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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 NetworkJRA2: Multi-domain Resources and ServicesJRA3: Enabling Communities

Service Activities:SA1: GÉANT Network Architecture Design and Planning, Procuring, Building and OperatingSA2: Multi-Domain Service OperationSA3: End-User Services in a Federated EnvironmentSA4: Software Governance

Networking Activities:NA1: ManagementNA2: Joint Dissemination and Outreach

NA3: Status and TrendsNA4: Liaison and Support

Total four year budget: 181.4 M€

NA3

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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

NA3 Activity leader: Karel Vietsch, TERENANA3/T4 Task leader: Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT

• Jiri Navratil, CESNET• Tomas Podermanski, CESNET• Vladimir Zahorik, CESNET• Wenche Backman, FUNET• Janne Oksanen, FUNET• Jari Miettinen, FUNET• Juha Oinonen, FUNET

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Campus Best PracticeTask Objective

Address key challenges for the European campus networksImportant areas of focus:

– Physical infrastructure– Campus network– Wireless infrastructure– Light paths on campus

Challenge NRENs to reinforce their national effortsThe NREN should be a fascilitator that stimulates collaboration between the ”campus guys” at the university level and with the NREN itselfGet working groups up and runningProvide an evolving and to-the-point set of best-practice documents for the community.

Network challenges on campus

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Earnest Report on Campus Issues Published January 2008

52 recommendations regarding issues on campusVery 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 campusesContributed 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 practicedocuments

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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 workshopsProduce BPDs – on the national level – in the local tongueTranslate 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 Subtasksi.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