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Networks in Europe and the World

GÉANT

Howard DaviesDANTE

NORDUnet 2000 Conference

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The Journey Ahead

• Starting Point• Direction• Vehicle• Destination

CanadaCanarieU SA

(to A bi lene -ESN et)

Israel

Cyprus

JapanN A CSI S

October 2000Installed/ Ordered Physical Topology

155 Mbps34/ 45 Mbps

622 Mbps2 x 155 Mbps

Year 2

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TEN-155 Service

• Basic IP service • 19 NRENs (inc. NORDUnet)• access capacities in range

• 10 Mbit/s (IE, LU)• 622 Mbit/s (DE, NL)

• MBS (Managed Bandwidth Service)• ATM-based• guaranteed capacity

• typically used for demonstrations

• VPN capability• testing of new technology (native multicast, diffserv, MPLS,

IPv6)

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The Direction

• Expanded geographic coverage• All FP5 countries

• Connectivity to other world regions • Much higher capacities

• Target: 2.5 Gbit/s in 8 locations in 2001• Tens (or hundreds) of Gbit/s within 4 years

• Improved resilience• End-to-end QoS

Cyprus

Israel

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Capacity Requirements

• US demonstrations• Research Channel HDTV: 5 streams of 200 Mbit/s• Internet2 Land Speed Record: 830 Mbit/s• Internet2 LSR, 2nd edition: 30 Oct 00

• Development of Grid technologies and services• distributed, high speed computation with large

data sets• application areas include: nuclear physics, earth

observation, meteorology, multi-disciplinary design, computational chemistry, drug discovery, finance engineering, business decisions, multimedia

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QoS: the “Infinite Bandwidth” Debate

• Over-provision of bandwidth• is simple• goes a long way towards meeting QoS needs• is adequate in the short term, but

• From the Abilene QoS Planning Group:• congestion on part of end-to-end path• prepare for congestion (“risks . . victim of . .

success”)• “blaze a trail . . . exemplary QoS architecture”

• Distributed computing services, including grids, need predictable QoS

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The Vehicle

• Géant - the network service to succeed TEN-155

• GN1 - EC project under FP5/IST• Four year contract with 25 NRENs plus DANTE• effective 1 Nov 00• 80 Meuro committed by EC• further funding available (?), eg for US• contract signature Oct 00 (?)

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Géant Services

• Basic IP service• including connection to research networks in other

regions

• Native multicast• Premium IP service• Guaranteed capacity ) end-to-end, with• Virtual private networks) NREN involvement

• New services• IPv6• support (not ATM) for “disruptive” testing

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Tests/Piloting

• Year 1 commitment• premium IP• MPLS/VPN• multicast improvement• IPv6• traffic measurement

• Annual update of “technology roadmap”

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Géant Technology• “Vision”

• ideal is dedicated fibre + DWDM, but• is it available (throughout Europe)?• is it ready (for operational service)?• is it affordable? (equipment costs?)

• Tender• ITT issued 7 Jul 00 to 88 organisations (inc. 12 NRENs)• “open” specification (min 2.5G, target 8 locations)

• Timetable• deadline for tenders is 29 Sep 00• TEN-155 contracts continue till 30 Nov 01• 1/2/3/4 year commitment?

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The Destination

• The most advanced possible networking support for the research and education community throughout Europe

• A high quality network service to which other world regions wish to connect.