The Giga Campus initiative Collaborate campus networking in
The Giga. Campus initiative Collaborate campus networking in Norway Olaf Schjelderup & Vidar Faltinsen UNINETT May 23 2006
Norway in a nutshell n n 4. 5 mill inhabitants Scattered population High mountains, fjords Coastline of 25 148 km u n ~62% of the length of the equator Shortest distance south to north: 1 752 km u u approx 3 days by car If we rotate Norway upside down Spitsbergen will almost reach Africa. 2
The research network n n n n 1 – 2. 5 Gb/s Redundancy 15 + 5 year IRU 40 universities and university collages Tradition for support for colleges > 200 institutions 250. 000 users Operations in Trondheim Plans for 10 G and lambdas 3
SERENATA study: Campus networks are the weakest link in the chain Frustrated users 4 Campus network bottlenecks NREN
The problems, more refined … n n n Capacity; gigabit & fiber not reaching all designated corners of the campus. Bottlenecks, VLAN-trombones, duplex conflicts must systematically be removed. Network design must be reconsidered. Functionality; ipv 6, multicast, official IP-adresses, mobility etc. available only on parts of the campus network. Lack of efficient management tools covering all networking and services areas. Innovation by use of NRENs often stops somewhere in the campus organization. The unreleased potential for cost-efficiency pancampus wise. 5
Strategic issues n n n The innovation rationale behind the NRENs must reach the projects and the relevant end-users A lot of intellectual resources at different campuses are still to be brought together – we must identify, harvest and feed the creative experts out there. A lot of good development projects needs support and to be de-institutionalized to obtain large-scale-effects. NREN-efforts on campus may be a brigde to reach and encourage to fruitful projects with a networking imperative. A lot of unused potential for innovation out there and a lot of double work … let’s organize and harvest synergies! 6
In Norway; The Giga. Campus initiative n n n Government funding, ~4 M Euro u Based on a Giga. Campus idea document u … we promised 4 times payback … Four year programme 2006 – 2009 u Predecessor after a similar programme u Early start since long tradition in Norway for cooperation in the R&E ICT community Our mission: u Provide and coordinate top international-level campus IT-infrastructures that will promote innovation, cooperation and productive research and education. 7
The Giga. Campus engine 8
Giga. Campus – seven areas of focus 9
”UNINETT engineering task force” n Working groups in each area of focus u u n Discuss u n u Common best practice documents How-to’s Open participation u u u n the further development in campus networking – coming challenges Produce u n Gather the best there is of engineers at our universities! New areas may develop Regular meetings Mailinglists Wiki Participation in international working groups 10
Common call for tender n Develop common purchase agreements for the national R&E community u u n Major savings in overall cost Major savings in overall spent time on tender processes Many contracts u u u Network equipment (routers, switches, wireless) Telephony DSL PCs and servers Application software 11
Giga. Campus @ work n n n Touring the country – out in the field! Participants from UNINETT and from major universities and university collages Collaboration with local IT staff on site u u u n Network design and implementation Focus on the physical infrastructure Focus on security Meet the people, discuss ideas and possibillities. 12
Focus area #1 Physical reliability n n Fibre projects for the MANs Network cabling u n Power and grounding u n n n cat 3. . . multimode. . . UPS, diesel power generators Cooling / ventilation Fire detection Physical security 13
Focus area #2 High capacity networking n Upgrade the campus networks step by step u u u Gigabit to more and more end users Scale the campus backbones Focus on fault tolerance End-to-end multicast IPv 6 on campus! Lambdas on campus! 2009: Gigabit capacity for the majority of users 14
Focus area #3 Mobility n n n Radio planning workshops Wireless rollout workshops Focus on secure wireless networks Address roaming challenges Support eduroam 2009: Wireless access everywere – on all campuses 15
Focus area #4 Person-to-person communication Develop a SIP architecture that supports IP telephony, video conferencing, direct messaging and more. Promote a push from the telephony paradigm to the multimedia paradigm. There also security issues here … 2009: A common platform for IP-based multimedia communication 16
Focus area #5 Security n n Develop and implement security policies Establish IRTs on all campuses u n n 17 Thanks to TF-CSIRT TRANSITS! Discuss and elaborate security architecture Develop monitoring and operational security tools The number of security incidents are growing exponentially 2009: Implemented security policies and established IRTs on all universities
Focus area #6 Service management n Discuss best practices for operations u n n We need to operate 24 x 7 x 365 Encourage and support development of useful tools Provide a Giga. Campus tool box for all campus networks u Train personel in how to use the tools! Giga Campus 2009: Advanced tools and solutions for proactive operations IN USE on all campuses 18
Focus area #6 ” We are convinced that most campuses do not take the task of measuring and understanding their traffic flows sufficiently seriously ” - SERENATE, December 2003 19
Focus area #6 NAV – Network Administration Visualized n n Network management system developed by NTNU and UNINETT since 1999. Open source More information on http: //metanav. ntnu. no Is included on the Giga. Campus toolbox. 20
Focus area #6 NAV – key features device center network explorer traffic map cricket report generator machine tracker delay / loss tabular reports NAVdb status monitor RRD service monitor threshold monitor www external systems event and alert engine email SMS n n n Autodetect network topology (L 3, L 2, per vlan) Network maps Machine tracker / L 2 traceroute 21
Focus area #6 Stager n n n Developed at UNINETT since 2002. Open source - http: //software. uninett. no Generic tool for storage, aggregation and presentation of network statistics u u u n Netflow analysis Round trip and packet loss Generic SNMP data gathering Is included on the Giga. Campus toolbox Giga Campus 22
Focus area #6 Stager screen shot [1] 23
Focus area #6 Stager screen shot [2] 24
Focus area #7 End-to-end quality n Measuring beacons on all campuses 25 • Througput • Packet delay and loss • Session intensity • Available capacity • Traffic behaviour
Focus area #7 MPING 26 NDT
Focus area #7 UNINETT participate in the Perf. SONAR effort 27
Focus area #7 Giga. Campus measuring beacons contributes to the LOBSTER project n n A network of passive Internet traffic monitors u Special hardware u MAPI software Cooperation across borders u Exhange information and observations u Correlate results 28
Giga. Campus – in summary 29 Conclusion: Bring the NREN visions to the network edges! Question: Should this model include more upward ”layers”? http: //www. gigacampus. no gigacampus@uninett. no
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