Transcript Case study : The Norwegian Gigacampus project

The GigaCampus initiative
Collaborate campus networking in Norway
Olaf Schjelderup
& Vidar Faltinsen
UNINETT
May 23 2006
Norway in a nutshell
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4.5 mill inhabitants
Scattered population
High mountains, fjords
Coastline of 25 148 km
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~62% of the length of the
equator
Shortest distance south to
north: 1 752 km
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approx 3 days by car
If we rotate Norway upside
down Spitsbergen will almost
reach Africa.
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The research network
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1 – 2.5 Gb/s
Redundancy
15 + 5 year IRU
40 universities and university
collages
Tradition for support for colleges
> 200 institutions 250.000 users
Operations in Trondheim
Plans for 10G and lambdas
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SERENATA study:
Campus networks are the weakest link in the chain
Frustrated users
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Campus network
bottlenecks
NREN
The problems, more refined …
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Capacity; gigabit & fiber not reaching all designated
corners of the campus. Bottlenecks, VLAN-trombones,
duplex conflicts must systematically be removed.
Network design must be reconsidered.
Functionality; ipv6, multicast, official IP-adresses,
mobility etc. available only on parts of the campus
network.
Lack of efficient management tools covering all
networking and services areas.
Innovation by use of NRENs often stops somewhere in
the campus organization.
The unreleased potential for cost-efficiency pancampus wise.
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Strategic issues
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The innovation rationale behind the NRENs must reach
the projects and the relevant end-users
A lot of intellectual resources at different campuses are
still to be brought together – we must identify, harvest
and feed the creative experts out there.
A lot of good development projects needs support and to
be de-institutionalized to obtain large-scale-effects.
NREN-efforts on campus may be a brigde to reach and
encourage to fruitful projects with a networking
imperative.
A lot of unused potential for innovation out there and a lot
of double work … let’s organize and harvest synergies!
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In Norway; The GigaCampus initiative
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Government funding, ~4M Euro
 Based on a GigaCampus idea document
 … we promised 4 times payback …
Four year programme 2006 – 2009
 Predecessor after a similar programme
 Early start since long tradition in Norway for
cooperation in the R&E ICT community
Our mission:
 Provide and coordinate top international-level
campus IT-infrastructures that will promote
innovation, cooperation and productive
research and education.
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The GigaCampus engine
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GigaCampus – seven areas of focus
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”UNINETT engineering task force”
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Working groups in each area of focus
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Discuss
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Common best practice documents
How-to’s
Open participation
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the further development in campus networking – coming
challenges
Produce
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Gather the best there is of engineers at our universities!
New areas may develop
Regular meetings
Mailinglists
Wiki
Participation in international working groups
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Common call for tender
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Develop common purchase agreements
for the national R&E community
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Major savings in overall cost
Major savings in overall spent time on tender
processes
Many contracts
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Network equipment (routers, switches, wireless)
Telephony
DSL
PCs and servers
Application software
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GigaCampus @ work
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Touring the country – out in the field!
Participants from UNINETT and from
major universities and university collages
Collaboration with local IT staff on site
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Network design and implementation
Focus on the physical infrastructure
Focus on security
Meet the people, discuss ideas and
possibillities.
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Focus area #1
Physical reliability
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Fibre projects for the MANs
Network cabling
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Power and grounding
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cat3... multimode...
UPS, diesel power
generators
Cooling / ventilation
Fire detection
Physical security
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Focus area #2
High capacity networking
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Upgrade the campus networks step by step
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Gigabit to more and more end users
Scale the campus backbones
Focus on fault tolerance
End-to-end multicast
IPv6 on campus!
Lambdas on campus!
2009: Gigabit capacity for the majority of users
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Focus area #3
Mobility
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Radio planning
workshops
Wireless rollout
workshops
Focus on secure wireless
networks
Address roaming
challenges
Support eduroam
2009: Wireless access everywere – on all campuses
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Focus area #4
Person-to-person
communication
Develop a SIP architecture
that supports IP telephony,
video conferencing,
direct messaging and more.
Promote a push from the
telephony paradigm to the
multimedia paradigm. There are
also security issues here …
2009: A common platform for IP-based
multimedia communication
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Focus area #5
Security
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Develop and implement
security policies
Establish IRTs on all
campuses
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Thanks to TF-CSIRT TRANSITS!
Discuss and elaborate
security architecture
Develop monitoring and
operational security tools
The number of security incidents are
growing exponentially
2009: Implemented security policies and
established IRTs on all universities
Focus area #6
Service management
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Discuss best practices for operations
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We need to operate 24x7x365
Encourage and support development of
useful tools
Provide a GigaCampus tool box
for all campus networks
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Train personel in how
to use the tools!
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2009: Advanced tools and solutions for proactive
operations IN USE on all campuses
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Focus area #6
” We are convinced that most campuses do not
take the task of measuring and understanding
their traffic flows sufficiently seriously ”
- SERENATE, December 2003
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Focus area #6
NAV – Network Administration Visualized
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Network management
system developed by
NTNU and UNINETT
since 1999.
Open source
More information on
http://metanav.ntnu.no
Is included on the
GigaCampus toolbox.
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Focus area #6
NAV – key features
device
center
network
explorer
traffic
map
cricket
report
generator
machine
tracker
delay /
loss
tabular
reports
NAVdb
status
monitor
RRD
service
monitor
threshold
monitor
www
external
systems
event and alert engine
email
SMS
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Autodetect network topology (L3, L2, per vlan)
Network maps
Machine tracker / L2 traceroute
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Focus area #6
Stager
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Developed at UNINETT since 2002.
Open source - http://software.uninett.no
Generic tool for storage, aggregation and
presentation of network statistics
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Netflow analysis
Round trip and packet loss
Generic SNMP data gathering
Is included on the
GigaCampus toolbox
Giga
Campus
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Focus area #6
Stager screen shot [1]
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Focus area #6
Stager screen shot [2]
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Focus area #7
End-to-end quality
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Measuring beacons on all campuses
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• Througput
• Packet delay and loss
• Session intensity
• Available capacity
• Traffic behaviour
Focus area #7
MPING
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NDT
Focus area #7
UNINETT participate in
the PerfSONAR effort
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Focus area #7
GigaCampus measuring beacons
contributes to the LOBSTER project
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A network of passive
Internet traffic monitors
 Special hardware
 MAPI software
Cooperation across
borders
 Exhange
information and
observations
 Correlate results
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GigaCampus – in summary
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Conclusion: Bring the NREN visions to the network edges!
Question: Should this model include more upward ”layers”?
http://www.gigacampus.no
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