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Research Networking in Europe. Fernando Liello Quantum Policy Committee INFN - Trieste. The Basic Question. Many People Believe That ISP’s Can Provide Everything At an Affordable Price Latency Management Stream Synchronization Will Research Use Only Commercial Services in the Future?.
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Research Networking in Europe Fernando Liello Quantum Policy Committee INFN - Trieste
The Basic Question • Many People Believe That ISP’s Can Provide Everything • At an Affordable Price • Latency Management • Stream Synchronization • Will Research Use Only Commercial Services in the Future?
European Infrastructure • Not the Very Highest Performance in the World • Very Solid • Bears Global Comparison in All Aspects • Leads in Some
AUCS KPNQwest AUCS Abilene AUCS ESNet JP (mbs) JP (ip) AUCS TEN-155 Topology (2000) TEN-155 Transit PoP TEN-155 PoP PT SE IE BE GR CY Interconnections LU IL UK NL PL US SI FR DE AT 622 Mbps 310 Mbps 155 Mbps CH CZ HU <100 Mbps 155 Mbps ES 34/45 Mbps IT 10 Mbps
Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia France Germany Greece Hungary Geographic Scope • NorduNet • Denmark • Finland • Iceland • Norway • Sweden • Ireland • Israel • Italy • Latvia • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Slovenia • Slovakia • Spain • Switzerland • United Kingdom
Users’ Requirements • General Connectivity • Distributed Data And/Or Computing Resource Access • Remote Use/Control of Instruments • Virtual Experiments • Distributed Design and Manufacturing
TEN-155 Experience • Quality of Service • Managed Bandwidth Service • End-to-End Capacity Allocation • Guaranteed Delay and Latency • Virtual Private Networks • Privacy • Services for Mission Oriented Communities • Distributed Data-Bases
GEANT Infrastructure • Multi-Gigabit Core • 2.4 Gbps in 2000 • Dark- or Gray-Fibers in Future? • European Distributed Access (EDA) • AUP-Free for Research & Education • Intercontinental Connections • N.–America, Asia–Pacific, S.–America, …
New Strategic Attitude • Support Global Research Traffic • Promote Interconnect With Research Networks in Other World Regions • Share Costs of Intercontinental Capacity • Distinguish Between Research and Commodity Traffic?
GEANT Service Offer • Best Effort IP • Research Traffic Interchange • End-to-End Quality of Service • Virtual Private Network • Bandwidth Allocation / Reservation
Economically Reasonable • Modest Investment Increase • Scale Economies • Co-ordinate Bandwidth Purchase • Intercontinental Capacity Redundancy • Better Peering Negotiating Position • EC Support • Easily Scalable in Future
Procurement Approach • Public Procurement Rules • Phased Approach • Guaranteed Service Continuity • Non-homogeneous technology
January 2000 March 2000 April 2000 September 2000 October-November 2000 December 2000 EC Produces Framework for RN1 GEANT Detailed Specifications Start Element Procurement Evaluation / Negotiation Phase Funding for TEN-155 Expires GEANT GEANT Timetable