CESNET – from NREN to e-Infrastructure Provider

Jan Gruntorád CEO of CESNET Member of the GN3 Executive Committee Representative of the CZ in e-IRG Member of the Board for Large Infrastructures for R&D in CZ

Bucharest, November 8th, 2011

Presentation Overview

1. CESNET Basic Data - Funding

2. Access to Optical Fibre

3. e-Infrastructure Concept

4. Large e-Infrastructures in CZ

5. Participation of CESNET in International Projects

6. Concluding Remarks

CESNET basic data

CESNET (Czech Educational and Scientific Network) - NREN in the Czech Republic Not for profit legal entity established in 1996 Association of Legal Entities (z.s.p.o.) . Members: - 25 Universities - Czech Academy of Sciences 80 staff members in Prague More than 200 part-time universities and Academy of Sciences staff working on projects

Funding (1)

Research plan: „Optical High Speed National Research Network and its New Applications“

- 2004 – 2010 - Funded by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech republic, association members and external sources (EU) – budged cca 11 Mil EUR/year

CESNET2 backbone network development Optical networks Programmable hardware Network and traffic monitoring Performace monitoring and optimalisation AAI and mobility META Centre (GRIDs) Virtual collaborative environments CESNET CSIRT Applications Support

Research Plan Activities

•  The first dark fibre leased and lighted in 2000, 2.5 Gbps PoS, 327 km, see in Gruntorád, J.: Optical Communications in the Czech Republic, San Diego 2007 http://www.cesnet.cz/new/2007/onvector-gruntorad-presentation.ppt

•  CESNET introduced Nothing-in-Line (NIL) approach to optical networking, 189 km line Praha-Pardubice, operational since May 17, 2002, see in Altmannová, L., Sima, S.: Development of CESNET2 Optical network, Terena Networking Conference, Limerick, 2002 http://tnc2002.terena.org/Slides/sl3c2.ppt#431,21,Praha-Pardubice

•  National fibre footprint is a basement for R&E networking. Need to have specified a design kit of transmission equipment and solution for Customer Empowered Fibre Network (CEF) networks, see in Sima, S., Altmannova, L.: Towards a Nation-wide Fibre Footprint in research and education networking, Terena Networking Conference, Rhodos 2004. http://tnc2004.terena.org/programme/presentations/showe622.html?pres_id=97

Early steps to Customer Empowered Fibre Network Concept

Prague-Brno circuit capacity 2,5 Gbps (since January 2000)

DWDM in CESNET2+

Transmission systems in CESNET2

•  Multivendor solution allows transition of photonic lambdas thru PoPs

•  Cisco DWDM system –  8 lines n x 10G –  1 410 km

•  Open DWDM system - based on own open photonic devices called the CzechLight (CL) family and developed by CESNET –  20 lines (5 lines n x 1G plus 15 lines n x 10G) –  2 660 km (including 905 km BiDirectional single line transmission)

International connectivity of the CESNET2 Network

Reasearch Infrastructures

Research Infrastructures – definition: ESFRI (European Strategy on Research Infrastructures) in its Roadmap 2008 proposes a definition:

They are facilities, resources or services of a unique nature that have been identigied by pan-European research communities to conduct top-level activities in all fields.

Large Infrastructures (LI) for R&D - CZ approach

- large research infrastructures defined by law amendment about R&D&I support (in 2009)

- built from EC structural funds (85%) and national funds (15%) - operation from dedicated support of large infrastructures

- LI must be established and operated by research organization

- LI must be approved by the government

http://www.infrafrontier.eu/docs/national_roadmaps/Roadmap_CR.pdf

Large e-Infrastructures in CZ

- Large Infrastructure CESNET - communication infrastructure (GN3) - NGI (basic services of computing and storage grid, involvement capacities of another subjects, EGI.ORG, VC services, ……) - approved by Czech government in March 2010

- IT4Innovation - HPC services (supercomputing centre, PRACE)

- CERIT SC (Scientific Cloud) - grid computing

Funding (2) Project „Large Infrastructure CESNET“

- January 2011 – December 2015 - main goal is to transform CESNET NREN to complete e-Infrastructure provider (network, GRIDs, storage services and tools for cooperation) - Funded by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech republic, association members and external sources (EU) – budged cca 16 Mil EUR/year

Funding (3)

Project „E-Infrastructure and Grids for e-Regions (eIGeR)“

- May 2011 – November 2013 - provide resources for investment to upgrade and/or build e-Infrastructure for R&D in the Czech Republic - funded by national resources (15%) and EU structural funds (85%) – not allowed to use funding in Prague – total budged cca 24 Mil EUR

Participation in International Networking Activities

GN3 – from April 2009, total budget for 4 years 181 mil. EUR www.geant.net

FEDERICA – Federated E-infrastructure for European Researchers Innovating in Computing Network Architectures, total budget 5.1 mil. EUR www.fp7-federica.eu

GLIF – Global Lambda Integrated Facility www.glif.is

ORIENT+ – connection of the GÉANT network to China

GÉANT2+ Network Topology

GLIF Europe map

Participation on Grid activities

DataGrid, EGEE, EGEE II, EGEE III

- design of European common Grid - middleware development - Grid incident response team - Virtual organization support

EGI- DS - European Grid Initiative – CESNET is Design Study project

co-orination

EUAsiaGRid

- EGI-Inspire

Conclusions

- NRENs should transform to new role: e-Infrastructure provider

- support from national governments is essential

- innovation element is key for success

- partner with ISPs and industry

Thank you for your attention