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 [email protected]