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SERENATE Operators Workshop. 8 November 2002 Victoria Hotel, Amsterdam. Dai Davies General Manager : DANTE www.dante.net. GÉANT - The Goals. Gigabit Connectivity Geographic Expansion Guaranteed Quality of Service Global Access. GÉANT Backbone Topology July 2002.
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SERENATE Operators Workshop 8 November 2002 Victoria Hotel, Amsterdam Dai Davies General Manager : DANTE www.dante.net
GÉANT - The Goals • Gigabit Connectivity • Geographic Expansion • Guaranteed Quality of Service • Global Access
GÉANT Backbone Topology July 2002
Development of Prices for International Bandwidth (Logarithmic Scale)
GÉANT - Questions • Hybrid Networking • Quality of Service • Access Controls • Support for GRIDS
GÉANT - Future Plans • Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 2003 • Optical Options • Traffic Management
Cost Balance CapacityRelative Cost SDH 3 GBps 45 DWDM 127 GBps 55 TOTAL 130 GBps 100
Operator Issues • Portfolio • Commercial Stability • Digital Divide
Portfolio • Today • Point to Point Connections • IP Service • 10 GBps • Tomorrow • Switched Lamdas • Dark Fibre • Gigabit Ethernet • 80 GBps