An introduction to SURFnet Bram Peeters Head of Network Services

SURFnet: your NREN - SURFnet is the Dutch National Research &

Education Network (NREN) - Services, innovation, knowledge - Not for profit - Task organisation of Stichting SURF = ICT

collaboration of higher education & research

- A small operation serving a large community: - 85 employees - 160 connected institutions - 1 million end-users - Turnover 35 million Euro; 1/3 innovation

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SURFnet: the Dutch NREN - Our community

- Research universities - Universities of Applied Sciences - Academic & teaching hospitals - Research institutes - Research departments of companies - Scientific libraries - Secondary vocational education & training

- SURFnet characteristics:

- On the demand side of the market - Global collaboration in innovation - Unique relationship with both users and suppliers - Bridge between R&D and market

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SURFnet is part of the SURF family

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“Run your life on a mobile in the cloud” Study + Work + Play + Collaborate + Organise

Constituency

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Partners to create the research e-Infrastructure

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Researchers, instructors, and students work together simply and effectively

with the aid of ICT

Vision

Two result areas Network infrastructure A hybrid fixed-wireless network as the basis for all collaboration, providing efficient, unlimited data transport Core services: IP, bandwidth on demand, eduroam

Collaboration infrastructure a pioneering collaboration environment that seamlessly connects systems, services, tools, and people Core services: SURFconext, SURFfederatie, SURFteams, resource broker

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SURFnet6: the hybrid network

• Over 11.000 km dark fiber,

into the connected institutions

• Congestion-free internet connectivity • 1 and 10 Gbit/s • IPv4 and IPv6 • Unicast and multicast

• Lightpaths

• Cross Border Fibers

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SURFnet7 ambition - A new generation network, with a step

improvement in capacity and flexibility

- Lightpath service made scalable and user-controlled

- Enabling Dynamic Services: middleware for a secure and user-friendly integration of ICT infrastructure components

- Heterogeneous network access, including mobile and wireless

- Encourage advanced use cases

- Knowledge made generally available

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SURFnet7: the Scalable, Flexible Hybrid Network

SURFnet provides both fixed and dynamic services

Layer 3 service (IP) Layer 2 service (Ethernet) Layer 0/1 service (Lambda)

Institution

Optical Transport (Layer 0/1)

Next Gen Ethernet (Layer 2)

Routed IP (Layer 3)

Application Application Application Application Application Application

Institution

Bandwidth

Service

Bandwidth

Service

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SURFconext

A next generation collaboration infrastructure that creates new opportunities to collaborate online based on a combination of applications from different providers.

Researchers, educators and students wish to select the tools that best fit their online collaboration needs. Institutions and virtual organizations struggle with the integration of self-hosted services with commercial cloud services and service providers seek for ways to make their services easily accessible for users in higher research and education. SURFconext offers interesting clues to facilitate these needs.

Collaboration infrastructure

- Integrate and extend SURFfederatie, SURFconext and SURFteams

- Connect services to SURFconext together with SURFdiensten

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