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GÉANT: Interconnecting NRENs in Europe & Beyond

Vasilis Maglarismaglaris@netmode.ntua.gr

Professor, National Technical University of Athens - NTUA

Chairman, NREN Policy Committee – GÉANT Consortium

CAS-EU Workshop on Research e-Infrastructures

Beijing, November 11th 2009

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The GÉANT Evolution

7th generation of pan-European research network federated infrastructure: A 20 year success story

EuropaNET TEN34 TEN155 GÉANT (GN2 GN3)

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)

GÉANT EC Subsidy < 10% GÉANT EC Subsidy < 10% of total European R&E Networking Costof total European R&E Networking Cost

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

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The GÉANT Sequence

2000-2004: GEA project

GÉANT network

10 Gigabit/sec IP

2004-2009: GN2 project

GÉANT2 network

Dark fiber core

“Hybrid” Packet - Circuit Services

Joint Research Activities

Transition to Service

2009-2013: GN3 project

GÉANT network

End-to-End Multi Domain Services

Service Activities/Joint Research Activities

Networking Activities

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Map of the GN3 Consortium

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GÉANT Topology

GÉANT topology – April 2009

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The GN3 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

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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, eVLBI…

Expected to serve International Demanding Projects (FEDERICA, ESFRI Priorities - PRACE, ITER…)

Fostering European innovation by sustaining a vast Network of Excellence in

Test & deploy bleeding-edge networking technologies (e.g. 100 Gigabit/sec per wavelength)

Advance INTERNET multi-domain toolsets & federal services

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LHC Tier0 – Tier1Optical Private Network

CERNT0

IN2P3

PIC

RAL

GRIDKa

NORDUGrid

TRIUMF ASCC

SARA

BNL FNAL

DKUK

DE

ES

FR

GÉANT

CH

CNAF

NL

IT

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10 Gig (+) Research & Education European Footprint:

June 2009 Map

Combined effort by:- NRENs- GÉANT Backbone- Cross Border Links

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GÉANT Global Connectivity

GÉANT global connectivity – April 2009

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ITER: Currently Proposed Connectivity

Shorter alternative:

ORIENT/TEIN3

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GN3 Challenge: A Mature Federationfor a Tsunami of Global Requirements

High-End Users Require Stable Production Services:• Provisioning 10-40-100 Gbps networks • Meeting robustness, reliability, security requirements• Enabling multi-domain e2e monitoring & on-demand hybrid resource allocation• Managing converging e-infrastructures as a cloud HPCN Future INTERNET Services

10 Gig+ NREN – GÉANT FootprintJune 2009

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