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Erik Huizer, GÉANT, 11th December 2017

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

Coordinates and participates in EC-funded projects Under 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-infrastructure GÉANT network

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

Organises and runs community events & working groups TNC, 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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GÉANT is a Network and Global Partner The 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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R&E networks are designed for different goals than Internet

GÉANT 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

Q1 2015 Q2 2015 Q3 2015 Q4 2015 Q1 2016 Q2 2016 Q3 2016 Q4 2016 Q1 2017 Q2 2017

IP MPLS 117,24 133,57 118,08 155,84 173,16 219,19 202,01 267,22 259,78 265,26

Total 239,84 259,37 239,36 280,99 303,15 359,42 349,06 414,27 416,38 421,86

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In Q2 2017 GÉANT received about 4.6 Petabytes of traffic per day, that is 4.6 millions of Gigabytes. Between 2015 and 2016 the IP/MPLS traffic on the GÉANT network grew by 64%. This has reduced to~50% in the last 4 quarters. LHC and the high energy physics community has been one of the major drivers for growth.

GÉANT Network – Challenges

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GÉANT is Services

GÉANT develops the specialist services members need to support researchers, educators and innovators – at national, European and international levels.

GÉANT’s portfolio of advanced services covers:

Trust identity and security

Real-time communications

Procurement services

Network centric services

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Example: eduroam service

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GÉANT is 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 & identity projects

Network projects

Collaborative projects

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GÉANT is Community

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 their users

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GÉANT and CESNET

On programme planning committee determining direction Provide hardware platforms needed to develop and test advanced services Contribute 200 person months to current GN project (coordinated by GEANT) GN project task leaders in Network Services Development, Shared Optical

Infrastructure, Regional Network Development Heavily engaged in Community programme through Task Forces and Special

Interest Groups Involved in IaaS pan-European tender that will help institutions consume the

cloud in a safe, easy and predictable way

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GÉANT and CESNET technology projects

Alien Wave Field Trial: Prague to Vienna

Pre Amplifier

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Prague Vienna

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GÉANT user projects

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Reliable data transfer for historic preservation

GÉANT and CESNET user projects: History

• Secure memory of Holocaust and genocide survivor

• One of the largest video digital libraries in the world (~ 42 PB of data)

• Long Term Objective of USC: Build global digital preservation and access grid for digital humanities

• Need reliable and scalable data mirroring between US and Europe

• 1st Data Node: Malach Center at University of Prague

Malach Center CESNET GÉANT Internet2 USC Shoa Foundation

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Two pipe organs 2,000 km apart in concert Multimedia music and dance performance

GÉANT and CESNET user projects: Music

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Two pipe organs 2,000 km apart in concert Multimedia music and dance performance

Music

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Thank you

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