A Practical Introduction to Advanced and High Speed Networking

1. A Practical Introduction to Advanced and High Speed Networking NATO Advanced Networking Workshop Ljubljana, 15-19 September 2001

2. TERENA, the TERENA Technical Programme and the NATO Science Programme Valentino Cavalli, TERENA Acknowldgement to John Dyer, TERENA

3. NATO Science Programme • supports collaboration between scientists in Partner countries or Mediterranean Dialogue countries and scientists in NATO countries • Science Fellowships allow scientists of Partner-countries to study in NATO countries, and vice-versa

4. The TERENA Membership • the national research and education networks of 34 countries • CERN, ESA, ECMWF • associate members (regional organisations, industry)

5. The Mission of TERENA • representation of the common interests of TERENA’s members • political, policy and industrial contacts • liaison with other continents • the Technical Programme • developing, testing and promoting new networking technologies, services and applications • workshops, task forces, projects • knowledge transfer • conferences, workshops and seminars • assistance to less-advanced networks • providing a “cradle” for new services

6. Special Interest Areas • Lower Layers • Quality of Service • Video Conferencing & Streaming • Content Delivery, Indexing, Searching • Middleware • (mobility)

7. SIA - Lower Layers • TF-NGN • Forum for Information Exchange • Development and Testing • Includes the piloting of the new services on the GEANT backbone. DANTE is the responsible GEANT partner.

8. TF-NGN • Started Activities in November 2000 • Quality of Service Issues • AF, Premium IP, Over Provisioned, Delay & Jitter . . . • Improvement of Multicast • Optical Networking Issues • Network Monitoring • IPv6 deployment

9. Activities Networks IP Premium Service Temp GARR-G, PLAGE, Quaser(DE)-pt SEQUIN/NGN MPLS Temp PLAGE IPv6 Perm Own Network Infrastructure Shaping Temp GARR-G or PLAGE Monitoring Perm Unknown Lambda Unspec Unknown European Testbed Activities

10. SIA – VideoConf / Stream • TF-STREAM closed June 2001 • 3-4 Meetings per year • 20 active members 9 countries • Recommendations • Best Practice • Information Source

11. TF-STREAM Highlights • Meetings carried out using video-conferencing facilities • Investigating European Videoconference Service • Loan Codecs for HiQ videoconferencing • Web site information

12. SIA - Middleware • Directories TF-LSD • Certification Authorities – PKI (ad-hoc) • Security TF-CSIRT • All these activities have direct relevance to the emerging GRID

13. TF-LSD Highlights • 20 Active members • Experience with OpenLDAP • Need for EuroEDUPerson ObjectClass • Internet2 EDUPerson, GRIDPerson • Issues of pan-European PKI

14. TF-CSIRT • NRN and Commercial Involvement • Sept 2000, • Jan 2001, • May-June 2001 • Next Meeting, fall 2001 • Major Activities • Team Accreditation • Information Exchange • Development of Training Workshop

15. CSIRT Accreditation • CERT-NL (The Netherlands) 1. January 2001. • CSIRT.DK (Denmark) 20. April 2001. • GARR-CERT (Italy) 1. January 2001. • IRIS-CERT (Spain) 23. March 2001. • JANET-CERT (United Kingdom) 1. January 2001. • NORDUNET CERT (Scandinavia) 6. April 2001. • SIEMENS-CERT (Germany) 23. March 2001. • UniNett CERT (Norway) 1. April 2001.

16. Training Workshop † Indicates practical / workshop element

17. TF-CSIRT Activities • Seminars • Best Practice • Experience and Demonstrations Tools • Technical • Development of Incident Exchange XML • Security Entry in RIPE database • Relations with the CEC

18. PKI BoF at TNC2001 • Attendance around 30 • Wide Representation: Europe / US • Major Issue of Discussion: • Bridge Model versus Hierarchical • EuroPKI (IT) Hierarchical • Federal (US) Bridge • GRID – undecided • ACTIONS taken by Europe & US • STRONGER COORDINATION with US

19. GRID • Monitoring GRID Activities • Presentation at the TERENA community • Building Cooperative Links with GRID-FORUM • Areas of Overlap (Middleware) • Security • Authentication • Directories, Certification, PKI • QoS

20. Minor Project Proposals • Pilot IODEF implementation • EuroEDUPerson Object Class Definition • Certificate Retrieval in OpenLDAP

21. SCAMPI • IST-2001 Thematic Priority IV-2.2 • Scalable Monitoring Platform for the Internet • Active & Passive Measurement 100Gbps • Using affordable components • Initial filtering on NIC

22. TERENA, NL IMEC, BE FORTH, GR LEIDEN University, NL NETIKOS, IT UNINETT, NO CESNET, CZ FORTHnet, GR 4Plus, GR SIEMENS, DE Total Cost 5.6 MEUR EU 2.9 MEUR 473 person/months 30 months duration TERENA 322 kEUR 39 person/months Web Server Workshops SCAMPI

23. IPv6 Testbed Project6NET • Phase 1 duration 3-6 months • Introduction of an IPv6 Infrastructure over IPv4 tunnels • Phase 2 duration 3-6 months • Build a dedicated link layer for native IPv6 • Phase 3 duration 24 months • dual stack network • Phase 4 - Exploitation

24. 6NET Project Partners • Management - CISCO • Infrastructure - DANTE • IPv4/v6 - SURFnet • Applications - RENATER • Trial - UKERNA • NetMan -Switch • Dissemination - TERENA • ULB • SONY • IBM • NTT • NORDUNET • DFN • ACONET • GRNET • GARR • UCL • Uni Southampton • Uni Lancaster • Others (~30 total)

25. TEQUILA • Quality of Service • TERENA’s role – Dissemination • Workshop on SLS – Jan 2001, Amsterdam • Focus SLS and Traffic Engineering • 50 attendees • http://www.ist-tequila.org/ • Tequila workshop 2002

26. PortalContent Delivery, Indexing Searching • Closed Workshop • Action Plan • Approaches : Formal and ad-hoc • Open Workshop • An implementation • Exploring links with Suppliers

27. GNRT • Third Edition • Available on-line late 2001 • Manuscript to publishers 11 June • Future • Modular on-line approach • Continuous updating

28. International Lambda Workshop • Amsterdam, 12-13 September 2001 • Organised by TERENA in collaboration with StarLight, CANARIE, SURFnet, Internet2 • Aimed at NRENs (interested in) running lambdas internationally, equipment providers, telcos, (research &) development institutes