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Federated Research Network Operations in Europe through NRENs and DANTE

Federated Research Network Operations in Europe through NRENs and DANTE - Organisational and Financial Challenges - Karin Schauerhammer (DFN), schau@dfn.de Klaus Ullmann (DFN), ullmann@dfn.de EGI_DS Workshop@EGEE2007 Budapest, October 2007. Contents. Research User Groups

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Federated Research Network Operations in Europe through NRENs and DANTE

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  1. Federated Research Network Operations in Europe through NRENs and DANTE - Organisational and Financial Challenges - Karin Schauerhammer (DFN), schau@dfn.de Klaus Ullmann (DFN), ullmann@dfn.de EGI_DS Workshop@EGEE2007 Budapest, October 2007

  2. Contents • Research User Groups • The NREN Policy Committee (NRENPC) • Example for an NREN • DANTE structure • Creation and Development of DANTE • Review DANTE structure • Comparison with EGI • Summary

  3. Research User Groups today • Research collaborations today have in almost all cases an international dimension • Example: For LHC collaborations for data evaluation the international dimension of research networking is vital for the success • NRENs and DANTE / Geant2 have to adapt to that situation - not only for the LHC experiment evaluation process

  4. NRENPC as of 2007 CountryNREN Austria(ACOnet) Belgium (BELNET) Bulgaria (ISTF) Croatia (CARNet) Czech Republic (CESNET) Cyprus (CYNET) Germany (DFN) Estonia (EENet) France (RENATER) Greece (GRNET) Hungary (HUNGARNET) Ireland (HEANet) Israel (IUCC) Italy (GARR) Latvia (LATNET) Lithuania (LITNET) Luxembourg (RESTENA) Malta (UoM) Netherlands (SURFNET) CountryNREN Nordic Countries (NorduNet) Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden Poland (PSNC) Portugal (FCCN) Romania (RoEduNet) Russia (JSCC) Slovakia (SANET) Slovenia (ARNES) Spain (RedIRIS) Switzerland (SWITCH) Turkey (ULAKBIM) United Kingdom (UKERNA) Plus Non-Voting Members: DANTE, TERENA Perm. Observers: CERN, AMREJ, MARNET

  5. NRENPC - Governing Structure • Presently the NREN Policy Committee, the NRENPC is governing the networking policy definition, has always successfully devised a flexible substructure (for example an Exec) to adapt to management needs and is acting as the top-governance body for consortium projects • DANTE plays (in addition to the operational tasks) the role of the consortium co-ordinator and has a special, legally defined role.

  6. NREN Example: DFN • Legal status: private not-for-profit, tax-exempt association under German law („Verein“) • Members: Institutional members only (!); universities, research labs from public and private sector • Governance: DFN members elect every 3 years a Council of Administration; the three chairmen form the Board; two membership assemblies per year, normally two council meetings pa and 10 Board meetings pa • Financial yearly turnover: roughly 35 - 40 M €, slowly going down due to market developments • Business Case: X-WiN and other services like AAI, security, PKI, ... in Germany, AUP restricted

  7. Fibre B AWI Fibre C Fibre D Fibre A PSNC Surfnet X-WiN (1): Fibre network KIE DKRZ ROS DES HAM FFO BRE TUB POT ZEU HAN HUB BIE MUE ZIB BRA MAG ADH DUI DRE FZJ LEI AAC BIR JEN CHE ILM FRA Geant2 BAY GSI ESF KAI SAA ERL HEI REG FZK Renater KEH STU GAR Richtung Basel 13.10.2006 Switch/GARR

  8. X-WiN (2): Router Platform EWE KIE ROS GRE DES HUB BRE HAM FFO TUB ADH DRE BRA HAN MAG GOE ZIB CRS- BIE POT POT CHE KAS MUE BAY LEI CRS- DUI HAN CRS- JEN ERL AAC GSI CRS- MAR ILM XR FRA FRA ERL BIR FZK GIE HEI REG GAR STU 1GE KAI SAA AUG WUE 2x10GE AWI FZJ 43 CISCO7609 KR 10GE

  9. International Body: DANTE • Legal status: private not-for-profit, tax-exempt shareholding company under UK law Members: NRENs only (!), presently 15 European NRENs • Governance: members elect the Board of Directors; two shareholder meetings per year, normally 4 - 5 Board meetings per year. • Financial turnover pa: roughly 50 M € (see graph for the development over the past years) • Business Case: Geant2 + future generations, connectivity in Europe and worldwide

  10. Geant2 topology as of 2007

  11. LHCOPN T0 – T1network (as of 07/07) RAL NorduGrid TRIUMF BNL FNAL S-Janet ASCC CERN T0 NorduNet SWITCH Surfnet SARA GEANT2 DFN Renater GARR GRIDKa Rediris IN2P3 PIC CNAF

  12. Development DANTE budget (1994 – 2006)

  13. The Creation of DANTE (1) • DANTE is the result of the COSINE project • COSINE was a project similar to EGI_DS – it comprised ministerial people in the policy group and technical people from NRENs. • The main findings in respect to the creation of DANTE are summarized in a 1992 report „Towards a Single European Infrastructure“ (see paper version of the presentation)

  14. The Creation of DANTE (2) • Amongst others the following items had to be solved: • (Initial) business case definition (not far from the business case today) • Solution for the capitalisation • Governance, control and membership structure definition • Establishment planning (location, size, people for the company) • Launch and start-up scenario development

  15. Reviewing DANTE‘s structure • (Initial) business case definition -successfully accomplished and all further developments without too many problems – for example: neither an NREN nor DANTE had any problems when the Internet bubble exploded in 2000 • Solution for the capitalisation –shares, initial COSINE funds and small yearly surplus produced sufficient working capital • Governance, control and membership structuredefinition – ok,apart from 2 problems (asset management and management structure) • Establishment planning for DANTE – wasnever a significant problem • Launch and Start-up scenario - successful

  16. Two problem areas • Only 15 out of 30 NRENs are DANTE Shareholders, this has two consequences: • Asset administration: DANTE formally owns all assets gained through common (and commonly co-financed through all NRENs!) projects like Geant2 • Examples: DWDM equipment, long term fibre contracts etc. • Duplication of some management structures, i.e. DANTE Board and GN2 Executive

  17. Possible solution for the two problem areas • DANTE will probably be re-structured into a company limited by guarantee under UK law (rather than limited by shares) • UKERNA, the UK NREN, is a company limited by guarantee as well • This would enable nearly all NRENs to join.

  18. Comparison with EGI • (Initial) business case definition – most important work, to be done in WP3 • Solution for the capitalisation – depends on the business case findings • Governance, control and membership structure definition – work to be done in WP2 and WP4 • Establishment planning (location, size, people for the company) – to be done later in WP5 • Launch and start-up scenario development – to be done in WP5 in conjunction with well defined business case

  19. Summary • The crucial question for EGI: What is the EGI business case? Is there an EGI (budget-) driven GRID operation or are the actual GRID operations much more federated through the NGIs? • Highest priority in EGI must have the use case (=business case) definition. Everything else can only be derived from that. • How do NGIs develop? • The rest should follow a pragmatic approach.

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