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Project Update

Project Update. CLARA/ALICE Technical Meeting Caracas, 20 October 2005 Cathrin St ö ver, DANTE. Update of ALICE project. “Housekeeping” Management Activities since last ALICE Meeting, Rio, November 2004 Management Activities ahead until end of 2005. “House Keeping” - I.

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  1. Project Update CLARA/ALICE Technical Meeting Caracas, 20 October 2005 Cathrin Stöver, DANTE

  2. Update of ALICE project • “Housekeeping” • Management Activities since last ALICE Meeting, Rio, November 2004 • Management Activities ahead until end of 2005

  3. “House Keeping” - I • New per diem rates published • http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/perdiem/index_en.htm • Per diem for Venezuela has increased to Euro 177 (you can claim 3 per diems; Total 531 Euros) • Exchange rates are published • http://europa.eu.int/comm/budget/inforeuro/index.cfm?language=en • Make sure to claim the months of invoice ! • October exchange rate for US$ to Euro: • 1,2063 US$ = 1 Euro

  4. House Keeping II • LA-NREN Expense claim form to be used • All claims to be in Euros! • Eligible: • 1 representative per partner for CLARA-Tec meeting • WG leaders • Trainers • NOC, NEG and Tec representatives • If more than 1 person from NREN, please claim together!

  5. House Keeping III • Claim must contain • Economy class travel ticket and original invoice • All boarding cards of the trip • Max. 3 per diems per person at the rate of the Venezuela (177 Euros) = 531 Euros to be claimed • 1 Euro = 1,2063 US$ (October 2005) • Always use exchange rate relevant to date of invoice! • Do not submit claims for other expenses (no invoices needed to support the per diem claim)

  6. Expense Claims II • As decided in ALICE meeting Lima (July 2004): • Those LA partners that are contributing to Phase B TODAY can claim 100% • Those NRENs that have signed Phase A membership and paid the Phase A contribution can claim 80% • All documents to be posted to DANTE DANTE fao Peter Nancollins City House 126-130 Hills Road Cambridge, CB2 1PQ Inglaterra

  7. Activities since Veracruz I • Deliverables submitted since Veracrus: • D8.2 Third Technical report (ALI-05-118) • D8.2 Annex B – Budget 2005 revised (ALI-05-163) • D0.6 Sustainability Plan (ALI-05-034) • D9.3 Promotional Plan (ALI-05-032) • D0.1 Report on Rio Meeting (ALI-05-003) • D0.1 Report on Antigua Meeting (ALI-05-154) • D7.4 Report on Veracruz Technical Meeting (ALI-05-078v2) • Final Procurement Report on First Connectivity Tender (ALI-05-114) (not on web) • Bi-monthly Project Reports (ALI-04-192, ALI-05-ALI-05-031, ALI-05-070, ALI-05-112, ALI-05-152) All Deliverables and Reports can be found at: www.dante.net/alice, you will need to login to access the deliverables. No late deliverables !

  8. Activities since Veracruz II • Connectivity Tenders • Contract Signature between DANTE and Telmex for connectivity to Central America • Contracts for approval with the European Commission for connectivity to Ecuador and Colombia • Final negotiations of contract for connectivity to Bolivia • Best and Final request for connectivity to Cuba Honduras and Paraguay -> offer of connectivity to RedCLARA was made to NREN; under discussion between DANTE, CLARA and NRENs

  9. Activities until the end of 2005 - I Deliverables to be submitted: • Procurement report on the Second Connectivity Tender • Meeting Reports (Caracas, Montevideo, etc) • Meetings • Third technical Meeting, Caracas, Vz, 7-9 September 2005 (date tbc) • Jornadas Tecnicas de RedIRIS, Logrono, Spain, 24-28 October 2005 • 4th ALICE Meeting, Montevideo, 28-30 November 2005

  10. Activities until the end of 2005 - II Focus of ALICE Project Management will be on • Financial Situation of the Project • Extension of current project • Requested by DANTE; extension from 31 May 2006 to 31 March 2007 • Future Funding • Sustainability for CLARA and RedCLARA

  11. NEW Posters Available! Complete Form at: http://alice.dante.net/server/show/nav.626

  12. From GÉANT to GÉANT2 CLARA/ALICE Technical Meeting Caracas, 20 October 2005 Cathrin Stöver, DANTE

  13. GEANT2 Consortium EuropeanCommission GN2 Contract DG INFSO(M) Framework Programme 6 Directorate F3 Research Infrastructure Communication NREN 1 NREN 2 NREN 3 NREN … Procurement NREN 28 European Tender NREN 29 NREN 30 Provider Contracts NREN Policy Committee 30+2 The Market telecom companies and equipment manufacturers GN2 Executive Committee 5+6 GÉANT2 Project & Consortium Structure DANTE TERENA

  14. GÉANT2 - Project Goals Improve current (GÉANT) network Emphasis on developing end-to-end approach Service provision across multiple domains Direct performance support Include Bulgaria, Russia, Turkey Comprehensive joint research activities Assist developing NRENs Repeat Strategic Study Contract No.: 511082, Annex I, Description of Work

  15. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate From GÉANT …

  16. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate … to GÉANT2

  17. From => To

  18. Joint Research Activities • 5 JRAs • DANTE Management of Activities • European NRENs with assigned responsibilities • Supported by TERENA TF activities

  19. JRA1: Performance Measurement and Management • Objectives: • Design and Development of a framework to exchange monitoring information between domains (networks). • Enhance and integrate relevant tools within the framework. • Show what can be achieved with a multi-domain monitoring system and its benefits by providing visualisation applications.

  20. JRA2: Security • Objectives: • improving the overall security within the GÉANT2 community • Securing GÉANT2 network elements and services • Building of security services • Designing and establishing an infrastructure for co-ordinated security incident handling • Relationship with TF-CSIRT • Establishment of advisory panel

  21. JRA3: Bandwidth Allocation & Reservation (BW on Demand) • Objectives • streamlined provisioning of deterministic E2E services (“lightpaths”) [taking into account heterogeneity from the beginning] • Provision of “advanced users” access to the BoD service hooks currently being requested by some (e.g. GRID users) • Requirements Gathering and SoA Surveys • Service Specification • Implementation • Testing & Service Validation

  22. JRA4: Testbed • Objective • Provide and operate infrastructure for other testbed initiatives • Carry out evaluation of technologies in order to enhance the current portfolio of services and to be ready for the next generation network

  23. JRA5: Roaming and Authorisation • Objective • build a European Roaming Infrastructure (eduroam-ng) • pilot the federated support for existent Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructures for Research and Education, this will be called eduGAIN • Collaboration with many external groups: TF-Mobility, TF-EMC2, GN2 activities (JRA1, SA3), international groups like gwg, FWNA, Grids, …

  24. Research and Collaboration • 5 TERENA led Task Forces • CSIRT • Exchange of information and best practice among Computer Security Incident Response Teams • EMC2 • European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration • Authentication and Authorisation Requester-Responder • TACAR - Academic Certification Authority Repository • Campus Middleware Issues – EuroCAMP events • Directory schema - SCHAC • SCS (Server Certificate Service)

  25. Research and Collaboration • VVC • Voice and Video Collaboration • Mobility • Mobility Next Generation • End Users Mobility • NGN • Next Generation Networking • Exchange of information and best practice in (innovative) lower-layer network technologies Exchange of information and collaboration with SA3 and JRAs

  26. State of Play • Roll-Out • Central and North East Europe => Ready during October • Western Europe => Ready during November • South East Europe => Ready during February 06 • Keeping communications between Research Organizations unaffected at all times • Task Forces • All Task Force Activity is well under way • Joint Research Activities • Picking up pace • GÉANT2 funded until 31 August 2008

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