Post on 17-Jan-2016
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Operations of Multi Domain Network Services
Marian Garcia Vidondo, DANTE COO
TNC 2008, Bruges 19-22 May
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateGÉANT2 Vision
• Enable physicists, astronomers and researchers around the world to share their resources, their data and their knowledge
• Provide the best possible network connectivity
• High quality, Tailor-Made, Affordable
• Different stakeholders working together to provide a quality service
• That reaches the users!
• GÉANT2 is not just a backbone network!
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateHow are we getting there?
‘The migration to DF continues apace, as does the deployment of services which exploit switched networks and wave division multiplexing’
‘The overall trend is that there is considerable growth [in capacity] in spite of the fact that on average NRENs budgets have remained almost static over time’
‘Some NRENs own DF or have IRUs or lease DF and can decide themselves what technology to use and what speeds to use on their fibre’
Data from Terena Compendium 20007 http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/2007/pdf/compendium07-publications.pdf
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IS DARK FIBRE ‘THE ANSWER’ OR ‘THE ENABLER’?
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateWhat does it mean?
Affordable Access to Dark Fibre
Higher capacities available
Increase in Network
Complexity
Flexibility in technology used to provide wider
range of services
Increase in Operational Efforts = Higher
Operational costs!
Reaching more users
Greater degree of Multi Domain collaboration
High performance expected
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateWhat have we achieved?
• Pan-European Hybrid networks
• Advanced IP services
• Lambda and circuit services
• Since 2006 GÉANT2 provides pure wavelengths and GE circuits to interconnect NRNs across Europe
• Currently ~50 point-to-point connections crossing Europe
• More than 0.3 Tbps capacity dedicated to projects as DEISA, LHCOPN, Express, Phosphorus and others
• Aiming to provide these services across different world regions.
Connect. Communicate. CollaboratePhosphorus – CRC – PSNC
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Lessons Learnt
• Each stakeholder may have its own SLAs and business models
• Extra effort is required in order to set up the inter-domain parts of the connection: Multiple technologies
• Domain controlled monitoring tools do not always help in the end-to-end connectivity supervision
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What do we need?: Multi Domain Operations
• Several GÉANT2 activities are focused in supporting Multi Domain Operations
• Objective: Delivery and support of multi domain services as one ‘virtual’ domain from the end user point of view
• Challenges: Deliver a complex service packaged in an simple format at an affordable operational cost
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Multi Domain Operations -1: Reducing Operational Costs
• Automated Provisioning of a service- AutoBahn, DCN,…
• Efficient Delivery of the Service - Ease fault detection and resolution
- perfSONAR, E2EMon
- Ease communication between stakeholders- i-Share- eduGAIN
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Multi Domain Operations-2: Monitoring for IP services
• Hardware and software distributed across Europe (within GÉANT2 network and the NRNs)
• It gives a global view of the network connectivity and performance
• Defined set of parameters:– One Way Delay– BWCTL– Link utilization, Link Status, errors, drops
Connect. Communicate. CollaboratePerfsonar UI
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One Way Delay
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Multi Domain Operations -3: Monitoring for lambda services
correlator
visualization tool
E2ECU
MA
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Connect. Communicate. CollaborateWhat are others doing….?
Other research networks (Internet2, Esnet)
Together with GEANT2:
- Combined effort in the tools development and deployment
- Exchange of operational experiences
Common definition of services to users
Definition of global operational processes
Jointly address NOC requirements
Standardize users’ support
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What are others doing….?:
Carriers and ISPs: IPsphere example
‘The network and services of the future will be created by a diverse set of technologies and an equally diverse set of stakeholders, making the concept of ‘convergence’ truly multi-dimensional’
‘ Coordinating complex network technology resources across multiple stakeholders is far more complex than performing the same integration within a single provider’
‘Any future business-technology framework must address the highest costs: operations’
Text from http://www.ipsphereforum.org/
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GÉANT2: Networking Services for demanding users
• Complex Services
– But seamless to end users
– Bridges operational challenges
– Leads the market
• GÉANT3 project will work towards perfecting this model and enhance the services
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateFor More Information
• www.geant2.net
• For latest news and fact sheets http://www.geant2.net/media
• For research activities http://www.geant2.net/research