Transcript Status of the RMDCN Contract & Accession Agreements Tony Bakker Network and Security Section ECMWF WMO RA VI SG on RMDCN, 4-6 June 2008, Vienna Slide.

Status of the RMDCN Contract
& Accession Agreements
Tony Bakker
Network and Security Section
ECMWF
WMO RA VI SG on RMDCN, 4-6 June 2008, Vienna
Slide 1
ECMWF
RMDCN Contract - Background
 The RMDCN contract was signed with Equant on 4 December
1998
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ran for 8 years starting on the Service Commencement Date (15
march 2000); had a break-point option after five years of service.
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Accession Agreements can be concluded throughout the term of
the contract
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4 Supplements
No 1: ‘cosmetic’
No 2: extension to outside RA VI
No 3: Speed upgrade
No 4: Migration to MPLS
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Slide 2
ECMWF
Main Contract
 RMDCN Contract
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ECMWF
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All ECMWF Member States
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Co-operating States of ECMWF at their own option
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Ceiling prices for the entire WMO Region VI reviewed
annually
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Signed by OBS and ECMWF
 Accession Agreements
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For all other WMO RA VI members joining the RMDCN
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Each State requires its own Accession Agreement
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Signed by OBS and the Acceding State
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Slide 3
ECMWF
Supplement no. 2
 To join the RMDCN, a country that is not a Member State
or Co-operating state of ECMWF must sign an
“Accession Agreement”
 The recommendation to amend the contract in order to
support the enlargement of the RMDCN membership was
supported by ECMWF committees and RA-VI
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Supplement number 2 to the RMDCN contract was signed on
27 June 2002
This amendment has been used to implement RMDCN connections
designed to improve the GTS MTN
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Slide 4
ECMWF
Supplement no. 3
 In order to decide on whether to use the break-point
option included in the contract (and to issue an ITT) or
not, ECMWF undertook a survey of Managed Data
Network market during spring and summer 2002
 The break-point option provided an ideal opportunity to
discuss the findings of the survey with EQUANT
 The discussions resulted in EQUANT offering:
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A 27% price reduction from 1 January 2003
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Annual price review, commencing on 1 April 2004
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Biennial contract reviews with associated breakpoints in exchange for the
5-year break-point not being exercised
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Slide 5
ECMWF
Supplement no. 3 (cont.)
 Four price reviews
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All the charges are reviewed
 Two Biennial Contract Review to take effect on 1 April 2005
and 1 April 2007
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Review of the technology suitable for the RMDCN
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Take into account price reviews
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The contract review is performed during spring and summer of
the previous year
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At each contract review ECMWF has the option to request an
independent 3rdparty to assess the RMDCN charges or the
technology
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If ECMWF considers the price and/or technology offered under
the BCR not competitive, ECMWF has the option of terminating
the Agreement with 18 months notice to Equant
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Slide 6
ECMWF
Supplement no. 4
 Migration to MPLS
 Contract Extension to 1 April 2009
 Annual Price Reviews, Biennial Contract Reviews
 Thereafter rolling contract for successive periods of 12
months
Suppl. 4
12-months
Initial contract period
2004
Contract
Review
2005
BCR
Effective
Date
2006
PR
Effective
Date
extension
2007
BCR
Effective
Date
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2008
PR
Effective
Date
Automatic
12-month
extension
2009
BCR
Effective
Date
Slide 7
Automatic
12-month
extension
2010
PR
Effective
BCR
Date
Effective
Date
ECMWF
One SLA for the RMDCN community
 Guaranteed Repair Time
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Baseline is a 2-hour restore time for any Severity 1 fault (Severity 1
implies that the service is unavailable)
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subject to the availability of a cold standby router at the customer site and
diversity of backup connection
 Service Availability
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Baseline figure is 99.9% (100% for Mission Critical Sites)
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Measured per site
 Round Trip Delays (RTD) – from CE to CE
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Defined per region; vary from 90 ms to 588 ms
 Packet Loss Ratio (PLR) – from PE to PE
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Defined per region; vary from 0.1 to 0.4 %
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Slide 8
ECMWF
SLA (cont.)
 Throughput commitments is 80% of IP bandwidth (over a
60 minute window)
 Availability
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Committed monthly availability of the backup service is 90% whichever
the site
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Global Service Degradation: when 30% or more of all sites fail to meet the SLA
 Service Rebates are due when
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service levels are not met (e.g. below 99.9 %)
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Guaranteed repair time not met
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RDT exceeds 110% of the agreed level
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Service Degradation has been demonstrated (abnormal throughput or
backup access unavailable)
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Slide 9
ECMWF
Cost Sharing - Redistribution
 MPLS Migration
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OBS offer (2004) showed higher MRC for some Sites
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No Site should pay more than FRame Relay MRC
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So the ‘more charges’ (~£14.5K) for these Sites were redistributed over
the other Sites
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Price reductions in 2006 and 2007 have reduced this to ~£9.3K
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Latest Price Review indicates a significant reduction in the MRC; working
out the impact for the reduction of the cost redistribution.
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Slide 10
ECMWF
Current Members
 42 Sites (40 Countries + EUMETSAT + ECMWF)
- 28 Sites under main contract
- 14 Sites have Accession Agreement (5 sites outside RA VI: Japan,
China, India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates)
- The following Region VI countries have not yet joined:
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Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cyprus,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Malta, Monaco, Moldova, Ukraine, Montenegro, Israel,
Syria
- New potential sites in short term:
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Montenegro, Israel, Morocco (ECMWF Cooperating State)
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South Africa
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Slide 11
ECMWF