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General Overview
SURFnet&GigaPort
Kees Neggers
Managing Director SURFnet
26 November 2002
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SURFnet
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Provides the Dutch National Research Network
Not for profit company
200 connected organisations, 500.000 users
Turnover (2002): 35M€
Infrastructure services:
– innovation paid for by government
– cost effective exploitation for higher
education and research
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SURFnet AUP
• Full service for Research and Higher Education
Institutes
• All others, including industry, test and
development activities for advanced
applications
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GigaPort objectives
• Accelerate innovation using NGI technologies for:
– Business
– Research and Education
– Healthcare
• Offer:
– State-of-the-art research network as testbed
– Know-how regarding NGI applications
– Access to innovative user group (students)
– Contacts to form consortia
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GigaPort funding 1999-2002 € 71 mln
Source
Destination
Ministry for Education,
Science and Culture
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Management
Applications
knowledge
generation
Access
projects
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Research
network
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International
connectivity
Ministry for Economic Affairs
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GigaPort Projects and organization
GigaPort-Management
and Steering Committee
GigaPort-Network
GigaPort-Applications
GigaPort Democenter
National research network
(SURFnet5)
Knowledge generation
Demonstrations
Access projects
Pilot projects
"Sector events"
International connectivity
Knowledge seminars
Ca. 50 FTEs
Ca. 70 FTEs
Ca. 40 FTEs
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Specifications of SURFnet5
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100 times as fast as SURFnet4
IP over optical transmission infrastructure
Based on 10G Lambda’s
Introduction of new IP features, e.g.
– Authentication and Classes of Service
– IPsec, Multicasting and IPv6
– MPLS, VPN and Traffic Engineering
• In partnership with industry
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Timepath SURFnet5
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Selection of partners
SURFnet5
• The choice of the partner(s) is the full
responsibility of SURFnet
• The partnership encompasses both innovation
and operation of SURFnet5
• European procurement procedure
• Negotiated procedure with publication of a
contract notice
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GigaPort Network in full operation
• Partners:
BT Ignite and Cisco Systems
• Backbone capacity:
> 30 x 10 Gbit/s
• Number of PoPs:
23 growing to 25
• Access capacity:
2 x 10 Gbit/s and lambdas
• Protocol:
IPv4 and IPv6
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The network for
New York
10 Gbit/s
Level3
Chicago
StarLight
10 Gbit/s Tyco
2.5 Gbit/s
Amsterdam
NetherLight
2.5 Gbit/s
SURFnet
DWDM
SURFnet
Dwingeloo
ASTRON/
JIVE
2.5 Gbit/s
SURFnet
CERN
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GigaPort Next Generation
Lambdas
DWDM
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SURFnet4 network
ATM
SURFnet4 project
1995
SURFnet5 network
1999
GigaPort
GigaPort
Next Generation
2003
2007
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Conclusion: essential elements
• High ambition level, use of leading edge
technology, not just copying the USA
• Broadbased commitment from several
Ministries and the Business Community
• Armslength Project Organisation with flying
start based on existing organisations
• Communicate: internationally, nationaly and
per stakeholders group
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Main challenges
•Address high costs of ‘last mile’ access to
network
•Reinforce role of universities and research
institutes as accelerators
•Accelerate rate of experimentation by
business
•Achieve shared sense of urgency
and opportunity
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[email protected]
www.surfnet.nl
www.gigaport.nl