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SERENATE Final Workshop

Bad Nauheim (near Frankfurt)

16-17 June 2003

What’s the idea?

David Williams

CERN, also President TERENA

SERENATE NREN Workshop, Noordwijkerhout 5 February 2003

Topics

• What is about?

• Structure and timescales• Initial workshop• Operators’ workshop• End-users’ workshop• This NREN workshop• Some preliminary conclusions?

WHAT ISSERENATE

ABOUT?

The acronym

• SERENATE = Study into European Research and Education Networking as Targeted by eEurope

• Funded as an EC project – FP5

• Looking at the strategic needs, say up to 5 years ahead

• NOT making detailed plans

The objectives

Strategic study into the evolution of research & education networking in Europe over the next 5-10 years. Looking into the technical, organisational and financial aspects, the market conditions and the regulatory environment. Will provide inputs to the policy-making of the EC, national governments and funding bodies, research institutions and research & education networks.

Who are the partners?

• Academia Europaea• Centre for Tele-informatics (CTI), Technical University of

Denmark• DANTE• European Science Foundation• TERENA (coordinating partner)

• considerable involvement of other actors – especially you the NRENs

• also end-users and industry (operators and equipment suppliers)

Steering Committee

• Bonac - ARNES – “geographic” issues

• Butterworth - AE – “research users”

• Davies - DANTE – “technical”

• Jaume - RENATER – “other users”

• Liello - chair NREN Consortium

• Mayer - ESF

• Skouby - CTI – “economics”

• Vietsch - TERENA

• Williams

STRUCTURE AND TIMESCALES

The EU project

• Runs from 1 May 2002 for 16 months, so until 31 August 2003

• Comprises 14 areas of work, including workshops, studies and report writing

Workshops

• Initial workshop (17-18 Sept 2002, La Hulpe) Done

• Operators’ views on infrastructure status and evolution (8 Nov 2002, Amsterdam) Done

• User needs and priorities (17-19 Jan 2003, Montpellier) Done

• NREN issues (4-5 Feb 2003, Noordwijkerhout) Today

• Final workshop (16-17 June 2003, Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt)

Transport Infrastructure

fact-finding on the transport and infrastructure market – deployment and trends, incl. pricing and availability and market development as well as global connectivity issues

carried out by DANTE and CTI GÉANT procurements as one of the inputs plus

confidential interviews with European-level operators report on status of international connectivity (D6) in your

papers – report on transport infrastructure will be ready “soon”

several talks on this area on agenda

Regulatory situation

study into the status of regulatory development in: each of the EU Accession States Portugal, Greece the other EU Member States as a whole

carried out by CTI and Antelope Consulting report in your paperwork – and on agenda

Equipment

study into the availability and characteristics of equipment for next-generation networks

carried out by DANTE and TERENA contributions from technical experts from TF-NGN structured interviews with equipment manufacturers to

take place towards end of 2002 First draft of ~50 page report available “yesterday”,

with a summary in your papers

Other areas of work• Education and other fields (libraries, healthcare….)

• Geographic coverage

Route to more information?

• http://www.serenate.org– Public pages

– Also working areas for each work package

• mailto:info@serenate.org

Where are we today?

M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S Initial Workshop (a)

Operators Workshop (d) Final Workshop (m)

Regulatory Situation (c) InfrastructureForecast (e)

NREN Models (f) Transport Infrastructure (b)

Equipment (h) User Needs (i) Extension of RNs (k)

Geographic Coverage (l) Infrastr. Scenarios (g)

Overall Stategic Scenarios (j) Final Report (n)

INITIAL WORKSHOP

Initial Workshop 17-18 September 2002 at La Hulpe 94 participants from: national research & education networks, researchers,

government and funding bodies, telecom operators, equipment manufacturers interesting plenary presentations:

researcher’s, educationalist’s and librarian’s view policies/politics (EP, EC, ENPG) the view from the campus (FR, UK) the continental view (GÉANT, Internet2) optical networking problems in real life

breakout discussion sessions on Technology, Economics, Geography, Researchers’ Needs, Other Users’ Needs

Summary report via serenate.org/workshop1.html

First impressions (1/3)

From hardware to services:Research networking is evolving fast. It is not so much just getting

“hardware connectivity” to the researcher’s desk, but it is increasingly about delivering a set of services needed by researchers (and others). The user wants information access, collaborative tools, “disciplinary Grids”. AAA and Web/Grid services will be part of the delivery mechanism.

Research & education networks are a resource:Lots of expertise. Growing understanding by government of the importance

of ICT as a driver for economic prosperity. Growing understanding by governments of the value of their research & education network’s expertise. Increasing requests to capitalise on that expertise.

First impressions (2/3) Technology:

The “optical wave” is a powerful one. We need to find a coherent approach to the “steadily increasing amplitude” of optical networking.

Economics:We need a clear understanding of any regulatory barriers that we could

face in deploying pan-European fibre. Does it matter whether you actually own fibre, or lease it on a long-term basis, or maybe even lease wavelengths?

Geography:There is a potential conflict between two fundamental EU-policy

concepts: equal opportunities for researchers wherever they are (ERA) subsidiarity.

First impressions (3/3)

• Researcher-User Needs:As much as they can get (and afford). AAA, Grids etc.

Other Users’ Needs:Could one develop benchmarks for schools, libraries, hospitals

etc.?

Policy and funding:Dialogue with governments and politicians (national and

European level) needed.

OPERATORS’ WORKSHOP

Operators’ Workshop (1/2)

8 November 2002 in Amsterdam 45 participants mainly from telecom operators, but some

equipment manufacturers, and representatives of other areas of interest

Summary report via serenate.org/workshop2.html Meeting interesting and some interest to repeat at intervals

Operators’ Workshop (2/2)

Major themes:- Hybrid net architecture needed

Classic approach for any-to-any connectivity Switched approach when needing high speed between limited set of sites

(Grid-style)

Little (operator) interest in >10 Gb/s Differing approaches to offering dark-fiber – some consensus that

wavelength services might be best Expectation that increasing liberalisation in East Europe will bring

down costs Further strong consolidation of the industry anticipated Potential interest in more collaborative approach with NRENs

END-USERS’ WORKSHOP

End Users’ Workshop (1/2)

17-19 January 2003 in Montpellier ~40 participants Summary report will become available via

serenate.org/workshop3.html

End Users’ Workshop (2/2)

Some major themes:- Much progress over past five years Campus is often the major bottleneck NREN model remains appropriate (discussion on EREN) Clearly growing requirements across all disciplines and all countries Move from bandwidth to “services” and the impact that this has/will have on the

relations between NREN and the national academic community Need for improved information flow between NRENs and end-users Digital Divide (inside Europe)

Major issue Needs political action (and money!) to make any impact EU project to montior the situation?

Communities beyond research and tertiary education Charging

PRELIMINARY OUTCOMES?

Some themes

Complexity From hardware to services Research & education networks as a national resource Technology – optical wave Economics – impact of regulation; geography Geography – digital divide inside Europe

• Research and tertiary education users Users beyond research and tertiary education Policy and funding

Recommendation not prescription

THIS WORKSHOP

Who are you?

• NRENs coming from many different countries.

• Here to talk and interact

Pleas for the speakers

• Not everyone listens to rapid-fire English every day. Please speak reasonably slowly and enunciate as clearly as you can!

• Remember to send a copy of your presentation to Raquel (raquel@terena.nl)

• Please keep to time …

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