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GÉANT3 Services

Connectivity and Monitoring Services by and for NRENs

Ann Harding, SWITCH

TNC 2010


Positioning Services

GÉANT benefits multiple disciplines, from Big Science projects such as the Large Hadron Collider through telemedicine and earth observation to the arts and cultural projects

Goal: To enable R&E users through their Organizations with flexible and scalable production quality services via the constituent NRENs

GÉANT Service Area – a network of networks that spans the backbone and the national networks


Services have a lifecycle

Old way to do services

Make it work, declare service, tidy up afterwards

Not expectations-proof

Operationally painful

Hard to scale

Collaboratively delivered services in NREN community

Protect innovative reputation but be useful

Design with operations in mind

Standards for technology, why not standards/agreements for service?

– Service Architecture (2B)

– Network Management Architecture (8A)

Improve or retire


Service Activities and Service Users


Services Interact with Services

Multidomain WavelengthsMultidomain Wavelengths

Multidomain Bandwidth-on-

Demand

Multidomain Bandwidth-on-

Demand

Multidomain Monitoring



Multidomain Wavelengths

Use case

Transferred data volume is typically high

Between clearly defined locations and lasting for a long period of time

Traffic should be separated

1Gbps, 2.5 Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s and 40 Gbit/s

Implications on multiplexing

Footprint/cabability dependent

Ethernet and SDH data transport

Service parameters described for demarcation points

User access

Inter-domain


Multidomain Wavelength Challenges

Long setup time

Procurement of infrastructure

Cost overhead

Adoption of tools and automation to ensure provisioning is competitive, despite complex operational environment

– I-SHARe, AutoBAHN?

Service Levels

Technical challenges in measurement/calculation of transmission delay

Access and accounting

User oriented but operationally possible

Distributed Network Management

E2emon

Quality/reliability of information


Multidomain Bandwidth on Demand

Goal: deliver dedicated, flexible capacity virtual network capabilities, through user-driven, easily and efficiently provisioned dynamic circuit services.

Initial target group: NREN NOCs

Co-design with Internet2, Esnet, CANARIE, USLHCnet

Point-to-point, bidirectional Ethernet Transport Service

Transport and service functions

Any technology providing requested functionality can be used

Service parameters described for demarcation points

– User access

– Inter-domain

IDC protocol -> supported by AutoBAHN


Multidomain Bandwidth on Demand Challenges

Network resource

Dedicated resource vs. efficient use of available resource

Accounting

Service Levels

Respecting difference but not confusing the user

Supporting multiple approaches for a consistent service

Toolsets – AutoBAHN, ION, OpenDRAC, OSCARS

Vendor support

Operations

AAI

Evaluating user demand

And seeing it through



Building use-case focussed services with perfSONAR

Performance troubleshooting

Network characterisation

Circuit monitoring

Scale globally

Co-design with Internet2, Esnet, CANARIE, USLHCnet

Passive monitoring, in a perfSONAR framework

Services by & for NRENs

Services for Private Networks


Monitoring Challenges

Identifying key components against use cases

Developing the right things

Narrower focus

Software development QA

Developing the right way

Unit, functional & usability testing

Deployment

NREN involvement

Federated approach

Support

Hardware

Software

Service


Support Services

Supporting NRENS

Deployment

Management

Operations

Bringing together diverse GN2 support services

Application Service Desk

E2ECU

Tools support

Standards in service management

eTOM + ITIL

What + how

SupportSupport FulfilmentFulfilment AssuranceAssurance

Customer Relationship ManagementCustomer Relationship Management

Supplier ManagementSupplier Management

Service Management & OpsService Management & Ops


Supporting Services

AAI

NRENs & Project Activities

Use cases & infrastructure

Security

CERT Teams and Project coordination

Multidomain service incident response

Performance

eduPERT

Distributed teams

Shared expertise


Next Steps

Community consultation

June 24/25 Amsterdam

Business case approval

Deployments

Target deployments for AutoBAHN/I-SHARe

– linked with service

Target deployments for perfSONAR

Target deployments for participation without tools

Continuous service improvement

Research results (JRA2) on monitoring, management, BoD

User/operator feedback

Testing


Do you want to get involved?

Learn more about the services?

All: [email protected] | [email protected]

Monitoring: [email protected]

Connectivity: [email protected]

If you are an end-user: contact your NREN

Try out the tools?

I-SHARe demo

[email protected] | [email protected]• Any time, any query

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