From Fiber to Wireless (and back) - Enablers for Collaboration

From Fiber to Wireless (and back) Enablers for Collaboration Harold Teunissen - SURFnet

SURF Inc.

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Demand aggregation since 1985, not for profit

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institutions

SURFnet

-  SURFnet provides advanced services to the Dutch research and education community -  High performance networking -  Authentication and authorization services to

provide secure access to the network and other resources

-  Advanced multimedia collaboration tools, including high quality audio/video communication

-  SURFnet plays a leading role in the development of national, European and world-wide networking

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NREN, National Research and Education Network

Our Canadian Connection

-  CANARIE as peer -  CANARIE is Canada's Advanced Research and

Innovation Network -  Pioneers on user controlled light paths and dark

fiber that formed the basis for SURFnet’s nationwide network

-  CANARIE en SURFnet founding fathers (o.a.) of the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)

-  Ciena (p.k.a. Nortel) as technology vendor -  SURFnet as testbed and showcase for prototypes,

new products and enhanced features -  From 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps and beyond -  Multidomain Network Management à Open Source

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Hybrid SURFnet6, more than just Internet

-  Over 10,000 km dark fiber pairs, reaching all SURFnet connected institutes (>180)

-  (indirectly) Providing access to over 1,000,000 users (academics, students and staff)

-  Internet Connectivity of 1 and 10 Gbit/s, IPv4 en IPv6, Unicast and Multicast

-  Dynamic Lightpaths and Optical Private Networks

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The Netherlands as a hub

KAUST 10Gb

Jeddah

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Beyond fibers

-  In the early days -  Pilot UMTS and GPRS at selected campuses -  Wireless Point-to-Point for fast rollout

-  Today -  eduroam is a (almost) global confederated

wireless roaming service based on Wi-Fi -  Provided through the European collaboration of

36 national-level federations -  Hundreds of institutions are involved, the

majority of which own and operate the service’s infrastructure

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Trends in e-Infrastructure

-  Science is becoming increasingly digital, needs to deal

with increasing amounts of data and computational needs

-  Simulations get ever more detailed

-  Nanotechnology – design of new materials from

the molecular scale

-  Modelling and predicting complex systems

-  Decoding the human genome

-  Experimental Science uses ever more

sophisticated sensors to make precise

measurements

-  Need high statistics

-  Huge amounts of data

-  Serves user communities around the world

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Changing Behaviours

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Hierarchical

Secrecy

Loose Alliance

Sluggish

Novelty

Tunnel Vision

Self Organising

Transparency

Collaboration

Urgency

Innovation

Didactic

Levels of Collaboration

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Virtual Collaboration •  Virtual Organisations •  Web and Video Conferencing •  Presence •  Broadcast Collaboration

Mobile Collaboration •  Application Integration •  Mobile Office / Classroom •  Audio Conferencing •  Interactive Video Services

Content & Resource Collaboration •  E-Mail, Document Sharing •  Team Spaces, forum •  Presence & Instant Messaging •  Workflows

Information Exchange

Social Interaction

Modern Research needs an integrated e-Infrastructure

-  Providing seamless access to and allowing the shared use of: -  Computing and storage facilities -  Generic application services -  Sensors and instruments -  Network resources

-  Providing hassle free end-to-end connectivity and a single user interface and a single control plane for the allocation of multiple resources, from multiple domains and in multiple locations

-  Close collaboration among providers and users will be essential to create this environment

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Resource Collaboration

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CANARIE

SURFnet

User

GOLE, GLIF Open Lightpath Exchange

Resource

Data

CPE

CPE

NORDUnet

Control plane

Control plane

Control plane Control

plane

GOLE GOLE

GOLE

GOLE

Mobile Collaboration

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SURFnet

Institution B

eduroam

Institution A

eduroam

International Connectivity

Wi-Fi Hotspot

3G and 4G

Residential Acces

seamless roaming

Any* - anytime, anywhere and any device

Virtual Collaboration

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Federative, modular and open

App 1

Teams

Users

App 2

How to get access?

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Users

Virtual Organization Institutions

Resources & Services

Our challenges

-  Today’s Internet is not good enough to support the needed

e-Infrastructure for research

-  No guaranteed services on a “best effort” network

-  Fit for delay tolerant, many-to-many communication

-  To support an e-Infrastructure Research networks will have

to do better...

-  Provide guaranteed performance for large data flows and

time-critical applications

-  Support increasingly heterogeneous access methods

-  Take into account security and environmental issues

-  … while keeping the successful end-to-end principle of the

internet

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Key Take Aways

-  Multi-level approach to support true collaboration

-  Need for ubiquitous broadband connectivity wired and wireless for SURFnet’s contingency

-  Bandwidth seen as free by users (academics, students, and staff)

-  Defragmented of middleware platforms

-  High common-denominator of devices

-  Ubiquity of mobile devices

-  Standardization

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Thanks

Harold Teunissen harold.teunissen@surfnet.nl