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The First GÉANT Open Call –

6th October 2015

Michael EnricoTechnical/JRA Coordinator (GN3Plus project)CTO, GÉANT Association

Annabel GrantOpen Call Coordinator (GN3Plus project)Senior Business Development Officer, GÉANT Association


• A brief introduction to the GÉANT project and network – Michael

• An Overview of the GÉANT Open Call (what?, why?, how?, lessons learned, impact) – Annabel

• A look at some of the Open Call Projects – Michael

• Questions & Answers - All

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Agenda


The leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe’s economic growth and competitiveness

A first website with basic information is at www.geant.org

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TERENA and DANTE have joined forces!

http://www.geant.org/

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GÉANT Assoc


• Latest transmission and switching technology

• Routers with 100Gbps capability

• Optical transmission platform designed to provide 500Gbps super-channels

• 12,000km of dark fibre

• Over 100,000km of leased capacity (including transatlantic connections)

• 28 main sites covering European footprint

GÉANT: Europe’s 500Gbps Network And an e-Infrastructure for Horizon 2020

Together with Europe´s NRENs, GÉANT

connects 50M users across 10,000

European institutions

GÉANT connects 65 countries outside of Europe, reaching all continents through international partners


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The GÉANT Innovation Programme

JRA1: Network

Architectures for Horizon

2020

JRA2: Technology Testing

for Specific Service

Applications

JRA3: Identity & Trust

Services for GÉANT

Services

SA6: Service Management and Operation

NA1: Management NA2: Comms &

Promotion

NA3: Status & Trends NA4: Int & Business

Dev

SA1: Core Backbone Services

SA2: Testbeds as a Service

SA3: Network Service Delivery

SA4: Network Support Services

SA5: Application Services

SA7: Support to Clouds


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The GÉANT Innovation Programme

JRA1: Network

Architectures for Horizon

2020

JRA2: Technology Testing

for Specific Service

Applications

JRA3: Identity & Trust

Services for GÉANT

Services

SA7: Support to CloudsGÉANT Open Call

Testbeds:

GOFF, GTS (TaaS)

Engagement with

Standards Bodies

Engagement with Open

Source Dev Communities





6th October 2015

Annabel Grant (via VC)Open Call Coordinator (GN3Plus project)Senior Business Development Officer, GÉANT Association

Part 1 – Overview of the Open Call



So what is an “Open Call”?

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• method for openly selecting new partners to work with GÉANT following strict EC rules

• €3.3m ($3.7m) of GÉANT R&D budget “ring fenced” for Open Call programme

• 21 projects of with 18 month duration (October 2013-March 2015)

• On average 2-4 partners per project working together

• 37 beneficiaries most universities/RI but also commercial organisations

• Average EC contribution per project €100-€350k


Why did we do it?keeping GEANT products/services world class

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Benefits of leveraging expertise outside “traditional” GÉANT box


World class connectivity & services

Pushing the state of the art

Enabling wider use of GÉANT’s innovative

infrastructure & facilities by wider community

and raise GÉANT’s profile globally

Building the programmekey objectives


What did the programme look like?and how did it really work?


What did we learn?1. integrating / “hand holding” projects = better outcomes for GÉANT

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“Future development of CoCo may result in new services GEANT could offer to its community or become a platform by which others could offer this service”.

“This WoT4LoA work has significant promise to reduce the challenge of gaining high quality identity information without having to boil the ocean!”

What did we learn? 2. new partners = tangible results/sustained impact for GÉANT


Benefits: sustained impact

London to Paris fibre continues to be used, and paid for by Open Call participants

5 out of 6 new test bed users continue working with GÉANT

New android CAT tool developed and now being used in GÉANT

Another new GÉANT task leader from Open Call participation

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Benefits: global awareness raising100+ events, 40+ scientific papers, 3 IETF drafts, 2 NSI standards


World class connectivity & services

Pushing the state of the art

Enabling wider use of GÉANT’s innovative

infrastructure & facilities by wider community

and raise GÉANT’s profile globally

Going back to the start…programme objectives met and exceeded


Conclusion: Open Call programme is delivering lasting benefits75%+ of work continues

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6th October 2015

Michael EnricoTechnical/JRA Coordinator (GN3Plus project)CTO, GÉANT Association

Part 2 – A look at some of the Open Call projects


My selection of Open Call Projects to look at

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• DREAMER = Distributed REsilient sdn Architecture MEeting carrier grade Requirements

• Partners: CNIT, CREATE-NET, GARR

• OF/SDN CP ≡ IP/MPLS CP(with CG resiliency & fault mgmt)

• Scientific & experimental dimensions

• Data plane software – developed OSHI (open source hybrid IP/SDN networking)

• Services considered – IP P2P VLL & Layer2 PW

• Control plane – exploited & contributed to ONOS controller (ICONA)

• Developed experimental tools – Mantoo (mgmt tools) which include a web front-end called Topology 3D

• Continuing to use Testbed (GTS)

• Results being actively used in GN4-1 JRA2

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Examples of ProjectsDREAMER (from SDN area)

Virtual ports

Physical interfaces

IP Forwarding Engine – IP FE(Linux networking)

IP Routing Daemon(Quagga)

IP

SDNOF Capable Switch - OFCS

(Open vSwitch)

LocalManagementEntity (LME)

Demo at ONS 2015

GTS played a key role in that

Learn more from Luca Prete in theGrand Ballroom A at 2pm TODAY (SDN-IP Peering: A Global SDN Deployment)


• CoCo = On Demand Community Connection Service for eScienceCollaboration

• Partners: SURFnet & TNO

• About flexible connectivity solutions based on SDN

• On-demand multipoint L3 VPNs

• Forwarding based on MPLS labels

• Addressed “DNA Sequencer as a Service” as an eScience use case

• Used and contributed to OpenDaylight (Helium release)

• Developed an automated user level test environment

• Created a Mininet-based simulation environment

• Ericsson & SURFnet taking some of the CoCo outputs into OpenDaylight (Lithium release)

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Examples of ProjectsCoCo (from SDN area)


• DynPac = Dynamic Path Computation Framework

• Partner: The University of the Basque Country

• Main objective: allow the deployment of a disruptive point-to-point Ethernet connectivity service, like GÉANT Plus, on top of a pure SDN/OpenFlow infrastructure along with:

• Resiliency in case of a link failure with quick recovery times

• Efficient use of the network capacity

• Service scheduling

• Improvement of the network monitoring by gathering real time information

• Modular design based on OpenDaylight (3 modules) with 4 custom modules

• Includes PCE optimised for network utilisation

• DynPac framework supports disaggregation of existing flows under the direction of an external traffic analyser module

• DynPac now being examined further as a part of current GÉANT SDN-related network development work

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Examples of ProjectsDynPac (from SDN area)


• SENSE = Secure Enterprise Networks finally Simple and Easy

• Partners: PSNC & RESTENA

• Greatly improve enterprise WIFI authentication landscape

• Make EAP protocol supplicants more secure, user friendly & feature rich

• Multi-platform config file format for EAP parameters – 2 versions of an IETF Internet draft (XML & Yang)

• Defined metrics for assessment of supplicants

• EAPlab - toolkit including conformance testing

• Written & published 2 supplicants – Android & Linux

• Latest supplicant (post SENSE, but same people) is for OS X El Capitan

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Examples of ProjectsSENSE (from TRUST & ID area)


• HEXAA = Higher Education eXternal Atribute Authority

• Partners: MTA SZTAKI & NIIFI (Hungary)

• Greatly improve the capability for handling attributes for research groups in a standardized, flexible way

• Surveyed the current handling of attributes by Identity Federations – derived a summary of the technical challenges of supporting federations with attributes

• End product is an implementation of an Attribute Authority

• The team of HEXAA are now in JRA3, and they have now also hooked up 2 other AAs (Grouper and Perun) to OpenStack too

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Examples of ProjectsHEXAA (from TRUST & ID area)


• CLASSe= CLoud-ABFAB Federation ServiceS in eduroam

• Partners: Universities of Murcia & Kent

• About: facilitating GÉANT users to access cloud services using their home institution credentials

• Targetted: Moonshot (ABFAB) & OpenStack (cloud)

• Objective 1: Provide ubiquitous access to cloud services with ABFAB

• Objective 2: Research on federated SSO for clouds

• Objective 3: Research on Communities of Interest for cloud services (or rather VOs)

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Examples of ProjectsCLASSe (from TRUST & ID area)


• (SWIDOTT ;-)

• Partner: LRZ (Liebniz Supercomputing Centre)

• About Dynamic establishment of technical trust between Identity Provider (IDP) and Service Provider (SP)

• using new Federation Services & Protocols

• Thereby facilitating: SPs connected to user’sIDPs independently of federation borders.

• Basic function: Automate established workflows• No manual setup work for IDPs• No waiting time for users

• Features: Attribute Conversion Rule Repository + Account Choosing

• Re-use of attribute conversion rules • One rule for all• Only needed: registration + plugin• Complements existing approaches

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Examples of ProjectsGÉANT-Trustbroker (from T&ID area)

Researcher

GÉANT-

TrustBroker

Configuration

IDP

Community

DFN-AAI

SP


Examples of ProjectsARES (from Applications & Tools area)

• ARES = Advanced Networking for EU genomic RESearch

• Partners: University of Perugia & GGB

• About implementing an advanced CDN using NSISto signal the instantiation of (virtual) resources when and where they are needed to help deliver content

• A form of “Active Networking”

• Builds on NetServ from Columbia University

• Targeted on genomic data

• but equally applicable to other areas

• Experiments made using 2 genomic “pipelines” each in 2 different configurations


• ICOF= International Clock Comparisons via Optical Fibre

• Partners: Physikalisch-TechnischeBundesnastalt (PTB); Observatoire de Paris (LNE-SYRTE); National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

• About using long haul telecommunications fibre to support metrological comparisons of very accurate “atomic clocks”

• Requires specialist bi-directional amplifiers that can correct phase noise (e.g. induced by temperature variations)

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Examples of ProjectsICOF (from Optical Projects area)


The London-Paris Link

9 commercial bi-directional EDFAs

2 high-gain Brillouin amplifiers (PTB)

Pair of dark fibres~800 km~200 dB loss

Fibre provided by European research and education network GÉANT


• COFFEE = Coherent Optical system Field-trial For spectral Efficiency Enhancement

• Partners: National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT)

• About field trialling a (previously developed) novel approach to coherent optical data transmission of a single 1 Tbpssuperchannel using a reduced bandwidth (<200 GHz) over long-haul testbed routes

• Used Time-Frequency Packing (TFP)to increase spectral efficiency

• Made use of in-situ (redundant)ALU optical amp shelves(easier said than done)

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Examples of ProjectsCOFFEE (from Optical Projects area)


• MINERVA = (Roman goddess of wisdom!)

• Partners: MTA-BME (FI Research Group) & i2CAT

• About using Network Coding to realise a highly available (packet transport) backbone network infrastructure (exhibiting high resiliency)

• Goals to minimize the number of network coding nodes & the complexity of the coding operations whilst still providing capacity-efficient protection with instantaneous recovery.

• Theoretical studies net coding approach called Resilient Flow Decomposition (RFD)

• Demonstrated using an NFV approach (to realising splitters, sequencers, mergers, etc) on the GOFF

• Demonstrated with two application scenarios: storageand video streaming.

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Examples of ProjectsMINERVA (from Network Arch area)

M0 = splitterM1 = sequencerM2 = mergerM3 = (de)coder

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• REACTION = Research and Experimental Assessment of Control plane archiTectures for In-Operation flexgrid Network re-optimization

• Partners: CNIT, Universita Politechnica de Catalunya(UPC) & Telefonica

• About design and validation of an elastic optical network scenario enabling software-controlled flexible super-channel transmission

• Mostly OPNET modelling, some lab verification

• Based on a Sliceable BW Variable Transponder

• LOADS of control plane modelling:• SDN & ABNO based options• Very novel PCE design• and lots more…

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Examples of ProjectsREACTION (from Optical Projects area)


Examples of ProjectsAnd the rest…

MEALMulti-domain eduROAM Across LTEJANET & SURFnet

CEOVDSCross-site Evaluation of an OpenFlow-assisted Video-on-DemandDistribution Service Lancaster UniversityeMusic

Using GÉANT dynamic circuits to support remote collaboration in musical education and eCultureCESNET; GARR; Janet; Academy of Performing Arts in Prague; Conservatorio di MusicaGiuseppe Tartini; Edinburgh Napier University http://www.geant.net/opencall

AUTOFLOWAutonomic Networking meets SDN (OpenFlow)University of Piraeus

MOTEMulti-Domain OpenFlowTopology ExchangeUniversity of Amsterdam

NSI-CONTESTNetwork Service Interface Conformance Test SuitePSNC & Nextworks

IRINAInvestigating RINA in ng-GÉANT/NRENiMinds, TSSG, Nextworks& i2CAT

MoMoTMulti-Domain Optical Modelling ToolDTU & GWDG

WoT4LoAWeb of Trust based Level of Assurance enhancementInnovalor & SURFnet

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Conclusions (once more): The Open Call projects…

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This work is part of a project that has applied for funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 691567 (GN4-1).

2. the holistic support framework enabled them to exceed expectations

3. delivered lasting benefits…from more than 75% of the work

1. added significant value to the GÉANT Community


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