connect magazine issue 15

THE MAGAZINE FROM THE GÉANT COMMUNITY | ISSUE 15 MAY 2014

EARTHOBSERVATIONEUMETSAT AND GÉANTENSURING DELIVERYOF CRITICAL DATA

TNC2014 SPECIAL:16 PAGE SECTION ONGÉANT PARTICIPATION

EXPLORERS CLUB:ELITE SCIENTISTS ANDEXPLORERS WELCOMEGÉANT

GLOBAL CONNECTORS:INTERNET HALL OF FAMEHAILS TWO GÉANTLEADERS

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CONNECT is the quarterly magazine from the GÉANTcommunity; highlighting key areas of interest, updates on the project and its vital work supporting European researchand education. We give insights into the users who dependon the network, and the community that makes GÉANT whatit is. We welcome feedback at [email protected]

Published by the GÉANT (GN3plus) project, under the NA2 Communications Activity Task 1 | Editors: PPaauull MMaauurriiccee ((TTaasskk LLeeaaddeerr)) aanndd TTaammssiinn HHeennddeerrssoonn ((MMaarrkkeettiinngg OOffffiicceerr))..

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Pankhurst on page 28, who explainsthe challenges of communicating thisvast and complex project and somesuccess stories from that outreach:including the NASA sonification story,which led to the feature on page 4.

On page 33 you’ll find usefuladvice for anyone looking to reducetheir ICT CO2 emissions. That shouldbe all of us right?

Finally, a sad farewell to KarelViestsch, TERENA’s SecretaryGeneral who passed away earlier thisyear and is greatly missed. You canread more about the significantcontribution he made to the GÉANTproject on page 44.

There is of course, so much moreto read in this issue than we canmention here. So without further ado,we’d like to give a quick thanks to thegrowing number of you getting intouch to share your stories. Please dokeep it up, we love hearing from you!Write to us at [email protected]

Yet more awards to announce this year with two GÉANT projectparticipants inducted into the InternetHall of Fame (page 2). They join someof the great internet developers andvisionaries of our time, including SirTim Berners-Lee (inventor of the WorldWide Web) and former US vicepresident Al Gore.

On page 10, learn about MD-Paedigree, a pioneering project thatwill help paediatric doctors makebetter decisions using big data andincredible simulations created fromMRI scans.

For our readers involved inresearch networking, you’ll find aguide to GÉANT’s participation at thisyear’s TERENA NetworkingConference on pages 14 to 27. Herewe reveal our new Open Call partners,who will be publicly announced atEurope’s largest and most prestigiousEuropean networking conference - in May.

We have insights from DANTEHead of Communications, Melanie

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The growth in GÉANT’s usageby pan-European projectscontinues apace. Copernicus(page 7), the world’s most

comprehensive Earth Observationprogramme and EUMETSAT (page 9),a global satellite agency deliveringweather, climate and environmentaldata to users worldwide – are bothvitally important projects set to benefitfrom GÉANT’s high-capacity network.Find out just how significant the worldof Earth Observation is to society (notto mention why the EU is investingalmost €12 billion in space technologyover the next seven years).

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DANTE co-founder, Dai Davies andSURFnet CTO Erik Huizer have joinedthe elite ranks of notable individuals whohave been inducted into the Internet Hallof Fame.

Both Dai and Erik were namedGlobal Connectors, a category whichrecognises and celebrates individualsfrom around the world who have mademajor contributions to the growth,connectivity, and use of the internet,either on a global scale or within aspecific region or community.Dai was responsible for the originaldevelopment of the pan-Europeanresearch internet from 1991, which hasgrown beyond recognition to become

AA LLEEAADDEERR IINNGGLLOOBBAALL IINNTTEERRNNEETTDDEEVVEELLOOPPMMEENNTTHuizer has contributed to the internet'songoing development in various leadinginternational positions. He served asarea director of the Internet EngineeringTask Force, the Internet standardisationbody responsible for the developmentand standardisation of internetapplications such as the WWW. He hasalso been a member of the InternetArchitecture Board, which draws upgeneral guidelines on Internetarchitecture, and chairman of theInternet Research Task Force, anorganisation dedicated to long-termresearch about the internet. He currentlyserves as a board member at the PublicInterest Registry (.org) and a member ofthe ICANN Internet GovernanceStrategy panel.

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PicturesDai Daviesspeaking at the awardsceremony, andErik Huizer(inset)

the GÉANT network, we know and seetoday. Said Davies:

“I am delighted to be recognisedinto the Internet Hall of Fame, but ofcourse credit is due to the manyhundreds of highly qualified,independent-minded and foresightedpeople who have worked tirelessly overthe years to create what we see today.We should all be proud of this incredibleachievement. The opportunities forimproving lives that high-speednetworks provide to science are clear,and already many societal areas arestarting to see real benefit, fromhealthcare to climate change, disasterrecovery, food security and in educationand the arts. GÉANT is providingopportunities we could have onlydreamed of ten years ago.

In particular, I would like to extendmy thanks to DANTE co-founder,Howard Davies, who was instrumental inovercoming many of the hurdles andchallenges faced throughout the earlyyears, and he shares this award jointlywith me.”

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AABBOOUUTT TTHHEEIINNTTEERRNNEETTSSOOCCIIEETTYYThe Internet Society(www.internetsociety.org) is thetrusted independent source forInternet information and thoughtleadership from around theworld. With its principled visionand substantial technologicalfoundation, the Internet Societypromotes open dialogue onInternet policy, technology, andfuture development amongusers, companies, governments,and other organizations. Workingwith its members and Chaptersaround the world, the InternetSociety enables the continuedevolution and growth of theInternet for everyone.

“The 2014 Internet Hall of Fameinductees include extraordinaryindividuals who have helped shape theglobal internet,” noted Internet SocietyCEO Kathy Brown. “This historicassembly of internet trailblazers,innovators, and thought-leadersrepresent many different countries andbackgrounds, each with an inspiringstory to share. We applaud theirachievements and determination topush the boundaries of technologicaland social innovation to connect theworld.”

More details on the 2014 InternetHall of Fame inductees, including theirbiographies and photos, can be foundat www.internethalloffame.org

Look for the next issue ofCONNECT, which will feature a more in-depth Q&A with recent Internet Hall of Fame awardees.

Pioneering astronaut Buzz Aldrin,celebrated oceanographer Walter Munk,visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk, andworld-renowned planetary scientistMaria Zuber were among the manyillustrious guests at the 110th ExplorersClub Annual Dinner (ECAD) earlier thisyear, held at the Waldorf Astoria, New York.

Alongside them, speaker inviteeDomenico Vicinanza, Network ServicesProduct Manager at GÉANT, explainedthe value of high-speed networks toscientific discovery, and played the‘Sounds of Space’, a musical duetbased on NASA Voyager spacecraftdata, created using data sonificationtechniques reliant on the GÉANTnetwork. Anyone who missed thisstratospheric story of the NASAsonification can listen to the duet athhttttppss::////ssoouunnddcclloouudd..ccoomm//ggeeaanntt--ssoouunnddss.


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TTHHEE EEXXPPLLOORREERRSSCCLLUUBBThe Explorers Club is aprofessional society dedicated tothe advancement of fieldresearch. Its members areresponsible for an illustriousseries of famous firsts: first to theNorth Pole, first to the SouthPole, first to the summit ofMount Everest, first to thedeepest point in the ocean, andeven the first humans to land onthe Moon, among other feats ofperseverance and courage.

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The speech and music werestreamed live during the event, whichincluded a video from Stephen Hawking,the world’s most brilliant theoreticalphysicist, as the events keynotespeaker.


PicturesClockwise fromtop left: Sharing a joke with WalterMunk, one of the world’sgreatest livingoceanographerswho received astanding ovationduring dinner;explaining role ofGÉANT and highspeed networks;Domenico andBrian Greene,world-renownedastrophysicist andbest-sellingauthor; exoticbuffet!

Said Domenico Vicinanza: “The Explorers Club is a globallyrecognised institution that promotes thescientific exploration of land, sea, air,and space by supporting research andeducation. With the same goal andaspiration to promote the advancementof scientific discovery, the Explorers Clubprovides the perfect platform to furtherincrease visibility of GÉANT and theimportant projects it supports.”

Guests included The King ofMorocco and the Crown Prince ofBhutan.


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eduGAIN is the GÉANTinterfederation service simplifyingaccess to content, services andresources for the global researchand education community. It aims to enable the trustworthyexchange of information relatedto identity, authentication andauthorisation between identityfederations.

eduGAIN has facilitated federatedaccess to the GÉANT project intranet,meaning 300 participants and parts ofthe wider community can now accessusing their home identities’. This is agood example of how eduGAIN canhelp with federated access.The GÉANT community can log into theGÉANT intranet using their federatedidentity, which means one simple set ofcredentials and improved security. Having single sign-on (SSO) not onlyenhances the user experience butstreamlines management from the ITside – making it a much more efficient,convenient solution for everyoneinvolved in the project. It is hoped thiswill encourage more users to activelycollaborate using this accessibleplatform.

Anand Patil, CIO of DANTE andsponsor of the integration project said:

“The community has been asking for‘eduGAINising’ the GÉANT Intranet forsome time now and it has been aEuropean Commission recommendationthat all GÉANT services becomefederated. Finally, this dream is now areality. It not only benefits the users interms of Single Sign-On but alsoreduces the GÉANT IT overheads tomanage user accounts. We are planningto federate more GÉANT services in thenear future.”

Ann Harding, GÉANT SA5 ActivityLeader for Multi-Domain NetworkServices said:

“I am very pleased to see eduGAINbeing able to help the GÉANT projectparticipants in this way. This was anexcellent case of know-how from thewider application services and federatedidentity community coming together withDANTE IT to enable all participants inGÉANT get the benefits of federatedidentity.

We in GÉANT are not so verydifferent to many other researchcommunities in our authentication andauthorisation requirements, so theexperience in this project can benefit ourongoing work with researchcommunities. And of course I’mpersonally very happy to be able to haveone less log-in to manage! “

Project participants can find moreinformation in the GGÉÉAANNTT IInnttrraanneett aannddeedduuGGAAIINN UUsseerr GGuuiiddee for details onaccessing the Intranet via eduGAIN andFAQs, including who to contact in caseof any questions or issues.

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Copernicus is the EU’s Earthobservation programme and will be theworld’s biggest ever effort tocharacterise our planet. Once all thesatellites have been launched, it willproduce around eight terabytes of dataevery day, as it details the state ofEarth’s land surface, atmosphere and oceans.

GÉANT is now working on a trialwith Copernicus to ensure the data isaccessible to the worldwide researchand education community, with fullproduction planned for the end of the year.

Via a connection of the gateway tothe COPERNICUS data in Frankfurt toDFN PoP (the German NationalResearch and Education Network)which in turn connects to GÉANT,

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researchers all over the world will gainaccess to the Copernicus data sets withunrivalled bandwidth and networkperformance.

These data sets will be generatedfrom applications such as monitoringsea ice zones and the Arcticenvironment; surveillance of oil spills andship detection; mapping forest, waterand sustainable agriculture; supportinghumanitarian aid in crisis situations andclimate monitoring.

Open dissemination of Copernicusinformation will help citizens, researchersand policy makers to integrate anenvironmental dimension into theirdecision-making procedures, multiplyingthe benefits for society today and tomorrow.

As well as supporting the spaceindustry itself, the programme is likely toimpact other economic sectors such astransport, oil and gas, insurance andagriculture. Studies show that it is likelyto generate around €30 billion andcreate up to 50,000 jobs in Europe by 2030.

In the future, GÉANT and theEuropean Space Agency (ESA), which is developing the space observationstructure, will cooperate on integration witheduGAIN. This will enable federatedidentity management to manage andimprove access to the data, making iteven easier for people to use the information.

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Observing the atmosphere,ocean and land surfacesis becoming ever moreimportant for decision-making at domestic andinternational level, and thedata generated by earthobservation projects thatenables this decision-making is rapidlyincreasing. GÉANTresponded to EUMETSATneeds to support thedistribution of this data.

EUMETSAT (the EuropeanOrganisation for the Exploitation ofMeteorological Satellites) is a globaloperational satellite agency at the heartof Europe. Its purpose is to gatheraccurate and reliable satellite data onweather, climate and the environment24 hours a day, 365 days a year and todeliver that data to NationalMeteorological Services of EUMETSATMember and Cooperating States inEurope, to international partners, andto users world-wide.

IINNCCRREEAASSIINNGGLLYY VVIITTAALLTTOO SSOOCCIIEETTYY Weather forecasting has become evermore important, helping society todetect, prepare and deal with extremeweather. EUMETSAT data supportsdecision-making at all levels of society,and is critical to governments, air travelsafety, shipping and road traffic, as wellas to areas such as farming,construction and other industries.

Furthermore, satellite observationsare highly relevant to climatemonitoring and together with otherorganisations such as Copernicus arehelping to address this globalchallenge.

EUMETSAT also cooperatesclosely with the NationalOceanographic and AtmosphericAdministration (NOAA) in the USA, andis working towards close cooperationwith satellite operators of China, India,Japan, Korea and Russia to coordinatemissions, exchange data andexpertise, and facilitate distribution ofEUMETSAT data worldwide.

PPAARRTT OOFF GGLLOOBBAALLEEAARRTTHH OOBBSSEERRVVAATTIIOONN EUMETCast is EUMETSAT’s primarydissemination mechanism for the nearreal-time delivery of satellite data andproducts. Established in 2004, itenables data to be distributed tomultiple partners or groups of partnersat once. With over 4000 registeredreception stations, it is highly scalableand is based on standard Digital VideoBroadcast technology, usingcommercial telecommunicationgeostationary satellites to multi-castfiles to a wide user community.

Furthermore, EUMETCast isEUMETSAT’s contribution toGEONETCast – a global network ofsatellite-based data disseminationsystems providing environmental datato a worldwide user community.GEONETCast is a milestone in theGlobal Earth Observation System ofSystems (GEOSS), coordinated by theintergovernmental Group on EarthObservation (GEO), and aims tostrengthen international cooperation onglobal earth observation.

Due to the increasingly vital natureof this data transmission, EUMETSATutilises terrestrial Wide Area Network(WAN) links for data acquisition fromEUMETSAT ground stations and theexchange of data with worldwidedistributed bi-lateral partners. GÉANTand Europe’s NRENs arecomplementing this connectivity.

CONNECT spoke with MariaMinaricova of GÉANT’s pan-Europeanuser liaison team, to learn more aboutthis exciting development.

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DANTE will act as the serviceprovider to EUMETSAT for all networkrelated aspects and will coordinatesuch across national domains toachieve the contractual agreed serviceobjectives, namely the enabling ofmulticast capabilities between theEUMETSAT HQ interface to DFN (theGerman NREN) and the Site AccessPoints of each NREN participating inthe project; network service monitoringand reporting; network operations andservice management as well as testand validation support. In addition,DANTE will support EUMETSAT toenable multicast network connectivityto the Korean Meteorological Agency inSouth Korea, and the NationalOceanographic and AtmosphericAgency (NOAA) in the USA.

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Moreover, GÉANT’s establishedposition as a long-term pan-Europeaninfrastructure and an integral part ofthe EU’s research strategy is an idealpartner for an organization seekinglong-term stability.

WWHHAATT IISS TTHHEETTIIMMEELLIINNEE?? The project implementation phasestarted on 22 April and the initialservice provision will start in January2015 and continue for a period of twoyears. However pending futureassessment EUMETSAT plans toconsider longer term contractualarrangements.

The societal benefit ofEUMETSAT’s work cannot beunderestimated, and GÉANT – as partof Europe’s vital e-infrastructure – isextremely proud to be supporting thisagency and its partners.

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David Manset is CEO of gnúbila France (hhttttpp::////wwwwww..ggnnuubbiillaa..ffrr).Over the last 10 years, he has contributed to European andinternational initiatives focusing on e-health and biomedical research. CONNECT caught up with David to find out more about the ground-breaking MD-Paedigree project.

http://www.md-paedigree.eu

EEDDUUGGAAIINN AANNDDEEDDUURROOAAMMTGÉANT provides the essential highbandwidth needed to run complexcalculations and move results setsaround. We have also integrated oursecurity with eduGAIN. Our system isnow compatible with federation ofidentity providers so all users canconnect and authenticate into theplatform using their eduroamcredentials. They still have to apply foraccessing data, but this now opens themarket to new users by making it easierfor people to connect to the solution.

eduroam is basically making ourusers life much simpler because wedon’t have to handle the complexity ofdigital identities. At the user end all theyhave to do is use their regular eduroamcredentials. It’s a win-win situation.

This is important because our goal isnot only to develop a research platformbut a production environment - a realapplication. We are developing twomajor accesses and environments in this respect.

One is dedicated to research, theplace where we collect real data onpatients enrolled in the four diseasestudies. The other is a productionenvironment, so a subset of applicationswill be made available over a muchlarger dataset. By negotiating withhospitals on a case by case basis, wealready have more than 50k patientsdocumented in the system.

This will make brand new researchapplications available very quickly tophysicians, clinical researchers and PhDstudents –anyone interested (andauthorised) in accessing this type ofdata and applications for curiosity and research.

WWHHAATT WWIILLLL TTHHIISS MMEEAANNFFOORR HHEEAALLTTHHCCAARREEPPRROOFFEESSSSIIOONNAALLSS??You gain access to a large populationsharing similar conditions and you cancompare every single piece of data in thesystem, thanks to big data principles.

FFOORR IINNSSTTAANNCCEE??Imagine you are treating a child in Rome.You can compare them with thosealready treated in the UK first instance. If there were any specific clinicalconditions, you can get in touch with the physician in charge. Exchangeknowledge with other healthprofessionals involved. You can checkhow they recovered.

If you’re a researcher you can lookfor patterns of clinical conditionsdescribing particular pathologies.Source data is integrated, semanticallyenriched and made compatible andunderstandable.

The only drawback is that healthcareprofessionals are not allowed to makeany decision for treating the patientbased solely on this. However, they canuse this it as an additional source ofinformation, in the same way forinstance they would use google…

HHOOWW WWIILLLL TTHHEEYY DDOOTTHHIISS??Similarity research allows you to searchfor patients like “mine”. You can look forspecific patterns using cluster-basedsimilarity searches. Or you could usethe knowledge discovery interface toinvestigate by statistics any such pattersfrom the data. Potentially you couldeventually discover new patterns ofclinical conditions.

WWHHAATT OOTTHHEERR BBEENNEEFFIITTSSCCAANN WWEE EEXXPPEECCTT??In cardiomyopathy you could open theMRI scan of a patient’s heart and applymodels segmenting the chambers of theheart and obtain in a few seconds a fullanatomy and physical references of theheart to simulate its function. From thisyou can extract meaningfulmeasurements that are precious as towhen to operate.

Thanks to these new models we areable to non-invasively support decisionmaking. We will no longer need topractically validate models oncomparable organisms like animals.

YYOOUU WWOONN AANN AAWWAARRDDRREECCEENNTTLLYY??Yes, we were thrilled to be selected asone of 200 exhibitors at ICT2013.Competition is always fierce – every yearthey receive around 1500 applications –not just from e-health, but all scientificfields: from satellite communications todriverless cars. So you can imaginehow we felt when we won ‘Best ExhibitAward’ overall. It was a greatopportunity to raise our visibility.

NNEEXXTT SSTTEEPPSS FFOORR MMDD--PPAAEEDDIIGGRREEEE??By the time you read this, we will haveproudly shown our work to the EC atour first annual review. All going well wewill have proved how we already have asystem that can be demonstrated and iseduGAIN compatible.

Our next major milestone is openingthe system to our consortium users.The first stage will take place next year,opening access to the hospitals and allrelated departments and groups withtraining.

The second stage will be opening tothe community at large. This will bedone using a freemium business modelwhere users can register for free or signup to premium for professional access.

MD-Paedgree, a four-year EuropeanCommission funded ICT project to helpfight childhood obesity-relatedcardiovascular and other child diseases.

It has the ambitious aim to developa Europe-wide big data system forpaediatric research, which will providedecision support to medicalprofessionals when treating youngpatients. (MD wwwwww..mmdd--ppaaeeddiiggrreeee..eeuu)

HHOOWW DDIIDD TTHHEE PPRROOJJEECCTTCCOOMMEE AABBOOUUTT??MD-Paedgree capitalises on several ECprojects, in particular Health-e-Child andSim-e-Child. Both were very successfulnot only in demonstrating the visibility ofthe infrastructure but also in pioneeringthe concepts and business models weare building on today.

After a one and a half year break,we were mandated by the hospital chainOspedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù inItaly to set up a big data infrastructurebackbone to do translational research.This enabled us to set up the firstprototype, accessing and experimentingwith the health information systemswithin these hospitals.

We were then able to go to the ECwith the proposal for MD, much moreambitious in scope, opening up to sevenhospitals Europe-wide andinternationally (one in the US). Today wehave 22 partners and 7 hospitalstargeting 4 disease areas, and we areaiming at expanding it to others.

WWHHAATT CCAANN TTHHEEIINNFFRRAASSTTRRUUCCTTUURREE DDOO??We can develop a full model of the heartnot just anatomically but physiologically.We provide tools to simulate heartconditions, better understand diseaseevolution and eventually make decisionson treatments and operations.

Expanding the scope to juvenilearthritis – we can model bones and theimpact of treatments. We’re also aimingto develop a musculoskeletal patientspecific model to aid new developmentsfor neurological disorders.

HHOOWW IISS GGÉÉAANNTTIINNVVOOLLVVEEDD??Firstly, with Health-e-Child weencouraged participating hospitals toobtain a GÉANT connection. Ourstrategy involves installing big datanodes within the hospital premises, sothat the data stays local.

This node has one foot in the mainfirewall and one foot outside. Inside isconnected to the health informationsystem with a connector doing the dataextraction. Once this is done the data isuploaded to the other side outside thefirewall where it becomes part of the bigdata federation, so all users connectingto MD can interact with the data beingshared by the participating hospitals

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At TNC2014 GÉANT will again play a significant role, with theemphasis on Innovation in Action, and contributing to theevent with multiple papers delivered by 16 speakers,including for the first time representatives from GÉANT Open Call project partners.

These will cover topics on networking architecture,testbed-as-a-service, monitoring, advanced networking,flexgrid, SDN virtual networks and applications, mobility andmobile security, eduroam, simplifying federation deployment,fighting network threats, cloud services, and lots more.

GÉANT will also have an exhibition booth, featuringeduCONF, GÉANT Open and eduPERT, as well as contributeto a BoF on GÉANT testbed services, technologydemonstrations, posters and lightning talks.

Over the following pages in our TNC section we look atsome of these areas in more detail, and on pages 26 and 27provide a full listing of all GÉANT-related presentations,workshops and meetings for your easy reference.

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T o leverage the exceptional talent in the communityand to foster closer links with industry, GÉANTlaunched its Open Call research program in 2013,investing €3.3million into innovative research that

could help shape the networks of the future. In addition to the funding, GÉANT offers innovators access

to the world's most powerful production-ready experimentalplatform. The 21 new Open Call projects bring in leadingexperts from universities, research labs and industry to worktogether with the GÉANT development teams. This synergybetween cutting-edge research and a powerful andsophisticated infrastructure offers the teams unrivalled accessand provides GÉANT with fresh insights and expertise.

Collaboration with research teams allows GÉANT and theNRENs to partner with the community to foster innovation in awide range of fields from services supporting Big Dataapplications to extremely low latency transmission for theperforming arts, to clean-slate designs for the next generationof networks which revisit the most fundamental assumptionson network architectures such as TCP/IP.

The GÉANT project has long been at the forefront of research andinnovation in the fields of networking and networked services, servingthe most technically aware users and meeting the most demandingrequirements for connectivity and collaboration services.

The Open Call Research is divided into four families: • Applications and Tools• Authentication• Network Architecture and

Optical Projects• Software Defined Networking

Each theme is supported by resources in the GÉANT projectto ensure the teams get the most out of the collaborationand results are shared throughout the GÉANT projectparticipants.

Over the next 3 pages we give an overview of each of thesefour families, and on pages 18-19 take a more detailed lookat a project from each family.

“We are glad that GÉANT is supporting this research. GÉANT also offers a richcommunity of experts in the area of digitalidentity, authentication, privacy and security,so we could use this community to share ourideas with and to get feedback; we can alsouse the community to try and pilot our ideaswith real users.”

Bob Huselbosch, WoT4LoA

“Open Calls provide the research teams inthe project with the motivation and theinspiration to work on delivering advancednetwork capabilities for specialisedapplications. Furthermore, we're able to sittogether with a number of acknowledgedresearchers and innovate with them, evolveconcepts, evolve technologies andstandards.”

Afrodite Sevasti, GÉANT

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AAUUTTHHEENNTTIICCAATTIIOONNWith ever greater use being made of distributed applicationsand systems, it is vital to nurture the evolution of servicesthat make up the fabric of trust between users, identityproviders and service providers. Secure identity andauthentication, coupled with enhancements in usability forthose who need to access resources, is essential to getmaximum value from distributed systems.

This complex universe of trust and identity managementis evolving rapidly around several core concepts: how canindividuals have more control in managing their identity?How can identities be made more secure? How can weoptimise the process of identity verification, to enhanceaccess and usability of services whilst maintaining a highlevel of security? These questions are addressed by threeprojects in this family:

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•• HHEEXXAAAA:: HHiigghheerr EEdduuccaattiioonn EExxtteerrnnaall AAttttrriibbuuttee AAuutthhoorriittiieessAA services have been proposed by several research communities to better scale secure identity verification for growing numbers of users

•• WWooTT44LLooAA:: WWeebb ooff TTrruusstt bbaasseedd LLeevveell ooff AAssssuurraannccee eennhhaanncceemmeenntt develop a protocol to implement a PGP web-of-trust model

Another important area is the extension and evolution ofcurrent identity federation technologies and the world-classeduroam service, and the integration of these services withCloud technologies. Three projects are working in this area:

•• MMEEAALL:: MMuullttiiddoommaaiinn eedduurrooaamm®® aaccrroossss LLTTEEextending eduroam access to publicly-accessible commercial mobile networks

•• SSEENNSSEE:: SSeeccuurree EEnntteerrpprriissee NNeettwwoorrkkss ffiinnaallllyy SSiimmppllee aanndd EEaassyy improving the user experience in the initial eduroam setup

•• CCLLAASSSSee:: CClloouudd--AABBFFAABB FFeeddeerraattiioonn SSeerrvviicceess iinn eedduurrooaammintegrating the Moonshot identity management service into the OpenStack cloud software

AAPPPPLLIICCAATTIIOONNSS AANNDD TTOOOOLLSSThe power of the GÉANT and NREN network comes from itspractical uses, from the applications researchers run over it.By developing innovative uses for the network, barriers toresearch can be broken down and collaboration acrossEurope is further improved. The projects in this family arebuilding services that enhance the ability of the GÉANTnetwork in supporting advanced research activities in areassuch as secure content delivery for Big Data and bandwidthand video on demand.

•• AARREESS:: AAddvvaanncceedd NNeettwwoorrkkiinngg ffoorr EEUU ggeennoommiicc rreesseeaarrcchha system based on NetServ router architecture and OpenStack cloud software

•• CCEEOOVVDDSS:: CCrroossss--ssiittee EEvvaalluuaattiioonn ooff aann OOppeennFFllooww--aassssiisstteedd VViiddeeoo--oonn--DDeemmaanndd DDiissttrriibbuuttiioonn SSeerrvviiccee running across multiple sites to reduce the overall network utilisation while improving the Quality-of-Experience for end users

•• eeMMuussiicc:: UUssiinngg GGÉÉAANNTT ddyynnaammiicc cciirrccuuiittss ttoo ssuuppppoorrtt rreemmoottee ccoollllaabboorraattiioonn iinn mmuussiiccaall eedduuccaattiioonn aanndd eeCCuullttuurree using the GÉANT bandwidth on demand (BoD) service to support remote education and collaboration in music (eLearning) and remote access to cultural performances (eCulture);

•• NNSSII--CCOONNTTEESSTT:: NNeettwwoorrkk SSeerrvviiccee IInntteerrffaaccee CCoonnffoorrmmaannccee TTeesstt SSuuiitteeaiding developers in validating NSI Agents for BoD under various conditions of load and position in the service chain

“We are delighted that the Italianparticipation in these projects has been so successful, demonstrating the high levelof innovation and competence of Italianprojects in many fields – not just thosespecific to networking, but also thoserelating to molecular biology and real timemusic performance between remote sites.This demonstrates, in addition to thecompetence of Italian researchers, the valueof a European-level collaboration betweenresearch networks, which can also, with the support of the EC, invest in extremelyinnovative activities for new generation services.”

Mauro Campanella, GARR

“There are four different authenticationprojects, and they are very interesting to us,and we want to have synergies betweenthem and ourselves, and we want toparticipate in the larger GÉANT community.”

David Chadwick, CLASSe

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NNEETTWWOORRKK AARRCCHHIITTEECCTTUURREEAANNDD OOPPTTIICCAALL PPRROOJJEECCTTSSThe challenges faced by the network from the Data Delugeare huge and potentially incredibly disruptive. The volume ofdata being generated in the latest research projects is manyorders of magnitude greater than even 5 years ago. Existingnetwork paradigms may not be able to cope with theanticipated changes to data transfer. Looking forwardtowards future generations of networking technologies,these projects study future networking systems in order tohelp NRENs understand the issues and plan solutions.

The world-class GÉANT network is the ideal environmentfor testing and building the future internet, starting with thehardware itself (fibre and routing/switching equipment) andthe basic network architecture. Its dark fibre testbedprovides record-shattering speeds in the order of Terabitsper second over five long haul routes throughout Europe.

Three projects are working directly with the fibrecapabilities, both for scientific purposes and in the context ofthe evolution of optical transmissions, from increasingspectral efficiency on single superchannels, to exploring newwavelengths (e.g. Alien Wavelengths) that allow operators tointroduce new features and technology on the existingoptical transport infrastructure

•• IICCOOFF:: IInntteerrnnaattiioonnaall CClloocckk CCoommppaarriissoonnss vviiaa OOppttiiccaall FFiibbeerra high profile scientific project performing a state-of-the-art atomic clock comparison using GÉANT long haul dark fibre

•• CCOOFFFFEEEE:: CCoohheerreenntt OOppttiiccaall ssyysstteemm FFiieelldd--ttrriiaall FFoorr ssppeeccttrraall EEffffiicciieennccyy EEnnhhaanncceemmeenntt enhancing spectral efficiency over high capacity superchannels, using techniques such as Time-Frequency Packing

•• MMOOMMooTT:: MMuullttii--DDoommaaiinn OOppttiiccaall MMooddeelllliinngg TTooooll investigating the potential of providing an Alien Wavelength service in the GÉANT network

Two projects are working on network architecture, in theareas of flexible optical networks and clean-slate design for Future Internet:

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“We want to see if we can do eCulture stuff,broadcast and take to different places eventswhich people cannot attend because [theevent] might be in London and they live inPrague. To do this of course we need thenetwork. For LoLa, we already used GÉANTsince the very beginning of the project itself;on the other hand, with 4KTV we never tried,as a real experiment over the sharednetwork. We want to see what happens.”

Claudio Allocchio, eMUSIC

“GÉANT offers a rich community of expertsin the area of digital identity, authentication,privacy and security, so we could use thiscommunity to share our ideas with and to getfeedback; we can also use this community totry and pilot our ideas with real users.”

Bob Huselbosch, WoT4LoA

“By the end of the day, I really hope that wecan take something out of the project whichwill stand on its own, and for years to comewill show people how to implemententerprise Wi-Fi, user-friendly and secure.”

Stefan Winter, SENSE



SSDDNN -- SSOOFFTTWWAARREE DDEEFFIINNEEDDNNEETTWWOORRKKIINNGGCurrent networking technologies are based on systemsoriginally designed over 40 years ago. These systems rely onhardware elements (routers and switches) with built-infirmware that sets the rules on how internet traffic behaves,thus inherently limiting the possible data flows over thenetwork. Over time, these limitations have proven to be notmerely of academic interest, but also of practical concern,and increasingly crippling for the system going forward. Theproblem is overcome by decoupling the control operationsfrom the data flow, allowing the former to be performeddynamically by specialised software – hence the emergenceof Software-Defined Networking (SDN). This approach allowsgreater network flexibility and the potential for newnetworking paradigms to meet new demands.

GÉANT has been at the forefront of this research andhas built one of the largest SDN testbeds in the world. Thistestbed includes an OpenFlow facility, which has proven ofgreat interest to experts and innovators in the community.The projects in this area have a variety of objectives, fromtrialing “real life” SDN implementations in a simulatedproduction environment, to investigating the use of emergingtechnologies such as autonomic networking and networkcoding in an SDN-enabled environment, to enhancing thefacility itself by enabling multidomain OpenFlow, todeveloping a service that enables scientists to dynamicallycreate their own private and secure virtual networks.

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•• MMOOTTEE:: MMuullttii--DDoommaaiinn OOppeennFFllooww TTooppoollooggyy EExxcchhaannggeeto enable multidomain OpenFlow

“Here we have the unique opportunity toevaluate clocks using the optical fiber link.And the fiber link itself, (we’ve demonstratedin the past that it) can provide us with suchlow uncertainty and high stability that we arereally able to evaluate the clocks located atthe two ends (London and Paris) as if theywere close to each other.”

Harald Schnatz, ICOF

“One of the promises of SDN is to offer openarchitectures to implement new services in asimpler way, without having to wait forsuppliers to introduce newfunctionalities/features – so to give thefreedom to the network provider to offerinnovation at a lower cost.”

Stefano Salsano, DREAMER

“The GÉANT OpenFlow-based facilityprovides a good opportunity for us to testour already validated algorithms in a localsimulated (-based) environment into a real testbed.”

Kostas Tsagkaris, AUTOFLOW

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The explosive growth of genomic data is generatingquestions as to whether it makes sense to move largevolumes of data when it needs to be processed, or if itwouldn’t be better to take the processing to the data. “Thisis indeed our perspective,” says Gianluca Reali, coordinatorof the ARES project; “we are working on optimisationalgorithms that use virtualisation to move data and/orprocessing depending on what is most convenient.”

What is “most convenient” depends on multiple factors,ranging from technical to scientific, to clinical. Manyparameters are fed in by the scientific partner GGB, while thealgorithms are developed by the coordinating partner, theUniversity of Perugia.

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These work on top of NetServ, a middleware developedwith Columbia University, which can dynamically instantiateservices in the network. This is integrated with OpenStack toprovide a user-friendly cloud interface.

The key element however is the signaling technology.“The NetServ-based back end uses NSIS signaling, and thebulk of our development is currently on this,” continues Reali“the off-path signaling which searches the network forresources in the vicinity of PoPs that are traversed. Thecloud is not sufficient, behind the cloud there must be anengine that can optimize these resources and reduce service time.”

Increasingly, education and research activities take place atlocations where Wi-Fi is not available, outside institutionalbuildings and off campus. The MEAL project aims to bringthe ease of eduroam access to these locations by extendingthe service to work over LTE.

LTE is seen as the key technology to realize publicmobile communication networks. The two NRENs thatcollaborate on the MEAL project, SURFnet and Janet, bothhave individually explored the possibilities to offload the LTEdata to their network. The technology however has not yetbeen implemented for international roaming. MEAL intendsto fill this gap.

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In the context of MEAL, this means that devices that gainaccess to the Janet network through LTE in the UK will alsogain access via LTE in the Netherlands (and vice versa). Thechallenge is integrating the LTE and Wi-Fi protocols to offer aseamless service anywhere, anytime, and via any device.

“We have already tested it within the netherlands ,” saysproject coordinator Frans Panken, “now we can also try touse it abroad within an international context, using thenetwork of GÉANT to interconnect the networks of Janetand SURFnet, and to make it all work.”

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SPOTLIGHT

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE AND OPTICAL PROJECTS

SDN - SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING

In March of this year, the team of researchers from theREACTION project presented their work at the 2014 OFCConference in San Francisco.

The REACTION partners are a mix of public and private:the Italian research center CNIT, the Universitat Politècnicade Catalunya and the Spanish Telefónica. They share abroader collaboration in the EU IDEALIST project, whichbrings together major european telecoms and publicresearch labs to study elastic optical network technologies.Some key issues emerging from this work are taken up byREACTION, in particular a new transponder technology thatenables so-called “sliceability” in optical networks.

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At OFC the team presented not only their current workon sliceability, but also a special post-deadline paperdescribing an experiment on network re-optimization basedon the innovative ABNO architecture. Both presentationswere extremely well received, which bodes well for theindustrial take-up of their solutions:

“For UPC and CNIT this is an important step in anongoing research process,” says Filippo Cugini, coordinatorof the project “but for Telefonica, the aim is to standardisethese solutions and propose a new standard to IETF, which would require vendors to provide support for it in their products.”

Network coding (NC) is a technology that promises to morethan double network capacities while increasing reliabilityand security. Although NC was originally designed fortransport networks, an implementation at this layer is not yet available.

The MINERVA project is working to fill this gap andimplement robust network coding methods in the GÉANTOpenFlow facility: “We are seeking methods that arebandwidth-efficient, easy to implement, and scalable; easyto maintain protection methods which could be implementedin practice;” says project coordinator Peter Babarczi, “wehave been working on this topic from a theoretical point of

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view for years, but this is the first time we can implement it in a real, large scale network.”

The MINERVA partners, MTA-BME Future Internetresearch group and the i2cat Foundation, are both wellknown for their work in this area, with numerous IEEEpublications and several prestigious awards to their name.They already have a successful NC implementation that wasdemonstrated at the latest Sigcomm.

MINERVA is implementing a proof-of-concept for thepractical applicability of network coding in SDNs in the keyareas of video streaming and distributed storage.

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Over the past years, many NRENs have successfully builtnational federations by deploying authentication andauthorisation infrastructures (AAI). GÉANT designed,developed and launched eduGAIN to support crossborder use cases and as more and more federationsbecome members of eduGAIN, the foundation fordelivering federated identity is solid.

In the current GÉANT project (GN3plus), the AAI providersof eduGAIN and the scientific communities of FIM4R(Federated Identity Management for Research) haveteamed up to deliver a series of pilots that address some of their challenges. CONNECT spoke with ELIXIR (the European Life Science Infrastructure for BiologicalInformation), on one of its Pilot Actions between theEuropean Genome-phenome Archive and CSC, to understand more about their challenges and how they are being addressed.


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be protected at least for a certain timefor ethical, legal, societal or businessreasons. In these cases the data serviceproviders who host, distribute and sharethat data have to create an accesscontrol mechanism. In the case ofELIXIR, the plan is this is made with thebodies who have the authority to grantaccess based on e.g. application ofacceptance of terms of use. Typicallythese are the original data creators likeleaders of EU framework projects orbiobank sample cohorts. We havedecided to rely on the existing Europeannetwork of trust, eduGAIN, to firstelectronically identify researchers whoseek an access-controlled dataset fortheir work. Once the proper level ofassurance on the identity has beenachieved, the so-called data-accesscommittees can process the requestsbased on the rules that apply to theprotected data using tools providedfrom ELIXIR.

HHOOWW WWOOUULLDD YYOOUU LLIIKKEE TTOO SSEEEE EEDDUUGGAAIINNDDEEVVEELLOOPP IINN FFUUTTUURREE??I think the eduGAIN and GÉANTenabling user actions have beeninstrumental in getting forward togetherto work on life sciences datainfrastructure challenges. Especially foropen but sensitive data we must offer alevel of security to ensure that usershaving access to data are recognisedresearchers. Scientific communitiesstand at different starting points in theimplementation of the federated identitymanagement technologies. Proactivityfrom the eduGAIN provider tounderstand the needs of the life sciencecommunity is highly desirable, and viceversa; the life science community needsto learn what to expect to be deliveredby eduGAIN.

WWHHAATT IISS EELLIIXXIIRR?? CCAANNYYOOUU TTEELLLL UUSS AA LLIITTTTLLEEAABBOOUUTT YYOOUURRUUSSEERRSS//SSEERRVVIICCEESS??ELIXIR is a distributed researchinfrastructure, where leadingorganisations from 17 Europeancountries and EMBL (EuropeanMolecular Biology Laboratory) havejoined forces to tackle the challenge ofdata volumes created by modern lifescience research. In Finland, our nodehosted at CSC - IT Center for Science isworking with local organisations that do,for example, molecular level studies ofcancer, genetic diagnosis of dogs andhorses, and basic research of resolvingthe birch tree genome. The amount ofdata produced by research of this typeis one challenge, but it is alsodemanding of expertise. The createddata has to be annotated and structuredaccording to international standards,and shared collectively with othercountries.

WWHHAATT AARREE TTHHEE MMAAIINNCCHHAALLLLEENNGGEESS FFAACCEEDD BBYYEELLIIXXIIRR IINN MMAAKKIINNGG YYOOUURRSSEERRVVIICCEESS AAVVAAIILLAABBLLEEOONN AA PPAANN--EEUURROOPPEEAANNBBAASSIISS??When you think of the examples above,it is clear that life science ecosystem isglobal. No country can manage inisolation. The application of genetics inhealthcare is emerging at an acceleratedspeed as the public starts to understandthe possibilities from examples (e.g. 23and me) and applications that emergefrom services targeted to animals(e.g. wwwwww..ggeennoossccooppeerr..ccoomm). There areexamples of rare diseases caused bygenetic variation that must be put to thelarger reference data context before theyare properly diagnosed. The doctorsseek to diagnose the root of thediseases, and they will be able tooptimise treatments when provided withmolecular level data.

Now, this is a real challenge.

How do we make data available on-linefor research to create services that pullintelligence for those who need it whenthey need it? Once a service has beencreated relying of the data, how do wekeep the whole distributed infrastructuretogether so that critical operators likehealthcare could build on it? Thesetypes of challenges outline what ELIXIRnodes like EMBL-EBI and CSC need tomake happen in ELIXIR in collaborationwith the European e-Infrastructure.

HHOOWW AARREE YYOOUU AANNDDGGÉÉAANNTT WWOORRKKIINNGGTTOOGGEETTHHEERR TTOOOOVVEERRCCOOMMEE TTHHEESSEE??Research data volumes have to moveseamlessly around the continent. Thereference data of human geneticvariation alone is hundreds of terabytes.The created and published data needsto be shared and catered back toresearch effectively. On top of thatELIXIR provides data sets describingother animals, insects, plants, bacteria,viruses and all other life forms of theplanet. Volumes more than double everyyear. This is where GÉANT and nationalresearch and education networkproviders play a key infrastructure role.The goal is that on-line processing ofbiological data is brought near theresearchers where they need and whenthey need it. This way, we are eventuallyable to create biotechnologyapplications. When discovery of existingresearch data stored in ELIXIR datacenters are made easier, so savings arealso possible as duplication of basicresearch reduces.

WWHHYY DDOO YYOOUU CCHHOOOOSSEEEEDDUUGGAAIINN TTOO HHEELLPP YYOOUU DDEELLIIVVEERR??eduGAIN is a prospective component toproviding single-sign for the biomedicalcommunity services that needlogin. Most of the data produced bypublic research is shared on the Internet.However, in some cases data needs to

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GGÉÉAANNTT OOPPEENNOOPPEENN FFOORR BBUUSSIINNEESSSSWWHHAATT IISS GGÉÉAANNTT OOPPEENN,,AANNDD WWHHYY IISS IITTIIMMPPOORRTTAANNTT?? GÉANT Open is a new productionservice which allows NRENs andapproved commercial organisationsworldwide to exchange connectivity inan efficient and flexible way. This marksthe first time within the European R&Ecommunity that approved commercialorganisations are able to tap into theGÉANT network, and demonstratesGÉANT’s commitment to promotingglobal collaboration and strengtheninglinks with industry.

II’’VVEE HHEEAARRDD OOFF TTHHIISSBBEEFFOORREE.. WWHHAATT’’SS NNEEWW??The GÉANT Open pilot begun inOctober 2012 (see CONNECT Issue 9),and following that successful phase hasnow moved to a production service,thereby benefiting from the same SLA(service level agreement) structure and24x7 monitoring and support as theaward-winning GÉANT backbonenetwork.

WWHHAATT BBEENNEEFFIITTSS DDOOEESS IITTOOFFFFEERR PPAARRTTNNEERRSS?? Growing numbers of projects are nowpublic-private partnerships (PPP) andinterconnections between NRENs andcommercial parties are becomingcommonplace. GÉANT Open will helpsimplify connectivity between PPPproject partners and support thisgrowing area.

Also benefiting from the new serviceare international partners needing tomanage multiple interconnections, andwho wish to harmonise theirinternational circuits. NRENs wishing toarrange private connectivity can also useGÉANT Open to facilitate theserequirements.

For more information, see: wwwwww..ggeeaannttooppeenn..nneett

FFEEAATTUURREESS OOFF GGÉÉAANNTT OOPPEENN:: • Protocol neutral, allowing each

participant to connect to the exchange at between 1Gbps and 100Gbps.

• Connections can be logically sub-divided into separate VLANs allowing the participant to connect with many other members of the exchange simultaneously.

• Participants can also apply to make connections from GÉANTOpen through the GÉANT network – allowing onward connectivity to organisations that are unable to connect directly to GÉANT Open.

• Based in Telecity, London the exchange will be able to support both European and worldwide interconnections.

"GÉANT Open adds anotherfacet to the range of valueadded service offerings fromGÉANT. By enabling public-private interconnectivity,GÉANT Open enables researchteams to work even moreclosely with privateorganisations across the world,”adds Domenico Vicinanza,Product Manager, GÉANT."Domenico Vicinanza, ProductManager, GÉANT.

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CCOOUULLDD YYOOUU EEXXPPLLAAIINNWWHHAATT TTHHEE EEDDUUCCOONNFFDDIIRREECCTTOORRYY IISS??Video Conferencing (VC) is a great wayfor research teams to work together. Itcan dramatically reduce the cost oftravelling to meetings and saves hugeamounts of time. Many modern systemsallow computer screens to be sharedand multiple sites to be connected. TheeduCONF Directory has been designedto help users of Video Conferencing (VC)find suitable VC rooms and equipmentand be able to be confident that they willwork. The Directory is an internationaldirectory of VC systems that areavailable to NRENs around the world.

WWHHYY IISS EEDDUUCCOONNFF SSOOBBEENNEEFFIICCIIAALL TTOO UUSSEERRSS??Many people are still nervous aboutusing video conferencing because it’snot something they use every day. Theaim of eduCONF is to help people thinkof VC as just another way to talk andwork together. By using VC instead ofgoing to a meeting, users can savehours of traveling time as well as theexpense.

For the VC Manager, adding theirrooms to the eduCONF Directory canhelp increase utilisation and improve thereturn on the investment of theequipment.

eduCONF also manage amonitoring service for the Global DiallingScheme (GDS) helping to ensure thatyou video calls connect on the firstattempt.

WWHHEENN WWIILLLL IITT BBEECCOOMMEEPPUUBBLLIICCLLYY AAVVAAIILLAABBLLEE??The eduCONF Directory is now live andVC managers can add their rooms tothe system. The process is quick andsimple and automatically checks the VCsystem before registering it in thedatabase and producing a certificatethat can be printed and displayed in theroom.

The GDS Monitoring is also live nowand NRENs are welcome to add theirinfrastructure to the monitored network.

WWHHAATT AARREE TTHHEE MMAAIINNBBEENNEEFFIITTSS FFOORREEDDUUCCOONNFF DDIIRREECCTTOORRYYCCEERRTTIIFFIIEEDDIINNSSTTIITTUUTTIIOONNSS??The major benefits are increased visibilityof the service and simplicity. With diallingdetails visible on the eduCONF websiteit will be much easier for users to use thefacilities without needing IT staffassistance. Institutions can use theDirectory certification or Quick Testservice to ensure that VC rooms areregularly tested and any local problemsare spotted early.

WWHHAATT CCAANN WWEE EEXXPPEECCTTFFRROOMM EEDDUUCCOONNFF IINN TTHHEEFFUUTTUURREE??As we move forward we’ll be looking atadding even more facilities to thedirectory and by linking with eduGAINwe’ll make it even easier to access thedirectory.

YYOOUU WWIILLLL HHAAVVEE AA BBOOOOTTHHAATT TTNNCC22001144,, WWHHAATT CCAANNDDEELLEEGGAATTEESS EEXXPPEECCTT??At TNC we’ll be showing how easy it isfor managers to add their VC facilities tothe directory and how users can thenfind VC rooms across Europe. We’ll alsobe running a prize draw – everyoneregistering a VC room during May andJune will be entered into a prize draw towin one of 2 Raspberry PI computerkits, including Camera Boards.

WWHHAATT IISS YYOOUURR RROOLLEE IINN GGÉÉAANNTT?? I have been eduCONF product manager for one year. This means I’m responsible for the delivery anddevelopment of the service.

WWHHAATT DDOO YYOOUU SSEEEE AASS TTHHEE MMAAIINNOOBBJJEECCTTIIVVEESS AANNDD CCHHAALLLLEENNGGEESS IINNYYOOUURR RROOLLEE?? The main objective is to make videoconferencing easier,and more useful to NREN users. The biggest challengesare coordinating a widespread team of internationalexperts and attempting to address the varying needs ofthe GÉANT partners.

WWHHAATT DDOO YYOOUU EENNJJOOYY MMOOSSTT AABBOOUUTT YYOOUURR WWOORRKK?? Working internationally and finding common interests with colleagues and friends around the world – (in facteduCONF has a sub-team biker gang!).

For more information on eduCONF, visit the eduCONFwebsite as eedduuCCOONNFF..ggeeaanntt..nneett.

To hear Tim discuss eduCONF in more detail you canwatch the eduCONF web showcase athhttttppss::////wwwwww..yyoouuttuubbee..ccoomm//uusseerr//GGEEAANNTTttvv//vviiddeeooss

https://www.youtube.com/user/GEANTtv/videos

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The GÉANT Showcase is helping tobuild awareness and understandingacross the project, and archived videoon GEANTtv makes this expertiseavailable to all.

Project participants can check theShowcase schedule on the projectintranet, whilst archived sessions can befound on wwwwww..yyoouuttuubbee..ccoomm//GGEEAANNTTttvv

GGÉÉAANNTT AANNDD TTEERREENNAA IINNVVIITTEE NNOOMMIINNAATTIIOONNSS FFOORRCCOOMMMMUUNNIITTYY AAWWAARRDDSST he GÉANT project and

TERENA have this yearcollaborated to open upCommunity Awards to

nominations from across the researchand education networking community,and in February announced the call fornominations.

These awards are designed to showgratitude and respect to teams orindividuals who have shared their ideas,expertise and time with the community.Such contributions are often providedvoluntarily and through good will. Theseawards were introduced by TERENA in2012, with recipients being honouredonline and during the annual TERENANetworking Conference (TNC).

Up to three nominees may beselected by a panel of judges fromamong the GÉANT and TERENA

community. The winner(s) will bepresented with a small personal giftduring the closing plenary session ofTNC2014 in Dublin, Ireland.

Selection criteria are focused aroundsharing an idea with the community thatdeveloped into something significantsuch as a well-used tool or service;making a significant contribution to anumber of community activities over asustained period; making significantcontributions to important / recognisabledevelopments within the past 12 monthperiod. ‘Winners’ could be individuals orsmall teams of named individuals.

For the past few years, the TNC hasbeen the place where public recognitionhas been given to members of theEuropean research and educationnetworking community for theircontributions to the development of

relevant technologies and services or tocollaborative community activities. Thenew nominations procedure, sponsoredby the GÉANT project, not only opensthe awards up to greater communityengagement within Europe, but alsoinvites nominations from and aboutpeople in other world regions.

WordsLaura Durnford,SeniorCommunicationsOfficer, TERENA

PictureThe firstcommunityaward winnerwas KlaasWierenga, whowas recognisedin 2012 forsharing the ideafor eduroam withthe TERENAcommunity tenyears earlier.

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If you’ve ever wanted a quick andeasy way to get a more in-depth lookat some of the activities within theGÉANT project, then you may be

interested in the GÉANT Showcase. This is a recent initiative born out of

the training area, where subject expertsfrom within the project give a 20-30minute Adobe Connect presentation ona particular area of interest. Attendeesregister to join the session, and are able

to ask questions and interact with thepresenter throughout. Archived sessionsare then uploaded to GÉANT’s YouTubechannel, GEANTtv.

Subjects covered thus far includeTestbeds-as-a-Service, Cloud services,eduCONF and Moonshot. Sessionsplanned for the future cover the GÉANT backbone, EUMETSAT, and Federation-as-a-Service.



www.youtube.com/GEANTtv

PPRROOVVIISSIIOONNIINNGG OOFF OOCCXXOCX facilities could be offered either within GÉANT or theNREN according to the needs of the users and the CloudService Providers. The model is applicable to bothimplementations and will be scalable and resilient to providemaximum availability for user communities.

OCX is in an early developmental stage and the designand concepts are being developed within GÉANT’s NetworkArchitectures for Horizon 2020 work area. For moreinformation on gOCX and how this could benefit future cloudservice provisions, download the OCX white paper athhttttpp::////wwwwww..ggeeaanntt..nneett//RReessoouurrcceess//WWhhiittee__PPaappeerrss//

The OCX team will also be demonstrating their currentwork at the GÉANT Booth at TNC2014

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Throughout the R&E community the use of cloud services israpidly increasing, due to the twin benefits of cost efficiencyand scalability. At present most universities and researchinstitutes have embraced typical lower order cloud services(such as email, storage and collaboration services). Theseservices can typically be supported by the high performance IPnetworks provided by Campus and NREN systems without theneed for enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) facilities.

However as cloud usage develops and starts to offerhigher order services (such as HPC and Big Dataapplications) the need will grow for dedicated cloud servicesdelivery infrastructure to support these more demandingapplications. This is where Open Cloud eXchange (OCX)comes in. The concept has been designed to support thisneed for enhanced connectivity and QoS.

As some of the key benefits of Cloud Services are rapiddeployment and user self-provisioning, so the ability for OCXto work alongside Single Sign On (SSO) and Authenticationand Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) services toautomatically identify network requirements and provisionthese would be a major benefit.

HHOOWW OOCCXX WWIILLLL OOPPEERRAATTEEgOCX (GÉANT Open Cloud eXchange) is designed toenable layer 0 to layer 2 interconnectivity between the CloudService Provider (CSP) and the end user, working with aTrusted Third Party (TTP) to facilitate interoperation.

Initially, during the demonstration phases, provisioning would be manual but the use of SSO and SDN facilities toautomate provisioning will be considered throughout thedesign process.

WordsKarl Meyer,ProductMarketing andCommunicationsOfficer, DANTE

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GGÉÉAANNTT AATT TTNNCC22001144::AATT AA GGLLAANNCCEE GGÉÉAANNTT BBOOOOTTHHVisit the GÉANT booth to see demonstrations oneduCONF, Open Cloud eXchange (OCX), and learn moreabout GÉANT Open and eduPERT. Catch up with GÉANTexperts in areas such as procurement and projectmanagement as well as invited guests.

GGÉÉAANNTT AASSSSOOCCIIAATTEEDDSSPPEEAAKKEERRSSThe TNC2014 programme will this year feature sixteenspeakers presenting on a wide range of subjects coveringthe project’s technology, service developments and other initiatives.

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MMoonnddaayy,, 1199 MMaayy16:00 to 17:30Location: Lecture Theatre A NNeettwwoorrkkiinngg aarrcchhiitteeccttuurree Gianluca Reali, University of Perugiaspeaking on ARES: AdvancedNetworking for DistributingGenomic Data

16:00 to 17:30Location: Lecture Theatre B SSiimmpplliiffyyiinngg ffee ddeerraattiioonnddeeppllooyymmeennttWolfgang Hommel, LeibnizSupercomputing Centre (LRZ) ofthe Bavarian Academy of Sciencesand Humanities (Germany)speaking on GÉANT TrustBroker:Dynamic inter-federation identitymanagement

TTuueessddaayy,, 2200 MMaayy14:00 to 15:30Location: Lecture Theatre BDDiissrruuppttiivvee nneettwwoorrkkss Dimitri Staessens, GOOGLE speakingon RINA: AN Opportunity for NRENs toLead Internet Research

11:00 to 12:30Location: Auditorium CClloouudd sseerrvviicceess ffoorr eedduuccaattiioonn aannddrreesseeaarrcchh Session Chair: Roberto SabatinoDANTE Ronan Byrne HEAnet speakingon HEAnet Cloud Strategy

14:00 to 15:30Location: Lecture Theatre A AAddvvaanncceedd nneettwwoorrkkiinngg Ronald van der Pol speakingon Community Connection Service foreScience

14:00 to 15:30Location: Lecture Theatre CSSuuppppoorrttiinngg IInnnnoovvaattiioonnMichael Enrico DANTE speakingon GÉANT Open Call Session Chair: Roberto SabatinoDANTE

16:00 to 17:30Location: Lecture Theatre CFFeeddeerraatteedd iiddeennttiittyy iinn rreesseeaarrcchh aannddeedduuccaattiioonnAnn Harding SWITCH speaking on CaseStudies in Federated IdentityManagement for Research Communities

16:00 to 17:30Location: Auditorium SSeerrvviiccee ddeelliivveerryy ppllaattffoorrmmssY. Demchenko speaking on Open CloudeXchange (OCX): Bringing CloudServices to NRENs



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TThhuurrssddaayy,, 2222 MMaayy9:30 to 11:00Location: Lecture Theatre A BBaannddwwiiddtthh oonn ddeeaatthhbbeedd??Marcin Wolski PSNC speakingon How to move toward successfulsoftware development inNetworking

9:30 to 11:00Location: Lecture Theatre C TThheerree iiss wwoorrkk ttoo bbee ddoonnee::ccrreeaattiinngg tthhee GGÉÉAANNTT ssttrraatteeggyy

TTuueessddaayy,, 2200 MMaayy18:00-19:30Location: Lecture Theatre AGGÉÉAANNTT TTeessttbbeedd sseerrvviicceess The session will look at innovative uses of the GÉANTTestbed services. Following a demonstration, BoFattendees will all join in the discussion to learn about thecurrent testbed offering and uses, explore additionalscenarios and use cases. If you use GÉANT testbeds orwant to use them – come and share your experiences,lessons learned and ideas about future needs in an open forum.

PPOOSSTTEERRSS• The new perfSONAR• Open Cloud eXchange (OCX):

Architecture, Components, and Demo scenario

• Community Connection Servicefor eScience

• Multi-Domain VPN, a new network service

• Bridging Openflow/SDN and IP/MPLS - The Design and Emulation of a Hybrid Node in the DREAMER Project

• HEXAA: An External Attribute Authority solution for Research Collaborations

• Showcasing Open Calls

WWOORRKKSSHHOOPPSSSSuunnddaayy,, 1188 MMaayy10:30 to 17:30Location: Lecture Theatre AeedduuPPEERRTT aanndd EESSnneett pprreesseenntt:: AAnn OOvveerrvviieeww iinnEEmmeerrggiinngg ((aanndd nnoott)) NNeettwwoorrkkiinngg TTeecchhnnoollooggiieess -- PPaarrtt II Alessandra Scicchitano (SWITCH), Jason Zurawski(ESNET), Kurt Baumann (SWITCH)

MMoonnddaayy,, 1199 MMaayy 9:00 to 12:30Location: Auditorium eedduuPPEERRTT aanndd EESSnneett pprreesseenntt:: AAnn OOvveerrvviieeww iinnEEmmeerrggiinngg ((aanndd nnoott)) NNeettwwoorrkkiinngg TTeecchhnnoollooggiieess -- PPaarrtt IIII Alessandra Scicchitano (SWITCH), Jason Zurawski(ESNET), Kurt Baumann (SWITCH)

WWeeddnneessddaayy,, 2211 MMaayy11:00 to 12:30Location: Lecture Theatre B BBeetttteerr ssaaffee tthhaann pprriivvaattee Roland Hedburg speaking on Allowingthe user to define the attribute releasepolicy

11:00 to 12:30Location: Lecture Theatre A GGlloobbaall ccoollllaabboorraattiioonn mmaakkeess uussssttrroonnggeerrThomas Fryer DANTE speakingon Collaborating to Develop, Implement& Provide Global Services

14:00 to 15:30Location: Lecture Theatre A SDN virtual networksŁukasz Podleski speaking on Multi-domain Software Defined Network:exploring possibilities

14:00 to 15:30Location: Lecture Theatre C 11++11==33 iinn eedduuccaattiioonnDomenico Vicinanza DANTE speakingon Experiments in collaborative artacross R&E networks

16:00 to 17:30Location: Lecture Theatre CNNeettwwoorrkk mmoonniittoorriinngg Trupti Kulkarni DANTE speakingon Circuit Monitoring in Multi-DomainEnvironment

16:00 to 17:30Location: Lecture Theatre AWWiirree ffrreeee aanndd wwoorrrryy ffrreeeeFrans Panken speaking on Making aMEAL of eduroam over 4GStefan Winter speaking on SENSE -Secure Enterprise Networks Simple & Easy

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WWHHAATT IISS YYOOUURR AARREEAA OOFFRREESSPPOONNSSIIBBIILLIITTYY??I have responsibility for DANTE'smarketing communications, including forthe networking projects it manages. Thelargest part of the job is thedissemination and promotion of theGÉANT project, its network and servicesat European, national and internationallevels, across the research andeducation community.

WWHHAATT DDOOEESS GGÉÉAANNTT MMEEAANN TTOO YYOOUU?? Quite simply, innovation. The GÉANTproject facilitates innovation: innovationby our users who are pushing researchboundaries, and innovation within theGÉANT project as the teams constantlyseek new solutions and technologies totake the network and services to thenext level.

WWHHYY IISS MMAARRKKEETTIINNGGCCOOMMMMUUNNIICCAATTIIOONNSS SSOOIIMMPPOORRTTAANNTT TTOO AA PPRROOJJEECCTTSSUUCCHH AASS GGÉÉAANNTT?? We claim that we have built the highestperformance R&E network in the world,with a suite of services offering the mostsecure, flexible bandwidth options. But ifwe don’t tell anyone about it, there willbe no users and no benefit to Europeanresearch. “If a tree falls in the forest withno one to hear it fall, does it make anoise?”

Together with my team, it’s my job toraise the profile of the GÉANT network,services and innovation, in order todemonstrate their value to ourstakeholder groups and so support theproject’s objectives.

Over the past few years, as theservices became an important part ofthe project, I have been evolving aproduct marketing and promotionfunction to support service teams withuser-focus in service development, andto communicate the service benefits toNRENs, and assist them with channelpromotion – the onward promotion tousers at national level.

WWHHEERREE DDOO YYOOUU FFEEEELL TTHHIISSHHAASS HHAADD TTHHEE BBIIGGGGEESSTTIIMMPPAACCTT OOVVEERR TTHHEE PPAASSTTYYEEAARR??Every year the focus shifts slightly andwe expand our remit, and the rewardsare worth it. For example, the jointcommunications programme withInfinera to promote GÉANT’s 500Gbpsnetwork upgrade won GÉANT twoindustry awards and a Guinness worldrecord!

As always we work closely withindustry titles such as Light Reading andScientific Computing World whoregularly seek our expert opinion. But itis our investment in developing pressrelations and social media that has reallystarted to pay dividends. We now have

over 1,100 Twitter followers providing aconstant stream of new contacts andopportunities to engage withstakeholders. For instance, with highprofile journalists, with whom ourgrowing relationships have resulted inunprecedented coverage in the nationalpress, such as the BBC, The Guardian,The Huffington Post and some of theworld’s biggest technology outlets suchas GigaOm and Wired – all of which helpus raise the profile of the project farbeyond the industry press.

AASS TTEEAAMM LLEEAADDEERR,, WWHHAATT DDOOYYOOUU SSEEEE AASS YYOOUURR BBIIGGGGEESSTTCCHHAALLLLEENNGGEE??Meeting the demands and expectationsfor significant levels of communicationsactivity under strong budget restraints.So right now, with plans to put togetherfor the next GÉANT project phase(GN4), the challenge will be to get theright balance of work to support theproject in its aims, taking the myriad andcomplexity of the (sometimes conflicting)needs of the many different stakeholdersinto account.

WWHHAATT PPRROOJJEECCTTSS AARREE YYOOUUAANNDD YYOOUURR TTEEAAMM WWOORRKKIINNGGOONN AATT TTHHEE MMOOMMEENNTT??A whole range of projects:• With DANTE’s CTO, I have just

finished authoring relevant parts of a Horizon 2020 Future Internet project submission.

• Working with international colleagues, we are developing an interactive global map showing GÉANT and other regional networkssuch as CAREN, RedCLARA, TEIN and so on, and with a drill-down function to show NREN details too.

• The TNC issue of CONNECT magazine is being put to bed (which you are now reading)

• The team is starting work on an AAI communications plan in keeping with the aims of the recently published and agreed AAI strategy

• The NREN GÉANT PR Dissemination survey results shows that over 70% of European NREN partners use the materials, news and web content that my team develops – this is a great indication that we’re doing the right things here. Getting feedback and measures of our work is always so valuable to obtain.

HHOOWW DDOO YYOOUU SSEEEE TTHHEE NNEEEEDD FFOORR IINNCCRREEAASSEEDDGGLLOOBBAALL CCOOLLLLAABBOORRAATTIIOONNAAFFFFEECCTTIINNGG YYOOUURR RROOLLEE??With the increasing competitivepressure, there is some need for NRENsto show that they are not just an isolatednational entity but are a part of a globalcollaboration (of NRENs). Similarly, someof the project’s services, such as

eduroam, eduGAIN and perfSONARhave a user base beyond Europe.This means that I need to ensure thatproject communications and productpromotion planning incorporates theinternational aspects and opportunities. I have also become involved in the newlyestablished Global PR Network, a groupof communications professionals fromacross the global R&E networkingcommunity, which has amongst its aimsto share best practise and to workcollaboratively on joint-interest projects,such as case study examples anddeveloping a boilerplate clarifying thecollaboration, for use by all NRENs.

HHOOWW DDOOEESS MMAARRKKEETTIINNGGCCOOMMMMUUNNIICCAATTIIOONNSS IINNRREESSEEAARRCCHH NNEETTWWOORRKKIINNGGCCOOMMPPAARREE TTOO OOTTHHEERRIINNDDUUSSTTRRIIEESS??I’ve been involved with networkingtechnology since the early days ofcommercial Internet - PIPEX, UUNET,software distributor Unipalm, digital TVclient developer ANT plc – in marketingcommunications, PR, eventmanagement, channel marketing andproduct management. The work followsthe same principles whichever industryor setting you are in. So, with marketingcommunications, the aim is always tobring about some change in behaviour,or even a thought process. Such as toinfluence a purchasing decision – orservice usage decision in our case, or todemonstrate value for money to afunding body or investor. So, whether forprofit or not for profit, we still need toreach out to different audiences fordifferent reasons, all in support of thecorporate objectives.

WWHHAATT DDOO YYOOUU EENNJJOOYYMMOOSSTT AABBOOUUTT YYOOUURRWWOORRKK?? It’s a cliché but the fact that I’mconstantly learning and thateveryone in the company makes a real difference.

LLAASSTT MMOOVVIIEE YYOOUUWWAATTCCHHEEDD:: Groundhog Day – again.

FFAAVVOOUURRIITTEE FFOOOODD:: Cheese and cake, not necessarilytogether!

WWHHAATT DDOO YYOOUU DDOO FFOORRDDOOWWNNTTIIMMEE??At the moment I’m learning how tolook after chickens and attemptingto grow my own vegetables; andthe occasional, highly prizedweekend mountain hiking.


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LLIIBBRRAARRIIEESSFunet, the Finnish NREN has plans todeploy eduroam in libraries - the TurkuCity Library is already connected - andother central locations throughout Turku.

Turku universities have been verypositive in furthering the footprint ofeduroam, with suggestions for making itavailable for staff and students within thecity. This will help with organising eventsfor instance, since with eduroam there isno need to arrange any other WLAN.

New locations are listed oneduroam.org location map and on theeduroam Companion mobile app, whichhelp universities to raise awareness ofeduroam within their locality.

LLEEIISSUURREE CCEENNTTRREESS AANNDD PPAARRKKSSIn Austria, ACOnet has started another"eduroam in the city" initiative, currentlyworking with the city administrations ofWien (Vienna) and Innsbruck.

While eduroam is already available atmost universities in Austria and someother participating organisations like theNatural History Museum, this newinitiative intends to extend the eduroamcoverage outside campuses, usingpublic WLAN infrastructure, to leisureareas, shopping streets, tourismhotspots and parks.

CCRREEAATTIINNGG AANN EEXXTTEENNDDEEDDCCAAMMPPUUSSIn Germany, universities in Munich andIngolstadt are in the process of formingpartnerships with public Wi-Fi providersto make the city into an extendedcampus.

eedduurrooaamm®® iiss tthhee sseeccuurree,, wwoorrllddwwiiddeerrooaammiinngg aacccceessss sseerrvviiccee ffoorr tthheeiinntteerrnnaattiioonnaall rreesseeaarrcchh aanndd eedduuccaattiioonnccoommmmuunniittyy.. IItt aalllloowwss aannyy uusseerr ttoo ggeett nneettwwoorrkk aacccceessss aatt aannyyiinnssttiittuuttiioonn ccoonnnneecctteedd ttoo eedduurrooaamm –– iirrrreessppeeccttiivvee ooff llooccaattiioonn –– vviiaa tthheeiirrmmoobbiillee ddeevviiccee oorr llaappttoopp..

HHoowweevveerr,, wwiitthh tthhee bboooomm iinn mmoobbiilleeccoonnnneeccttiivviittyy,, NNRREENNss ((NNaattiioonnaallRReesseeaarrcchh aanndd EEdduuccaattiioonn NNeettwwoorrkkss))aarree ccoonnttiinnuuaallllyy llooookkiinngg ffoorr wwaayyss ttoommeeeett tthhee nneeeeddss ooff uusseerrss oouuttssiiddeettrraaddiittiioonnaall rreesseeaarrcchh aanndd eedduuccaattiioonneennvviirroonnmmeennttss..

HHeerree aarree jjuusstt aa ffeeww eexxaammpplleess ffrroommaaccrroossss EEuurrooppee,, wwhhiicchh wwee hhooppee wwiillllpprroovviiddee iinnssppiirraattiioonn ttoo tthhee wwiiddeerrccoommmmuunniittyy..

EEDDUURROOAAMM -- BBEEYYOONNDD TTHHEE CCAAMMPPUUSS

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GGOOVVEERRNNMMEENNTTOORRGGAANNIISSAATTIIOONNSSIn Belgium, Govroam waspioneered and launched in 2013 byBelnet, the Belgian NREN. Theprinciple is the same as that ofeduroam except end users arepublic services and governmentalstaff. When an employee from afederal government institution visitsa local administration, they caneasily surf their wireless networkusing the same credentials as attheir home institution.

Each visited institution can alsodecide which access rightsgovroam users get on theirnetwork. Finally, administrationsconnected to the Belnet network donot have to pay additional costs forthe implementation of govroam.

Belnet is keen to increase the number of public sectororganisations and is activelypromoting the many benefits. The service has now been rolled outin the Netherlands, in collaborationwith SURFnet, the Dutch NREN.

Have you discovered eduroam in any unusual or innovative places?We’d love to hear your stories.Write to us at ccoonnnneecctt@@ggeeaanntt..nneett

RRAAIILLWWAAYY SSTTAATTIIOONNSS AANNDD RREESSTTAAUURRAANNTTSSSUNET, the Swedish NREN and Wi-Fiprovider (The Cloud) have an agreementgiving researchers, students and staff atSweden’s universities access to asecure internet connection on theCloud’s 4,500 or so access pointsincluding airports, railway stations andeven restaurants.

The SUNET – Cloud partnershiprepresents an innovative approach ineduroam and is a big step forward, as itmakes connectivity easier and providesusers with secure mobile access to aglobal wireless network both at theirhome institution and in public places.

AAIIRRPPOORRTTSSIn Norway, UNINETT the NorwegianNREN provides free Wi-Fi access tostudents and researchers at 14Norwegian airports across the country,from Kristiansand in the south, toSvalbard in the far north – with more to

follow. eduroam is also available in mostof central Trondheim (Norway’s secondlargest campus city) through acollaboration with the municipality and the university.

TTOOUURRIISSTTSS AANNDDSSCCHHOOOOLLCCHHIILLDDRREENNCARNet the Croatian NREN offersresearch and education users on theislands Unije, Susak and Dugi Otok inthe north of the Adriatic free-wiredinternet if they have an eduroam login.Serving tourists is a pleasant side effectas the network was originally establishedfor schoolchildren on the islands.

Similarly, tourists also enjoy freewireless networks (when they own aneduroam login) in the city of Pula in Istriain Croatia. The Wi-Fi networkPulaFreeAir has 17 locations in the city.

HHOOSSPPIITTAALLSS AANNDDLLAAMMPPPPOOSSTTSSThe UK extended its eduroam footprintthrough NHS teaching hospital trustcollaborations. For instance in Oxford,eduroam overlaid onto hospitals’ Wi-Finetwork infrastructures supportsmedical students from across the UK atnumerous teaching hospitals.

Cooperating with local authoritieswill also see greater eduroam coveragein city centres, particularly where localuniversities are involved in jointinfrastructure or transport projects. InCambridge, we could soon seeeduroam-providing access pointsmounted onto city council lampposts.

Edward Wincott, eduroam ServiceManager, Jisc said: “Having eduroamavailable outside the traditional campusempowers students, teachers,researchers and users. They can work,study and enjoy high performanceinternet access at locations of theirchoosing, making for greaterproductivity and satisfaction.”

OOUUTTSSIIDDEE EEUURROOPPEEeduroam, although a Europeaninvention, has spread to many parts ofthe world, including to Japan. In Tokyo,you can use your eduroam login tohotspots at coffee shops, conferencecentres and major shopping centres in the city centre.


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BBEENNEEFFIITTSS AACCRROOSSSS TTHHEECCOOMMMMUUNNIITTYYIt is not only individual research usersthat benefit from AAI. Service Providerscan offer their services to a much wideraudience making their platforms morecost-effective and Identity Providers candramatically reduce their workload asthey no longer need to maintainidentities of temporary or visitingresearchers and staff. With Users,Service Providers and Identity Providersall benefiting from AAI, NRENs, LargeInternational Projects and Institutionsneed to be positioned to support theserequirements.

Yet despite the benefits of AAI,nearly half of all GÉANT partners don’tyet have an Identity federation. This isnot only restricting the ability of theirusers to gain access to services butcould increase costs within the NREN.

FFAAAASS –– EENNAABBLLIINNGG NNRREENNSSTTOO OOPPEERRAATTEE AANN IIDDEENNTTIITTYYFFEEDDEERRAATTIIOONN

The development of a nationalIdentity federation is not a trivial activityand GÉANT’s Federation as a Service(FaaS) task was created specially to helpthese NRENs and other groups. FaaSwill support NRENs in building theirIdentity federations by providing andhosting federation management tools onbehalf of the NREN. The FaaS providesIdentity federation operators with toolsto perform the registration of Identity andService Providers, effective Metadatamanagement and aggregation includingintegration with eduGAIN, secureMetadata signing and central DiscoveryService. By providing these tools to theNRENs, they will be able to focus onbuilding the Authentication andAuthorisation Infrastructure in theirregion by supporting the development ofService Provider and Identity Provider inmember institutions.

WWoorrddssMarinaVermezovic,AMRES

HHOOWW YYOOUU CCAANN BBEENNEEFFIITTFFRROOMM FFAAAASS AANNDD HHEELLPPEffective AAI can greatly benefit NRENsand is a unique value added service forNRENs to provide.

FaaS is inviting NRENs to be at theforefront of this development by takingpart in the workshop FaaS is organizingin October 2014, with more informationsoon to come. For more information onFaaS go to [URL] or contact ValterNordh at vvaalltteerr..nnoorrddhh@@gguu..ssee, or Marina Vermezović atmmaarriinnaa@@aammrreess..aacc..rrss

As the demands of researchersand research projectsincrease as internationalcollaboration becomes the

norm, so does the need for NRENs toprovide effective, secure Authenticationand Authorisation Infrastructures (AAI).

By offering AAI, NRENs can provideessential value added services so thatusers can also take advantage ofservices and facilities offered by otherNRENs. From ubiquitous eduroam®access to advanced cloud computingplatforms such as ~Okeanos global, AAIis an essential enabler for collaboration.

FFEEDDEERRAATTIIOONN AASS AA SSEERRVVIICCEE ((FFAAAASS))–– EENNAABBLLIINNGG NNRREENNSS TTOO OOPPEERRAATTEEAANN IIDDEENNTTIITTYY FFEEDDEERRAATTIIOONN

“AAI will become one of thekey differentiators betweenNRENs and other networkproviders and its provisionwill aid the development ofenhanced services to allusers.”

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WWoorrddssNadia Sluer,ProjectManagementAssistant,TERENA

TTHHEE GGÉÉAANNTT GGRREEEENN TTEEAAMM TTHHEE GGRREEEENNIINNGG OOFF IICCTT AANNDD WWHHAATT WWEE CCAANN AALLLL BBEE DDOOIINNGG

WWHHAATT AARREE TTHHEE GGÉÉAANNTTGGRREEEENN TTEEAAMM GGOOAALLSS??Firstly, to stimulate ideas and promotebest practice on the adoption of GreenICT for society, including researchcentres, the higher educationcommunity and industry andgovernment. For instance to promoteand support the uptake of carbonreduction based services, such asvirtualisation, teleworking, andvideoconferencing.

Secondly, to adopt energy efficientpractices in the setup, management,support and decommissioning ofnetworks, combined with the use of ICTtechnology to measure the success ofreducing energy consumption in varioussectors - crucial for the future of allnetworks.

HHOOWW WWIILLLL IITT AACCHHIIEEVVEETTHHEEMM??In an effort to encourage more people toget on board, the GÉANT Green Teamhas developed a policy template to helpNRENs create their own environmentalpolicy, matched to the individual needsof that organisation.

The aim is to recruit as manyNRENs as possible, in a positive drive toreduce greenhouse gas (GHG)emissions. Already 10 NRENs havetaken advantage of this and it is hopedat least 20 more will have followed suitby March 2015. The benefits to NRENsare many:• Make your efforts and work

practices more sustainable. • Ability to offer greener services

to clients. • Help research and education

communities reduce energy usage. • Educate the next generation in

good, environmentally sustainable, work practices.

WWHHYY IISS TTHHIISS SSOOIIMMPPOORRTTAANNTT??In order to reduce the impact of ICT onthe environment, we all need to takeresponsibility and take action now. Thehuman impact on the climate system isclear and it is extremely likely (95–100%probability) that our influence was thedominant cause of global warmingbetween 1951 and 2010.*

By developing a commonenvironmental policy, NRENs can beginto adopt standards to measure overallenvironmental performance and settargets for efficiency. This will help tomaximise the positive impact NRENscan have, boosting collective powerwhich will help to stimulate, found andsupport the greening of ICT.

Arecent study by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative(ggeessii..oorrgg) suggests that theinternet releases around 900m

tonnes of CO2 a year – 1.9% of theworld’s CO2 emissions and as much asthe aviation industry. In addition, the useof precious metals and rare earthminerals in IT equipment leads to evengreater environmental impacts.

GÉANT and its National Researchand Education Network partners(NRENs) and the wider ICT communityhave a responsibility to ensure they areworking to be as environmentallysustainable as possible. To that end, The GÉANT Green Team was created in2009 - to help promote environmentalsustainability across the R&Ecommunity.

* The Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange [IPCC]:fifth assessment report.

http://gesi.org/


COLIBRI: A NETWORKINGPROJECT FORRARE DISEASES

The Colibrì Project arises in thiscontext. Funded by the Italian Ministryof Health, Colibrì aims to sharemagnetic resonance images (MRIs)between 19 research hospitalsthroughout Italy that specialize in thefield of pediatric neurological diseases.

In this context, the network andspecialized ICT have a strategicimportance. We spoke with Dr. FabioTriulzi, Project Lead of Colibri.

Adisease or disorder is definedas rare in Europe when itaffects less than 1 in 2000.While this may seem to

indicate a very small phenomenon,there are between 6000 and 7000known rare diseases, affecting anestimated 30 million people in Europealone. Indeed, rare diseases as acategory are considered a public healthpriority for which the EU hasestablished a specific policy.1

What rare diseases have incommon is difficulty in finding theright diagnosis and scarce resources formedical research. Each disease has itsown specific traits, and with only ahandful of cases in any given region,networking is essential to be able toshare information on it and to reachcritical mass in understanding it andtrying to find a treatment.

WordsInterview byDiana Cresti andMaddalena Varioof GARR

PicturesDr. Fabio Triulzi,Project Lead(opposite); mapshows centresinvolved in theproject

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1. http://ec.europa.eu/health/rare_diseases/policy/index_en.htm

Colibrì (COLlection of pedIatricBrain Images and COLlection of pedIatric Brain Images -www.colibri.net) is acollaboration between 19 Italianscientific hospitals (IRCCS) – seemap for locations - coordinatedby three large partners: BambinGesù in Rome, "E. Medea" - Bosisio Parini in Lecco and SanRaffaele Hospital in Milan.

www.colibri.net

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Is it important to makean early diagnosis regardless of the existence of a cure?

Of course. This is always the case inmedicine, one must try to figure outwhat the problem is regardless ofwhether there may be a therapy.Unfortunately many rare diseases don’thave a specific cure, but a diagnosis isimportant in terms of familycounseling because in most cases wefind a disease with a geneticbackground, hence if I identify thedisease and understand how it istransmitted genetically, I can provideimportant information both to theparents and to the patient.

Furthermore, there are diseasesthat can significantly improve witheven small changes, for example in themetabolic diseases a proper diet canmake the difference: clearly if I begin totreat the disease promptly, I havebetter chances of success.

How do you see the future? Do you plan to expand the projectinternationally?

Yes, our idea is to extend ourcollaboration at the international level.We would like to understand what ishappening outside Italy because weknow that there are similar experienceselsewhere in the world: the key for thesuccess of Colibrì will be in our abilityto collaborate with more and morecenters worldwide.

The goal of our network is to makesure that if we see, say 40 cases of arare disease in Italy, estimating thatworldwide, with over 7 billion people,there could be perhaps 7000 peoplesuffering from this disease, thanks toan international network we could see200 cases and this really makes thedifference. Being connected to theItalian research network GARR whichin turn is interconnected to the GÉANTinternational research network can be astrong added value, both in terms oftechnology and networking.

Let's say I’m a doctor who has justperformed an MRI andI suspect the patient issuffering from a raredisease. What can I do?

First, I submit the image to theevaluation of a committee to checkwhether it fulfills a certain set ofprerequisites; then - but only afterbeing approved by the committee - Ishare the image with the other centers.Of course, patient data are encryptedand what I share is just a protocolnumber.

At this point the other centers canoffer suggestions, further analyze someof the tests and evaluate the case in acollegial manner: all this increases thechance of making a correct diagnosis. It may also happen that another centerhas already made the diagnosis,achieving a reliable genetic typing: inthis case the image is “promoted” asinformative to enrich the database andincrease the critical mass of knowledgeon a specific disease.

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“Certainly the technological aspectpresents a challenge for the medicalcommunity. Each hospital is a fortress,because its primary objective is thedefense of patient privacy. Howevermedical data sharing is very important,so flexibility is necessary to circulateinformation between hospitals andcolleagues. In relation to that, networkand information technologies play astrategic role because they help tocombine privacy and sharing. Theinterconnection of the ScientificHospitals (IRCCS) via the Italianresearch and education network GARRsince 2005 means a lot, not onlytechnologically but also in terms ofattitude towards sharing, because thereis an awareness of being part of anetwork and of being supported by anadvanced and reliable e-infrastructure,which makes data sharing safe andeasy. For Colibrì, GARR created avirtual private network to provide highsecurity for data travelling over thenetwork, complemented by secureaccess via IDEM, the Italian identityfederation”.


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CARNET USERS CONFERENCE CUC 2014– CALL FOR PAPERS

WordsGitte JulinKudsk, DeIC

In NORDUnet is happy to welcome you to historic Uppsala and UppsalaUniversity in Sweden 23-25 September 2014

The NORDUnet conference bringstogether about 200 R&E networkexecutives and engineers, along withtheir university colleagues inadministration, the faculty, andresearch. The conference is dubbed"the Nordic meeting place", but sees quite a few participants from across Europe and the rest of the world.

The theme for this year's conferenceis Innovation, with talks on the coretopics of:

• Network Innovation• Service Innovation• Innovations in Big Data• Campus Innovation• Business Model Innovation

You will find the interesting programon the conference website (see box).

Call for LightningTalksSubmit a proposal for a lightningtalk, and present your idea,successful project, cautionary tale,collaboration invitation, or even aquick tip in only seven minutes.

See you in Uppsala! Learn more about the conferenceand register at the conferencewebsitehttps://events.nordu.net/display/NORDU2014/Welcome

WordsGoran Skvarc,CARNet

Submissions for the workshops andconference papers to the CARNet UsersConference CUC 2014, entitled “Fastenyour connection, we're taking off”, isnow open. We invite authors to submit

Conference papers (deadline forsubmission of full text is June 1) orProposal for a two-hour or four-hourworkshop (deadline for submission ofproposals is May 15). All papers andproposals will undergo two double-blind reviews. One person can submit amaximum of two papers as the firstauthor.

The official language of the Conferenceis Croatian and the authors will beexpected to present their papers andworkshops in Croatian language.

Lectures by invited or approved foreignspeakers will be in English. Awards forthe best paper and best presentationwill be presented at the Conference.

CUC 2014 will take place in Zagreb,Croatia, on November 19-21 at HotelAntunović.

You can submit your proposalfollowing this link:https://radovi.cuc.carnet.hr. For more information please visitcuc.carnet.hr.

NORDUNET CONFERENCE 2014

http://cuc.carnet.hr./2014

https://radovi.cuc.carnet.hr

https://events.nordu.net/display/NORDU2014/Welcome

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BETTER HEALTHPOWERED BY SUPERCOMPUTERS

In our aging society, healthresearch is becoming more andmore the top-priority of not onlyhealth-care providers and

national governments, but also ofacademia and industry. All areconvinced that in order to keep oureconomy healthy and growing, we needto keep our population healthy andable well into old-age. To achieve this,new technologies and medication needto be developed through a betterunderstanding of the human body.High performance computing canincrease this understanding byallowing researchers to model andsimulate what goes on at the deepestand smallest levels of organs andphysical functions as realistically aspossible.

Since 2010 PRACE has supported303 projects on 6 Tier-0 systems, 55 ofwhich contribute to better health in

Europe. Out of the 8 billion core hoursawarded 1.3 billion are dedicated tothose health-related projects.Dementia-related research isprominently represented with 9projects awarded with PRACE ProjectAccess and 2 with PRACE PreparatoryAccess. Of those 11 projects a total of 5projects are linked to the EU flagshipinitiative Human Brain Project.

That health is an important topicfor research and science is also madeclear by the numerous national andEuropean grants given to projects inthis field. From the 55 PRACE-supported projects mentioned above, 8are linked to European ResearchCouncil (ERC) grants, while 3 receivesupport under the Marie CurieResearch Fellowship Programme.One more project receives an IDEAS-Ngrant.the Italian identity federation”.

WordsMarjoleinOorsprong, PRACECommunicationsOfficer

HIGHLIGHTSElectrophysiology - Atomisticmodeling by Mounir Tarek fromCNRS-University of Lorraine,France. His project is one of 7multi-year projects that receivedallocations under the PRACE 5th(first year) and 7th (second year)Call for Proposals for ProjectAccess. For each project year,PRACE awarded an allocation 28million core hours on Curie TN @GENCI@CEA, France, and 42million core hours on SuperMUC@ GCS@LRZ, Germany, leading toone of the largest resourceallocations since the start ofPRACE in 2010 (140 million corehours in total). An article aboutTarek’s work will be published inPRACE Digest 1/2014.

Prof Federico Toschi ofEindhoven University ofTechnology, Netherlands uses the41.16 million core hours onJUQUEEN @ GCS@Jülich,Germany allocated to his projecttowards an improved cellbased mesoscopic model forlarge scale blood flowsimulations. An explanatoryarticle on his work can be found inthe PRACE Scientific AnnualReport 2012.

For more information, see: www.prace-ri.eu

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DANTE SIGNS LOIWITH THE ACDCCONSORTIUM

In March DANTE signed a Letterof Intent (LoI) to join the ACDCproject as a user. Started inFebruary 2013, the European

Advanced Cyber Defence Centre(ACDC) aims to create a community ofstakeholders joining forces to fightbotnets. ACDC provides a complete setof solutions accessible online to

mitigate on-going attacks and targetedboth to end-users and to networkoperators. It also consolidates the dataprovided by various stakeholders into apool of knowledge, accessible throughthe ACDC central clearing house.

ACDC reaches out to users acrossEurope through 8 national relaycentres. ACDC currently operates as a

WordsGoran Skvarc,CARNet

30 months EU-supported pilot project,ending in July 2015 and aims tocontinue as a self-sustainedinfrastructure beyond the end of theproject. Initiated by 28 partners from14 countries, ACDC is open tostakeholders from industry, publicauthorities and academia acrossMember States.

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CALLING ALL DEVELOPERS!

What arebotnets?A botnet is a collection of Internet-connected programscommunicating with other similarprograms in order to performtasks. This can be as mundane askeeping control of an InternetRelay Chat (IRC) channel, or itcould be used to send spam emailor participate in distributed denial-of-service attacks. The word botnetis a combination of thewords robot and network. Theterm is usually used with anegative or malicious connotation. In 2012, one of the mostdangerous botnets was ‘Grum’ –which was responsible for sending18 billion spam messages per dayand 18% of the world’s spam.

Source – Wikipedia and KindsightSecurity Labs.

2014 is a great year to be a developer inGÉANT, there are so many excitingservices and systems being developedacross the project.

We are excited to announce theSummer School for Developers whichwill take place in Poznan, Poland from22 – 26 September (final dates TBC).Similar to previous events it will be akind of coding retreat aimed atproviding an opportunity to meet otherdevelopers and share ideas and

experiences. It will use well-knownmethodologies, code refactoring with aclear focus on testing and bestpractices.

Then expanding on the securityaspects of the Summer School, we willbe running another ever popularSecure Code Training course at DFN,in Berlin on the 28th – 30th of October2014. The course will run from middayon day one until midday on day threeto enable travel to and from the venue.

To ensure maximum involvement fromparticipants. We are interested to hearfrom any developers in the project,including the Open Call Projects whomay have special interest in particulartopics being covered. Now is yourchance to influence the Secure CodeTraining programme!

You can find the survey at:https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sct14-input

ACDC will provide tools andsensors to detect botnet related cyber-threats and mitigate cyber-attacks onnetworks, web sites, end usercomputers and mobile devices. Theproject intends to deploy acomprehensive set of national supportcentres throughout 8 Member Statesinterconnected to the ACDC centralclearing house. Through thisnetworked approach, ACDC will alsopave the way for a consolidatedapproach to protect organisations fromcyber-threats and support mitigation ofon-going attacks through easy access toan increasing pool of solutions.

ACDC services will be freelyaccessible at www.botfree.eu orthrough one of the national supportcentres, one of which is located at theCroatian Academic and ResearchNetwork – CARNet. CARNet, incooperation with other partners, hassuccessfully become involved in theimplementation process of the early-phase pilot project within theframework of the ACDC. The individualcomponents of the system developedby CARNet and its project partnerswere successfully tested in October2013 as part of the early-phase pilotproject. The early phase of the pilot was

thereby initiated, consisting of testcomponents that started submittingdata to the test central clearing house,the central system component that is atthe core of this project.

The success of the early-phase pilotis a prerequisite for furtherdevelopment of the system, itsupgrades and adjustments, as well asfor the realisation of one of the maingoals of the project – an efficientcombat against botnets.

By means of a number of actions,CARNet is working on the introductionand safe use of ICT in the academic andeducational community in Croatia. Aresult of the acknowledgment of thatrole is CARNet's engagement in thisproject supported by the EU. Two otherof DANTE’s academic partners are alsoinvolved in the project - DFN-CERTand FCCN – Foundation for NationalScientific Computing.

Together with other projectpartners, and now DANTE, CARNetintends to increase combat againstbotnets to a new level.

ACDC is a European pilot projectfunded under the CIP-PSP program,with a total cost of 15.5 M€ andfunding of 7.7 M€.

www.botfree.eu

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sct14-input

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MULTIMEDIA COLLABORATION ATNIIF/HUNGARNET:LOOKING BACK ANDTHINKING AHEAD

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For 25 years, NIIFI, the National InformationInfrastructure Development Institute (the HungarianNREN) has been providing the academic, research and public collection community with a leading edgecommunication, information, and collaborationinfrastructure. Provision of multimedia (voice, videoand data) collaboration services is among the majorelements of that effort.

Successful activities from the last tenyears include:

• VoIP service, started in 2002, based on SIP, the leading-edge protocol at that time. Since then we have been using private ENUM tree for inside call routing.

• Videoconference service, from 2003, comprising a professional room-based video conference system with multipoint MCU and gatekeeper service, based on H.323 and the open source GnuGK as gatekeeper.

• Our Video on Demand / VideoSharing Repository and Conference Streaming servicestarted in 2003. It has been gradually improved and later rebranded (”Videotorium”, see http://videotorium.hu). It is also eduID/eduGAIN enabled, stores videos up to full HD resolution, synchronises videos with presentation slides or synchronizes two simultaneous video streams.

From the beginning, these serviceshave been very popular both inHungary and abroad. The NIIF MCUhas hosted numerous international VCsessions. NIIFI has been continuallyproviding technical support to the usercommunity and we put specialemphasis on the continuousimprovement of our multimediacollaboration service portfolio.Development is directly related to theinternational co-operations of ourdevelopment team and joint effortswith our partner NRENs.

The NIIFI expert team has beenexchanging experiences at all relatedglobal NREN platforms from thebeginning of the European co-operations on these topics, fromcontributing to the activities of theTERENA task forces to significantdeliverables like the TERENA SIPHandbook.

Another important area of ourcontribution is the NRENum.net trial,and later the related service. TheHungarian +36 country code has beendelegated in 2006, the yearNRENum.net trial was born. Duringthe transition from trial to service,NIIFI has been operating thenrenum.net master DNS server,delegating country codes, andsupporting the entire global NRENcommunity. We have implemented anumber of improvements, e.g.DNSSEC in NRENum.net tree, by thisway improving NRENum.net treesecurity. Furthermore, NIIFIintroduced and has been operating thehttp://crawler.nrenum.netcrawling service that helps monitoringENUM tree usage.

NIIFI has also been contributing toall GÉANT oriented co-operations inthe area. András Kovács led the firsteduCONF Service Activity and weparticipated in the GN2 Dubrovniktraining. More recently, we presented atraining course on WebRTCdevelopments and on how WebRTCcan be exploited by the NRENs.

Our goals are increasinglyinnovation oriented. We are in themiddle of renewing our Videotoriumservice and passionate about utilisingnew and open technologies such asHTML5, adaptive bitrate HTTP livestreaming, support for mobile devices,etc. We are working hard to re-implement, from scratch, our service tomake it open source and share thebenefits among the wide NRENcommunity. We foresee a substantial increase in thenumber of users being able to accessVideotorium as a result.

Last but not least, we are excitedabout another HTML5 collaborationtechnology called WebRTC JS API andunderlying rtcweb wire line protocols.We have been following thestandardization processes of both IETFand W3C and investigating the

WordsMihályMészáros,NIIF/Hungarnet

complicated underlying protocols (ICE,TRICKLE ICE, etc.), and attractivebenefits (e.g. NAT, Firewall traversal,multiple IP addresses, IPV6 smoothtransition, security improvements), aswell as gathering information aboutimplementations, frameworks,troubleshooting interfaces.

We know that in order tounderstand (and master) WebRTC indepth we have to go through a learningcurve. We have to pilot and learn frommistakes, but we also know NielsBohr’s famous quote* and we won’tgive up! That’s why we’re alsoinvestigating WebRTC securityarchitectures and integration withSAML based eduID/eduGAINfederations, keeping in mind that E2Eauthentication by using SAML basedAAI is very challenging. Our interest iselevated not only by the open sourceopportunity but also by using the latestleading edge IETF technology and thepossibility of improving the protectionof communication and privacy.

We recently submitted a well-received proposal suggesting not onlystudying WebRTC technology and theimplementation options but alsopiloting a GÉANT level collaborationservice based on that novel technology.Numerous NRENs have expressedtheir interest in collaborating ifaccepted.

* “An expert is a person whohas found out by his ownpainful experience all themistakes that one can makein a very narrow field.”

- as quoted by the Hungarian-American Edward Teller fromNiels Bohr (LIFE magazine 1954)

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iMENTORS (www.imentors.eu) isan interactive resource, the first of itskind, to contain information about allknown e-infrastructures in Africa in the past five years. Launched for public use and input in July 2013iMENTORS provides you with thenecessary tool to visualise e-infrastructures and all relatedprojects in Africa.

In December 2013 iMENTORSreleased version three of its platform,which contains data across a multitudeof entities, classified as organisations,research infrastructures, fibre networksand projects and lays a foundation forbetter services, encourages researchand connects cross-continentalprogress. The next step is toconsolidate the results of our vast datacollection efforts throughcrowdsourcing and citizens’ input.

By mapping e-infrastructureinitiatives, the project aims to helpscientists, universities, research andeducation networks, students, ITengineers, e-infrastructure andtechnology providers, independentusers as well as policy-makers andinternational donors to:

• Access and make creative use of the vast amount of data available.

• Stay up to date with latest developments and trends in the e-infrastructures sector.

• Understand the importance of e-infrastructures impact on societal development.

• Contribute to the data store and enrich it.

• Exchange ideas, expertise and best practices or find contacts and opportunities in e-infrastructure development.

• Appreciate the results and benefits arising from research and feel more confident in how tax money is spent.

• Communicate with other users and influence e-infrastructure providers.

• Pass on knowledge and experience to others, and make a contribution to the knowledge society.

As of the end of the 2013, iMENTORSdatabase holds detailed information onover 2000 organisations and 150projects. The third version of theplatform contains updated informationon Organisations, ICT Projects, and e-infrastructures. It iscrowdsourcing-enabled, so thatregistered users can submitinformation to the project via theonline platform. iMENTORS alsoincludes information from CORDISand the World Bank database, in orderto create the largest online repositoryof e- infrastructure data. It is accessible

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through a simple registration and loginprocess with no costs involved.

The iMENTORS team is currentlyexploring how to integrate open aiddata pulled from the IATI registry, inan attempt to expand the application ofthe platform on other ICT4D fields.

Data acquisition and validation willcontinue to progress until the end ofthe project. By the end of the projectthe interactive system will contain atleast 80% of all e-infrastructureavailable in Africa.

iMENTORS, co-funded by theEuropean Commission’s DGCONNECT under the SeventhFramework Programme, StockholmUniversity and Gov2u.

Take a look at the map:www.imentors.eu/map.html

For more information visit:www.imentors.eu

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EGI PROVIDES CLOUD COMPUTING FOR EUROPE

these scientists to use the Europeangrid for almost as long as there hasbeen a European grid and have nowstarted with the Federated Cloud.

On the horizon are other potentialbig users like EISCAT_3D (E3D). E3Dis a future experiment that will studythe atmosphere in the Arctic and toinvestigate how the Earth's atmosphereis coupled to space. They have workedwith EGI to show how the FederatedCloud could provide their computingneeds when they get started in 2018.

A lot of work has gone on in the lastthree years to build a cloud for theERA, that cloud is the EGI FederatedCloud and it is ready to support theEurope’s researchers now.

For more information or to get access contact EGI [email protected].

The European GridInfrastructure has over tenyear’s experience providingresearchers with access to

distributed computing resources. Thismonth their cloud computing offering,the EGI Federated Cloud, goes into fullproduction.

The Federated Cloud began life in2011 with a small group tasked withinvestigating how EGI could providethe European Research Area (ERA)with cloud resources they could trust.Over the last three years the activityhas grown building a cloudenvironment based on open standardsto service researchers. Theinfrastructure federates resources frommultiple providers to provide advancedcompute capabilities, virtualisedresources and cloud storage.

The service is open to all Europeanresearchers providing access to servicesjust like the commercial providers.Users are able to setup and operatecustom services, applications andsimulations within virtualised hostingenvironments. With resourcescurrently spread over seven countriesthe infrastructure is pan-European andopen for business.

Said Andres Steijaert, leader of theGÉANT Support to Clouds Activity:“EGI and the GÉANT cloud servicesteam are currently exploring possiblecollaborations on cloud services to help

deliver effective solutions to the R&Esector”

Crucially EGI has not built any newtechnologies or tools to do this butintegrated existing foundations withcloud specific tools and services.“Reuse and evolution of currentsolutions has been key, meaning wedidn’t need to reinvent the wheel, bututilise our limited manpower mosteffectively” explains David Wallomfrom the Federated Cloud Task force“Using pre-existing open standardwhere possible the Federated Cloudworks for researchers and providersequally.”

Until recently the system has beenrunning as a testbed. During this timethe team and select user communitieshave been proving ideas, testing toolsand fixing bugs. The proof of conceptwork that has gone on has been drivenby some of the biggest areas of researchalready using the European grid’sresources but also communities still intheir infancy.

One of the keenest communitieshas been the virtual e-laboratory forbiodiversity researchers, BioVeL. Theyhave seen the potential of theFederated Cloud and are already inproduction with many of the tools theyprovide with more to come.

Structural biologists and lifescience researchers have also gotsupport. WeNMR has been helping

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KAREL VIETSCH24/11/1952 – 23/02/2014 On 23 February this year the research and educationnetworking community experienced a sad loss whenit was announced that Karel Vietsch had passedaway, following a long illness.

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Karel had been TERENA’sSecretary General fromMarch 1996 until March2012, when illness prevented

him from fulfilling his duties. In spiteof this illness, Karel continued to showa strong attention to TERENAactivities, providing information andsupport to the Secretariat staff andoccasionally engaging with the widercommunity.

Karel was also instrumental inshaping the GÉANT community, notonly in his role as Secretary General forTERENA, but also as a representativeon the GÉANT governance boards, aswell as leading the work on ‘Status andTrends’ in GÉANT (GN3).

His extensive knowledge, pairedwith his ability to commit fully toTERENA’s goals, made Karel arespected personality in the widerresearch and education networkingcommunity. In 2013 Karel’soutstanding contribution tonetworking and the Internet wasrewarded; appointed an Officer in theDutch Royal Order of Orange-Nassau,Karel was presented with the royalinsignia during a private ceremony on 13 May.

Speaking on behalf of the TERENASecretary staff, Acting SecretaryGeneral Valentino Cavalli said, “I would like to express the highestrespect to Karel for having brilliantlyshaped TERENA during all his years inservice, as well as our gratitude for themessage he gave us through hisconduct in his work - thoroughlybusiness wise and intrinsically ethical.We will miss you, Karel.”

The blog page set up for people toleave condolences for Karel’s family ishighly illustrative of the impact he had on so many.

Sad loss leadsto VietschFoundation Reflecting the comments from somany, of the better world Karel leftbehind for the R&E networkingcommunity, the positive outcome ofthis sad loss is the creation of theVietsch Foundation.

In his last will, Karel gaveinstruction for the creation of theVietsch Foundation which hasinherited his estate. The mission of thefoundation is to promote research anddevelopment of advanced Internettechnology for the benefit of researchand higher education, and relatedactivities.

The foundation was registered as anot-for-profit organisation in theNetherlands as of 23 February and, inaccordance with his will, a board hasbeen established initially composed ofValentino Cavalli (Chair), Bert vanPinxteren, John Dyer and AntoinetteVietsch.

Karel’s intention was for thefoundation to administer his legacy anddistribute it in the form of financialcontributions to innovative projects toadvance research and highereducation, as well as awarding aVietsch Medal annually - a recognitionof individuals or teams who havesignificantly contributed to innovativeand sustainable developments in thecommunity.

The establishment of the VietschFoundation was announced during theopening plenary session of theTNC2014 (TERENA NetworkingConference 2014) on 19 May in Dublin.

“Karel has left us and wewill miss him – but mostof us will remember himfor his talent, enthusiasmand devotion. A keycontributor to researchnetworking has been lostby Karel’s passing away –but the results of hisefforts won’t be lost.Indeed Karel has been adistinguished, eminentmember of our researchnetworking communityand the effect of hisinvolvement in ouractivities will stay with usalso in the coming yearsand decades. Karel, rest inpeace. We won’t forget youand we remain indebted to you for your highlyappreciated impact on our research networkingactivities in Europe and beyond.”

– extract from Lajos Balint of NIIFI.

Short biography Karel graduated from LeidenUniversity in 1975 with a major inmathematics and minors ineconomics and theoretical computerscience. He was a teacher andresearcher at Leiden University, andobtained a PhD in mathematics in1979. After doing military service inThe Hague, sharing one computerwith twenty other conscripts, hejoined Delft University ofTechnology as manager of theDepartment of Mathematics andComputer Science.

In 1984 he moved to the Science PolicyDepartment of the Dutch Ministry ofEducation and Sciences, where he wasinvolved in the implementation of theresearch part of the government'sComputer Science Promotion Plan,which included the creation of anational research network, SURFnet.Climbing through the ranks within theministry he became Head of Unit forInformation and Infrastructure in1992, whereafter in 1996 he joinedTERENA as Secretary-General.

Karel's busy work schedule left himlittle spare time, but when he foundsome time off to travel he was keento enjoy the atmosphere and cultureof TERENA member countries.

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RENATER, IRD and the NSRC, theproceedings also included a practicalside with workshops for the WACRENNRENs led by RENATER on GÉANTCampus Best Practice and by theNSRC on virtualisation.

Overall, the WACREN Conferenceproved to be a resounding success,providing for the first time a platformfor all of the actors in the region andbeyond to engage with each other andstrengthen the WACREN community.

The Annual Conference wasfollowed by the 2nd WACREN AnnualGeneral Meeting that, among otherdecisions, set the date for the nextWACREN Annual Conference andGeneral Meeting to 11-13 March 2015.

For more information on WACREN and the Conference, visit wwwwww..wwaaccrreenn..nneett

Lomé, the capital city of Togo,played host to the firstWACREN Annual Conferenceon 13th and 14th March this

year with the presence of, amongothers, eight NRENs from the Westand Central African region,delegations from NREN universitymembers and ministries of highereducation and research, as well as theAfrican Development Bank, DANTE,the Economic Community of WestAfrican States (ECOWAS), the WestAfrican Economic and MonetaryUnion, ICANN, the Institut deRecherche pour le Développement(IRD), the University of Oregon’sNetwork Resource Start-up Center(NSRC), RENATER and the WorldBank.

Themed “Building a State of the ArtNetwork Infrastructure for Researchand Education”, the WACRENConference was hosted by the TogoNREN, TogoRER, and with a total ofsome 70 delegates, was opened bythe Minister for Higher Education ofTogo who emphasised the need fordeveloping WACREN in the region.The conference programme gavecentre stage to the NRENs in theregion and the opportunity to describedevelopments in each of theircountries, showing that withoperational networks now in place inSenegal and Nigeria, the other NRENsin the region are making goodprogress towards implementing theirown national infrastructure.

Following presentations from theAfrican Development Bank, ICANN,

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the Kazakh National AgrarianUniversity in Almaty, one of the oldestacademic establishments inKazakhstan, which is continuing toincrease usage as it connects its10,000 students, 900 staff membersand provides international connectivityfor collaborations with over 20 partnersacross the globe.

Thanks to the higher capacitylinks, telemedicine is now high onCAREN’s list of applications. CentralAsian medical doctors and networkengineers have started participatingremotely in Asia Pacific AdvancedNetwork (APAN) medical sessions andhave recently started their owntelemedicine events such as theconference organised on 26 March bythe National Cardiology Centre inBishkek, Kyrgyzstan with participantsacross the region joining remotely viahigh-quality video links (pictured).

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Following a successful tenderphase, the Central AsianResearch and EducationNetwork (CAREN) has

achieved a substantial upgrade whichcompleted in March when theTajikistan circuit became operational.This marks an important step towardsupgrading the ancient Silk Road to a21st-century high-speed Internethighway for research and educationacross the region and significantlyimproves connectivity between CentralAsia and Europe and other parts of theworld.

Operational since 2010, CARENnow interconnects scientists andstudents at over 300 institutions acrossKazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistanand Turkmenistan, with Uzbekistanalso a candidate country. Circuits toTajikistan and Turkmenistan have beenupgraded to 155Mbps whilstKazakhstan’s and Kyrgyzstan’s links

now operate at a capacity of 622Mbpsand 600 Mbps respectively. Therecent tender has quadrupled the linkcapacities and since the start of theproject costs per Mbps have falleneleven-fold - a major achievementconsidering the challenges of thetelecommunications markets withinCentral Asia. The first phase of theCAREN project was successfullycompleted in October 2013. CAREN2initially will run to March 2015.Discussions are underway to extendCAREN2 further with additional ECfunding.

Increased bandwidth, togetherwith improved network performancewill provide an additional boost toresearch and education collaborationswithin the region and further afield inareas such as seismology, glaciermonitoring, distance education andsolar technology. A good example ofthe growing demand for bandwidth is

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With extreme weatherevents increasinglyhitting the newsheadlines around the

world, accurate and timely forecastsare essential for effective disasterwarning and mitigation systems. This,in turn, calls for joint research effortswithin the global meteorologicalcommunity to improve models andtools for predicting severe weather,such as hurricanes, tornadoes,cyclones, floods, heat waves etc.High-speed Internet connections,provided by ORIENTplus and its pan-European counterpart GÉANT, are vitalfor such international researchcollaborations.

In 2003 the World MeteorologicalOrganization (WMO) established The

Observing system Research andPredictability EXperiment (THORPEX)to accelerate improvements in theaccuracy of one-day to two-week high-impact weather forecasts for thebenefit of society, the economy, andthe environment. A key component ofthis programme is the THORPEXInteractive Grand Global Ensemble(TIGGE) project which facilitatesresearch on numerical, probabilistic(i.e. ensemble) weather prediction byproviding academic researchersaccess to ensemble forecast datacollected daily in near-real time from10 leading operational forecastingcentres across the world. Thedatabases and data portals have beendeveloped by three archive anddistribution centres: European Centre

for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts(ECMWF) in Reading - UK, USNational Centre for AtmosphericResearch (NCAR) in Boulder,Colorado, and China MeteorologicalAdministration (CMA) based in Beijing.

The operational forecastingcentres supplying daily forecasts are:

• European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

• US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

• Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)

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TTHHEE CCHHAALLLLEENNGGEETo meet TIGGE’s mission to fosterresearch on ensemble forecastingand the development of tools toimprove the prediction of severeweather, based on the near-realtime exchange of high volumes ofensemble data between multipleforecasting centres, includingECMWF in the UK and CMA inChina.

TTHHEE SSOOLLUUTTIIOONNBy offering the highest capacityconnection and the shortestnetwork path between Europe andChina, ORIENTplus and the pan-European GÉANT network enabledaily direct, seamless dataexchange between TIGGEdatabase archive centres ECMWFand CMA, connected to the UK’sresearch network Janet and theChina Science and TechnologyNetwork (CSTNET) respectively.

KKEEYY BBEENNEEFFIITTSSHigh-speed R&E networkconnections, such asORIENTplus, are vital forsupporting data-intensive,meteorological research tools,such as the TIGGE ensemblearchive, aimed at improvingsevere weather forecasting andproviding early warnings to civilprotection agencies and thepublic. The UK Met Office, alsosupported by Janet, directlybenefits from the collaborationbetween ECMWF and CMA,enabled by ORIENTplus.

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• Brazilian Centra de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climatico (CPTEC)

• Japan Meteorological Administration (JMA)

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• Météo-France• UK Met Office

High-speed data network connections,such as ORIENTplus, are vital for theseamless transfer of vast amount ofdata and the overall success of thisinvaluable resource for the globalmeteorological community.ORIENTplus allows for fast databasesynchronisation of the TIGGE archive,hosted by ECMWF and CMA. Thevolume of TIGGE data exchanged

every day has been steadilyincreasing over the years mainly dueto enhanced model resolution. Thedata exchange between ECMWF andCMA started at some 240 GB per dayback in 2006. The latest figures show aflow of TIGGE data in the region of 500GB / day from ECMWF to CMA andsome 40 GB / day in the oppositedirection.

In addition to the TIGGEexchange, ECMWF and CMA have abilateral agreement by which CMA canmake use of all operational real-timeforecasts produced routinely byECMWF. Data requested by CMA aretransferred over ORIENTplus atapprox. 50 GB per day.

Prior to the upgrade ofORIENTplus at the beginning of 2013,due to bandwidth-constraints the dataexchange between ECMWF and CMAwas feasible only via the third archivecentre at NCAR in the USA.ORIENTplus has enabled the directtransfer between the two centres,making time-critical, complexapplications with vast geographicalreach and huge societal impact aneveryday reality.

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Ajoint APAN-TEIN*CCinitiative, the workshop tookplace on 20 January 2014,attracting over 30

attendees, including clinicians andresearchers from within the multi-disciplinary dengue fever community,public health officials as well asNational Research and EducationNetwork (NREN) representatives fromacross the Asia-Pacific. Titled “DengueFever- Let’s STOP it!” , the workshopset out to provide a forum forparticipants to share experiences andbest practices and to exchange ideasaround how to manage, prevent andfight this infectious tropical disease.According to the World HealthOrganisation, Dengue Fever is puttingalmost half of the world population atrisk.hhttttpp::////wwwwww..wwhhoo..iinntt//mmeeddiiaacceennttrree//ffaaccttsshheeeettss//ffss111177//eenn//

The discussions also provided anopportunity to explore how the NRENcommunity and research andeducation (R&E) networks, at thenational, regional and global level, cansupport the medical community’sinternational collaborative efforts tocombat Dengue Fever in endemiccountries and to prevent its spread. Inaddition to speakers from Pakistan, thePhilippines, Bangladesh and Malaysiawho attended the workshop in person,colleagues from Singapore, Sri Lanka,Australia and Japan joined thediscussions remotely via a live videolink provided by SingAREN, LEARN,AARNet and NII /NICT respectively.

All sites were able to view thepresentations and follow thediscussions in real time using themulti-point videoconference system

supported by their respective nationalR&E networks and the regional TransEurAsia Information Network (TEIN).With high-definition images and stableconnections, participants experiencedvideoconferencing first-hand, as atime- and cost-effective collaborationtool.

The presentations covered a widerange of topics, from clinical casemanagement to relevant climateimpact studies. A round-tablediscussion that followed focused ontaking stock of objectives andactivities, as well as on how to moveforward by working together andsharing experiences and processes tobetter combat the resurgence of thedisease in the region.

Participants agreed to build on thepositive experience of the workshopand NREN-supportedvideoconferencing and to follow upwith virtual meetings around specifictopics and areas of research interest.Professor Leo Yee Sin (Tan Tock SengHospital, Singapore) stepped forwardto facilitate the next virtual meeting onclinical case management.

Discussions are underway withNRENs in Latin America and theCaribbean, among other worldregions, about adapting this workshopmodel to the local context to help buildregional communities.

The driving force behind theworkshop, Prof. Francis Lee Bu Sung,President of SingAREN and Chair ofGovernors of TEIN*CC, commented:“This was a very inspiring event. Ihope it will act as a catalyst for morejoint actions. Everyone left withrenewed energy and enthusiasm in

our quest to stop the spread ofDengue Fever and to improve itstreatment!”

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of the presentation was reflected byLarry Gallery of NYSERNet, the NewYork State R&E Network, whocommented, “The presentation wasvery insightful. I thought I had a goodunderstanding of GÉANT’s reach butafter the presentation I realized thetrue extent of the reach and projectsmade possible by GÉANT – trulyamazing. GÉANT is so much morethan the Pan-European R&E backbonenetwork.”

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The 2014 Internet2 GlobalSummit, the successor to theInternet2 Annual MemberMeetings, was held in Denver,

Colorado, from 6-11 April. With asignificant number of European R&Enetworks in attendance, alongsideDANTE and TERENA, the GÉANTcommunity was well represented.

Internet2’s Annual MemberMeeting was renamed as the Internet2Global Summit in 2014 with a view tolending greater emphasis to globalinteractions for the US R&E networkingcommunity, a direction emphasised bythis year’s attendees representingsome 35 countries worldwide.

Traditionally, Internet2 MemberMeetings have been well attended bythe GÉANT community, not just byDANTE and TERENA, but also by anever-increasing number of EuropeanNRENs. The 2014 Internet2 GlobalSummit saw a continuation of thistrend with a dozen or so Europeannetworks in attendance.

Whilst the event provides anenvironment in which to engage indirect discussions with the North

American and wider global R&Enetworking communities, it alsoprovides an excellent opportunity topromote the work being done inEurope both by NRENs and GÉANT. InDenver, attendees from EuropeanNRENs, TERENA or DANTE presentedin close to ten sessions, significantlyraising the profile of Europe as animportant player in globalcollaboration, with topics ranging fromthe Global CEO Forum and GlobalNetwork Architecture to user support,high-quality video transmissionsincluding for surgery broadcasts, ICTin biotechnology, trust and firewall-on-demand.

For GÉANT itself, the new format,which distributed international networksessions throughout the conference,provided an ideal platform to highlightto a broad audience the global reach(over 100 countries worldwide), wide-ranging work and high value of theEuropean R&E Network. A one-hournet-cast presentation covered theGÉANT infrastructure and project,service developments in Europe anduse cases of the network. The impact

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