ana romero, network engineer dante clara-tec meeting, veracruz, 25 april 2005

Ana Romero, Network engineer – ALICE tech meeting, Veracruz 25 April 2005

Ana Romero, Network EngineerDANTE

CLARA-TEC meeting, Veracruz, 25 April 2005


• DANTE – who are we?• Its predecessor: GÉANT• GÉANT2 project

– Partners and users– Topology and services

Contents


DANTE – who are we?


• Established in 1993 and based in Cambridge, UK• A not-for-profit organisation• Created and owned by a number of Europe’s National

Research and Education Networks (NRENs)• DANTE plan, build and manage pan-European research

and education networks• 2003 Annual Turnover – approximately 48M Euros• 29 staff members (11 nationalities)

Who Are DANTE?


DANTE’s Role

• DANTE will operate GÉANT2, the multi-gigabit pan-European research and education network

• DANTE is actively involved in developing new network services to support the research and education community

• DANTE also currently participates in:- EUMEDCONNECT (Mediterranean)- ALICE (Latin America)- TEIN2 (Asia-Pacific)- 6NET (IPv6)- 6LINK ( IPv6)


DANTE’s Role in GÉANT2Coordinating Partner in EC contract• project management • channel of communication with EC• management of EC funding contributionImplementation, operation and development of the network• planning & procurement• day-to-day operation -> GEANT NOC in Paris• development and deployment of new network services in

collaboration with NREN partnersFinancial Management• Supplier contracts• NREN (customer) contractsPublicity and Dissemination Activity• Raising awareness and understanding of GÉANT2• Website operation


Its predecessor: GÉANT


Connecting 33 European countries and 29 NRENs

Backbone capacities from 10Gb/s to 155Mb/s

NREN access from 10G to 34Mb/s

Backbone based on Juniper M-series routers

GÉANT TODAY


• Best Effort IPv4/IPv6• Multicast IPv4/IPv6• Premium IP• Less than Best Effort IP• MPLS• L2-VPN

GÉANT SERVICES


GÉANT2


What is GÉANT2?

• 7th generation of pan-European research network infrastructure

• Project partners include 30 of Europe’s national research and education networks (NRENs), DANTE and TERENA

• Will connect 34 European countries and serve over 3500 research and education establishments across Europe

• Provide international connectivity to other world regions• Funded jointly by NRENs and European Commission• Project timescale September 2004 - August 2008


GÉANT2 Project

Partners


GÉANT2’s Services aspirations

• Versatility to better facilitate E2E services• Continue to provide quality IP transit services• Tune existing IP service platform

– Optimise platform– Enhance resilience

• Offer “lightpath” service– “Wavelength” services for big users for 10G– Sub-wavelength services for 2.5G or 1G

• Endeavour to be prepared to implement 40G services


• CERN LHC 11 Tier1 sites

7 in Europe

4 outside Europe (US, Canada and Taiwan)

• EVN (European VLBI Network)

15 sites5 already connected

• MUPBED• DEISA

GÉANT2’s Big users


GÉANT2

10G 2.5G

NREN A

NREN C

primary

backup

primarybackup

DFDWDM

OXCand/orL2 switch

Nx10G

NREN B

NREN D

LHC - CERN


Generic GEANT2 PoP

DWDM terminals, switch, router

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2

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To NREN

Prim

IP p

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To NREN

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IP, L

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GÉANT 2 status Connectivity and Equipment

• Connectivity tender: a mix of DF and leased capacity, with a strong preference for DF where possible.

• Equipment tender: a mix of DWDM and switching technology

Both processes to be concluded in the next weeks

• IP equipment will be enhanced to meet the requirements


CONCLUSIONS

• GÉANT project successful ! • GÉANT2 has been designed to meet the demands of the

emerging applications– It aims to support e2e services – Provide global connectivity to the European research

community

Good luck for GÉANT2!!


Questions?

ana romero, network engineer dante clara-tec meeting, veracruz, 25 april 2005

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