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Open Calls (Past, Present & Future)
and the new world order for E-Infrastructures
Michael Enrico
Technical/JRA Coordinator
CTO, GÉANT
Annabel Grant
Open Call Coordinator
Senior Business Development Officer, GÉANT
EGI User Forum, Bari
10th November 2015
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Agenda
• The briefest of overviews of the E-Infrastructure known as GÉANT – Michael
• An Overview of the (last) GÉANT Open Call (what?, why?, how?, lessons learned, impact) – Annabel
• A quick look at some of the Open Call Projects – Michael
• New EC focus for e-infras: what does this mean in practice? – Annabel
• Questions & Answers – Panel discussion
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GÉANT: Europe’s 500Gbps Network
And an e-Infrastructure for Horizon 2020
• Latest transmission and switching technology
• Routers with 100Gbps capability
• Optical transmission platform designed to provide 500Gbps super-channels
• 12,000km of dark fibre
• Over 100,000km of leased capacity (including transatlantic connections)
• 28 main sites covering European footprint
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Together with Europe’s NRENs, GÉANT
connects 50M users in 10,000 European
institutions
GÉANT connects 65 countries outside of
Europe, reaching all continents through
international partners
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The Context of our last Open Call
The GÉANT Innovation Programme (RTD focussed)
JRA1: Network
Architectures for Horizon
2020
SA1: Core Backbone Services
JRA2: Technology Testing
for Specific Service
Applications
SA3: Network Service Delivery
JRA3: Identity & Trust
Services for GÉANT
Services
SA5: Application Services
Testbeds:
GOFF,
GTS (TaaS)
NA1:
Management
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SA2: Testbeds as a Service
SA4: Network Support Services
GÉANT
Call
SA7: Support toOpen
Clouds
SA6: Service Management and Operation
Engagement with
Engagement with Open
Standards
Bodies
SourceNA4:
Dev Communities
NA2: Comms
&
NA3: Status & Trends
Int & Business
Promotion
Dev
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So what is an “Open Call”?
• method for openly selecting new partners to work with GÉANT following strict EC rules
• €3.3m ($3.7m) of GÉANT R&D budget “ring fenced” for Open Call programme
• 21 projects of with 18 month duration (October 2013-March 2015)
• On average 2-4 partners per project working together
• 37 beneficiaries most universities/RI but also commercial organisations
• Average EC contribution per project €100-€350k
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Why did we do it?
Two good reasons (there are many more…)
Innovation keeps GÉANT
products/services world class
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Leveraging expertise outside
“traditional” GÉANT box
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What did the programme look like? – “Users”/”Suppliers of R&D expertise”
and how did it really work?
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What did we learn?
1. integrating / “hand holding” projects = better outcomes
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What did we learn?
2. new partners (including SMEs) = tangible results/sustained impact for GÉANT
“Future development of CoCo may
result in new services GEANT could offer
to its community or become a platform
by which others could offer this
service”.
“This WoT4LoA work has significant
promise to reduce the challenge of gaining
high quality identity information without
having to boil the ocean!”
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Examples of Projects
DREAMER (from SDN area)
IP Routing Daemon
• DREAMER = Distributed REsilient sdn Architecture MEeting carrier
grade Requirements
(Quagga)
IP Forwarding Engine – IP FE
• Partners: CNIT, CREATE-NET, GARR
(Linux networking)
• OF/SDN CP ≡ IP/MPLS CP
(with CG resiliency & fault mgmt)
IP
SDN
• Scientific & experimental dimensions
Local
Management
Entity (LME)
Virtual ports
OF Capable Switch - OFCS
(Open vSwitch)
Physical
interfaces
• Data plane software – developed OSHI (open source hybrid IP/SDN
networking)
• Services considered – IP P2P VLL & Layer2 PW
• Control plane – exploited & contributed to ONOS controller (ICONA)
• Developed experimental tools – Mantoo (mgmt tools) which include a
web front-end called Topology 3D
• Continuing to use Testbed (GTS)
Demo at ONS 2015
• Results being actively used in GN4-1 JRA2
GTS played a key role in that
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Examples of Projects
SENSE (from TRUST & ID area)
• SENSE = Secure Enterprise Networks finally Simple and Easy
• Partners: PSNC & RESTENA
• Greatly improve enterprise WIFI authentication landscape
• Make EAP protocol supplicants more secure, user friendly & feature
rich
• Multi-platform config file format for EAP parameters – 2 versions of an
IETF Internet draft (XML & Yang)
• Defined metrics for assessment of supplicants
• EAPlab - toolkit including conformance testing
• Written & published 2 supplicants – Android & Linux
• Latest supplicant (post SENSE, but same people) is for OS X El Capitan
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Examples of Projects
ICOF (from Optical Projects area)
• ICOF= International Clock Comparisons via
Optical Fibre
• Partners: Physikalisch-Technische
Bundesnastalt (PTB); Observatoire de Paris
(LNE-SYRTE); National Physical Laboratory
(NPL)
• About using long haul telecommunications
fibre to support metrological comparisons
of very accurate “atomic clocks”
• Requires specialist bi-directional amplifiers
that can correct phase noise (e.g. induced
by temperature variations)
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The London-Paris Link
Fibre provided by European research and
education network GÉANT
Pair of dark fibres
~800 km
~200 dB loss
9 commercial bi-directional EDFAs
2 high-gain Brillouin amplifiers (PTB)
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In summary:
The GÉANT Open Call programme…
added significant value
to the GÉANT Community
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delivers lasting benefits…from more than 75% of the work
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EC Work Programme 16/17 – a clear focus…..
• Integration and consolidation of SMEs including service porfolios
• Operational services, operational services, operational services
• Opening up e-infras to “new markets”
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EC Work Programme 16/17 – A new landscape
• EC focus is on combined and integrated e-infrastructures
• What will this mean in practice??
• GEANT, EGI , PRACE, EUDAT, OpenAIRE + others will work together more
often with joint priorities and goals for some projects (e.g. Open Call
programme)
• All e-infrastructures will sign “collaboration” agreements with each other
setting out what work will be done together
• There will be an integration of service catalogues and new service sets i.e. einfrastructure “portfolio” of services for the end-user
• More and more that end-user ‘may’ be commercial SMEs
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EC Work Programme 16/17 – TRL6 and above
• EC focus is on Operational services
• What will this mean in practice for new products/services?
• EC have now split Innovation and production services
• Focus must now be primarily on Operational services >=TRL 6
• Blue sky research and JRA style research is funded elsewhere
• Earlier stage innovation belongs in other parts of the work programme
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EC Assessment - Technical Readiness Levels
Horizon 2020 TRL definitions
• A way to formally assess the status of
products
• Provides a common understanding of
technology status
• Assists Risk management
• Used to make decisions concerning
technology funding
• Used to make decisions concerning
transition of technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level
#Brief_history_of_Technology_Readiness_Levels
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• TRL 9 –actual system proven in operational
environment
• TRL 8 –system complete and qualified
• TRL 7 –system prototype demonstration in operational
environment
• TRL 6 –technology demonstrated in relevant
environment
• TRL 5 –technology validated in relevant environment
(industrially relevant environment in the case of key
enabling technologies)
• TRL 4 –technology validated in lab
• TRL 3 –experimental proof of concept
• TRL 2 –technology concept formulated
• TRL 1 –basic principles observed
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What does this all mean for a joint e-infra “Open Call” programme??
2014/15
2016/17
Funding
€3.3m EC funding for GEANT (€4.2m
programme in total)
€6m EC funding for all e-infras
Focus
All
Primarily SMEs and Industry
Average project size
€100-350k per project
€60k - €150k per beneficiary
Type of work
Early or late stage (many were TRL 0-6)
Strictly TRL6 and above only
Type of project
- Using e-infrastructure resources e.g. testbeds
- Providing services to e-infrastructures
SMEs as:
- New users of e-infra
- Service providers for e-infra
- Innovation generators for e-infras
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Looking forward
• working with other e-infras much more closely and collaboratively on shared
programmes and projects
• working with innovation clusters for the first time
• “innovating with SMEs”/working with more SMEs:
• Enabling them to benefit from GEANT’s network and services
• Using SME skills to improve and create entirely new “user driven” GEANT
products/services
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Thank you
Questions and Answers
{michael.enrico, annabel.grant}@geant.org
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This work is part of a project that has applied for funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 691567 (GN4-1).
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