TERENA Member Development Programme

1. TERENAMember Development Programme Stanisław Starzak GA, Limerick June, the 6 – 7-th, 2002

2. TERENA Development Programme GA Zurich 2001 • activities: • inventory of needs and expectations • knowledge dissemination and experience sharing (workshops and consultation meetings), • long term strategy development, • joint projects, • remember: • not to repeat what others are doing (TF, CEEnet, APM meetings), • think to the future.

3. TERENA Development Programme Inventory • support and lobbing to local authorities • challenging monopoly: looking for alternatives • co-operation with operators: negotiations, SLA • secure investment: planning and logistic • long- & short-term development planning • fluent migration FR/ATM  GbE • deployment of countrywide services • peering on the national level: communities • permanent staff training: may be a e-learning • application oriented traffic engineering

4. TERENA Development Programme Main idea • a series of workshops/seminaries with vendors (Acatel, Cisco, Juniper, Marconi, Nortel, ...) • presentations to answer the following questions: • how to make a better use of existing equipment (application oriented traffic engineering) • what requirements for operators, in terms of SLA, are suggested or should be required • what is the idea for fluent migration FR/ATM  GbE • a roadmap to optical internet • next: meetings with operators

5. TERENA Development Programme How to setup meetings • for some NRENs a cost of a participation in a meeting is the fundamental issue • my approach: • take advantage of other meetings to minimize costs, • extend the meeting till the end of the day or stay one night more, • ask organizers to cover the cost of a meeting place • try to find sponsors for more • planning: • Cisco: January/February (Cisco NGI meeting), • Juniper: April (PIONIER conference meeting), • Alcatel: May/June,

6. TERENA Development Programme Life • CNGI unexpected competition: Budapest v. Poznan, • PIONIER Conference NRENs’ day with Cisco, • a chance to make use of SERENATE take off: May shifted to September with Juniper (already tested).

7. TERENA Development Programme PIONIER Conference • Cisco cosponsored and supported • Jane Butler’s personal involvement: Thank You Jane • assumptions: • to cover costs of participation of 2 reps from each NREN except travel, • to start answering questions, • to start discussion on need and priorities, • 2 days meeting • national day: to share experience and stimulate discussion, • international day: to improve knowledge and ask questions

8. TERENA Development Programme PIONIER Conference • national day: • Session 1: e-Poland, • Session 2: e-Education, • Session 3: e-Government, • Session 4: e-Science, • Session 5: e-Content • NRENs’ day: • Session 1: Advanced routing technologies - Axel Clauberg • Session 2: Application oriented traffic engineering - Igor Sikorski • Session 3: ATM to GbE migration on a national scale - Peter Tomsu • Session 4: Review on progress in optical networks - Peter Tomsu

9. TERENA Development Programme PIONIER Conference • about 210 participants + 20 VIPs, • David Williams participation and address, • positive response from NRENs, but less then a little participation (competition: PIONIER, APM, Rumania), • great job done by Cisco, • hard take off because of the late gala evening, • NRENs’ day: 140 participants, • a meeting POL-34/PSNC – TERENA President.

10. TERENA Development Programme Main goals • to draw conclusions and do better, • setting up dates: • September (Juniper after SERENATE take off), • October ( after GA, approaching Alcatel), • no date for Marconi and Nortel yet (November – January), may be SERENATE geographical WP meetings, • there is a need for Cisco to repeat, • coordinate with others (CEEnet), • not forget to give an adequate input to SERENATE project if possible, but not doing things in parallel.

11. TERENA Development Programme Joint project: • e-Region cooperation: a fiberoptics testbed „Technology and Information Services Exchange for Cross Border Regions”, • at the moment: Czech, Lithuania, Slovakia, Poland, • more participants to be invited as soon as fibers are available, • avoid repeating the SEERENE project, • cooperation with local telecoms and cableTV operators, • documents in preparation, • next meeting scheduled for June, week 17-21, • TERENA umbrella expected (remember: e-Region).

12. TERENA Development Programme More ideas to be discussed in between • network observation tools: • not network management issues, • collect knowledge how we take care of national networks (accidents, responses, procedures, logistic), • joint afford to improve national network understanding, • an input from POL-34 to take off will be delivered, • e-learning support for NREN technical staff: • vendors invited to deliver a content, • NRENs to participate in developing content of their own, • TERENA project deliverables deployment manuals.

13. TERENA Development Programme Conclusions: • a very hard take off, • there is a delay to what has been planned, • hope things are developing.