FCCN: Network and Services Gavle, 7 May 2008
RCTS • RCTS (Rede Ciência Tecnologia e Sociedade) – Science Technology and Society Network • Portuguese NREN • Managed by FCCN – Private Non-Profit Foundation • Financed by Ministry of Science Technology and Higher Education
11 years ago …
Early1997 • Highest bandwidth for (some) universities – 1.4Mbps – only Lisbon and Porto • National coverage < 65% • International Connectivity – 2*512kbps – EuropaNet (512kbps) – EBONE (512kbps; link to Stockholm) • Operation of Registry for .PT (since 1990)
Green Paper on the Information Society in Portugal
End 1997 • Connect (ISDN) all public and private schools to the Internet – 1623 schools – 14 PoPs • International connectivity – 10Mbps – Satellite link to CERN • National broadband coverage increased
Today
1998 - Key Decisions • Connect to the NREN public libraries and teacher training centres – 1998 • Connect all schools – until 2001 • Upgrade connections of all universities and politechnics – done1999 • International connectivity – 34 Mbps, 56 Mbps, …
Infrastructures – 2008 • RCTS - Management and Operation of the portuguese NREN – Acquire fibre – Lease fibre – Public tender for links to connect institutions – New switching / routing systems
FCCN owned fibre Existing fiber, in operation •Lisboa, Coimbra, Aveiro, Porto, Braga •Aprox. 400km Existing fiber, installed Sep/2007 •Porto, Viana do Castelo, Valença •Aprox. 160km New fiber, ready Oct/2008 •Lisboa, Setúbal, Évora, Portalegre, Elvas •Aprox. 270km
Owned Fibre • 400 km + 160km – 24 G-652 fibres – 24 G-655 fibres • 270 km – 24 G-652 fibres – 24 G-655 fibres • Several owned fibre loops – Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra • Several leased fibre loops – Braga, Lisbon
Rede de Transmissão Óptica actual.
Schools • 1997 – 1.623 Schools connected using ISDN (128 kbps; 1 B-Channel) • 2001 – 11.000 schools and other institutions using ISDN (256kbps; 2 B-channels) • 2005 – 8.000 schools using ADSL (1Mbps and 4Mbps) – 2 x 1Gbps traffic collection points into main backbone • Several services for schools – Web-hosting, Moodle, Joomla, Central Mail services, Mailing list services, … • Help-desk
Mobility • e-U Virtual Campus and RCTS User – 96% coverage of all Higher Education institutions with Hotspots • Roaming Services – eduroam, of course (100% coverage and compliance) • Federation of RCTS users with authentication and authorisation – AAI
Security • CERT.PT • Computer incident response; •Creation of a network of national CERTs/CSIRTs •Training •Cooperation with police forces
Security • Safer Internet Plus – Hot Line to report illegal and harmful content • Security of RCTS: IDS and Honeynet
IPv6 • RCTS is a fully dual-stack network since 2003 • Users moving slowly to IPv6 • IPv4 address space exhausted in 2011 ? • Target for 2008 – All DNS, Mail and Web servers connected to RCTS must be IPv4 & IPv6 enabled – http://ipv6-tracker.fccn.pt
VoIP@RCTS • Connect all NREN instituions using VoIP – Session Board Controllers for all PABXs – SIP servers – Implementation being done right now • Connect to the Public Networks – Public Tenders soon
Multimedia Services Video Diffusion • Central Windows Server • Video encoder cookbook • Training and Support • Video storage and editing (non professional) Video Archive • Servers - Windows and Quicktime (Darwin)
Multimedia Services HD Video-conferencing in all institutions • Service components – On-line reservation of rooms and H.323 MCU – Global Dialing Scheme (GDS) – Lending H.323 terminals – Training and advice
Nature on the WEB Part of our activity of video broadcast
GRID Computing Room
B-ON – Scientific Digital Library B iblioteca On -Line •16.500 Scientific Magazines •Access to ISI Web of Knowledge •Negotiation with Publishers •Federated searches from the Portal •User training (librarians, end-users) •Statistics
Scientific and Educational Contents Server
Other Activities 6DEPLOY
.PT Registry • Liberalisaton of the Registration under .PT • Resilience of the Infrastructure – Secondary of .PT in Porto – F-root server copy at FCCN – DNSSEC soon • 212.000 domains • IDNs since 2004
Security and the DNS • R&D activity on Automated Reaction to Security Attacks – More and more frequent attacks to the DNS system • DDoS • Fast flux – Smart Network Sensors – Analyse all traffic directed to the TLD server – Identify “strange” traffic patterns – Automatically control firewall to filter out
What Else? • Outreach activities – Promotion of the Internet usage for scientific and educational purporses in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Guiné Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe) – .AO and .CV Primary Servers in Lisbon – Ubuntunet and GÉANT • Relevance is moving from Layer 3 to Layer 7 (old OSI model)
What Else? • Outreach activities – Promotion of the Internet usage for scientific and educational purporses in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Guiné Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe) – .AO and .CV Primary Servers in Lisbon – Ubuntunet and GÉANT • Relevance is moving from Layer 3 to Layer 7 (old OSI model) • Layer 8 – Political
What Else? • Outreach activities – Promotion of the Internet usage for scientific and educational purporses in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Guiné Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe) – .AO and .CV Primary Servers in Lisbon – Ubuntunet and GÉANT • Relevance is moving from Layer 3 to Layer 7 (old OSI model) • Layer 8 – Political • Layer 9 - Religious
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