Enhancing Campus Networks for Research and Education: G.ant Project Overview

Gant Campus Best Practices Jari Miettinen GN3plus NA3T2 task leader CSC/Funet MARnet campus WG meeting April 23rd 2015 Bitola, Macedonia

Table of content G ant what s G ant? Campus why we are working on campus issues? Best what s the definition in this context? Practices what s the delivery? Questions & comments? 03/06/2025 2

Gant (1) the network G ANT is the pan-European research and education network that interconnects Europe s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). Together we connect over 50 million users at 10,000 institutions across Europe, supporting research in areas such as energy, the environment, space and medicine. 03/06/2025 3

Gant (2) the project JRA= Joint Research Activity JRA1: Network architectures for Horizon 2020 SA1: Core Backbone Services SA= Service Activity SA2: Testbeds as a Service JRA2: Technology Testing for Specific Service Applications SA3: Network Service Delivery SA4: Network Support Services JRA3: Identity & Trust Technologies for G ANT Services SA5: Application Services SA7: Support to Clouds SA6: Service Management & Operation NA1: NA2: NA3: Status & Trends NA4: NA= Networking Activity Management Communications & Promotion International & Business Development G ant project has over 250 project participants 03/06/2025 4

Gant (3) further information Project website: http://www.geant.net G ant Association website: http://www.geant.org/Pages/Home.aspx G ant Association is the merge between TERENA and Dante G ant network: http://www.geant.net/Network/Pages/default.aspx G ant services: http://www.geant.net/Services/Pages/home.aspx 03/06/2025 5

Discussing campus (1) - SERENATE SERENATE final report 2003: In Europe, campus networks are now often the weakest linkin the chain of the end-to-end services needed for research and education. Therefore, universities and research institutes and their supervisory and funding authorities need to ensure that their campus networks are appropriately resourced. In general, expenditure for ongoing technical upgrade in campus networks is best treated as a budget expense on an annual basis. 03/06/2025 6

Discussing campus (2) - EARNEST EARNEST Report on Campus Issues 2007: 52 recommendations for improvements e.g. Collaboration encourage all network support staff to collaborate with colleagues at other institutions, regional networks and NRENs Recommendations End-users should be presented in the process of developing policy documents that directly impact on services offered to them. National recommendations and guidelines for best practice would help to create such procedures inside institutions Organisemore regular workshops between NREN engineers and institution engineers on strategic issues for future of networking in the research and education community. IT keeps evolving at a fast pace. Technicians and engineers frequently have to adapt to new technologies (equipment, software, protocols, architectures, services etc.). It is vitally important that they are properlytrained to carry out the tasks expected of them. 03/06/2025 7

Discussing campus (3) Campus BP task in Gant Campus Best Practice is a part of the G ANT project funded by the European Union. Campus Best Practice (CBP) aims to address key challenges for European campus networks. The CBP Team does this by organising working groups and providing an evolving and to-the- point set of best practice documents (BPDs) for the community. Work done during GN3 (2009- 2013) and GN3plus (2013-2015) projects. Continuing in GN4 (2015-) 03/06/2025 8

Discussing campus (3) Campus BP task in Gant Campus Best Practice is a part of the G ANT project funded by the European Union. Campus Best Practice (CBP) aims to address key challenges for European campus networks. The CBP Team does this by organising working groups and providing an evolving and to-the- point set of best practice documents (BPDs) for the community. Work done during GN3 (2009- 2013) and GN3plus (2013-2015) projects. Continuing in GN4 (2015-) 03/06/2025 9

Discussing campus (4) SERENATE Project results: http://www.serenate.org/ Final summary report: http://www.serenate.org/publications/d21-serenate.pdf EARNEST Project results: https://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/ Report on campus issues: https://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/camp.html Campus best practice in G ant: Task home page: http://services.geant.net/cbp Knowledge base: http://services.geant.net/cbp/Knowledge_Base/Pages/Home.aspx 03/06/2025 10

The meaning of best in practices Best = known from practice to do its job Best = useful Best = realizable Best most expensive Best cheapest 03/06/2025 11

Practices (1): method and work areas Areas of focus Network Monitoring Campus Networking Physical Infrastructure Real-time communications Wireless Security 03/06/2025 12

Practices (2): material on-line Roughly 70 documents available Growing to 100 during 2015 03/06/2025 13

Practices (3): 16 NRENs onboard in GN4 AMRES (Serbia) ASNET-AM (Armenia) BASNET (Belarus) BREN (Bulgaria) CESNET (Czech Republic) FCT-FCCN (Portugal) GRENA (Georgia) HITSA (Estonia) MARnet (Macedonia) MREN (Montenegro) NIIF (Hungary) NORDUnet (UNINETT and CSC/Funet) RENAM (Moldova) RENATER (France) URAN (Ukraine) 03/06/2025 14

Practices (4): White papers about CBP work Vidar Faltinsen, Gunnar B e and Olaf Schjelderup, (UNINETT), G ANT Campus Best Practices (2011): http://services.geant.net/cbp/Knowledge_Base/Reports/Documents/geant- campus-best-practices.pdf Mara Bukvic, AMRES Experience with Implementing the Campus Best Practices Model (2013): http://services.geant.net/cbp/Knowledge_Base/Reports/Documents/amres_ex perience_with_cbp.pdf 03/06/2025 15

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