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NATO ANW: The Fourth CEENet Workshop on Network Management - Management Issues for Excellence in Research and Education Networking (MIXREN)

Extending the European Research Area (ERA) into South-East Europe (SEE)

Jorge-A. Sanchez-P. – GRNETInitiative Coordinator

[email protected] – 8 October 2004


Structure

Introduction – how it startedFirst regional attempt – SEERENSustainability plan – parallel activities took offNew areas and applications – SEEGRIDFuture plans


Conceptualization

A couple of beers in Ochrid…Followed by a memoranda of understanding

October 2000 (Thessaloniki)INIMA (Albania)RoEduNet/RNC (Rumania)UNICOM-B (Bulgaria)MARNET (FYROM)GRNET (Greece)

February 2001 (Athens) AMREJ (FRY)

June 2001 (Athens)ULAKBIM (Turkey)


The vision…


The vision…

Source: GEANTSource: GEANT


First interconnections…

Athens-Belgrade [2Mbps PCM] daily graph (5 Minute Average)

Athens-Sofia [5.2Mbps ATM] daily graph (5 Minute Average)

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SEEREN

SEEREN South-Eastern European Research and Education Networking

consortium includes: GRNET, HUNGARNET/NIIF, RoEduNet, INIMA, BIHARNET, ISTF/ICTDA, MARNET, AMREJ, DANTE and TERENAinterconnects the Research and Education Networks of:

is funded by the EC/IST programmewas built in 2003, launched and entered its stable operation on January 2004constitutes the South Eastern European segment of the multi-gigabit pan-European Research and Education network GÉANTmore at http://www.seeren.org

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Physical Topology

CapacitiesINIMA: 2 Mbps (1xE1)MARNET: 4 Mbps (2xE1)BIHARNET: 2 Mbps (1xE1)AMREJ: 34 Mbps (1xE3)ISTF: 34 Mbps (1xE3)RoEduNet (backup link): 34 Mbps (ATM, shaped)

Terrestrial links onlyMPLS-based backbone provided by OTEGlobe after tenderEquipment donation by Cisco (worth €120.000)


Logical Topology

Any-to-any eBGP sessions between the connected parties

Intra-NREN traffic & traffic towards GEANT

Backup to RoEduNetwhen GRNET links to GEANT fail

Provider’s MSP functions as a “black-box”


Production stage

SEEREN performing very wellSLA reports: 100% availability for all links for the last 6 months

Collaborative managementDistributes the Network Management & Operations to competent Academic Groups in the Region (the Virtual Network Operations Center – VNOC concept developed by GRNET)A one-stop-shop for all the open source tools/applications setup by the SEEREN VNOC to monitor and manage the SEEREN infrastructure is available at: http://admin.seeren.org


Traffic profile

Before SEEREN (Bulgaria)

After SEEREN (Bulgaria)

After SEEREN (FYR of Macedonia)


Services

Deployed

Will be deployed

Will not be deployed


Lessons learned

SEEREN capitalized on the growing aspiration of the SEE countries to integrate to the rest of Europe and eventually be equal peers with advanced European nations. Still a major driving force. Timing was critical.

SEEREN enacted a communication channel between the SEE scientific community.Strict and professional management created a credible partner(ship) for the EC, the European industry and other international organizations interested in the development of the region.SEEREN not only helped the participants to resolve networking issues, but also served as a problem solving model.Refocused the R&E community in their common endeavors and wealthy cultural heritage that dates from several hundred years ago.

Currently not all countries at the same level, supplementary special actions are needed to bring all at same speed. Still the GNI for all countries is very low therefore specific support actions are needed.


The avalanche effect

Funding is available FP6, NATO, ERDF, Government sponsorships, Vendor sponsorships, Bilateral programmes UNDP, EIB, WorldBank, USAID, etc.

Go for new opportunities and projects on the new priorities

Focus now was not only to ease the digital divide but to achieve it in a sustainable way!


Sustainability Plan

1. Help in establishing the SEE NRENs - raise and disseminate the importance of eInfrastructures to government/policy making level, turn eInfrastructures into regional priority, funding stability.

2. (Re)integrate the SEE R&E community in the international organizations (CEENet, TERENA, etc) - co-operation with peer organizations in other countries and at the international level can further strengthen the NREN operational stability.

3. Ease the infrastructure divide – replace outdated equipment 4. Ease the access to advanced services - eScience, Grids, etc and create new

demand5. Ease the access/connectivity divide – upgrade the capacity (3, 4, 5 loop)6. Deploy a sustainable integrated & interoperable eInfrastructure – close to zero

cost (utopia?)


Help in establishing the NRENs

EU-Balkan countries Action Plan in Science and Technology

A Greek Presidency Initiative with Solid RootsMinisterial Conference (26-27/6/2003) adopted the documents (Shared vision, Action Plan)Shared Vision document, sets the Political context – Zagreb process and Thessaloniki Summit and defines four Main Goals: Improvement of Infrastructures, Improvement of Human Potential, Institution Building, Joint RTD activities.The Action Plan: Specifies the objectives and thematic priorities, proposes for the implementation: instruments ( Multilateral, Regional, Bilateral ), implementing modalities, (Workprogramme, ad-hoc group).

http://www.eu2003.gr/en/cat/0/


(Re)integrate the SEER&E community

Albania, FYR of Macedonia already a member+Bulgaria, +Serbia-MontenegroBosnia-Herzegovina?

FYR of Macedonia already a member+Serbia-Montenegro, +BulgariaBosnia-Herzegovina?, Albania?


Campus Architecy. and Civil Eng.

Campus Medicine

Medicine

Pharmacy

Campus Technical Eng.

Electrical Eng

Mechanical Eng

Technolog.

Campus Agriculture

Campus Nat. Sciences and Math

Campus Social Sciences

NOC

Cisco 7304 Cisco 3550-12G Cisco 2950G-48-EI

Law

Economy

Cisco 4006

GbEconnection

InternetConnection

Building I

Legend

Philosophy Philology

Architecture

Internet

Building II

Dentistry

Networking Infrastructure Grant (NIG) with Bulgaria finished (200k €)Networking Infrastructure Grant (NIG) with FYR of Macedonia (200κ €). Metropolitan Network in Skopje inaugurated in September 2004Advanced Networking Workshop (ANW) “Policy Issues for NRENs in South East Europe” (25κ €) in Varna, Bulgaria http://www.terena.nl/conferences/nato-anw2003Follow up with FYR of MacedoniaAlbania?, Serbia-Montenegro?, Bosnia-Herzegovina?

Upgrade of infrastructure


Access to advanced services

EU Geant binds national networks and creates a high performance production network for Europe

EGEE will bind national Grid infrastructures - focussing all activities towards establishing a production quality Grid for Europe

Both together constitute the eInfrastructure


Contribute to building a Pan-EU eInfrastructure by expanding the “eInfrastructure inclusion” into South-East Europe

SEEREN

Contract No.: FP6-RI-002356Project type: Specific Support Action (SSA)Start date: 01/05/2004Duration: 24 monthsTotal Budget: 1,215,000 Є

SEEREN

> http://www.see-grid.org

SEEGRID Vision


Mission

GÉANT + SEEREN Communication Network

IPv6

GRIDs

SEEGRID Objectives

Integrate SEE National Grid Initiatives in the Pan-EU and worldwide Grid Infrastructures

Establish a seamless and interoperable pilot-Grid infrastructure that will expand and support the ERA. Create a Human network in the area of eScience in the SEE region Allow smaller, less-equipped sites to access computing resources that would otherwise be unaffordable.Ease the digital divide and release the scientific & productive talents of the region


Lessons learned - Planning

Reinstated vision to benefit the whole R&E community and the society at large – should open the eInfrastructure to all scientific sectors.

In many cases achieved multi-organization collaboration per country (many members in NGIs, many relying parties (users/applications)) - additional actions (internationally, regionally and locally) should be implemented to achieve the formation of NGIs in all countries

Tremendous brain potential in the region, software development interest and expertise - keep and extend the objective to build up and demonstrate a Grid application of regional interest

At a country-level NGIs need to form as soon as possible, and take the initiative of carrying out detailed surveys through which the actual potential GRID resources per country could be identified and/or implemented.

Growth added complexity. To keep the quality of the results, needed to grow the management potential.

Other international organizations gained interest in contributing to the vision - should capitalize on this fast


Access to Advanced Services

EUGridPMAThe SEE-GRID project will be a relying party in the EUGridPMA (along with EGEE, DEISA, and other major grid projects)GRNET will establish a regional SEE-GRID “Catch-all” CA for the partners who do not yet have a PMA-accredited Grid CAProject partners will be encouraged to develop their own Grid CA and apply for membership in PMA


Access to Advanced Services

Deployment of IPv6Formalize the continuation of the dissemination and promotion of the best practices from the 6NET project to the SEEREN network of countries and partners, that was started in March 2004,Help the main SEEREN beneficiary countries to study potential deployment scenarios/solutions over the SEEREN infrastructure, experiment and get familiar with IPv6,Support (technically) the continued connectivity of SEEREN countries via IPv6, that was started in March 2004,Support the transfer of 6NET’s IPv6 application demonstrations to SEEREN.Provide information about experiences of IPv6 deployment in less developed network user communities.Organise a joint technical workshop based on the 6NET Cookbooks and the programme of workshops in SE Europe, held within the scope of the SEEREN project.Produce joint reports on the results of the 6NET-SEEREN cooperation.


Here we are…

Thank You ALL!

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Documents

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