The Future Internet is Present in Europe: The Future Internet is Present in Europe: The Future Internet is Present in Europe: The Future Internet is Present in Europe: Role of Research & Education Networks Role of Research & Education Networks (NRENs) & GÉANT (NRENs) & GÉANT (NRENs) & GÉANT (NRENs) & GÉANT Vasilis Maglaris Vasilis Maglaris Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NTUA Chairman, NREN Policy Committee ‐ GÉANT Consortium maglaris@netmode ntua gr maglaris@netmode.ntua.gr APAN 31 th Meeting February 22 nd 2011 Hong Kong
The GÉANT Service Area The GÉANT Service Area The GÉANT Service Area The GÉANT Service Area GÉANT COST: GÉANT COST: 40 M 40 M€ €/ /year (equally shared year (equally shared by EC and NRENs) by EC and NRENs) • Not just the GÉANT backbone É • Federated services via 37 NRENs and 4000+ Campuses to 50 M+ users 000 Ca puses o 50 use s Total European R&E Networking Cost: Total European R&E Networking Cost: International (GÉANT) / National (NREN) / Campus Costs follow the 1/10/100 rule Campus Costs follow the 1/10/100 rule 2
• GÉANT global connectivity GÉANT global connectivity • AfricaConnect • GÉANT2 global connectivity – February 2009
The Key Challenge for The Key Challenge for NRENs The Key Challenge for The Key Challenge for NRENs NRENs ‐ GÉANT: NRENs ‐ GÉANT: GÉANT: GÉANT: A Tsunami of Global High A Tsunami of Global High ‐ End Requirements End Requirements 10 Gig+ NREN – GÉANT Footprint, June 2009 g p High-End Users (HPC, CERN, ITER,…) require stable production services: • Provisioning 10-40-100 Gbps networks (DWDM over dark fiber, leased λ ) • Meeting robustness, reliability, security requirements • Enabling multi-domain e2e monitoring & on-demand hybrid resource allocation • Managing converging e-infrastructures as a High Performance Computing & Networking (HPCN) Cloud � Future Internet (FI) Services & Applications d � F t F t Future Internet (FI) Services & Applications I t I t t (FI) S t (FI) S i i & A & A li li ti ti N t ki (HPCN) Cl 4
LHC Tier0 LHC Tier0 LHC Tier0 LHC Tier0 – – Tier1 Optical Private Network Tier1 Optical Pri ate Net ork Tier1 Optical Pri ate Net ork Tier1 Optical Private Network 5
ITER Proposed Connectivity ITER Proposed Connectivity ITER Proposed Connectivity ITER Proposed Connectivity Shorter alternative:ORIENT/TEIN3 6
Future Internet Experimental Research: Future Internet Experimental Research: Future Internet Experimental Research: Future Internet Experimental Research: An Opportunity for NRENs An Opportunity for NRENs • Requirements: – Sharing optical backbones & housing for FI experiments • Emulating real ‐ world conditions E l i l ld di i • In isolation from production traffic (slicing, virtualization) – Interconnection of local testbeds (e.g. OpenFlow, wireless labs) Interconnection of local testbeds (e g OpenFlow wireless labs) • NRENs as infrastructure providers & innovation brokers: – In Europe Europe : FI Private ‐ Pubic Partnership (PPP) & FIRE � hi (PPP) & FIRE � I E FI P i P bi P provisioning of NREN – GÉANT facilities (e.g. FEDERICA) – In the US US : GENI experimental platforms � provisioning of US GENI experimental platforms � provisioning of In the US Internet 2 , NLR, ESnet, RON facilities (e.g. VINI) – In APAN – In APAN APAN : SINET (JP) CERNET (CN) KOREN (KR) AARNet (AU) APAN : SINET (JP), CERNET (CN), KOREN (KR), AARNet (AU),… 7
Sustainability of FI Experimental Research Sustainability of FI Experimental Research i i bili bili f f i i l l h h • A concern in the times of crisis but FI Research is a high A concern in the times of crisis but FI Research is a high high ‐ risk high risk risk risk strategic investment strategic investment • Advanced Internet ‐ based e ‐ Infrastructures perceived as creative commons creative commons and a stimulus to recovery: creative commons creative commons and a stimulus to recovery: stimulus to recovery: Obama’s stimulus to recovery: Obama s initiative & EU FI PPP… • Some problem areas: – Subsidiarity Subsidiarity between Federal (EC) & National policies – Selection of Projects based on periodic peer reviews (spirals), old boys networks y – Synergies Synergies with major vendors (Cisco, Juniper, NEC, HP…) and Cloud SPs (IBM, Google, SAP...); IPRs & openness – Emphasis on attracting end Emphasis on attracting end end ‐ users end users users : EU Living Labs & FIRE Integrated users : EU Living Labs & FIRE Integrated Projects Open Calls (up to 250 K Euros/year per “user”) 8
Sustainability Factors Sustainability Factors (1/2) (1/2) • Sustainability depends on active endorsement of diverse user Sustainability depends on active endorsement of diverse user diverse user diverse user communities communities (beyond ICT researchers) • Users Users need to understand (and appreciate) the benefits and ( pp ) economic incentives in using multifaceted FI experimental platforms • Priorities, requirements and budgetary constraints of users need to guide planners/providers planners/providers of FI experimental platforms (e.g. user ‐ friendly open interfaces, policies for l tf ( f i dl i t f li i f reproducibility of experiments) 9
Sustainability Factors (2/2) Sustainability Factors (2/2) • FI experimental platforms should attract users by developing – deploying user friendly tools, based on efficient resource efficient resource allocation algorithms allocation algorithms (e g Virtual Network Embedding) allocation algorithms allocation algorithms (e.g. Virtual Network Embedding), monitoring schemes monitoring schemes (slice and substrate oriented) and novel novel information models (e.g. ontologies assisting users to locate information models ( g g g and compose virtualized resources in a distributed FI environment) • Operational costs Operational costs should be assured, required for seamless infrastructure support (and hardware – software upgrades) • Well defined SLAs SLAs and broadly acceptable pricing models pricing models are required, in line with legacy Service Provider practices 10
Federation Federation is tightly related with Federation Federation is tightly related with is tightly related with Sustainability is tightly related with Sustainability Sustainability Sustainability The FI will be a shared multi The FI will be a shared multi ‐ domain ecosystem where: domain ecosystem where: • • Users should be able to run their applications/experiments by Users should be able to run their applications/experiments by dynamically selecting diverse slivers selecting diverse slivers within a slice (basket) of the federated FI facility • • Federated FI facilities should be able to upgrade their scope by Federated FI facilities should be able to upgrade their scope by incorporating additional testbeds, thus attracting a wider user base: Need for open, scalable federation architectures open, scalable federation architectures (bases: PlanetLab SFA PlanetLab SFA SFA Panlab Teagle SFA , Panlab Teagle Teagle ) Teagle ) • Exploit synergies with established advanced R&E e R&E e ‐ Infrastructures Infrastructures should be exploited: – In the US Internet2 In the US Internet2 Internet2 NLR Internet2, , NLR NLR are used as backbone facilities for GENI NLR are used as backbone facilities for GENI infrastructures – e.g. OpenFlow testbeds, VINI… – In Europe, NRENs NRENs ‐ ‐ GÉANT GÉANT can provide support for advanced connectivity services amongst European virtualized infrastructures connectivity services amongst European virtualized infrastructures – In Asia ‐ Pacific advanced R&E networks provide virtualized platforms, interconnecting FI testbeds • • Plan towards a global federated environment for FI experiments Plan towards a global federated environment for FI experiments global federated environment for FI experiments global federated environment for FI experiments 11
Potential role of GÉANT Potential role of GÉANT Potential role of GÉANT – NRENs Potential role of GÉANT – NRENs NRENs NRENs in the FI Ecosystem in the FI Ecosystem • P Provision FI federated platforms (FIRE, FI PPP) with WAN substrate Gigabit+ Provision FI federated platforms P i i i i FI f d FI f d t d l tf t d l tf (FIRE FI PPP) ith WAN b t t Gi bit connectivity at all protocol layers/planes (including Bandwidth on Demand Bandwidth on Demand ) & core virtual facilities (systems, logical routers, virtualized data centers…) • Support virtual resource allocation, scheduling, federated admission control, roaming AAI & secure operation of isolated communities, instantiating the concept of Infrastructure as a Service ( instantiating the concept of Infrastructure as a Service ( Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS IaaS) IaaS) • Deploy and test early prototype tools to create, monitor and control virtual resources allocated to FI user communities, towards the Network on Network on Demand vision Demand D D d i i d • Complement efforts towards common, context aware descriptions of heterogeneous virtual networking elements, enabling resource discovery & resource discovery & provisioning provisioning of composite services to meet user demands • Export NOC functionality NOC functionality to virtual communities to enable scalable management of virtual resources by stake ‐ holders of federated overlays management of virtual resources by stake ‐ holders of federated overlays 12
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