John Martin TERENA Networking Conference1 TERENA Focus Study Funding of Research Networks in Europe...

TERENA Networking Conference 1John Martin <[email protected]>

TERENA Focus Study

Funding of Research Networks in Europe

John MartinBaiba Kaskina


Focus Study 2004

• Extension of TERENA Compendium

• Supported by EU through COM-REN

• In-depth look at Research Network funding in

Europe – Analysis by network level

– Current trends

– Multiple network domain issues


Focus Study: Method

• Email questionnaire to TERENA

correspondents

• Questionnaire trialled in advance

• 24 responses by end-April

• Follow-up by email and interview

• Results will be published by TERENA


Focus Study: Analysis

• Analysis by network level:

funding, management and operations

• Current trends - over three years

• Multiple domain issues - performance, security,

end-to-end

Total of 15 analyses plus many examples


Focus Study 2004Who provides what % of funding?

Network level

User institutions

Local government

Regional government

National government

EU Other

External 28 49 22 1

Backbone 37 1 60 2

Access 61 1 38

Regional 47 12 11 28 2

Campus 88 3 1 8


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Who is responsible for network operations?

Network level

NREN Out-sourced User institutions

Regional government

External 21 4

Backbone 24 2

Access 19 3 6

Regional 7 7 6 1

Campus 24


Focus Study 2004

Who is responsible for network management?

Network level

NREN Other User institutions

Regional government

External 21 3

Backbone 24

Access 20 1 4

Regional 9 5 6 1

Campus 2 24


Focus Study 2004Current trends

• Since last year:

16 no change4 increases in expenditure4 other changes

• Expected next year:

12 no change3 increases in expenditure4 decreases in expenditure5 other changes

……but most large changes are due to capital programmes.


Focus Study 2004Performance issues

Performance bottlenecks:

- affected 18/24 countries

- most are at campus or access levels

- some due to high telecomms charges

- some result of charging policies

More details are in the report.


Focus Study 2004Security and e2e issues (number of countries)

15

11

7

3

11

5

3

1

4

6

4

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16


Focus Study 2004Conclusions – Management and funding of research networks

• clear picture at external and backbone level

• clear picture at campus level

• mixed picture at access and regional level


Focus Study 2004Conclusions – Trends in expenditure and funding

• significant year-on-year variations

• most due to one-off capital programmes

• recurrent funding is stable or slightly rising

• user contributions stable


Focus Study 2004Conclusions – Multiple network domains

• bottlenecks mainly at campus or access level• many denial of service attacks• premium and end-to-end services susceptible to

many performance and equipment shortcomings• diagnosis and resolution often difficult• multiple domains and varying support levels

make this harder


Focus Study 2004Conclusions – Some wider issues

• Evidence of some under-investment by user institutions

• High cost of telecomms in some countries is cause of bottlenecks at backbone and access level

• Policy of linking connection charging to bandwidth is cause of some bottlenecks


Focus Study 2004Acknowledgements

• Directed by Bert van Pinxteren

• Thanks to Compendium Review Panel and to

TERENA correspondents

• Will be published by TERENA (www.terena.nl)

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