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European collaboration on research networking development update on TERENA activities. Karel Vietsch TERENA CEO Spring 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting Arlington VA, 6 May 2002. What is TERENA?. An association consisting of: the national research & education networks of 33 countries
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European collaboration on research networking developmentupdate on TERENA activities Karel Vietsch TERENA CEO Spring 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting Arlington VA, 6 May 2002
What is TERENA? • An association consisting of: • the national research & education networks of 33 countries • CERN, ESA • 11 associate members (regional networks, industry) www.terena.nl
What does TERENA do? • The four pillars of TERENA: • providing an environment for fostering new initiatives of the European research networking community • e.g. pilot services • supporting joint European work in developing, evaluating, testing, integrating and promoting new networking, middleware and application technologies through the TERENA Technical Programme • task forces, projects, workshops/meetings • supporting the exchange of information in the European research networking community, and promoting knowledge transfer to networking organisations in less favoured regions • conferences/workshops, training • promoting members’ interests by representing the common interests and opinions of the membership in contacts with relevant organisations
TERENA Technical Programme • Collaboration between technical experts from the European research networking community (research & education networks, universities, research institutes, industry) to develop, test and promote new technologies • Organised through ad-hoc meetings, task forces, projects • Supported by the TERENA staff • Current Special Interest Areas: • Lower Layers (IPv6, MPLS, VPNs etc.) • Quality of Service • Videoconferencing and Streaming • Content Delivery, Indexing and Searching • Middleware • Mobility
TERENA Technical ProgrammeLower Layer Technologies • Task Force TF-NGN • Includes work for GÉANT deliverables • QoS (Premium IP, AF, over-provisioned networks, …..) • Multicast • IPv6 testing • Flow-based monitoring, QoS monitoring • Optical networking (possible international testbed) • www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-ngn • 6NET project • Large-scale IPv6 testbed • Involves > 30 partners , including national research networks • www.6net.org
TERENA Technical ProgrammeVideoconferencing and Streaming • Task Force TF-STREAM • Practical experiments with videoconferencing • Best-practice recommendations • Directory of videoconferencing services • www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-stream • IP telephony • Document best-practice • Cookbook • Interworking testing • www.terena.nl/tech/IPtel/iptelws.html
TERENA Technical ProgrammeSecurity • Task Force TF-CSIRT • Collaboration of CSIRTs (CERTs) in Europe • Exchange of knowledge and experiences • Incident Object Description Format • Clearinghouse of incident handling tools • Trusted Introducer service • Training courses for new CSIRT staff members • www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-csirt • www.ti.terena.nl
TERENA Technical ProgrammeMiddleware • Task Force TF-LSD • Directories • OpenLDAP • www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-lsd • Task Force TF-AACE • Authentication and authorisation • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Certification Authorities • Information exchange and co-ordination between many national initiatives • www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-aace
Conferences and Workshops • Workshops on topical issues • European Middleware Workshop (June 2000) • International Lambda Workshop (September 2001) • Mobility Workshop (March 2002) • …………. • TERENA Networking Conference 2002 • Limerick (Ireland), 3-6 June 2002 • Middleware • Grids • IPv6 • ……… • www.terena.nl/tnc2002/
TERENA Compendium • Annual collection of information about national research and education networks • History • Legal form • Number and types of institutions connected • Number of students connected • Core capacity of the network • International connectivity • Access capacities • Network size • Technologies used • Staffing, funding • Benchmarking • www.terena.nl/compendium/