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Campus Best Practice

Campus Best Practice. Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT Nordunet 2009 Copenhagen, 17 September 2009. Agenda. Campus Best Practice is also called GN3/NA3/T4 EARNEST report on campus issues The Norwegian GigaCampus experience Campus Best Practice Work Plan Future Campus Focus Areas in Norway

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Campus Best Practice

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  1. Campus Best Practice Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT Nordunet 2009 Copenhagen, 17 September 2009

  2. Agenda • Campus Best Practice is also called GN3/NA3/T4 • EARNEST report on campus issues • The Norwegian GigaCampus experience • Campus Best Practice Work Plan • Future Campus Focus Areas in Norway • Campus Best Practice Challenges / Ambitions

  3. NA3 GEANT3: 2009-2013 Joint Research Activities: • JRA1: Future Network • JRA2: Multi-domain Resources and Services • JRA3: Enabling Communities Service Activities: • SA1: GÉANT Network Architecture Design and Planning, Procuring, Building and Operating • SA2: Multi-Domain Service Operation • SA3: End-User Services in a Federated Environment • SA4: Software Governance Networking Activities: • NA1: Management • NA2: Joint Dissemination and Outreach • NA3: Status and Trends • NA4: Liaison and Support Total four year budget: 181.4 M€

  4. Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT • Gunnar Bøe, UNINETT • Olaf Schjelderup, UNINETT • Wenche Backman, FUNET • Janne Oksanen, FUNET • Jari Miettinen, FUNET • NA3 Activity leader: Karel Vietsch, TERENA • NA3/T4 Task leader: Vidar Faltinsen, UNINETT • Jiri Navratil, CESNET • Tomas Podermanski, CESNET • Vladimir Zahorik, CESNET • Mara Bukvic, AMRES • Bojan Jakovljevic, AMRES • Esad Saitovic, AMRES Campus Best PracticeTask participants • Four countries participate in the work, 14 man years: • Norway / UNINETT • Finland / FUNET • The Czech republic / CESNET • Serbia / AMRES

  5. Campus Best PracticeTask Objective • Address key challenges for the European campus networks • Important areas of focus: • Physical infrastructure • Campus network • Wireless infrastructure • Light paths on campus • Challenge NRENs to reinforce their national efforts • The NREN should be a fascilitator that stimulates collaboration between the ”campus guys” at the university level and with the NREN itself • Get working groups up and running • Provide an evolving and to-the-point set of best-practice documents for the community. • Ambitious? • 34 NRENs in GEANT… 4000 campus networks… 40,000,000 users… Network challenges on campus

  6. EARNEST Report on Campus Issues

  7. Earnest report on campus issues Published January 2008 • 52 recommendations regarding issues on campus • Very congruent with the Campus Best Practice work plan • Recommendation #12: “Strengthen the collaboration between National Research and Education Networking organisations and institutions to improve the deployment of key services” • Better synchronization of national research networking and campus issues is essential for viable end-to-end services. http://www.terena.org/activities/earnest/publications.html

  8. EARNEST Report on Campus IssuesOn infrastructure and services • Set aggressive replacement policies for equipment with a maximum life expectancy of five years. • Adopt institution-wide specifications for networking infrastructure, including elements controlled by departments or faculties. • Ensure seamless end-to-end connectivity where a particular quality of service is required. • Provide support and training for performance optimisation, especially to the research community.

  9. EARNEST Report on Campus Issues On Security • Adopt security measures that are appropriate for the purpose and do not hinder the effective use of the network. • Establish an institution-wide security team with a high degree of independence.

  10. EARNEST Report on Campus Issues On Collaboration • Establish strong, formalised arrangements for collaboration with other management domains, e.g., NRENs, intermediate networks, other institutions. • Encourage network teams to share their expertise with colleagues in other management domains.

  11. EARNEST Report on Campus Issues On Raising awareness and training • A cultural change in networking is taking place with the emphasis moving from providing connectivity to providing network-related services. To speed up this change of focus, institutions should: • provide training courses and good-quality documentation for end-users to raise awareness of the network services available and promote their use, including videoconferencing, multicast, video broadcasting, video-on-demand, voice-over-IP telephony; • Make arrangements for network support teams to retrain in order to keep up-to-date with fast-changing technologies.

  12. The Norwegian GigaCampus project

  13. UFS Norwegian GigaCampus • Four years of experience with GigaCampus (2006-2009) • Have working groups in 7 areas operational • Have made 20++ best practice documents (but in Norwegian…) • Have run 25 national procurement processes • Routers, switches, wireless, servers, storage, printers, A/V, telephony, ADSL, software • Have rolled out network monitoring and management solutions on over 30 campuses UNINETT engineering task force best practicedocuments

  14. Best Practice DocumentsWill be translated to English https://ow.feide.no/geantcampus:bpd

  15. Physical Infrastructure BPDs Common requirements for: • Cabling (fibre and twisted pair) • Data centers and network rooms • Power supply (incl. UPS and generators) • Ventilation and cooling • Fire detection and distinction • All major universities have participated in the work • The requirements are coordinated with building owners and will be used in future building projects • Existing campus infrastructure is inspected by GigaCampus. Reports/improvement lists with estimated costs are produced.

  16. nfsen GigaCampus tool boxes Managing31 campuses • The tool boxes are servers containing a number of management tools: • NAV: Proactive network management • nfsen: Netflow traffic analysis • Hobbit: Service monitoring • tftp server, syslog server, radius server • The tool boxes are placed on campus and used by the local IT staff. • Management, tool enhancements, software upgrades, etc, is done by UNINETT. • Free training in tool usage is given. http://metanav.uninett.no

  17. Measuring beacons29 in operation • Throughput • Packet delay and loss • Multicast connectivity • IPv6 flows • Session intensity • Available capacity • Traffic behaviour

  18. Back to the European scene…

  19. Campus Best PracticeWork plan • Translate existing GigaCampus material to English • Focus initially (first two years) on getting results within the four pilot countries (Norway, Finland, The Czech republic, Serbia) • Organize national working groups and national workshops • Produce BPDs – on the national level – in the local tongue • Translate BPDs to English when mature • As the results and recommendations (BPDs) from the countries of the pilot NRENs become available, they will be actively disseminated to the wider European NREN and campus communities. • Available on http://gn3campus.uninett.no • The task will provide a bulletin board for BPD contributions from other countries as well. • We are planning open campus issues workshops later in the program period.

  20. Campus Best Practice Subtasksi.e. Areas of Focus • We have defined 9 subtasks / areas: • Basic infrastructure • A/V • LAN infrastructure and IPv6 • Light path service • Wireless • Network monitoring • SIP and IP telephony • Security • Procurement • Not all four pilot countries contributing to all subtasks

  21. Project results? • A bit early… • Each country has made a two year plan • Current focus on: • Organizing working groups • Preparing for writing best practice documents • We will have cross-country workshops • First one on network monitoring in Belgrade in October

  22. Secu- rity SIP IPv6 A/V Procurements BPDs Tools Norwegian campus focus ahead • Translate existing Norwegian BPDs to English, making them available to the GEANT community • Continue work on: • Procurements • Developing network monitoring solutions • Working groups producing new BPDs • Particular focus areas from 2010-2014: • Security on campus. • Security policy in place. • Security architecture implemented. • Risk and Vulnerability Assessments • Disaster Recovery Planning. • IPv6 transition on all campuses • IPv4 sold out • Rolling out a national SIP infrastructure • Migrating POTS to SIP on campus • …and: eCampus Norway with infrastructure for the lecturer

  23. GN3 Campus Best PracticeIn summary Our ambition • Get national campus coordination efforts going • Initially in the participating pilot countries • Produce national BPDs • Disseminate results from the national level to the European scene Challenges • Cultural differences… • Small countries vs big countries… • Red tape / administrative overhead…

  24. More information / Contact GEANT3 NA3 Task 4: Campus Best Practice • http://gn3campus.uninett.no (in English) • gn3campus@uninett.no • Look out for English BPDs coming along… • Bulletin board for BPD contributions from other countries GigaCampus • http://www.gigacampus.no (mostly in Norwegian) • gigacampus@uninett.no

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