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Campus Best Practice (GN3/NA3/T4)
and the Norwegian GigaCampus project
Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT
Network Monitoring Workshop
Belgrade, 20 October 2009
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GEANT3: 2009-2013
Joint Research Activities:
JRA1: Future Network
JRA2: Multi-domain Resources and Services
JRA3: Enabling Communities
Service Activities:
SA1: GÉANT Network Architecture Design and
Planning, Procuring, Building and Operating
SA2: Multi-Domain Service Operation
SA3: End-User Services in a Federated
Environment
SA4: Software Governance
Networking Activities:
NA1: Management
NA2: Joint Dissemination and Outreach
NA3
NA3: Status and Trends
NA4: Liaison and Support
SA1
SA2
SA3
SA4
Total four year budget: 181.4 M€
JRA1
JRA2
JRA3
NA1
NA2
NA3
NA4
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Campus Best Practice (GN3/NA3/T4)
Task participants
Four countries participate in the work, 14 man years:
Norway / UNINETT (8 MY)
Serbia / AMRES (2 MY)
The Czech republic / CESNET (2 MY)
Finland / FUNET (2 MY)
• Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT
• Gunnar Bøe, UNINETT
• Olaf Schjelderup, UNINETT
• Mara Bukvic, AMRES
• Bojan Jakovljevic, AMRES
• Esad Saitovic, AMRES
• Jiri Navratil, CESNET
• Tomas Podermanski, CESNET
• Vladimir Zahorik, CESNET
• Wenche Backman, FUNET
• Janne Oksanen, FUNET
• Jari Miettinen, FUNET
• Juha Oinonen, FUNET
NA3 Activity leader: Karel Vietsch, TERENA
NA3/T4 Task leader: Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT
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Campus Best Practice
Task Objective
Address key challenges for the European campus networks
Important areas of focus:
– Physical infrastructure
Network challenges on campus
– Campus network
– Wireless infrastructure
– Light paths on campus
Challenge NRENs to reinforce their national efforts
The NREN should be a fascilitator that stimulates collaboration
between the ”campus guys” at the university level and with the
NREN itself
Get working groups up and running
Provide an evolving and to-the-point set of best-practice
documents for the community.
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Earnest Report on Campus Issues
Published January 2008
52 recommendations regarding issues on campus
Very congruent with the Campus Best
Practice work plan
Recommendation #12:
“Strengthen the collaboration between
National Research and Education Networking
organisations and institutions to improve the
deployment of key services”
Better synchronization of national research
networking and campus issues is essential for
viable end-to-end services.
http://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/publications.html
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Norwegian GigaCampus
Four years of experience with GigaCampus (started in 2006)
Have working groups in 7 areas operational
Physical infrastructure, network, mobility, security, AV, network
monitoring, SIP
Have made 20++ best practice documents (but in Norwegian…)
Have run 25 national procurement processes
Routers, switches, wireless, servers, storage, printers, A/V, telephony,
ADSL, software
Have rolled out network monitoring and management solutions on
over 30 campuses
Contributed to getting eduroam up on running on 29 campuses so far.
Done on cite help for getting a security policy approved by the
university board and in turn implemented. We done security audits on
26 universities/collages. We have also provided IRT training for 25
institutions.
Assisted universities in building project, securing an optimal physical
network infrastructure. Been on cite and assisted with 30 campus core
network buildouts.
UNINETT
engineering
task force
UFS
best practice
documents
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Campus Best Practice (GN3/NA3/T4)
Work plan
Translate existing GigaCampus material to English
Focus initially (first two years) on getting results within the four pilot countries
(Norway, Serbia, The Czech republic, Finland)
Organize national working groups and national workshops
Produce BPDs – on the national level – in the local tongue
Translate BPDs to English when mature
As the results and recommendations (BPDs) from the countries of the pilot
NRENs become available, they will be actively disseminated to the wider
European NREN and campus communities.
Available on http://gn3campus.uninett.no
The task will provide a bulletin board for BPD contributions from other
countries as well.
We are planning open campus issues workshops later in the program period.
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Campus Best Practice Subtasks
i.e. Areas of Focus
We have defined 9 subtasks / areas:
1.
Basic infrastructure
2.
A/V
3.
LAN infrastructure and IPv6
4.
Light path service
5.
Wireless
6.
Network monitoring
7.
SIP and IP telephony
8.
Security
9.
Procurement
Not all four pilot countries contributing to all subtasks
but all countries contributing to network monitoring!
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Objective of this workshop
All countries have a related history of developing and providing network
monitoring tools
For the NREN itself
For the campus network environments
Objective;
Exchange experiences
Show features and future plans for home-made tools
– and other (open source?) tools found useful
Discuss common denominators
Lay grounds for future collaboration
Lay grounds for planned Best Practice Documents in the area
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