliver world-class services with the highest levels of operational excellence New mission: Innovative and trusted information infrastructure for the European knowledge economy Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 10

Ambition To be a long-term European consensus driven collaboration of NRENs that delivers services in the most efficient way; and that drives innovation by facilitating development of services needed by research and education users for production of, and access to, trusted knowledge and fit for purpose information services and products that enable and enrich collaboration, and which also provide new and innovative possibilities to the World leading knowledge communities. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 11

Principles • • GÉANT’s activities will adhere to the principles of subsidiarity, Preference for offering services to/by the NRENs – …for their own further service wrap to their users. Acknowledging that a ‘one size fits all’ approach – …. is unworkable in the diversified landscape of European NRENs GÉANT build on past successes and present capabilities – by delivering innovative and reliable services to all. • • Services will continue to be provided to bridge the digital divide Service will enable the free circulation of researchers, information and technology. • All in support of the EU’s ‘fifth freedom’ – – The free movement of knowledge Ratified in the Lisbon Treaty, December 2009. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 12

Strategic goals 1 GÉANT is a public-interest body that provides a global open information infrastructure to European knowledge communities. In doing this, GÉANT facilitates the free movement of knowledge and information within the Knowledge Economy. GÉANT provides value to the R&E community through a set of advanced (but fit for purpose) services, delivered through advanced networks (optical, wirefree etc. ), operated by the GÉANT community, in combination with commercial services. GÉANT adopts a flexible delivery and operations model to achieve greater efficiency and agility. GÉANT business is driven by the community. Innovative ideas percolate up from NRENs and their constituencies, coalescing into propositions that are delivered back to, and by, the community. This is a key differentiator from commercial ICT providers. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 13

Strategic goals 2 GÉANT is working with commercial partners in public-private partnerships , exploiting developments from industry while ensuring that GÉANT innovations are continuously transferred to industry. GÉANT ensures a trusted, secure and safe digital environment to serve the R&E community that is by its nature open. This is achieved by ensuring that the values and character of the research and education community are understood and respected operationally within the infrastructure. GÉANT is a critical enabler in achieving Europe’s Horizon 2020 vision and maintaining an open, trusted and accessible Internet. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 14

Examples of strategic service innovation, user and technology driven 1 The availability of hi-speed networks will become abundant. However these will not be optimised for scientific Big Data flows and real time high precision interaction. Research and educational applications will need more isolation and predictable capacity & delay for real-time collaboration and remote access to distributed equipment. It is exactly there that GEANT can make the difference. It will be a requirement to do so in an economically viable way. Machine to machine (M 2 M) communication gradually will prevail over Human to human communication (H 2 H) and followed by Internet of things. Therefore the GEANT network design must be future-proof and allow for improvements and flexibility to adapt for on-going challenges. Even specific and unique services (like lambdas without regeneration) should be possible. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 15

Examples of strategic service innovation, user and technology driven 2 Learning and researching everywhere, anytime with any device is key for enabling innovation within our community. Therefore, end-user access to the NREN infrastructure, GEANT backbone and services will not only be based on fixed access but will also become highly dependent on the quality and availability of a trusted and robust Wirefree infrastructure. This cannot be done by one institute or NREN by itself. GEANT needs to play a role as coordinator, facilitator and service coordinator. Collaboration is the bread and butter of every modern scientific endeavour. e. Science is enabling that collaboration by allowing groups of scientists around the globe to share networking, resources and services. GEANT and its NRENs should support this with solid Authentication and Authorization infrastructures, with group collaboration and by providing generic services. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 16

Examples of strategic service innovation, user and technology driven 3 Cloud and programmable networks will become the default model for distributing online services, as it is the most effective and efficient delivery mechanism. A new generation of users in Research and Education has grown up ‘choosing their own devices and services’. Cloud services come natural to them. Trust is a basic need for users of our networks; the recent debate about unlawful interception by foreign agencies has shown how fragile trust in networks can become. We have a duty of care to our constituencies to safeguard this trust. This means guaranteeing privacy through technology and policy and ensuring robustness and trustworthiness of systems by continuous security improvements. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 17