Fernando Liello

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On the shoulders of

• The European Research Network

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Network for Research a keystone of ERA

• Research facilities are expensive and cannot be
  easily duplicated
• Scientific collaborations are worldwide
• Researchers must be able to collaborate in the
  very same way whether they are 5 m or 5000 km
  apart
• Modern research would be impossible without IT
  technology

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Research Excellence and Global Collaborations

• Communication of ideas and results
• Access to data
• Communication services
• Allow People and Resources to meet
• Mobility of the Researchers
• Mobility of Resources
• New approaches
• Virtual Communities
• Virtual Instruments

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The Ingredients of the Recipe

• Make the resources available
• Technological limit
• Architecture
• Remove the boundaries
• 31 countries in Europe
• Other regions
• Collaboration, not competition

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The Two Sides of the Coin

• Research on Networking
• To develop and experiment new technologies
• Network for Research
• To guarantee the services needed by every and
  each researcher in Europe

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A Layered Structure
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GÉANT The model
Other funds
EU funds
National funds
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GÈANT Structure
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GÈANT accesses
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Intercontinental Dimension
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Weather Map
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Not Only Bandwidth

• The End-to-End problem
• The domain problem
• Resource allocation
• l networking is only a partial solution
• Capacity (from few Mbits to ls)
• QoS
• The interface problem
• Solutions are not always scalable

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GÈANT is changing already

• IPv6
• Pilot Service now
• Service in October
• More flexible service delivery
• Bandwidth available for test purposes
• Private Networks
• On a per-project base

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VPN Support

• Project Support in GÈANT
• 6Net tunneling
• Euro6
• Access through the NRENs
• DATATAG

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GÈANT and GRID

• Complementary Aspects
• The DATAGRID experience
• FP6

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GÈANT in FP6

• Higher bandwidth
• Better world-wide connectivity
• New Architecture?
• Private fibers?
• New procurement strategies
• Higher NRENs coordination

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Next Generation Internet ?

• Harmonization of
• Infrastructure
• Services
• Content

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One Completes the Other

• GRID initiatives will provide the highlevel
  services
• NRENs GÈANT will provide the infrastructure
  and the basic services
• These two ingredients will bring the contents to
  the users

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Thank you