A Practical Introduction to Advanced and High Speed
Networking
NATO Advanced Networking Workshop
Ljubljana, 15-19 September 2001
TERENA, the TERENA Technical Programme and
the NATO Science Programme
Valentino Cavalli, TERENA
Acknowldgement to John Dyer, TERENA
NATO Science Programme
• supports collaboration between scientists in Partner countries or Mediterranean Dialogue countries and scientists in NATO countries
• Science Fellowships allow scientists of Partner-countries to study in NATO countries, and vice-versa
The TERENA Membership
• the national research and education networks of 34 countries
• CERN, ESA, ECMWF
• associate members (regional organisations, industry)
The Mission of TERENA
• representation of the common interests of TERENA’s members• political, policy and industrial contacts• liaison with other continents
• the Technical Programme• developing, testing and promoting new networking
technologies, services and applications• workshops, task forces, projects
• knowledge transfer• conferences, workshops and seminars• assistance to less-advanced networks
• providing a “cradle” for new services
Special Interest Areas
• Lower Layers• Quality of Service• Video Conferencing & Streaming• Content Delivery, Indexing,
Searching• Middleware• (mobility)
SIA - Lower Layers
• TF-NGN•Forum for Information Exchange•Development and Testing
• Includes the piloting of the new services on the GEANT backbone. DANTE is the responsible GEANT partner.
TF-NGN
• Started Activities in November 2000
•Quality of Service Issues• AF, Premium IP, Over Provisioned, Delay &
Jitter . . .
• Improvement of Multicast•Optical Networking Issues•Network Monitoring• IPv6 deployment
European Testbed Activities
Activities NetworksIP Premium Service
TempGARR-G, PLAGE, Quaser(DE)-pt SEQUIN/NGN
MPLS Temp PLAGE
IPv6 Perm Own Network Infrastructure
Shaping Temp GARR-G or PLAGE
Monitoring Perm Unknown
LambdaUnspec
Unknown
SIA – VideoConf / Stream
• TF-STREAM closed June 2001• 3-4 Meetings per year• 20 active members 9 countries• Recommendations• Best Practice• Information Source
TF-STREAM Highlights
• Meetings carried out using video-conferencing facilities
• Investigating European Videoconference Service
• Loan Codecs for HiQ videoconferencing
• Web site information
SIA - Middleware
• Directories TF-LSD• Certification Authorities – PKI (ad-
hoc)• Security TF-CSIRT
• All these activities have direct relevance to the emerging GRID
TF-LSD Highlights
• 20 Active members• Experience with OpenLDAP• Need for EuroEDUPerson
ObjectClass• Internet2 EDUPerson, GRIDPerson
• Issues of pan-European PKI
TF-CSIRT
• NRN and Commercial Involvement• Sept 2000, • Jan 2001, • May-June 2001• Next Meeting, fall 2001
• Major Activities• Team Accreditation• Information Exchange• Development of Training Workshop
CSIRT Accreditation
• CERT-NL (The Netherlands) 1. January 2001.
• CSIRT.DK (Denmark) 20. April 2001.
• GARR-CERT (Italy) 1. January 2001.
• IRIS-CERT (Spain) 23. March 2001.
• JANET-CERT (United Kingdom) 1. January 2001.
• NORDUNET CERT (Scandinavia) 6. April 2001.
• SIEMENS-CERT (Germany) 23. March 2001.
• UniNett CERT (Norway) 1. April 2001.
Training Workshop
Legal Issues CERT-NL
Organisational Issues †
BTSS-CSIRT
Technical Issues † DFN-CERT
Marketing Issues JANET-CERT
Operational Issues † BTSS-CSIRT
† Indicates practical / workshop element
TF-CSIRT Activities
• Seminars•Best Practice•Experience and Demonstrations Tools
• Technical •Development of Incident Exchange XML•Security Entry in RIPE database
• Relations with the CEC
PKI BoF at TNC2001
• Attendance around 30• Wide Representation: Europe / US• Major Issue of Discussion:
• Bridge Model versus Hierarchical• EuroPKI (IT) Hierarchical• Federal (US) Bridge• GRID – undecided
• ACTIONS taken by Europe & US• STRONGER COORDINATION with US
GRID
• Monitoring GRID Activities• Presentation at the TERENA community• Building Cooperative Links with GRID-
FORUM• Areas of Overlap (Middleware)
• Security• Authentication• Directories, Certification, PKI• QoS
Minor Project Proposals
• Pilot IODEF implementation
• EuroEDUPerson Object Class Definition
• Certificate Retrieval in OpenLDAP
SCAMPI
• IST-2001Thematic Priority IV-2.2• Scalable Monitoring Platform for
the Internet• Active & Passive Measurement
100Gbps• Using affordable components• Initial filtering on NIC
SCAMPI
• TERENA, NL• IMEC, BE• FORTH, GR• LEIDEN University, NL• NETIKOS, IT• UNINETT, NO• CESNET, CZ• FORTHnet, GR• 4Plus, GR• SIEMENS, DE
• Total Cost 5.6 MEUR• EU 2.9 MEUR• 473 person/months• 30 months duration
• TERENA• 322 kEUR• 39 person/months• Web Server• Workshops
IPv6 Testbed Project6NET
• Phase 1 duration 3-6 months• Introduction of an IPv6 Infrastructure over IPv4
tunnels
• Phase 2 duration 3-6 months • Build a dedicated link layer for native IPv6
• Phase 3 duration 24 months• dual stack network
• Phase 4 - Exploitation
6NET Project Partners
• Management - CISCO• Infrastructure - DANTE• IPv4/v6 - SURFnet• Applications -
RENATER• Trial - UKERNA• NetMan -Switch• Dissemination -
TERENA
• ULB• SONY• IBM• NTT• NORDUNET• DFN• ACONET• GRNET• GARR• UCL• Uni Southampton• Uni Lancaster• Others (~30 total)
TEQUILA
• Quality of Service• TERENA’s role – Dissemination
•Workshop on SLS – Jan 2001, Amsterdam
•Focus SLS and Traffic Engineering•50 attendees
• http://www.ist-tequila.org/• Tequila workshop 2002
PortalContent Delivery, Indexing Searching
• Closed Workshop • Action Plan
•Approaches : Formal and ad-hoc
• Open Workshop• An implementation• Exploring links with Suppliers
GNRT
• Third Edition •Available on-line late 2001•Manuscript to publishers 11 June
• Future •Modular on-line approach•Continuous updating
International Lambda Workshop
• Amsterdam, 12-13 September 2001• Organised by TERENA in
collaboration with StarLight, CANARIE, SURFnet, Internet2
• Aimed at NRENs (interested in) running lambdas internationally, equipment providers, telcos, (research &) development institutes
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