Transcript SERENATE

What’s the idea?
David Williams
CERN, also President TERENA
SERENATE End-users Workshop, Montpellier
19 January 2003
Topics
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Structure and timescales
Initial workshop
Operators’ workshop
Some preliminary conclusions?
This “end-users” workshop
WHAT IS
SERENATE
ABOUT?
The acronym
• SERENATE = Study into European
Research and Education Networking as
Targeted by eEurope
• Funded as an EC project – FP5
• Looking at the strategic needs, say up to 5
years ahead
• NOT making detailed plans
The objectives
 Strategic study into the evolution of research &
education networking in Europe over the next 510 years. Looking into the technical,
organisational and financial aspects, the market
conditions and the regulatory environment. Will
provide inputs to the policy-making of the EC,
national governments and funding bodies, research
institutions and research & education networks.
Who are the partners?
• Academia Europaea
• Centre for Tele-informatics (CTI), Technical
University of Denmark
• DANTE
• European Science Foundation
• TERENA (coordinating partner)
• encouraging considerable involvement of the NRENs,
and hopefully of other actors, including end-users and
industry
Steering Committee
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Bonac
Butterworth
Davies
Jaume
Liello
Mayer
Skouby
Vietsch
Williams
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ARNES – “geographic” issues
AE – “research users”
DANTE – “technical”
RENATER – “other users”
chair NREN Consortium
ESF
CTI – “economics”
TERENA
STRUCTURE AND
TIMESCALES
The EU project
• Runs from 1 May 2002 for 16 months, so until 31 August
2003
• Comprises 14 areas of work, including workshops, studies
and report writing
Workshops
• Initial workshop (17-18 Sept 2002, La Hulpe) Done
• Operators’ views on infrastructure status and evolution (8
Nov 2002, Amsterdam) Done
• User needs and priorities (17-19 Jan 2003, Montpellier)
Today
• NREN issues (4-5 Feb 2003, Noordwijkerhout)
• Final workshop (16-17 June 2003, Bad Nauheim, near
Frankfurt)
Reports
• A report will be generated after each workshop (see previous
slide for list) PLUS
• Deployment and trends in transport and infrastructure market
(~Dec 2002)
• Regulatory situation, especially for alternative approaches
(~Dec 2002)
• Equipment trends (~Jan 2003)
• Telecoms market and infra deployment forecast (~Mar 2003)
• Possible infrastructure scenarios (~Mar 2003)
• Overall strategic plan – input to Final Workshop (~May 2003)
Other areas of work
• Education and other fields (libraries, healthcare….)
• Geographic coverage
Route to more information?
• http://www.serenate.org
– Public pages
– Also working areas for each work package
• mailto:[email protected]
Where are we today?
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Initial Workshop (a)
Operators Workshop (d)
Final Workshop (m)
Regulatory Situation (c)
InfrastructureForecast (e)
NREN Models (f)
Transport Infrastructure (b)
Equipment (h)
User Needs (i)
Extension of RNs (k)
Geographic Coverage (l)
Infrastr. Scenarios (g)
Overall Stategic Scenarios (j)
Final Report (n)
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INITIAL WORKSHOP
Initial Workshop
 17-18 September 2002 at La Hulpe
 94 participants from: national research & education networks,
researchers, government and funding bodies, telecom
operators, equipment manufacturers
 interesting plenary presentations:
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researcher’s, educationalist’s and librarian’s view
policies/politics (EP, EC, ENPG)
the view from the campus (FR, UK)
the continental view (GÉANT, Internet2)
optical networking
problems in real life
 breakout discussion sessions on Technology, Economics,
Geography, Researchers’ Needs, Other Users’ Needs
First impressions (1/3)
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From hardware to services:
Research networking is evolving fast. It is not so much just
getting “hardware connectivity” to the researcher’s desk, but
it is increasingly about delivering a set of services needed by
researchers (and others). The user wants information access,
collaborative tools, “disciplinary Grids”. AAA and Web/Grid
services will be part of the delivery mechanism.
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Research & education networks are a resource:
Lots of expertise. Growing understanding by government of the
importance of ICT as a driver for economic prosperity.
Growing understanding by governments of the value of their
research & education network’s expertise. Increasing
requests to capitalise on that expertise.
First impressions (2/3)
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Technology:
The “optical wave” is a powerful one. We need to find a
coherent approach to the “steadily increasing amplitude” of
optical networking.
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Economics:
We need a clear understanding of any regulatory barriers that we
could face in deploying pan-European fibre. Does it matter
whether you actually own fibre, or lease it on a long-term
basis, or maybe even lease wavelengths?
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Geography:
There is a potential conflict between two fundamental EU-policy
concepts: equal opportunities for researchers wherever they
are (ERA)  subsidiarity.
First impressions (3/3)
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Researcher-User Needs:
As much as they can get (and afford). AAA, Grids etc.
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Other Users’ Needs:
Could one develop benchmarks for schools, libraries, hospitals
etc.?
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Policy and funding:
Dialogue with governments and politicians (national and
European level) needed.
www.serenate.org/workshop1.html
OPERATORS’ WORKSHOP
Operators’ Workshop (1/2)
 8 November 2002 in Amsterdam
 45 participants mainly from telecom operators, but some
equipment manufacturers, and representatives of other areas of
interest
 The draft report exists and is in the approval process
 Meeting interesting and some interest to repeat at intervals
Operators’ Workshop (2/2)
Major themes: Hybrid net architecture needed
 Classic approach for any-to-any connectivity
 Switched approach when needing high speed between limited set of
sites (Grid-style)
 Little (operator) interest in >10 Gb/s
 Differing approaches to offering dark-fiber – some consensus
that wavelength services might be best
 Expect liberalisation in East Europe to bring down costs
 Further strong consolidation of the industry anticipated
 Potential interest in more collaborative approach with NRENs
Transport Infrastructure
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fact-finding on the transport and infrastructure market
– deployment and trends, incl. pricing and availability
and market development as well as global
connectivity issues
carried out by DANTE and CTI
started in June 2002
material GÉANT procurements as one of the inputs
confidential interviews with European-level operators
study to be completed in November 2002
taking into account results of Operators Workshop
report in December 2002
Regulatory situation
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study into the status of regulatory development in:
 each of the EU Accession States
 Portugal, Greece
 the other EU Member States as a whole
carried out by CTI and Antelope Consulting
started in May 2002 (one month before schedule)
lot of information already gathered
study to be completed in November 2002
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report in December 2002
Equipment
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study into the availability and characteristics of
equipment for next-generation networks
carried out by DANTE and TERENA
contributions from technical experts from TF-NGN
started in July 2002
questionnaire developed; interviews with equipment
manufacturers to take place between 20 October and
30 November 2002
study to be completed in December 2002
report in January 2003
PRELIMINARY OUTCOMES?
Some themes
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Complexity
From hardware to services
Research & education networks as a national resource
Technology – optical wave
Economics – impact of regulation; geography
Geography
Research Users
Other Users
Policy and funding
Recommendation not
prescription
THIS WORKSHOP
Who are you?
• Researchers working in many fields and coming from
many different countries. You have been
recommended to us as being interested in (computer)
networking and its evolution …
• But not involved in provision of network services
• So – real END-USERS
• Able to talk and interact
Pleas for the speakers
• Not everyone listens to rapid-fire English
every day. Please speak reasonably slowly
and enunciate as clearly as you can!
• Remember to send ??? a copy of your
presentation
• Please keep to time …
End-users Workshop