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The Future Role of NRENs – Where Do we stand? Gaspar Veiga Brasília, August 31st, 2015


“We have no money, we shall have to think”

Sir Winston Churchill


Agenda

1. Executive Summary

2. Challenges and Trends

3. What is happening around the world? What the tendencies are?

4. Case Study

5. Conclusion


Executive Summary

• This is the result of TERENA Survey on The Future Roles of NRENs looking at the current state of NRENs.

• Research and Education is at the Heart of the Creative Society

• The creative society needs secure, resilient and reliable infrastructure

• Highly professional providers of reliable & Resilient networks that are capable of supporting mission-critical services.

• The biggest difference between NRENs and commercial ISPs is that of the NREN is part of the R&E community, has an in-depth understanding of its users’ requirements and expectations, and is not motivated by profit.

• Several NRENs have been in business, in one form or another, for over twenty-five years. Because the state of the development of the NRENs differs widely, the list of recommendations will be applicable to individual NRENs in different ways.


Executive Summary NRENs Recommendations

NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

• Secure • Reliable • And resilient • Capable of

supporting mission-critical services

LEADERSHIP

• need an efficient, strategic management body to act as a single point of conduct, capable of responding quickly and with authority.

FUNDING & BUSINESS MODEL

• should reconsider their funding models and move to more diversified and sustainable models

STRATEGY & VISION

• Should take a strategic approach to their business planning and delivery of services,

• To develop a comprehensive understanding of their own user-base (internal or international)

REQUIREMENTS

• Should have Clear understanding of User requirements and also having a strategic view of the demand-side of the sector

OPERATIONAL MODEL

• Should not compete with the commercial providers

• Should act as a trusted broker that is an integral part of the community

• Should Provide expertise, aggregate demand, and add value through negotiation, including integration of support for community AAI system.


Challenges to Face Connecting e-Education and e-Science Community

High-speed, high-capacity infrastructure

Distributed computing resources

Connection & services to research & educational

institutes

National & international level

Early adopters of new technologies

AGILITY

FOR AD HOC COLLABORATION

DISTRIBUTED ORGANIZATION

& GLOBALIZATION MOBILITY FOR USERS &

SENSOR NETWORKS

CLOUD INTEGRATION &

VIRTUALIZATION

SCATTERED DATA

SOURCES

GREEN ICT

SECURITY & RESILIENCE OF CONNECTIVITY

M2M & DATA TSUNAMI

World-class networking and services to a broader community


Where NRENs could fit?

Research Institutes NREN (i.e.: RNP)

Partner supplier

University

Other NRENs

Supplier

University <50% public

funded

Supplier

Supplier

Brokerage


Sustainability

Providing options to customers

Provide Value to the

community


Sustainability Achieved with a better Customer Engagement

• Why Customer engagement?

- To ensure customer expectations are exceeded. - To ensure that you listen to the views and requirements of the customer. - To include the voice of the customer in service development and review.

- To clarify the views of the customer. - To identify key and underlying issues.

- To identify new services to be provided for customers.

• Absolutely NOT sales! NREN’s works on your behalf as an ‘intelligent customer’ and trusted partner.


It is about Building NREN Value Chain

• Building on work within the community

• Intelligent use of other sector initiatives like UnaCloud – Opportunistic Cloud Computing & ANKLA – Advanced Networks Knowledge Lab

• Innovative use of supplier equipment and services

- Lead driving seat to embrace cloud story: e.g. Whitepaper, training,… - Aggregating services required by the users

• Build NREN’s product portfolio and Services procurement – more reason to join and stay

• Build on NREN’s Independent, trusted, and impartial advisors

• Create a Long Term relationship with a key technology provider


Building the Value Chain

NRENs PROVIDE

• Advocacy • Feedback • Aggregation • Tools to buy

products (Cloud/ SDN-NFV)

• Best practice from the sector

SUPPLIERS PROVIDE

• State of the Art of products & Solutions

• Preferential usage models and pricing

• Suitable licensing

OUTCOME

• Increased efficiency & Sustainability

• Enhanced reputation

• Demonstrable benefits to the sector

• Products that work • Lower cost of sale


What is happening around the world? What the tendencies are?


Majors changes in NRENs (1)

• The primary focus of all NRENs is connecting universities and research institutes.

• GÉANT is the most advanced and well-connected research and education network in the world

- Connecting more than 100 countries around the world with high-speed links. - Flexibility: services and infrastructure can be tailored to individual user requirements. - Capacity: 100Gbps across the core network, design to support up to 8Tbps, to handle the BIG DATA - Effective and efficient operations: 99% of cases are reported within 15 minutes of any outage being

detected. - Services: a wide range of services including; IP and dedicated circuits, testbeds and virtualized

resources, authentication and roaming, monitoring and troubleshooting, advisory and support services.

• NRENs in the GÉANT region provide services to approximately 82% of all university-level students in the countries involved; that is, a total of 24 million students.


Majors changes in NRENs (2)

• Connected Campus/Communities reflects not only the opportunities that are now open to NRENs but also the challenges that are on the way.

• However, many NRENs go beyond the primary focus by also connecting institutes of further education, as well as libraries and museums.

• NRENs offer national backbones and international connectivity of exceptional quality & Reliability.

• Some NRENs have deployed lightpaths in their backbone, effectively increasing the capacity even further.

• Last but not least, NRENs have reported that users are experiencing no congestion at the backbone level.


Regional Research and Education Networks (RREN) RedCLARA: Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks • Is a non-profit International Law Organization, whose legal

existence is dated on December 23rd 2003;

• Countries and NREN connected: 13 - Argentina (AR), INNOVA|RED - Brazil (BR), RNP - Colombia (CO), RENATA - Costa Rica (CR), CR2Net - Chile (CL), REUNA - Ecuador (EC), CEDIA - El Salvador (SV), RAICES - Guatemala(GT), RAGIE - Mexico (MX), CUDI - Nicaragua (NI), RENIA - Panama (PA), RedCyT - Peru (PE) RAAP - Uruguay (UY), RAU - Venezuela (VE), REACCIUN

• Countries to be connected: 4 - Paraguay (PY), Arandu (Test began) - Bolivia (BO), ADSIB - Cuba (CU) - Honduras (HN)

C@ribNET

International Connectivity

RADEI

http://www.innova-red.net/

http://www.rnp.br/

http://www.renata.edu.co/

http://www.crnet.cr/cr2net

http://www.reuna.cl/

http://www.cedia.org.ec/

http://www.raices.org.sv/

http://www.ragie.org.gt/

http://www.cudi.edu.mx/

http://www.renia.net.ni/

http://www.redcyt.org.pa/

http://www.raap.org.pe/

http://www.rau.edu.uy/

http://www.reacciun2.edu.ve/

http://www.arandu.net.py/

http://www.adsib.gob.bo/adsibnueva/

http://www.internet2.edu/

http://www.whren-lila.net/about/index.htm

http://www.apan.net/

http://www.dante.net/

http://www.geant2.net/

http://www.rnp.br/

http://www.innova-red.net/

http://www.arandu.net.py/cms/index.php

http://www.rau.edu.uy/

http://www.reuna.cl/

http://www.raap.org.pe/

http://www.cedia.org.ec/

http://www.renata.edu.co/

http://www.ragie.org.gt/

http://www.cudi.edu.mx/

http://www.raices.org.sv/

http://www.unanleon.edu.ni/

http://portal.cenit.gob.ve/cenitcms/index_1.html

http://www.unitec.edu/

http://www.mes.edu.cu/

http://www.internet2.edu/

http://www.geant2.net/


How NRENs are perceived by theirs customers?

• The end users emphasize the role of the NREN as the hub for collaboration.

• Connectivity is identified as the most important service that the NREN offers.

• To remain successful, the NRENs need to focus on their collaboration activities and, provide innovative solution

• But NREN Clients are facing some challenges such as:

- Budget and resource constraints (grant reduction, recruitment embargo, value for money); - Mobility-related aspects ubiquitous access; - Cloud services - Which ones to offer? And to whom? - How to cater with demand for new services? - How to manage the data deluge? - Multimedia services (steaming, conferencing).


What services NRENs customers are requesting?

• First Secure, Reliable, Resilient and high available Connectivity.

• Second, increase security by providing PKI and AAI Services

• Follow By

- Cloud services including SDN/NFV; - Security services (certificates, MAN/WAN, firewalling). - Hosting of virtual machines; - Workshops on third-party systems and services; - Framework agreements (software), VoIP (SIP trunks), virtualization of desktops, Video Conferencing on

more devices (including web-based), mobile applications (shared development of mobile application); - 24/7 monitoring of critical LAN infrastructure;


Where NRENs want to go?

• To have constant interaction & collaboration with clients to Anticipate their needs

• To become Neutral and Trustful

• To React quickly to new developments

• Proactive by pilot possible new services with clients and users to make sure the NREN is pro-active with regard delivery of services;

• Early involvement of client on portfolio & services developments

• Act as an aggregator of Services

- Aggregation is a common feature of markets that bulk buying brings with it economies of scale, both for the supplier and the customer

- Some examples of aggregation include: RedIRIS spam suppression, JANET PSN collaboration savings, SURFdiensten software deals, HEANET 3G services, TERENA Certificate Service and the SWITCHpki


The National Research and Education Network of Hungary NIIFI/HUNGARNET

• NIIFI, the National Information Infrastructure Development Institute has been devoted to developing and operating the research network in Hungary since 1986, in close co-operation with HUNGARNET, the users' national association.

• The services of NIIFI cover the entire Hungarian academic, research, and public collection community (libraries, museums, archives), by providing almost 500 institutions – about 700,000 individuals – with:

- an integrated computer networking infrastructure - a wide communication and co-operation service portfolio - a reliable environment for e-Science applications, and - a data infrastructure framework for content preservation and provision.

• NIIFI’s multi-Gigabit hybrid network serves some 700 sites via 30 regional centres (backbone PoPs) by national as well as international (GÉANT) connectivity. The network supports AAI, PKI/CA, TCS, R&E Grid / Cloud / HPC / storage infrastructure, Videoconferencing, VoIP, and more


Reflections

• Regulators need to grant NRENs appropriate licenses that permit them it to peer or transit network traffic with neighboring NRENs. This is a prerequisite to full participation within the global NREN fraternity.

• Leaders of research and academic institutions need to figure out ways to better collaborate even if they compete for the same research grants and students.

• They face similar challenges when it comes to ICT integration within their core functions.

• How can they effectively work together to create more awareness about the potential role of ICT in education?

• Address the fear-of-change and mind-set issues that arise when people feel that their once-lifetime jobs are now threatened? Tackle the varying levels of ICT literacy both within their own and across institutions?


Conclusion

• Only a few NREN’s have a long term vision and/or strategic plan.

• NREN’s must take an active role and develop strategies to meet the challenges of 2020.

• NREN’s must assume a leadership role, reaching out to user communities, evangelizing the new possibilities, engaging users who have previously not used advanced networking, and anticipating and fielding new technologies and services in advance of user requirements.

• We believe that active leadership is crucial, and that NREN’s are well placed and well organized to fill this role, and to provide a comprehensive vision for networking and future infrastructures.

• NREN’s have a strong tradition for collaboration and have assumed leadership before.

• NREN’s must accept the responsibility to educate users in what is possible.

• NREN’s must step forward to assume the role of integrator for the diverse e-Infrastructures, for the many projects, and for the communities.

• To make the NREN an enabler of education and science to the user community the NREN has to focus on ICT architectures.

• Doing the above the outcome is, a world-class networking and network services provided to an ever-broader community in a user-centric manner will be possible by 2020.

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