GN3 Plus NA3-T3Recommendations for TF-MSP

Andrew Mackarel GN3+ NA3 T3

16th September 2014

Workshop Budapest

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Agenda for this talk

• Green Team Members

• Work Activities Posters

• The Business Continuity Plan /

Climate Change Preparation Survey

• Dissemination to Higher Education

• Pointers from earlier Green workshop

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The GN3Plus NA3-T3 Team

NA3 Activity Leader John Dyer (TERENA)Task Leader Andrew Mackarel (HEAnet – Ireland)

Team Members

Vasiliki Giannikopoulou (GRNET - Greece)

Magnus Stromdahl (NORDUnet, UNINETT – Norway)

Tamàs Maray (NIIF – Hungary)

Josef Vojtech (CESNET – Czech Republic)Milan Kuzelka (AMRES – Serbia) Belgrade UniversityJelena Prodanovic

Nikoletta Tsioroli (CYNET – Cyprus)

Albert Hankel (SURFnet - Netherlands) withUniversity of Amsterdam partners

Please consider joining the team in GN4 and encourage support for our work. Tell us the areas that you see environmental challenges in your daily activities

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Some Active Test Cases / Best Practices (Posters outside )

Some

Active Test Cases / Best Practices

(Posters outside )

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The

Business Continuity Plan

Climate Change

Preparation Survey Results

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BCP survey results

1.Do you as an NREN document risks as part of each large activity in network or service development and deployment?

Yes 65%

No 35%

 

 2. Does your NREN maintain a Business Risk Register ?

Yes 24%

No 76%

 

 3. Do you as an NREN have an active Business Continuity Plan?

Yes 53%

No 47%

 

4, Do you think that having BCP is important for an NREN?

Yes 94%

No 6 %

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BCP survey results -2

5 . Have you experienced any major network outages because of severe weather disturbances?

Yes 24 %

No 76%

6. Have you as an NREN ever had to consider the location of some of your network equipment due to irregular climatic operational problems , extreme heat or cold, humidity/ flooding or seismic activities?

Yes 24 %

No 76%

7. Electrical supply in Europe will change radically in the next 10 years due to the increase in use of renewable energy technologies and interconnection of these technologies into the distribution grids. Do you as an NREN track national planning and implementation activities in this area?

Yes 24 %

No 76%

 

8. As part of the normal NREN operational activity do you check that each of your PoPs have Power Resilience

Yes 94%

No 6%

 

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BCP survey results -3

9. Have you implemented full diverse path resilience for fibre connectivity in your network to your major PoPs?

Yes 76%

No 24%

 

10. As an NREN do you offer the opportunity for staff Teleworking/ Remote Working?

Yes 82%

No 18%

 

11. Are you collaborating with other organisations (such as commercial telco’s) to reduce the risks (such as sharing infrastructure when disaster strikes)?

Yes 47%

No 53 %

 

12. Would your NREN like to be kept informed of any Green Team initiatives in the area of Business Continuity or Climatic Change Planning?

Yes 88%

No 12%

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Electrical supply in Europe changing

The impact switching to Renewable Energy sources which power our networks.Grid Technologies to support this radical shift have to be designed yet. - Frequency change mitigation - Supply surges in areas => Trip outs locally

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GEANT Green Team Climate Change Planning Future

Establish how many NRENS have Business Continuity Plans

Survey out of 17 NRENs, just over 50% have a BCP

Ask NRENs to document fully o Level of Resilience supported in their Network

o Location, Power , Path, Equipment Some answers in surveyo all PoP GPS co-ordinates including Altitudeo Identify if earthquakes or natural disturbances are common occurrenceso Identify if any large water sources or mountains etc are close to PoPso Establish where national energy supplies are obtained and what are any

potential threats or disruption to these supplies

Suggest solution is for GEANT Environmental team to build a template of how this data is presented and produce sample reports

Model impact of climate change in parts of GEANT area and present to NREN audience in 2015

– Scheduled start is Feb 2015

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Some National Climate Change policies

EC Document http://www.climateadaptation.eu/

Irish Climate Change Policy document

http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/Environment/ClimateChange/FileDownLoad,32467,en.pdf

Some GEANT team which already identified equivalent Policy documents the UK , France, Czech Republic and Cyprus. Most of these place an obligation on you as a Service Provider to protect

your services against climate change

UK have a Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) since 2008.

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Higher Education Dissemination work

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Higher Education Dissemination

International Program called eco-University targeting 3rd Level Campus

Student promoted activity with college management support

The seven steps of the programme are:

Establishing a Green Campus committee

incorporating and staff representatives.

Undertaking an environmental review.

Implementing an action plan.

Monitoring and evaluating actions carried out.

Linking the programme to learning on campus.

Informing and involving the campus and wider community.o Joint Workshops with other Green Campus memberso Participate in An Taisce ( Co-ordinator) Events

Develop a Green Charter.

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Green Campus Areas of Focus

These seven steps focus on areas such as

Litter and waste prevention.

Reduction / management.

Energy conservation/reduction.

Water.

Travel.

Biodiversity.

Procurement and Environmental risk.

Remember to Switch off and Plug out all unnecessary electrical equipment in offices, classrooms and labs. You not only save electricity and money required to pay the bills - you also help reduce harmful emissions to the atmosphere. Always think WASTE PREVENTION 

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Useful Sites for FEE Green schools

Federation for Environmental Education

• www.fee-international.org/ 61 Countries Members

Eco-schools site

http://www.eco-schools.org/

3600 schools in Ireland 82% have Green Flag Status

17,000 schools registered in UK and again over 70% have some level

of Green Flag Status

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Pointers from Green Workshop Discussion

Good work being done in the Green Team but how to get the message out? Ec02meter and Sustaining Policy Template essential

More communication through various fora such as TF-MSP

Microsite / theme-site on Green ICT for NRENs

More best practices Student

Flying audit team for Green practices and Audits

Have green team members participate in other GN4-tasks

Green sticker / label for NRENs?

Additional future topics

Advise how to best organize Green ICT for NRENs

Show examples of Green ICT adoption in NRENs

Expand business continuity and disaster recovery plans with climate change

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Thanks

Thanks to Martin and John and all the TF-MSP members for letting us

engage with you at your meeting

&

Thanks for all your attendance at our earlier workshop and all the input

we received which we will translate into our work plans

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System complexityIf you are not convinced; is greening bad?

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Questions

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Thank you