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NORDUnet Nordic I nfrastructure for Research & Education Beyond NREN Networks Jørgen Qvist TERENA workshop Copenhagen, 21 st -22 nd , November 2012

NORDUnet Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education DANTE National and regional Research and education networks Local and Campus networks

NORDUnet NREN research Customers Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • BIG Science Data sources • High Energy physics, (CERN, ESS) • Astronomy, (Radio antennas and telescopes) • High performance computing • GRID projects

NORDUnet Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • Many in non technical disciplines use standard IaaS cloud services to get ad hoc computing resources • Data from sources and repositories connected to NREN networks count for 10-15% of traffic… And is only relevant for less than 1% of the users

NORDUnet What about the rest? Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • + 80% of data repositories used in research is on the internet • Universities is outsourcing everything from email to survey tools to basic server and services,, to the cloud • Teachers use cloud tools to do network simulations… not to mention collaboration tools media and streaming,,, in the cloud

NORDUnet What about the rest? Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • High quality access to the internet is the most important network service for the majority of researchers and other users • How do we secure that we deliver what the 100% of our users want?

NORDUnet Nordic I nfrastructure for Research & Education What can you do as a NREN

NORDUnet What to do? Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • Peer directly with, or connect directly to the major content providers and social media.. • Be involved in major outsourcing deals to ensure that network connectivity is part of the selection criteria,, to save money and gain quality • Don’t rely on standard IP Transit connectivity, it is strangled,,

NORDUnet Do (settlement free) peering? Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • Cost • Predictability • Reachability • Not being dependent on 3 rd party network agreements • Quality • Reduced RTT - the most common customer request for improvement • Not just having 2 BGP sessions controlling your connection to the rest of world

NORDUnet What can you do as an NREN Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • Connect to your local in country IX 20% peering • Get connectivity to the major IX’s in Europe, AMSIX, LINX, DCIX,, 60% peering • Get connectivity to the US and connect to locations, east, west, middle and south,, it will take 3-4 years, but will mainly be cost neutral •

NORDUnet I P Transit vs Peering traffic volumes Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education

NORDUnet Peering infrastructure Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education NORDUnet at TNC, Reykjavik, May 2012

NORDUnet Nordic I nfrastructure for Research & Education What can/ should we do as a community?

NORDUnet Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • Collaborate to become our own Tier1 IP Transit provider

NORDUnet Consolidate Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education • Consolidate Peering and IP Transit in regions • Europe, Americas, AsPac • Collaborate between regions • The end game….

NORDUnet Nordic I nfrastructure for Research & Education SDN Software Defined Networking

NORDUnet Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education Software Defined Networks? Bandwith on demand? Oscars Open NSA Autobahn NSI Yang I DCP Netconf Nexpress Distributed Openflow Control Plane Plane Control plane

NORDUnet wikipedia Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education Software defined networking (SDN) is an emerging architecture for computer networking. SDN separates the control plane from the data plane in network switches and routers. Under SDN, the control plane is implemented in software in servers separate from the network equipment and the data plane is implemented in commodity network equipment. OpenFlow is a leading SDN architecture. Thus SDN allows for • quick experimenting and optimization of • switching/routing policies, and for external access to the innards of switches and • routers that formerly were closed and proprietary.

NORDUnet GÉANT Bandwidth on Demand Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education (BoD) is a service for dynamic bandwidth provisioning across multiple networks, enabling users to instantly create dynamic point-to-point circuits through a web-based user interface.

NORDUnet Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education Both is part of the SDN puzzle But If Openflow isn't the solution, What is the problem?

NORDUnet Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education Application Application End-to-end workflow Correlation Topology abstraction/ Topology abstraction/ availability/reservation/provisi availability/reservation/provisi oning oning V-1 V-2 V-3 V-1 V-2 V-3

NORDUnet Open Network Foundation Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education Software Defined Network Architecture

NORDUnet Beyond NREN Networks Nordic infrastructure for Research & Education For any of this to work beyond NREN Networks, and become more than just another “testbed”, what ever technology that is chosen must become an industry standard supported by major vendors