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John DyerTERENAASPIRE Project Manager

dyer@terena.org

TF-MSP28 September 2012

ASPIRE Foresight Study

www.terena.org/aspire

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Ten Years of Foresight

› Foresight update› 2012-(2014/15)-2020› Research and Education Networking› Community Perspective› Included users› Funded by GN3 Project as part of NA3

2002-2003 2006-2008

2011-2012

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ASPIRE Timeline

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Project Team TERENA

Workshopconsultation

Expert Panels

Topic Reports

StakeholderWorkshop

Final Report

April2011

May 2011Berlin

Autumn 2011 September1213 Sept 12

BrusselsDue

End Nov 2012

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Candidate Topics

› Security / Privacy / Trust / Legal Issues› Cloud Services› Social Media adoption and use in the R&E

Community› Non-commodity IP services as a substrate for

science› Architectures; Technologies and Organizational

approaches for Future R&E networking› Content and Access› Mobility› The Digital Divide

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Study Topics selectedASPIRE workshop May 2011

› The Adoption of Cloud Services

› The Adoption of Mobile Services

› Middleware and Managing Data and Knowledge in a Data Rich World

› The Future Roles of NRENs

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The last 12 months

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Project Team TERENA

Workshopconsultation

Expert Panels

Topic Reports

StakeholderWorkshop

Final Report

April2011

May 2011Berlin

Autumn 2011 September1213 Sept 12

BrusselsDue

End Nov 2012

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Contributors

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clouds mobility data nrens

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Working Methods

› Panel Meetings – Virtual and Physical› On-line Surveys› Interviews with Community Visionaries› Visits to commercial partners› 2 ASPIRE Workshops› Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

› Electronic Publication of 4 Topic Reports

› Soliciting input & feedback from stakeholders

› FINAL ASPIRE REPORT – due end November 2012

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Published 2 September 2012http://www.terena.org/aspire

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Reports

› Executive Summary

› Where the R&E networking community is now

› Developments - Technical, Policy and Business

› Implications for Future

› Issues & Recommendations

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Recommendations on Clouds

› Users: consuming the public cloud: aggregating demand, vendor management and cloud brokering;

› producing community clouds: business cases;

› connecting the clouds, by means of collaboration infrastructures and federations;

› At EU level: legal issues; standardisation, and interoperability

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Recommendations on Data & Middleware

› Collaborate with user communities to fully understand networking requirements

› Define standardised datasets, metadata, middleware and applications

› Globally recognised AAI

› Create common process to certify and authenticate data.

› Common policies and procedures for data curation and preservation.

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Recommendations on Mobile Services

› Prepare for rapid increase in the demand for mobile connectivity (BYOD)

› Work with Commercial providers to explore innovative solutions for the integration of Wi-Fi and LTE

› Make use of mobile device sensors for innovative location dependent federated access to learning resources.

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Recommendations on Future Roles for NRENs

› Strategic body for R&E networking & single vision

› NRENs need diversified and sustainable models

› Strategic business planning and understanding of their user-base

› TERENA to develop a European user-requirements compendium

› NRENs should partner with commercial providers not compete.

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General Points

› Do NRENs really know their customers?› Getting to the end-user is really hard!

› Should NRENs focus on high-level service integration?› Brokerage (Business-to-Business) role › Forget about fixed line except for Class C users

› NRENs should partner with users and suppliers?› Do rules, CPs, AUPs etc. . . . hinder progress

› Lack of Agility in serving users› Particularly at the pan-European level

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Strategic Issues

› Strategy is discussed in many fora:

› Market intelligence sources include:

› Need a Single coherent strategy & voice:› Environmental Scanning› Central Intelligence Unit

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TERENA GA NREN-PC

TF-MSP

GN3 EXECE-IRG

DANTE

ASPIRE

EGI

GEG REPORT

GN3-INYT

NREN Compendium

Riding the Wave

NRENs

NREN Strategies

REGIONALLY

Reykjavik Group

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NREN Services &Customers

› One size does not fit all› Should Diversify our customer base› Should diversify out service offering› Need to market ourselves to new breed of CEO, CIO

› Network service is our single greatest asset› Multi-domain, cross-border› partner with the outside world› Our users are also the customers of the big

aggregators› Use our power› Partner, do not compete

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Authorisation & Authentication› AAI is a growing success story in “Club NREN”

› AAI is critical› We do not serve R&E community generally

› eduroam® › needs to be more pervasive› More hot-spots in more diverse places› Better user awareness and hence users› Cover the whole R&E community

› eduGAIN

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Status quois NOT an option

› NRENs need to move to new business models

› Deliver seamless ubiquitous mobile access on and off campus to users own device

› Take the lead in providing users with cloud best practice; choice and seamless integration

› Understand and meet the needs of large data users

› Act with one voice to: users; commerce and EU

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Have your say

Topic Reports:http://www.terena.org/aspire/

Email distribution list: aspire@terena.org

ASPIRE team: aspire-team@terena.org

ASPIRE report due end November 2012

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