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The GigaCampus initiative
Collaborate campus networking in Norway
Vidar Faltinsen
UNINETT
May 18 2006
Norway in a nutshell
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4.5 mill inhabitants
Scattered population
High mountains, fjords
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 be
south of Catania !
Coastline of 25 148 km
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~62% of the length of the
equator
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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
> 200 institutions
250.000 users
Operations in
Trondheim
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Campus networks are now the weakest link
Frustrated users
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Campus network
bottlenecks
UNINETT
The GigaCampus initiative
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Government funding
Four year programme 2006 – 2009
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Predecessor after a simular programme
Long tradition in Norway for cooperation
in the R&E IT community
Our mission:
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Provide and coordinate top internationallevel 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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Coordinated 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
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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
challanges
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
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 tools
The number of security incidents are
growing exponentially
2009: Implemented security policies and
established IRTs on all universities
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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
usefull tools
Provide a GigaCampus tool box
for all campus networks
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Train personel in how
to use the tools!
Giga
Campus
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
Cooporation across
boarders
 Exhange
information and
obervations
 Correlate results
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GigaCampus – in summary
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http://www.gigacampus.no
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