GÉANT Overview Scott...NRENs serve 50 million users at 10,000 institutions across Europe. Network services: IP, Point-to-Point Services, VPN, Testbeds, performance monitoring. GÉANT

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GÉANT Overview

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Matthew Scott, GÉANT, 6th June 2018

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Runs a membership association for Europe's National Research & Education Networks (NRENs)GÉANT Association

Coordinates and participates in EC-funded projectsUnder Horizon 2020 the financial instrument for implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness

Operates a pan-European e-infrastructureGÉANT network

Manages a portfolio of services for research & educationeduroam, eduGAIN, eduTEAMs, InAcademia

Organises and runs community events & working groupsTNC, task forces & special interest groups

To support collaboration and development amongst researchers, the dissemination of information & knowledge, and provide access to a portfolio of services and infrastructure resources:

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Membership Association

GÉANT Association supports and represents over 40 NRENs across Europe.

Together they support over 10,000 institutions and 50 million academic users.

Together the NREN members are

stronger and better able to support you

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Governance

All European NRENs

Subset (9) of European NRENs

Subset of board + CEO

GÉANT organisation management team

Members

GÉANT Board

CostSharing

committee

Auditcommittee

Remunerationcommittee

GÉANTSGA2

Oversightcommittee

CEO

GÉANT Executive

National interestsNRENs

Members

Customers

Providers

GÉANT interests

GÉANTCommunitycommittee

GÉANTProgramme

Planningcommittee

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High-Energy Physics and Astronomy

Earth Sciences and Observations

Future Internet Projects

E-Infrastructures Life

Sciences

Social Sciences, Arts and

Humanities

Users we work with

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Physics sciencesHigh-energy physics (LHC, BELLE II, CERN, etc.)

Neutrino observation (KM3NET)

Scientific user groups we liaise with

Future Internet projects (XiFi, Confine, SmartFire, etc.)

Astronomy and Earth observationEarth observation (EUMETSAT, COPERNICUS)Radio-astronomy (eVLBI, SKA, etc.)Satellite operations (ESOC)

E-Infrastructures (EGI, EUDAT, PRACE, HelixNebula)

Life sciencesGenomics (Elixir, EBI, EMBL)

BioImaging

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Projects

GÉANT is a trusted European Commission (EC) partner in many global collaboration projects and initiatives through our special relationship with the European Union.

European e-infrastructure

projects

Trust & identityprojects

Networkprojects

Collaborativeprojects

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32-month project

1 May 2016 -

31 December 2018New activity

structure

Funding €59ΜTotal direct costs

~ €80Μ~ €100Μ total project costs with eligible overheads 25%

75% funding + 25% overhead for all partners

50% funding of network costs

~5400MMs

GN4-2 Project

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NA1 Project Management

NA2 Communications and Outreach

NA3 Partner, Users and Stakeholder Relations

SA1 Network Infrastructure and Services OPs

SA2 Trust & Identity and Multi-Domain Services

SA3 Operations and Services Assurance

JRA1 Network Infrastructure Evolution

JRA2 Network Services Development

JRA3 Trust and Identity Development

JRA4 Application Services Delivery Development

GN4-2

GN4-2 Work package (activity) structure

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GÉANT is a Network and Global PartnerThe GÉANT network interconnects research, education and innovation communities worldwide, with secure, high-capacity networks.

We design, plan, build and operate the large-scale, high-performance GÉANT network that connects European NRENs to each other and the rest of the world for sharing, accessing and processing the high data volumes generated by research and education communities and for testing innovative technologies and concepts.

Interconnecting Europe’s NRENs over a 500Gb highly-resilient

pan-European backbone.NRENs serve 50 million users at 10,000 institutions across

Europe.Network services: IP, Point-to-Point Services, VPN, Testbeds,

performance monitoring

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GÉANT is a Network and Global PartnerThe GÉANT network interconnects research, education and innovation communities worldwide, with secure, high-capacity networks.

We design, plan, build and operate the large-scale, high-performance GÉANT network that connects European NRENs to each other and the rest of the world for sharing, accessing and processing the high data volumes generated by research and education communities and for testing innovative technologies and concepts.

Interconnecting Europe’s NRENs over a 500Gb highly-resilient

pan-European backbone.NRENs serve 50 million users at 10,000 institutions across

Europe.Network services: IP, Point-to-Point Services, VPN, Testbeds,

performance monitoring

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A separate ultra-high-speed internet, only for research & education

RobustnessOver 1,000 terabytes of data are transferred every day via the GÉANT IP backbone.

Total reliability100% average monthly access availability.

FlexibilityServices and infrastructure can be tailored to individual user requirements.

Capacity and rapid upscale100Gbps (gigabits per second) services are now available across the core network, with a network design that will support up to 8Tbps (terabits per second), ensuring the network remains ahead of user demand and the data deluge.

Efficient operationsThe dedicated GÉANT Operations Centre ensures 99% of cases are reported within 15 minutes of any outage being detected, leading to rapid resolution.

ServicesA wide range of services including IP and dedicated circuits, testbeds and virtualised resources, authentication and roaming, monitoring and troubleshooting, advisory and support services.

“Today it would not be possible to work without the network that GÉANT and the NRENs have provided.”CMS experiment, Large Hadr on Collider (LHC)

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GEANT and R&E partners

R&E networks are designed for different goals than Internet

Network optimised for research data transfers

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Over 60% year on year growth on IP MPLS means 140 times in 10 years

Network Challenges

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Membership Association

GÉANT Association supports and represents over 40 NRENs across Europe.

Together they support over 10,000 institutions and 50 million academic users.

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Thank you

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© GÉANT Association on behalf of the GN4 Phase 2 project (GN4-2).The research leading to these results has received funding fromthe European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 731122 (GN4-2).