FEDERICA and Next Generation Networks - TERENA and Next Generation Networks Mauro Campanella - GARR TERENA NGN WS - 6th Nov 2007

FEDERICAand

Next Generation Networks

Mauro Campanella - GARR

TERENA NGN WS - 6th Nov 2007

2 TERENA NGN Workshop - 6 Nov 2007

Agenda

– Introdution to FEDERICA– NGN Issues– Going forward (personal opinions)


FEDERICA at a glance

Research Infrastructure FP7 Project, based on stakeholders on networkresearch:

– NRENs, DANTE, TERENA, end-users and vendors– Coordinator: GARR (the Italian NREN)

Aims to:– Create an e-Infrastructure for (future) Internet research, provide

virtualized networks/facilities to end-users, allowing disruptiveemulations

– Employ a mesh of initially up to 1 Gbps MPLS & GigE circuits fromNRENs and GEANT2 (GÉANT+ service)

– Install virtualization nodes (capable of hosting e.g. open sourcerouters, programmable routers) and open API routers and switchesin selected FEDERICA PoPs

– Develop a tool-bench for managing virtual e2e facilities– Pave the way/create experience for GN3


FEDERICA Partners

National Research & EducationNetworks

CESNET Czech Rep.DFN GermanyFCCN PortugalGARR (coordinator) ItalyGRNET GreeceHEAnet IrelandNIIF/HUNGARNET HungaryNORDUnet Nordic countriesPSNC PolandRed.es SpainSWITCH Switzerland

SME

Martel Consulting Switzerland

NRENs organizations

TERENA The NetherlandsDANTE United Kingdom

Universities - Research Centres

i2CAT SpainKTH SwedenICCS (NTUA) GreeceUPC SpainPoliTO Italy

System vendors

Juniper Networks Ireland


Partners’ location

Dark Fiber GEANTand GN2+ service

CBF Dark Fiberor future GEANT

GARR

DFN CESNET

PSNC

Switch

NORDUnet

Red.ES

GRNET

HEAnet

FCCN

NIIFHungarnet

NREN

PoliTO

KTH

i2CAT UPC

ICCS

Univ. orRes. Centre

NREN partners provide aEuropean coverageusing the GN2+ serviceand

- allow connection toUniv. and Researchcentres partners

- Provide “HUB”functionalities andpossibility to extend thee-Infrastructure to othercountries and projectsusing physical or logicalcircuits

- Contribute with toolsand specific expertise


FEDERICA Objectives

Support the research on new Internet architectures and protocols create a versatile, scalable, European wide “technology agnostic”

infrastructure, separated from the production networks open to host researchers hardware and applications Simultaneous use by more than one research group The user can have full control of the network up the data link (or

lower) layer and access monitoring data Develop experience and a model for managing and using virtual

infrastructures as a combination of networks and systems Exploit at their best the existing NREN and GEANT networks and

available technologies Facilitate technical discussion amongst specialist, in particular when

based on experimental results and disseminate knowledge and NRENexperience


FEDERICA Objectives (cont)

Support Future Internet REsearch (FIRE) projects and CALL 1 Provide information for next generation of the NREN Focus on new multidomain architecture with end-to-end services The infrastructure has to be open to any application type Use, Test and advance where possible tools and services being

developed by GEANT2 and NREN and the Partners, in particularfor end-to-end services

Enable graceful implementation of new inter-domain service layer(liaising, contributing with standardization, e.g. IETF, ITU-T, OIF,IPsphere)


Initiatives in the same area

US GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovation)

– Build, in stages, a “clean slate” very large infrastructure for core andaccess (including Wireless and Sensor networks).

– The sophisticated infrastructure should be capable of providingindependent virtual networks (slices) to researchers at all (network) layers

– Still in the specification phase (assigned to BBN technologies). GENI isbeing proposed to NSF as a Major Research and Equipment FacilityConstruction (MREFC) project.

– Open-source software whenever possible– Initial stage based on commercial products– Open to connection from external laboratories, private entities

– http://www.geni.net


The FP7 status of FEDERICA

FEDERICA proposal has been submitted to the call INFRA-2007-1.2.2,Deployment of e-Infrastructure for Scientific Communities

The instrument for this call is a Combination of Collaborative Projects andCoordination and Support Actions (CP-CSA equivalent to an I3) composedby :

- Networking Activities (human networking)- Service Activities- Joint Research activities

Project cost : 5.2 Million EuroEC contribution : 3.7 ME

The project is in now the signature phase of the Grant Agreement.

Agreed start date 1 january 2008


FEDERICA e-Infrastructure


FEDERICA - Goals—Forum and support for researchers/projects on “Future Internet” and

FIRE. Support of experimental activities to validate theoretical concepts,scenarios, architectures, control and management solutions

—Provide on European scale network and system agnostic e-infrastructure(based on NRENs and GEANT2 networks to be deployed in phases.Provide its operation, maintenance and on-demand configuration

—Validate and gather experimental information for the next generation ofresearch networking also through basic tool validation

—Dissemination and favor cooperation of NRENs and User community—Contribution to standards in form of requirements

Inscope

— Extended research, e.g. direct advanced optical technology evaluations(e.g. 100GE)

— Support of Grid applications (separate call)— Develop architectures and concepts in the frame of “Future Internet”

(separate call)— Offer computing power— Offer transit capacity

Out ofscope


Phased Approach

time

FEDERICA Physical Layer substrateFEDERICA Data Link layer substrate

FEDERICA Network Layer substrate

Month 1 Month 9 Month 21 Month 30

Physical Layer Data Link Layer Network Layer

Transport Layer

Application Layer

Physical LayerData Link LayerNetwork Layer

Transport Layer

Application Layer

Installation Phase 2 Phase 3

Layers available to the User

FEDERICA substrate

Layers NOT available to the User


Initial topology (draft)

Leverage dark fibresinfrastructure.Use minimum granularity(1Gb Ethernet) withmultiple links

IT

DE CZ

PL

CH

SE

ES

GR

MPLS LSPs or Tunnels


Physical line Physical lineVR-blue

VR-green VR-red

AS2222

VAS72222

AS2224AS2223

VAS72224

VAS82224VAS82223

VAS92223

Real address space(DOMAIN)

With real users (machines)

Real peering 2222 -2223

Virtual connection peering VAS72222 –VAS72224

Virtual connection peering VAS722223–VAS72224

BGP

BGP7

BGP

BGP8

BGP

BGP8

BGP7

Real peering 2222 -2224

User AUser B

WLAN infrastructure

Jiri NavratilCESNET

Howto issues: 3D Virtual Routing, e.g.(From J. Navratil, CESNET)


Network ActivitiesNA1: Management

NA2: Building and consolidating the User community– TNA2.1: Gathering of User Requirements of Disruptive Network Research

Communities (FP7 FIRE Projects, University and Industrial RTD labs, NREN &Telco tesbeds) (link to NA4), Segmentation, consolidation and Enlargement ofEnd-User Communities

NA3: Standardization & Liaisons– TNA3.1: Interaction (providing input and receiving state-of-the art) with

standards bodies (e.g. IETF, ITU-T, OIF, IPsphere)– TNA3.2: Liaisons with related projects & initiatives

NA4: Dissemination and Training– TNA4.1: Organizing conferences and workshops– TNA4.2: Publishing of dissemination materials, web site etc– TNA4.3: Training end-users to the FEDERICA virtual infrastructure and tool

bench)


Service ActivitiesSA1: Infrastructure Support

– TSA1.1: Physical infrastructure• Planning and deployment of a multidomain physical infrastructure (multi-

technology circuits, network switches and systems) Interconnection withproduction network and other infrastructures

– TSA1.2: Virtual Infrastructures factory• Planning, deployment, provisioning. Business layers (centralized

management)– TSA1.3: multi-domain monitoring and management of the infrastructure (network

and systems) - (E2ECU for managing and ensuring that the problems are fixed,user empowered provisioning, visualization, dynamic configuration of usercommunities )

SA2: Operational User support and Tool bench development (link to JRA1)– TSA2.1: User support during use– TSA2.2: prioritization, policies AAI charging and accounting, gathering user

feedback– TSA2.3: Tools for virtual slicing and network provisioning, e2e monitoring, fault

management of virtual resources, AAI, interaction of virtual infrastructures– TSA2.4: User oriented tools for creation and control of virtual infrastructure


JRA’s

JRA1: network control and management– TJRA1.1: Status and study of advances in network control &

Management Plane for virtual network infrastructures.– TJRA1.2: Developing tools for creating and stitching network

resources in multi-domain, multi-vendor virtual infrastructures

JRA2: novel paradigms and user control– TJRA2.1: Architectural paradigms for virtual infrastructures. The

layered approach versus the integrated approach.– TJRA2.2: novel concepts for fair virtual infrastructure sharing.

Security and accounting and business models.– TJRA2.3: user controlled network


Agenda

– Introdution to FEDERICA– NGN Issues– Going forward (personal opinions)

Documents

FEDERICA and Next Generation Networks - TERENA and Next Generation Networks Mauro Campanella - GARR TERENA NGN WS - 6th Nov 2007