what nrens also can do april 10th 2008 [email protected]
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What NRENs also can do
Like other NRENs UNINETT provides the national research and educational network to universities, university colleges and research institutions.
Should we do more? Should we cross the campus border? Should we engage in the challenges on
campus? Let’s give it a go, we thought – let’s
GigaCampus!
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Why is this talk in the mobile internet section?
Good question! I have no clue! That is –
potentially 14.3% of my talk will stick to the subject!
Mobility is one of GigaCampus’ seven areas of focus!
GigaCampus
Mobility
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Outline
Update on the GigaCampus programme The GigaCampus idea The areas of focus Project results so far New areas we are looking at Cost benefits of our work
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Earnest report on campus issues
January 2008
52 recommendations! Very compatible with the GigaCampus
work Recommendation #12:
“Strengthen the collaboration between National Research and Education Networking organisations and institutions to improve the deployment of key services”
http://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/publications.html
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One R&E community – many campuses – common solutions
GigaCampus 2006 - 2009
UNINETT Internet
Provide and coordinate top international level campus IT infrastructures
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The GigaCampus work flow
UNINETT engineeri
ng task force
UFS
best practice
documents
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GigaCampus – seven areas of focus
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GigaCampus in the field
Touring the country with routers and core switches on the lorry
Participants from UNINETT and from major universities and university collages
Collaboration with local IT staff on site Network design and implementation Wireless networking Focus on the physical infrastructure Focus on security
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Collective framework agreements
Vendors
Universities
Giga-Campus
Not one contract with one vendor on a given tendor area That will never satisfy all
universities…
A certain variaty is necessary but not total freedom…
GigaCampus narrows down the university / vendor scope and negotiates a set of agreements Leaving some choice Maintaining leading market
prices• Network equipment• Servers and workstations• Software
• ADSL• Storage• Printers
• POTS• Mobile telephony
Tendor areas so far
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Physical infrastructure white papers
Common requirements for:1. Cabling (fibre and twisted
pair)2. Data centers and network
rooms3. Power supply (incl.
UPS and generators)4. Ventilation and cooling 5. Fire detection and distinction
All major universities have participated in the work The requirements are coordinated with building
owners and will be used in future building projects Existing campus infrastructure is inspected by
GigaCampus. Reports/improvement lists with estimated costs are produced.
Motto: build green – reuse heat
https://gigacampus.wiki.uninett.no/ufs (UFS102-104,107-108)
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Focus on reliable, redundant campus
networks
2006 2009
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Campus network white papers
Produced so far: Campus network design (UFS114)
Switch configuration (UFS105)
Cisco, HP and Alcatel howto’s (UFS109-111)
We are working on/planning: Howto on BGP campus config Howto on multicast campus config IPv6 migration guide line And more…
https://gigacampus.wiki.uninett.no/ufs
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29 campuses are now managed by the GigaCampus tool boxes The tool boxes are servers containing
a number of management tools: NAV: Proactive network management nfsen: Netflow traffic analysis Hobbit: Service monitoring tftp server, syslog server, radius
server The tool boxes are placed on campus
and used by the local IT staff. Management, tool enhancements,
software upgrades, etc, is done by UNINETT.
Free training in tool usage is given.nfsen
http://metanav.uninett.no
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26 measuring beaconsin operation
• Throughput• Packet delay and loss• Multicast connectivity• IPv6 flows• Session intensity• Available capacity• Traffic behaviour
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GigaCampus ”pushes” eduroam
IEEE 802.1X implementation guidelines (UFS112) is provided by the GigaCampus mobility working group
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21 universities / collages have eduroam
…and with the aid of GigaCampus more are on their way
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Focus on security policies and IRTs
Security policies are needed (desperately?) GigaCampus has prepared an R&E template
based on ISO 27002 standard Workshops on site with university leadership Goal: they develop their own policy – local
ownership is essential! 16 universities/colleges on our road map for 2008
Incident Response Team courses Focus on organizing local IRTs 23 universities/collages have joined so far
Frequent security meetings with IRTs of the major universities
Best practice security white papers
Vulnerability and virus information to the whole community
GigaCampus security team
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GigaCampus promotes ”ITIL lite”Change management Define a service window Define alarm
procedures Place responsibility Classify changes Log changes
Incident management Central point of contact Record all calls Classify incidents Give user feedback! Escalate
Problem management Think longterm Create lasting
solutions Look out for repeating
error patterns
https://gigacampus.wiki.uninett.no/gc-b-2
Configuration management Database for vital IT assets Describe the most important
services – with dependancies Adopt good naming standards
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The slow(?) path of SIP migration
New call for tender on telephony traffic in 2008 SIP an alternative to
ISDN
Developing a new national telephone routing model based using SIP proxies.
Student project experimenting with SIP mobility from mobile telephones in ”Wireless Trondheim”.
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Does GigaCampus pay off?
Cost effective joint solutions €3.8M Security model without sentralized firewall Network management tool box Benefits of large-scale operation – reuse of equipment ________ Emergency prepardness equipment at UNINETT €21.3M
Collective framework agreements€14.3M 23 agreements so far (since January 2006). Turnover: More than 40 million euro pr year Better price! Big savings on coordinated tenders!
Counselling included €2.7M Areas: networking, wireless, security, infrastructure The alternative is expensive
Coordinated skill training €0.6M Workshops / seminars / courses Working groups Best practice documents / howto’s
Alternative cost *
* Numbers calculated by external consulting firm
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New areas for GigaCampus in 2008
Audio visuals IP TV Multimedia Server
virtualization More? More!
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The key to the GigaCampus success
Squeeze the juice out of UNINETTs R&D department Encourage and engage the know-hows at our universities Maintain a live&kicking meeting ground for our experts Roll out proven results to the whole community
Political support and government co-funding makes it all feasable
