Transcript the TERENA Technical Programme

The TERENA
Technical
Programme
Claudio Allocchio
VP Technical Programme
TERENA GA - Zagreb May 22-23 2003
TERENA GA - Zagreb May 22-23 2003
Claudio Allocchio - VP Technical Programme
The Terms of Reference (1)
The scope of the TERENA Technical Programme is:
• To supports joint European work in developing,
evaluating, testing, integrating and promoting new
networking, middleware and application technologies.
• To bring together technical specialists from TERENA
member organisations and the wider European
research networking community.
• To organise topical workshops and ad-hoc meetings
to exchange experiences and information, and to plan
for joint activities.
• To liaises with similar activities in other continents.
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The Terms of Reference (2)
Inside the Technical Programme we have the
• Technical Advisory Council,
• TERENA Technical Committee,
• a number of Special Interest Areas,
• Task Forces,
• Projects.
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Technical Advisory Council
The TAC consists of representatives of the
TERENA member organisations (= the
senior technical managers of those
organisations), the Task Force leaders,
the VP Technical Programme, the Chief
Technical Officer and the Secretary
General.
The TAC is a main instrument for the
TERENA member organisations to steer
the direction of the technical work
under the TERENA umbrella.
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Technical Advisory Council
The TAC meets at least once a year to:
• Review the progress of the Technical
Programme
• Advise on the future direction of the
Technical Programme
• Propose new initiatives
• Exchange information about networking
activities
• Propose TTC members
At least once every two years, the TAC also reviews the
Special Interest Areas (done on in Limerick, June
2002, discussed on Monday May 19th 2003)
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TERENA Technical Committee
The TTC co-ordinates and supervises the
Technical Programme. It has the
functions to:
• Create and dissolve Task Forces
• Consider project proposals and
recommend to the TEC whether they
should be approved as TERENA projects
and, if applicable, whether they should
receive TERENA funding
• Assess the progress of Task Forces and
projects
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Special Interest Areas
The TEC may create a maximum
of six Special Interest Areas,
usually based on the
recommendation of the TAC. The
Special Interest Areas
• determine the focus of the TERENA
Technical Programme
• offer a forum for discussion and
exchange of information
• provide a platform for creating new
Task Forces and projects
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Task Forces and Projects
A Task Force is a focused group with a specific
charter, which defines its objectives, its lifetime
and the deliverables that the group will produce
A Minor Project is a limited activity that produces
specific deliverables within a few months and that
is (partially) funded directly from TERENA’s own
resources
A Major Project is a larger activity covering a longer
period. Major projects are funded by additional
contributions from TERENA member organisations
and possibly other sources
An External Project is an activity in which TERENA
staff members themselves take an active part and
that is co-funded by third parties such as the EU
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Lower Layers
• TF-NGN
• EC Projects:
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6NET
6LINK
SCAMPI
SEEREN
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TF-NGN (1)
• TF-NGN investigates the suitability of advanced
networking technologies for future implementation in
research networks in Europe. The work includes the
piloting of new services on GÉANT.
• Chair: Roberto Sabatino, DANTE
• Large number of activity areas (among others):
– intra/inter-domain Network Monitoring Infrastructure
including the definition and organisation of a Performance
Enhancement Response Team (PERT)
– Optical networking
– Multicast
– IPv6 deployment
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TF-NGN (2)
• Optical Networking activities led by Victor Reijs, HEANet
• Looking for an international testbed, creation of the
ASTON group and FP6 Expression of Interest:
– Transport at 40+ Gbit/s
– Work on Bandwidth on Demand
– 10GE over long distance
• Regular updates on national developments and
experience with optical equipment and dark fibre
• Provide significant contribution to SERENATE study on
equipment for Next Generation Networking
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6NET
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Very large FP5 project for a large-scale international IPv6 testbed.
January 2002 – December 2004. Total estimated budget 17 million
euro.
Led by Cisco Systems, about 30 participants including many NRENs
To build a native IPv6-based network with both static and mobile
components in order to gain experience of IPv6 deployment and
migration from existing IPv4-based networks. To test a variety of new
IPv6 services and applications, as well as interoperability with legacy
applications
TERENA’s role:
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Leading the workpackage on dissemination and exploitation of results
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Maintaining the 6NET website (IPv6 enabled): http://www.6net.org
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Organising workshops (Joint 6NET-Euro6IX workshop, Limerick 5
June 2002, next one 21 May 2003 in Zagreb)
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6LINK
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Small accompanying measure in FP5 to support the IPv6 cluster
activities. March 2002 – February 2005. Total estimated budget 1
million euro.
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The project is led by BT Exact, other partners are Telscom, T-Nova,
University of Southampton, Consulintel, University College London,
Polytechnical University of Madrid, Motorola, DANTE, TERENA,
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
TERENA’s role:
• Contribution to IPv6 Cluster meeting, last one at Madrid Global IPv6
Summit, May 2003
http://www.6link.org
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SCAMPI (1)
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To develop and test a scalable monitoring platform for the Internet, to
enable, accelerate and promote the development of new measurement
tools for improving network services and networking research in Europe
and beyond (network measurement at 10+ Gb/s)
• April 2002 – September 2004. Total estimated budget 5.5 million euro.
• led by TERENA, other participants are: IMEC, FORTH, Leiden
University, Netikos, UNINETT, CESNET, FORTHNET, 4PLUS, Siemens
• Project review held in April 2003
TERENA’s role:
• Leading the workpackage on project management and dissemination
• Maintaining the SCAMPI website: http://www.ist-scampi.org
• Organising workshops and BoFs (1st Workshop was held in Amsterdam
in January 2003, a BoF was held on May 21st 2003 in Zagreb)
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SCAMPI (2)
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Development of a standard Monitoring API (MAPI).
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define a set of monitoring calls/primitives that will be collectively called as
MAPI.
Monitoring applications using this MAPI will be able to run on top of any
monitoring environment without needing to be rewritten.
The MAPI will enable communication of specific monitoring
requirements to the underlying network monitoring system.
Scalability through special purpose hardware and parallelism.
The SCAMPI system is composed of a regular PC coupled with a
Hardware Monitor connected to the system's I/O (e.g. PCI) bus.
Different instantiations will require different hardware monitors:
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Low-end monitoring systems will probably use a regular network interface.
High-end systems may employ a special-purpose adaptor, that has the
computing capacity to not only capture packets, but also to process them and
perform some simple (but fast) monitoring functionalities.
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SEEREN (1)
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Accompanying Measure to support South-Eastern European
Research & Education Networking. December 2002 – June
2004. Total estimated budget about 1.3 million euro.
• GRNET (Co-ordinator), HUNGARNET, RoEduNet, DANTE,
TERENA; other participants: NRENs of Bulgaria, Albania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYROM, Serbia-Montenegro
• Network connectivity procurement ongoing. PC meeting in
Zagreb on 19 May 2003.
TERENA`s role:
• Contribute to analyse technical & operational requirements
• Contribute to dissemination activities, brochures, workshops,
liaisons
http://www.seeren.org
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SEEREN (2)
• NATO Advanced Networking Workshop: “Policy
issues for NRENs in South East Europe”
– 7-9 September 2003 in Varna, Bulgaria.
– Targets NRENs, Telcos, Governments and
funding bodies
• In collaboration with SEEREN and CEENET.
• Detailed programme and speakers being
discussed now.
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Videoconferencing and
streaming
• TF-NETCAST
• IP Telephony Cookbook
H.323 Videoconferencing:
Service Coordinator Training, 18 May 2003 in Zagreb
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TF-NETCAST
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Prepare the creation of a portal for live-streaming announcements and
to investigate the possible extension of the portal to an academic
channel for live-streams and video-on-demand.
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Conduct a survey of the state of national efforts in producing and delivering
streaming-media content in academia in European countries, and of the
(users') needs for an international effort in this area;
Create an announcements portal, by developing metadata, portal software,
policies etc. into a working prototype of an announcements portal;
Promote the production of high-quality content;
Study the feasibility of a project for setting up a live-streaming infrastructure;
Develop a common metadata model and to study the feasibility of setting up
a video-on-demand portal;
Propose a model for an academic netcasting channel.
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IP Telephony Cookbook (1)
Main partners:
• University of Pisa, TZI University of Bremen, FhG Fokus
Project contributors:
• CESNET, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, GRNET,
SURFnet
Project size:
• 11 months duration with a total of 11 person-months.
• 51,000 Eur funding from TERENA and TERENA member
organisations.
• It is finally on its way !
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IP Telephony Cookbook (2)
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Overview of available technologies and trends for the near future
Models/scenarios for deploying IP telephony and building a IP
Telephony infrastructure
Guidelines on:
– IP Telephony protocols and basic services set up
– how to set-up advanced services
– how to connect an IP Telephony island to a wider “dialing plan”
Experiences on interoperability of IP Telephony equipment
Information about IP telephony projects in Europe
Regulatory and legal aspects
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Middleware
• TF-CSIRT
• Projects and services
– Trusted Introducer Service
– TRANSITS project
– PAPI/Permis integration
• Projects on Directories
– Adding certificates to OpenLDAP
– Directory Schema Registry
• TF-AACE
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TF-CSIRT
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TF-CSIRT provides a platform for information exchange and
collaboration between Computer Security Incident Response
Teams from NRENs, industry and government. Very active Task
Force with a large membership. Some 30 CSIRTs actively
participate, meetings have some 50 attendees. Latest meeting
held in Zagreb on 23-24 January 2003, next one in Warsaw 2930 May 2003 .
The task force has established a working group on best-currentpractice in CSIRTs to assist in the establishment of new CSIRTs
Clearinghouse for incident handling tools http://chiht.dfn-cert.de
Liaise on insertion of an IRT object in the RIPE database.
Provides input to IETF inch working group on standardisation of
Incident Object Description and Exchange Format (IODEF)
ECSIRT.net - Pilot proget to test IODEF on the field
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Trusted introducers
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TI provides a form of accreditation of CSIRTs, thereby assisting
the development of a ‘Web of Trust’. Currently 31 CSIRTs
accredited (“level 2” teams) and 89 listed (known teams, “level
0”).
Started as a pilot project The Trusted Introducer became a
permanent service starting from 1 September 2002, with
TERENA providing clearinghouse function.
A meeting of accredited CSIRTs was organised in Syros,
Greece on 26 September 2002 .
http://www.ti.terena.nl/
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TRANSITS project
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FP5 project to provide TRAining of Network Security Incident
Teams Staff. Runs for three years from 1 July 2002.
Develops and maintain course materials to train staff members
of new CSIRTs and new staff members of existing CSIRTs. EU
funding covers logistics costs, expenses of teachers and
includes small budget to support participants from “poor”
countries.
Project participants are TERENA and UKERNA
Next scheduled Training Course:
• Warsaw, Poland from 27-28 May 2003
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PAPI/Permis Integration
Proposal
University of Salford (UK), RedIris (ES), University of Malaga (ES)
To inegrate PAPI (a WEB based communication infrastructure to
carry user's authentication and authorisation credentials from
home server to remote site) and Permis (a Policy driven
authorisation infrastructure based on X.509 certificates);
Permis will take the access control decisions and the resources
site, and PAPI will carry the user's credentials among different
sites.
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Projects on Directories
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Several projects where launched in the context of TF-LSD, the
task force investigating the usability of LDAPv3 as a base for a
wide range of Internet services. TF-LSD ended in December
2003, results are available on the TERENA web site.
Project “Adding Certificate Retrieval to OpenLDAP”
• Carried out by the University of Salford, from September 2001
and approaching now final deliverables and results
Project “Directory Schema Registry”
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Carried out by DAASI International on 1 August 2002, runs until
summer 2003
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Open LDAP project
• Recommendations of IETF PKIX working group on to
overcome limitations of LDAPv3 when using PKI
• OpenLDAP implementation:
– Retrieve attribute values
– Certificate matching rules
• LDAP client/s to demonstrate functionality and usability
• Design of an LDAP X.509 Parsing Server (XPS).
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Directory Schema project
• A directory Schema is the data model
defining object classes, attribute types,
syntax and matching rules.
• Setting up a LDAP Schema registry:
– Search/web browsing interface
– MIME-types based interface for submission
of new schemas
– Business model for service sustainability
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TF-AACE
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Coordinates the deployment of Authentication, Authorisation and other
security services among European NRENs and liaise with Internet2
Middleware initiative and Global Grid Forum.
• Meeting in Stockholm in November 2002, preceded by a TF-AACE
workshop and followed by the Nordic GNOMIS workshop.
• Last meeting 18 May 2003 in Zagreb.
Work items include:
• Defining interoperability requirements for European academic PKIs,
including guidelines for PKI deployment at NRENs, online questionnaire
• Defining common requirements for inter-institutional authentication and
authorisation, providing a framework for harmonising NREN initiatives
• Investigate existing initiatives on common identity on the Internet (e.g.
Microsoft Passport, Liberty Alliance, etc.)
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Mobility
• TF-Mobility
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TF-Mobility
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Define and test an inter-NREN roaming architecture, evaluate
mobile equipment and software as well as next generation
mobile technology for handovers and roaming.
• Last Meeting 18 May 2003 in Zagreb.
Work items include:
• Glossary of terms
• Study available AuthN & AuthZ techniques
– Web-based, RADIUS+802.1x, VPNs
• Study support of next generation equipment for MobileIP (v4
and v6)
• Set up a testbed for inter-NREN AuthN & AuthZ
• Liaise with TF-AACE and TF-NGN
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GRID
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TERENA disseminates information to bridge the GRID and the
European research networking community
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Sessions on GRID at TNC2002 and TNC2003
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TERENA staff closely following developments, e.g. in Global
Grid Forum and events (iGRID 2002), exchanging information
and knowledge
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Participate in proposed FP6 GRID initiative (EGEE) as one of
the two information dissemination major partners
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Knowledge transfer
• GNRT: Guide to Network Resource Tools
• COM-REN: the NREN Compendium
• TERENA Networking Conference
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GNRT
• 3rd Edition available on the web:
http://www.terena.nl/gnrt
• 4th Edition now in final assembly phase, includes sections
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Searching for information
Web Technology
Web publishing
Protecting users and information
Collaboration and sharing information
VoIP
Network tools for user
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FP6 New Projects
• EGEE
– TERENA project partner for Dissemination
– Proposal submitted in early May 2003
• Optical Networking
– TERENA proposed as partner for Dissemination
– Proposals due for September 2003
– Informal contacts with GARDEN, GRANDE, …
• GEANT next generation
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– TERENA as partner in the project (for Dissemination?
For other technical activities?)
– Proposal due for September 2003
Other FP6 projects:
– 6NEXUS (Network of Excellence for IPv6) (dissemination
and workshops)
– MOME (Monitoring and Measurement cluster) (project
coordinator)
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EGEE (1)
• The EGEE "vision"
To integrate current national, regional and thematic
Grid efforts, in order to create a seamless
European Grid Infrastructure for the support of
the European Research Area
• The EGEE "mission"
– To deliver production level Grid services
– To carry out a professional Grid Middleware reengineering
– To ensure an outreach and training effort which
can proactively market Grid Services to new
research communities in Academia and Industry
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EGEE (2)
• Participants in the proposal
– Coordinated by CERN
– ~70 organisations, including TERENA,
DANTE, NRENs and many academic and
research organisations
– Contributions by another ~30
organisations
• Internal funding model for the project:
– 50% of resources from the project
– 50% of resources from the participants
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EGEE (3)
TERENA, Dissemination (NA2) coordinator, (with
NeSC,UK, support), with main tasks as:
• Provide a lively, up to date and technically informative
WEB site (entry point to EGEE)
• Provide Mailing Lists and collaborative WEB tools
• Organisation of Project conferences (twice a year) and
workshops/showcases
• Coordinate EGEE presentations, publications,…
• Internal liaison between TERENA TF and project
activities and Grid activities
• Visits and outreach to industrial sites
• Preparation of publications and newsletters
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EGEE (4)
• The TEC, following last GA discussion and
advice, believes it is a strategic move to
belong to a project such as EGEE:
– To help coordinating between Grid and NRENs
communities (coordination and cross dissemination),
with positive effects also on Campus issues
– To create synergy for all other possible FP6 projects
where TERENA is being contacted as dissemination
partner
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EGEE (5)
• It is still very difficult to assess, at this time,
the actual financial effect of the total of
proposed FP6 projects where TERENA could
be involved;
• all the other projects which contacted TERENA
propose a 100% funded model for TERENA
activities;
• we cannot have real figures for these projects
before September 2003;
• The EGEE project proposal was submitted on
May 6th 2003;
• if accepted, contract signing in October 2003;
• activities are likely to start in January 2004.
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EGEE (6)
• The TEC has carefully evaluated the finacial
aspects of the EGEE proposal:
– the resources required for the TERENA activities are
estimated in the project as 4 FTEs
– the project will pay for 2 FTEs, 400 Keur for 2 years
(TERENA contributes the other 2 FTEs - our 50%
contribution which is included in our budget)
– the project will pay an additional 50 Keur for other
TERENA specific costs
– the costs for the 4 EGEE conferences, organised by
TERENA, will be met by an attendance fee
Total income for 2 years: 450 Keur
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EGEE (7)
Based on rough "pessimistic" estimated
actual costs for TERENA
FINAL BALANCE: -90-140 Keur for 2
years, without any synergy with other
projects and activities
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EGEE (8)
Conclusions:
• We are using TERENA's reserves to
temporarily cover some risk over the next two
years
• We believe that this risk will be minimised if we
also become involved in similar 100% funded
activities for other FP6 projects, and other
synergies
• The TEC believes in October the whole picture
will be clear enough for real final figures
• The TEC is NOT considering to ask for an
increase of membership fees for this.
• It is the GA decision to maintain the reserves at an
adequate level in case some forecast prove false
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Optical Networking (1)
• ASTON white paper
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Optical infrastructure
Bandwidth on demand
40+ Gbit/s transmission capacity
Simpler (than SDH) data link transport
Routing model
Network monitoring and management
multi-domain multi vendor interoperability
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Optical Networking (2)
• GARDEN project proposal
– Discussion led by CISCO
– TF-NGN expertise contribution
– TERENA as disseminator
• GRANDE project proposal
– Discussion led by T-Systems (and other
vendors)
– TF-NGN expertise contribution
– TERENA as disseminator
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GÈANT next generation
• GÈANT next phase
– Proposal submitted by NRENs
– TERENA and DANTE as proposal
participants
– TERENA role as disseminating partner?
– TERENA to contribute other work items,
including TFs activities
– TERENA and DANTE as members of the
NRENs Consortium
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Other FP6 Projects
• 6NEXUS (Network of Excellence for IPv6)
– TERENA contacted as dissemination partner and
workshop organiser
• MOME (Monitoring and Measurement
cluster)
– TERENA contacted as projec coordinator
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Questions?
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