RedIRIS

RedIRIS

The Spanish National Research and Education Network

e-Science

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e-Science requires high-speed communication networks and high-performance computing resources to allow the Research

Community to cooperate globally in an efficient way.

Communications NetworkCommunications NetworkCommunications NetworkCommunications Network

Applications and MiddlewareApplications and MiddlewareApplications and MiddlewareApplications and Middleware

Computing ResourcesComputing Resources

Storage ResourcesStorage

ResourcesInformation Resources

Information Resources

Other Resources

Other Resources

RedIRIS and e-Science

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RedIRIS manages a research network infrastructure and provides connectivity, security and other services to Spanish researchers, thus

improving collaboration among themselves and with their global peers.

Communications NetworkCommunications NetworkCommunications NetworkCommunications Network

Applications and MiddlewareApplications and MiddlewareApplications and MiddlewareApplications and Middleware

Computing ResourcesComputing Resources

Storage ResourcesStorage

ResourcesInformation Resources

Information Resources

Other Resources

Other Resources

RedIRIS in the Global Research Intranet

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The Research and Education Networks cooperate in a multi-domain environment which requires high quality standards at all its levels.

Campus LAN

National Research

and Education Networks

(NRENs)

Regional Research Networks

Pan-European, North America…

Research Networks

RedIRIS collaborates with Spanish regional networks to provide high quality services

to the Spanish Research Community

Collaborates with regional networks (CICA, Anella, RECETGA, I2BASK...)

Manages the Spanish NREN and cooperates with other NRENs (JANET, SURFnet, GARR…)

Co-manages and co-funds GÉANT, which cooperates with Intertnet2, CANARIE, SINET, RedCLARA...

Provides services and support

RedIRIS directly contributes to the

improvement of global connectivity among

researchers

RedIRIS…

Organizational framework

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It is funded by the MICINN with 16 M€/year. MICINN defines the Strategy.

It is managed by the Public Entity Red.es, belonging to the State Department for Telecommunications and Information Society (SETSI) of the MITYC.

RedIRIS contributes to the Spanish research development and the development of Information Society

[…] SETSI

E .P. E. Adscrita al MITYC

SETSISETSISecretaría de Estado de Investigación

Secretaría General de Política Científica y Tecnológica

Dirección General de Planificación y Coordinación

[…]

[…]

[…]

MICINN MITYC

Fundation

Organizational framework

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It is funded by the MICINN with 16 M€/year. MICINN defines the Strategy.

It is managed by the Public Entity Red.es, belonging to the State Department for Telecommunications and Information Society (SETSI) of the MITYC.

RedIRIS contributes to the Spanish research development and the development of Information Society

[…] SETSI

E .P. E. Adscrita al MITYC

SETSISETSISecretaría de Estado de Investigación

Secretaría General de Política Científica y Tecnológica

Dirección General de Planificación y Coordinación

[…]

[…]

[…]

MICINN MITYyC

Management

Organizational framework

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It is funded by the MICINN with 16 M€/year. MICINN defines the Strategy.

It is managed by the Public Entity Red.es, belonging to the State Department for Telecommunications and Information Society (SETSI) of the MITYC.

RedIRIS contributes to the Spanish research development and the development of Information Society

[…] SETSI

E .P. E. Adscrita al MITYC

SETSISETSISecretaría de Estado de Investigación

Secretaría General de Política Científica y Tecnológica

Dirección General de Planificación y Coordinación

[…]

[…]

[…]

MICINN MITYC

Management

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In order to fulfil the needs of all its users, RedIRIS deploys, operates and manages a meshed communications network based on network

equipment and links up to 10 Gb bandwidth.

RedIRIS: National Infrastructure

- Links

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- Network Equipment

RedIRIS affiliated institutions (Universities, Research Centres) connect to the corresponding regional RedIRIS PoP via regional research and education networks, or, if no regional network

exists, through local loops from their main nodes to a RedIRIS PoP.

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Through its participation in GÉANT2, RedIRIS guarantees to its users 10 Gb bandwidth links with advanced European Research Projects.

RedIRIS: Contribution to European Infrastructure

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RedIRIS, together with the European NRENs, cooperates with other NRENs to improve connectivity within the Global Research Intranet,

a basic tool which allows researchers to cooperate remotely at a global scale…

RedIRIS: Contribution to Global Infrastructure

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…and also provides access to global Internet using high-speed dedicated links.

RedIRIS: Access to Global Internet

INTERNET

INTERNET

•10Gb (IP Service)•2,5Gb (IP Backup)•3 x 10Gb (Projects)

10Gb

10Gb (Telia)

1Gb

10Gb(Global Crossing)

ISP

ISP

ISP

ISP

ISP

ISP

GlobalResearch Intranet

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RedIRIS provides its services to 350+ Institutions (including all Spanish Universities and most public research centers and ICTSs).

This includes 150.000+ researchers and 2.000.000+ potential end users.

RedIRIS users: more than 350 affiliated institutions

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RedIRIS: Usage Patterns

RedIRIS serves many end users with basic connectivity needs, as well as specific researcher groups with very high bandwidth requirements.

A. Basic Service Web navigation, e-mail Few servers, many potential usersExample: University students

B. Research Projects Multicast, streaming, VLAN's, VPN, QoS Communities of users, virtual organizationsExample: Opera Oberta (live multicast streaming of operas from Liceu to Universities)

C. Main e-science Research Projects High energy physics, astronomy, genomics, biomedicine, earth sciences, IT research, etc.

Users of High Performance Computing & Grids Require high-speed links (10 Gb)Example: Large Hadron Collider (LHC), DEISA

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Fora: TERENA, DANTE, Trusted Introducer, FIRST, MAAWG, APWG…

RedIRIS activities

RedIRIS participates in international and national innovation projects and fora in order to gather knowledge and best practices which allow RedIRIS to improve existing services and launch new innovative ones.

Services

Projects: International projects (GÈANT2, FEDERICA, EGEE-III…), national projects (PASITO), collaborationwith partners in innovation activities

RedIRIS: Main Research and Innovation Projects

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RedIRIS participates in national and international projects which provide a very valuable input to develop and improve RedIRIS services.

GN2 (GÉANT2)34 European NRENs cooperate through the GN2 project for:

-the joint management of a high speed Pan-European Research and Academic Network, well connected to NRENs worldwide

- the joint development of services for a multi-domain environment

FEDERICAEuropean experimental network infrastructure for trialling new

networking protocols and services

EGEE III (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) Main European project for scientific distributed computing

RedIRIS collaboration: network support, PKI, security, training infrastructure...

ALICE2Improved research connectivity between Europe and Latin America

PASITOSpanish experimental network infrastructure for trialling new networking protocols and services

Services

Improved network connectivity

New monitoring tools

Bandwidth on demand

Cross-border fibreMobility

(EDUROAM)PERTSecurityAAIPKI for e-scienceImproved network

supportExperimental

network infrastructures

…..

EUMEDCONNECT2Improved research connectivity within the Mediterranean Area

RedIRIS: Service porfolio

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CONNECTIVITYCONNECTIVITY

NETWORK ADVISORY SERVICES

NETWORK ADVISORY SERVICES

NETWORK INCIDENT HANDLING

(NOC)

NETWORK INCIDENT HANDLING

(NOC)

OTHER NETWORK SERVICES IPv4/IPv6 addresses, Multicast, Jumboframe, DNS, L2 VPN

OTHER NETWORK SERVICES IPv4/IPv6 addresses, Multicast, Jumboframe, DNS, L2 VPN

DIGITAL REPOSITORIES

DIGITAL REPOSITORIES

MIDDLEWARE ADVISORY SERVICES

MIDDLEWARE ADVISORY SERVICES

DIGITAL IDENTITY

MANAGEMENT

DIGITAL IDENTITY

MANAGEMENTMAIL

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

MAIL QUALITY

IMPROVEMENTCOLLABORATIVE

TOOLS

COLLABORATIVE TOOLS

RedIRIS offers to its affiliate users a wide range of services from connectivity and advanced network services to applications,

collaborative tools and dissemination.

Example of most intensive users: BSC-RES

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RedIRIS provides advanced network connectivity to the “Red Española de Supercomputación” (RES),

whose members are several Spanish Supercomputing Centers.

Level 2 Network:

Phase I• 1Gb core

Phase II• 10Gb core

BSC(Marenostrum):

Coordinator of RES

Example of most intensive users: BSC-DEISA

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RedIRIS also provides BSC (coordinator of RES) with high-speed connectivity (10 Gbps) to the DEISA Project (Distributed European

Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications)

10 Gb

BSC(Marenostrum):

Spanish Member in DEISA

RedIRIS Evolution

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20072006200520042003200220011988 1989 1990 2000 NOVA

Since 1988, the mission of RedIRIS has been to provide advance connectivity services to the Spanish research and academic

community. In order to achieve this goal, RedIRIS has implemented different generations of a national high-speed backbone.

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2020

The next step in RedIRIS evolution: RedIRIS NOVA

RedIRIS NOVA will be the new RedIRIS national infrastructure: a dark-fibre network with optical equipment, which will increase very

significantly RedIRIS transmission capacity, as well as its ability to deploy new services in a flexible way.

• Dark-fibre networks increase transmission capacity and favour the introduction of innovative services, all for a long-term cost inferior to that of leased capacity

• Nearly all European NRENs already have dark-fibre in all or part of their backbones, and are promoting cross-border fibre connections among themselves

• RedIRIS strategic decision to deploy a dark-fibre was taken in 2006, and its being implemented now (on-going public procurement through competitive dialogue)

• Budgeted cost: 130M€ for at least 10 years (with 55 M€ from EDRF funds)

NOVAStarts new network planning

New network deployment

RedIRIS Strategic Plan: Environmental Factors

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A detailed analysis has been carried out in order to determine the key relevant environmental factors for RedIRIS strategy.

• RedIRIS analyzed its environment:• The political, economical, social, technical and legal

trends which might impact RedIRIS in the next years (PESTL analysis)

• The position of RedIRIS in relation to existing or potential competitors, substitutive services, providers and users (“5 forces of Porter” analysis)

• The main stakeholders of RedIRIS and their present and future expectations vis-à-vis RedIRIS

• Some relevant factors identified were:• Need to collaborate and compete at a global level• Increased use of Grid and Cloud Computing• Evolution of technology costs• Need of increased cooperation between national and

regional authorities• Political support to research and innovation as part of

the measures to fight against the world economic crisis

• Potential Entrants • Technical Barriers (higher with R.NOVA)• Model consists of hiring the infraestructure to providers

• Suppliers • RedIRIS bargainig power

• Dependence on suppliers

• Buyers (Users) - Free Service- Some users could make pressure on RedIRIS

• Substitutes • Direct purchase of the service by users (loss of economies of scale and externalities)

Industry Competitors

No direct rivals (but degree of subcontracting

may vary)

• Political

• Cooperation between national and regional authorities• Political support as part of the measures to fight against the crisis• Technology influence

• Economical

• World Economic crisis• Evolution of technology costs•

• Social

• New Technologies uses• Globalization

• Technological

• Cloud Computing, Grid• Telecom Industry Development

RedIRIS Strategic Plan: SWOT Analysis

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• Problem of lack of staff• Complexity of certain decision making processes (2 Ministries, 17 regional Governments…)

• Dependence on providers

• Insufficient interaction with affiliated institutions

• Insufficient dissemination of RedIRIS services

• Inadequate funding system for equipment renewal

• Knowledge economy

• Demand for dark fibre at levels below that of the national backbone

• Increase in network capacity (possibility of serving new user groups)

• Good image of RedIRIS among authorities, providers and affiliated institutions

• Neutral provider of services for e-science

• Consequences of any service breakdown, as some RedIRIS services are critical for affiliated institutions

• Possible service problems relating to migration to the new infrastructure RedIRIS NOVA

• Relationship with some regional governments

• Legal uncertainty about the entity which will manage RedIRIS after 2011

• Lack of capacity for internal growth to take advantage of existing opportunities

• Motivated staff with good technical training

• Suitable network infrastructure (RedIRIS 10)

• Experience (20 years) and good alliances for carrying out scheduled duties

• Good image of RedIRIS among users

• Advantages of the institutional support provided by MICINN and Red.es

Bearing that environmental analysis in mind, a “SWOT” was carried out in order to determine the internal and external factors from which the Strategic Objectives will be derived

RedIRIS Strategic Plan: Objectives and Actions

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1. Improve capacity and reduce cost.

2. Increase the stability and technical quality of the service, in order to increase its reliability and redundancy and reduce the risk of failure.

3. Leverage the investments to meet the needs of big users and to improve the service conditions resolving specific problems as network capillarity.

4. Increase RedIRIS's capacity for innovation.

5. Increase RedIRIS's communication with its affiliated institutions.

6. Reinforce RedIRIS alliances with other research and education networks and with providers Networks.

• Negotiate an increase of staff headcount, in order to have the necessary human resources.

• Negotiate a more sustainable approach to equipment renewal.

• Approve a new Public Relations Plan to improve dissemination of RedIRIS services.

• Convene the new Advisory Committee, whose suggestions will improve RedIRIS capacity to be aware of user demands

• Maintain and increase where appropriate the cooperation with other NRENs and providers.

• Complete the implementation of the ongoing quality and environmental programmes

Taking all those previous analysis into account, RedIRIS has established its Strategic Objectives

and has proposed Actions to achieve them

• Development of RedIRIS NOVA. This key measure will have a positive impact in relation to all RedIRIS strategic objectives

RedIRIS

The Spanish National Research and Education Network