On-line collaboration with SURFnet

Outline

• SURFnet organisation

• Lightpaths for science

• Goup Communication

- SURFgroepen

- Videoconferencing and webconferencing

Introducing SURFnet

Dutch National Research & Education Network (NREN)

Not for profit organization, 60 employees

100% ownership: SURF Foundation

180 connected institutions, 750.000 end-users

Business-model: Innovation by project subsidies (14 Meuro/year) Operations by tariffs from connected institutions (18

Meuro/year)

Ambitions

Connecting Dutch researchers to a world-class network-

infrastructure

Delivering innovative high-end internet-based services to

higher-education and research in NL

Intensive use of services by a broad range of functional

users (security officers, researchers, teaching staff etc.)

Operational excellence in service-provisioning

Stimulate use of services

SURFnet6 overview

- The first nation-wide hybrid optical and packet switching

infrastructure

- Based on 6000+ km of SURFnet-owned managed dark

fiber, all the way to the customers premises

- SURFnet6 delivers 1/10 Gbit/s IP services (native IPv4 and

IPv6) plus lightpath provisioning:

- Over a single transmission infrastructure

- Managed via a single control plane

- Hence, in an economically sound way

SURFnet6 DWDM on dark fiber

Dordrecht1

Breda1

Tilburg1

DenHaag

NLR

BT

BT NLR

BT

Zutphen1

Lelystad1

Subnetwork 4: Purple

Subnetwork 3: Red

Subnetwork 1: Green

Subnetwork 2: Dark blue

Subnetwork 5: Grey

Emmeloord

Zwolle1

Venlo1

Enschede1

Groningen1

LeeuwardenHarlingen

Den Helder

Alkmaar1

Haarlem1

Leiden1

Assen1

Beilen1

Meppel1

Emmen1

Arnhem

Apeldoorn1

Bergen-op-ZoomZierikzee

Middelburg

Vlissingen Krabbendijke

Breukelen1

Ede

Heerlen2Geleen1

DLO

Schiphol-Rijk

Wageningen1 Nijmegen1

Hilversum1

Hoogeveen1

Lelystad2

Amsterdam1

Dwingeloo1

Amsterdam2

Den Bosch1

Utrecht1

Beilen1

Nieuwegein1Rotterdam1

Delft1

Heerlen1

Heerlen1

Maastricht1

Eindhoven1

Maasbracht1

Rotterdam4

3XLSOP

IBG1 & IBG2Middenmeer1

Muenster

Aachen

Hamburg

Advantages from a user perspective

Advantages for institutions:

Lightpaths provide safe high-speed connections (1G, 10G) with an excellent quality (low and predictable latency, no jitter)

Lightpaths facilitate applications that don’t function optimal using the regular internet

Advantages for researchers:

Lightpaths provide applications with dedicated bandwidth at relatively low costs

Lightpath speeds

- 150 Mbit/s- 600 Mbit/s- 1 Gbit/s- 10 Gbit/s

Private networks for special user groups

HealthcareOPN

Bio-informaticsNetwork

Telescoop site

CERN

High Energy Physics Network

eVLBI Network

Research Network

This slide based on original slide from Bill St. Arnaud (CANARIE)

Faculteit

Universiteit

Universiteit

Radio astronomy

Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

- Two Global Crossing wavelengths on the NetherLight-CERN route were

replaced by three wavelengths on the GÉANT2 network in 2006.

- In 2007 a fourth wavelength was added for USLHCNet.

- A number of other LHC project partners created direct lightpaths to CERN

via NetherLight.

- The Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC) of Taiwan intends to

set up a 10 Gbit/s circuit to Amsterdam and has applied for 10 Gbit/s

connectivity between there and CERN.

Enlighten Your Research: Winners

- The 5 winners are:

- Distribution of radiology images in the NELSON lung cancer screening study – UMCG & UMCU

- High-throughput genome-wide analyses in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) – UMCU & UCLA

- Intelligent CCTV monitoring at Arke Stadium –TI e.a.

- Electron microscopy using lightpaths – LUMC, TUE & SARA

- Remote High-Resolution Visualisation of Climate Data using Pixel Streaming – UU & SARA

             

Lightpath switching

But why not automatically?

Lightpaths will becomeuser controlled

Customerequipment

Customerequipment

DRAC

Service Interface: web GUI of API (web services) public

internal

Control planeControl plane

CPE

CPE

Admin

User

Resource

- Online collaboration in high demand

- There must be more than browsing a website

and sending e-mail

VideoconferencingWebconferencing

Document Sharing

Instant Messaging

Optimal online Optimal online collaborationcollaboration

SURFgroepen enables easy and efficient online collaboration! Save documents online and keep in contact with team members via chat en videoconferencing.

Employees and students of organizations connected to SURFnet can work with SURFgroepen without costs. They can even invite co-workers/friends from all over the world to join there teamsite.

Document Sharing

Instant Messaging

Videoconferencing

Document SharingDocument Sharing

Online document storage and information management. Calendar, forum and web-poll posibbilities. Sharing images, documenten tas lists.

Online collaboration

Data encryption during transport (https)

Document Sharing

Instant Messaging

Videoconferencing

Instant MessagingInstant Messaging

Zie welke teamleden online zijn (presence) en overleg met behulp van chat voorzieningen.

Online samenwerken

Presence

Document Sharing

Instant Messaging

Videoconferencing

Online samenwerken

Videoconferencing en Videoconferencing en webconferencingwebconferencing

Eenvoudig online videovergaderen.

Two ways of videoconferencing

WebconferencingHardware videoconferencing

http://www.expertopafstand.nl

Expert op afstand Expert op afstand

Maarten van Rossem – Maarten van Rossem – MigratieMigratie

Maarten van RossemSURFnet- Utrecht

Leerlingen 6VWO2College - Tilburg

Leerlingen 6VWOKSE – Etten-Leur

Expert op afstand

HD videoconferencingHD videoconferencing

A virtual meeting room where team members can conference via a webcam and a headset, and where they van collaborate in realtime.

WebconferencingWebconferencing

Met SURFgroepen maken we samenwerken makkelijk.

SURFnet is constant bezig SURFgroepen te innoveren.

Op SURFgroepen Labs lees je over die ontwikkelingen.

Integration with other services like:- SURFnet federated authentication

infrastructure (A-select)- Videostreaming- Videoconferencing (scheduling of

resources)

Future plans