Transcript Geant & the Future of Pan-European Networking

GÉANT and
The Future of Pan-European Networking
APAN, 4th July 2004
John Boland
CEO HEAnet
Member of DANTE Board of Directors
Outline of Presentation
• HEAnet as European NREN
• GN2 – Proposing the Next Generation of
European Networking
– Financial Background
– Capacity
– Wavelengths & Fibre options
• Major Joint Research Topics
• Application Example
Trends since 1991
1000000
10000
Traffic
Hosts
1000
Access b/w
External b/w
100
10
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1
1991
Ratio to 1991 value
100000
Belfast
GENERAL
INTERNET
Citywest
Dublin
Galway
INEX
Limerick
Cork
TEN-155
INTERNET 2
RESEARCH
COMMUNITIES
Belfast
GENERAL
INTERNET
JANET
London
GÉANT
Citywest
Dublin
Galway
INEX
Limerick
Cork
Frankfurt
INTERNET 2
RESEARCH
COMMUNITIES
GENERAL
INTERNET
Belfast
London
GÉANT
Citywest
Dublin
Galway
INEX
Limerick
Cork
Frankfurt
Traffic, IPv6
4
Terabytes/quarter
3.5
3
2.5
Total internal in
2
Total internal out
1.5
1
0.5
0
Q1/2003
Q2/2003
Q3/2003
Q4/2003
Basic Issues in GN2
Project
•
•
•
•
Financial Arrangements
Capacity
Wavelengths & Fibre Questions
Research Activities
Disruptive
emerging
Technology
GÉANT:
One element of a strategy
Experimental
Advanced
IPv6,
Optical,...
GRIDS
GÉANT
All
research
disciplines
Very
demanding
communities
Research on
networking
Financial Arrangements
• EC support for Geant successor
• Integrated Project
– Network Infrastructure
– Developmental Elements
• Funded by the NRENS and the EC
• Framework Programme 6 (FP6)
Extending the Range of
Connections
• Initiatives to improve connectivity with
other world regions –Principally Mediterranean, South
America and Asia Pacific
• Global Connectivity for joint network
experimentation
• E.g. Russia will be upgraded from
current 622Mbps to 2.5Gbps to
Moscow
EC & NREN funded
• 186 MEuro over 4 years
–Starting end 2004
• 93 Meuro available from EC
• 93 MEuro payable by NRENs
–assuming 50% co-funding
–Subscriptions are based on
Bandwidth contracted for
Example Subscription
• E.g. under Geant /GN-1 HEAnet pays
approx 900KEuro for dual 2.5Gbps ,
linked to London and Frankfurt
• Subscriptions range from ca. 1.5MEuro
to 4MEuro in non competitively
developed regions
• Currently Geant international 10Gbps
widely available in Western Europe for
under 2MEuro
• 50% Rebated by EC after Claims by
Dante
Relative Cost of Connectivity Compared with
Number of Suppliers
45
40
35
30
Re
lat 25
iv
e
co 20
st
Trend Line
15
10
Number of suppliers
5
0
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Some indications from Market
in Europe
• 40Gbps not widely commercially
available
• Cost of Interfaces for 40Gbps v. high
• Multiple 10Gbps may be more flexible
solution
• Would allow Hybrid Network
–Mix of IP and non-IP
–Terminate on Routers and Switches
Relative Cost of Switch Interfaces and Router Interfaces
300,000
250,000
List Price in €'s
200,000
Switch Interface Costs
150,000
Router Interface costs
100,000
50,000
0
155
622
2,500
Speed of Interface
10,000
Some exciting possibilities
• Tender shows Charges for 10Gbps
Lambdas are still reducing
• Additional Wavelengths will be even
cheaper
• Multiple , dual-homed 10Gbps
affordable in a number of locations
• 10Gbps Lambda possible building
block
• Provide switched GEs to high-end
users
Hybrid Infrastructure solution ?
• Enable to present to users,
combination of point-to-point and IP
services
• Interesting Technical Challenge !
Managed Wavelengths and
Dark Fibre
• Whether to invest in dark fibre IRUs
and transmission
equipment/management and
maintenance
• In terms of costs –May not be advantage in Western
Europe
–Less competitive markets : more
offers of dark fibre in Central and
Eastern Europe
BASIC PROCUREMENT
SEGMENTATION
• Major Pan-European Providers
• Dedicated Dark Fibre Offers
• Regional Providers
The Technical Challenges
•What is the Correct Architecture?
•Is there a Common View of Control and Resource
Allocation ?
•Can we Implement a Managed Environment
Across Multiple Networks?
•Is Interface Definition Well Resourced and
Understood?
Service Activities
• SA1 : Procurement
– Transmission capacity, PoP equip’t, maintenance & operations
• SA2 : Network Operations and Basic
Services
– Initial basic set of services, developed as technical prog.
• SA3 End-to-End Quality of Service
– Guaranteed for specific traffic & specialist projects
• SA4 Connecting Other World Regions
– Greater consolidation of global connectivity, co-operation
initiatives for seamless work with world regions
Networking Activities
• NA1 Management of GN2
• NA2 GN2 Dissemination Activities
• NA3 Support for Users & User
Consultancy
• NA4 NREN Development & Support
• NA5 Foresight Study
• NA6 Co-ordination of RTD Activities
Summary of each
Activity
Participan
Expected
effort
Expected
Budger
Requeste
EC
GRnet
2.1 manyrs
148,200
HEAnet
0.7
Hungarne Renater
0.0
2.3
0
......
………
74,100
0
.….
……..
• Deliverables:
• DJ1.1 Requirement Report
• DJ2.1 Framework design ………
• Milestones
• MJ1.2 First set of monitoring tools
• MJ1.3 Single domain implementation …..
Joint Research
Activities
• JRA1 Performance Measurement and
Management
• JRA2 Security
• JRA3 Bandwidth Reservation &
Allocation
• (Bandwidth on Demand)
• JRA4 Technology & Service Testing
• JRA5 Ubiquity (Mobility) and Roaming
Access to Services
MAJOR JOINT RESEARCH TOPICS
•
•
•
•
Security
Performance Monitoring
End-To-End Guarantees
Mobility
e-VLBI
•Exploits GEANT on a pan-European Basis
•Real time
•Throughput 512 Mbps -1+Gbps
•Better Quicker Science
•Look Back Further in Time
Support for European VLBI
Radio Telescope
Correlator
Data Flows
(RT or non-RT)
5-GHz Global VLBI image of an
FRII radio galaxy
–Picture provided courtesy of European VLBI Network
EVN Traffic Flows over GÉANT
SE
NORDUnet
JANET
UK
JIVE
PL
SURFnet
CZ
PSNC
BE
NL
DFN
DE2
DE1
FR
2.5G
10G
CH
AT
IT
GARR
256M
512M
1G

?

Edge of the Universe as seen by the
EVN
• VLBI image of quasar close
to the edge of the Universe, in
existence when the Universe
was ~7% of its present age
–Picture provided courtesy of
European VLBI Network
After GÉANT: What’s needed?
• Improved backbone infrastructure for European
research and education - building on GÉANT core
• Support integrated, multi-national research teams with
challenging requirements – e.g. GRIDs, eScience
• Integration of European services into a world-wide scope
• Support constantly growing requirements and rapidly
evolving technology:
spearhead development of next generation
communication technologies ahead of the market