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The UNINETT GigaCampus programme 2006 - 2009 [email protected] [email protected] Universities and Colleges in Norway 2 UNINETT-NORDUnet; geografisk dekning 3 4 The GigaCampus vision: Establish coordinated ICT campus infrastructures following best international practice which invites to high level of innovation, collaboration and effective research and education 5 The inspiration: Research networks are a national asset National governments should be aware that research and education networking in their country, and in particular their National Research and Education Network organisation (NREN), is an asset for economic growth and prosperity. It is a source of innovation and provides fast and widespread technology transfer to society and industry. Promoting such technology transfer should be an explicit goal of NRENs. NRENs and industry should ensure that collaboration between research teams in industry and teams in universities and publicly funded research centres can be supported effectively. The campus is often the weakest link in the network chain. In Europe, campus networks are now often the weakest link in the chain of the end-to-end services needed for research and education. Therefore, universities and research institutes and their supervisory and funding authorities need to ensure that their campus networks are appropriately resourced. In general, expenditure for ongoing technical upgrade in campus networks is best treated as a budget expense on an annual basis. ” We are convinced that most campuses do not take the task of measuring and understanding their traffic flows sufficiently seriously ” - SERENATE 6 Organization and funding UNINETT is responsible for the program A program board A program manager Projects with strong university and college participation. One time funding; ~5 mill Euros from the r&d ministry. Local funding, manhours and investments. 7 Physical infrastructure 30-40 % of the outages are caused by power and cooling failures Lot of work to be done on room fascilities, cabling, power, grounding, cooling, fire prevention, physical security. More redundancy! 8 Network electronics Capacity; still not gigabit and singlemode fiber on all parts of the campus. Troublemakers; VLAN-trombones, dupleksity conflicts, bad connections. Long time to fix! Redundancy Functionality; ipv6, multicast, end2end, dhcp snooping, statistics collections 9 Important areas which has been put in the program; Mobility; upgrade almost all wireless networks SIP-infrastructure rollout Rollout of NMS (NAV) and network measurement and management tools. Training local IRTs Security revisions on campus Coordinating purchasing processes Development of common best practice documents. 10 NAV arkitektur device center network explorer traffic map cricket report generator machine tracker delay / loss tabular reports NAVdb status monitor 11 RRD service monitor threshold monitor www external systems event and alert engine email SMS NAV tools 12 Some experiences Needs for investments seems currently to be higher than the SERENATE numbers (58 Euros pr year pr PC) . Need for broad political support Higher capacity (10G) needs is just one of the drivers. New overall network functionality and more robust fundamental infrastructure is presently more important Productive site visits are very important Tools, measurements and statistics 13 More information http://www.gigacampus.no [email protected] 14