7th generation of pan-European research network federated infrastructure: a 20 year success story

7th generation of pan-European research network federated infrastructure: A 20 year success story

• 7th generation of pan-European research network federated infrastructure: A 20 year success story

• EuropaNET  TEN34  TEN155  GÉANT (GN2  GN3)

• Connects 36 European countries through 32 NREN partners

• Over 3,500 Research & Education (R&E) campuses across Europe
• Over 30 million users

• Total GÉANT Cost: 40 M€/year (shared equally by the EC & NRENs)

• Provides extensive international connectivity to other world regions

• Governance by NREN PC, Exec

• Project co-ordination by DANTE via the PMT (Project Management Team) complemented by TERENA and involving > 400 NREN staff

2000-2004: GEA project

• 2000-2004: GEA project

• GÉANT network
• 10 Gigabit/sec IP

• 2004-2009: GN2 project

• GÉANT2 network
• Dark fiber core
• “Hybrid” Packet - Circuit Services
• Joint Research Activities
• Transition to Service

• 2009-2013: GN3 project

• GÉANT network
• End-to-End Multi Domain Services
• Service Activities/Joint Research Activities
• Networking Activities

To create an innovative multi-domain hybrid networking environment, using advanced transmission & switching technologies

• To create an innovative multi-domain hybrid networking environment, using advanced transmission & switching technologies

• To enable R&E users through their Organizations with flexible and scalable production quality services via their constituent NRENs

• To be an enabler for Global R&E networking supporting international e-Science initiatives, creating a Global Virtual Village to house researchers & educators around the world

• To contribute to standards as a key participant in European & Global efforts towards the Network of the Future

Including R&E communities across Digital Divides

• Including R&E communities across Digital Divides

• Leverage collaboration via virtualization
• Enable access to the Knowledge Society
• Make Big Science affordable at the desktop

• Creating a distributed Critical Research Infrastructure

• Provision & manage Optical Private Networks for Science: LHC OPN, eVLBI…
• Expected to serve International Demanding Projects (FEDERICA, ESFRI Priorities - PRACE, ITER…)

• Fostering European innovation by sustaining a vast Network of Excellence to

• Test & deploy bleeding-edge networking technologies (e.g. 100 Gigabit/sec per wavelength)
• Advance INTERNET multi-domain toolsets & federal services

The European Future Internet (FI) Research & Experimentation (FIRE) facility:

• The European Future Internet (FI) Research & Experimentation (FIRE) facility:

• Supporting experimental networking research in the ERA and beyond
• Federating industrial – academic testbed facilities & virtualization platforms
• Interworking with International FI Initiatives (US GENI, Japanese AKARI….)

• The NREN - GÉANT Community contributes resources for experimental research towards the FI via:

• Dedicated virtual networks within its advanced hybrid infrastructures
• Virtualization-aware computing and networking resources for emulations of disruptive research ideas, the e-Infrastructures FP7 project FEDERICA