Development of eInfrastructures in SE Europe: GRNET - Greek Research & Technology Network

1. GRNET - Development of eInfrastructures in SE-Europe Internet2 International Task Force (ITF) Tryfon Chiotis, Technical Director GRNET - Greek Research & Technology Network tchiotis@grnet.gr, http://www.grnet.gr Arlington, May 2005

2. GRNET – Role • National Research & Education Network (NREN) of Greece • Interconnect academic and research institutions (more than 80 today), primary and secondary schools (more than 10.000) a total of up to 1.500.000 end-users • Continuously upgrade the NREN backbone (currently towards 2.5/10 Gbps), institutions access (currently to Gbps), and schools access (to Mbps) • Operate the Athens Internet Exchange (AIX) interconnection point among major Greek Internet ISPs • Cooperate with Greek and international research and academic institutions for the development of innovative networking services

3. GRNET-2 (ΕΔΕΤ-2) • Core 1/2,5Gbps based on leased lambdas • Access 2/34 Mbps – 1Gbps • International 2x2.5Gbps (to be upgraded to 2x10Gbps – 3Q05)

4. Services – Distributed NOC (VNOC) • Outsourced by category to five (5) University NOCs, coordinated by GRNET • NTUA: Management & control of routers and switches • AUTH, UoA: RTS, PKI, CERT • UoC: Web services • TEIATH: Helpdesk, basic services • CTI: Advanced services development (MPLS VPNs, QoS)

5. IPv6 deployment in Greece • GRNET dual stack IPv6 network • GRNET2 (Cisco GSR12400) since December 2003 - GRNET1 (Cisco 7500) since March 2004 • Basic networking services, e.g. DNS, and monitoring • Gradual increase of IPv6 traffic towards GEANT, e.g. 52GByte in Feb2005 • IPv6-only test network since 2002 – 6NET • Connect Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra and Herakleio via ATM PVCs • Validate protocols and routers functionality • IPv6 support in Universities • NTUA, CTI, Aegean Un., AUTH, TEIATH, UoA, TEI Ion., etc. • Address allocation, native connectivity, servers, multicast, etc. • Greek IPv6 Forum • ISPs, Mobile Operators, Telcos, Vendors, Software developers, Governmental Agencies, etc.

6. IPv6 deployment in School Network • Deploy IPv6 services to the national School Network • dual stack core network + ADSL access for 150 schools • Plan smooth migration IPv6 – Avoid degradation of production services, e.g. email, dialup, web filtering, etc.

7. Next steps (1) • Dark fiber spans contracts under final negotiation • RFI/RFP published for transmission & switching equipment

8. Next steps (2) • GRNET WAN based on dark fiber (2Q06)

9. Next steps (3) • Cover most Greek cities with Universities or Research Institutes using dark fiber • By extending optical-based GRNET to the borders, cross-border fiber is becoming a feasible solution

10. SEEREN Establish a networking environment for research & education, linking NRENs of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, FYROM, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia-Montenegro – easing the digital divide in SE-Europe Access (2-34 Mbps) to the Pan-European research network through the major GÉANT PoPs in the area (Athens, Bucharest) Bulgaria already connected to GEANT/GN2 Proposal for SEEREN2 has be submitted to EC Development, Operation & Management services distributed to NREN NOCs (VNOC Concept, Know-how Transfer) to GEANT Bucharest Sarajevo Belgrade Sofia Skopje Tirana Athens to GEANT

11. IPv6 deployment in SEEREN • 6PE services over Carrier Supporting Carrier (CsC) • Basic interconnection services achieved – Monitoring infrastructure deployed • Extend the deployment of IPv6 services in SEEREN2 (phase 2)

12. 6DISS-Dissemination and Exploitation • 30-month project, 9 partners, 0.9 M€ • Objectives: Transfer knowledge and deployment experiences from European IPv6 projects (6NET, Euro6IX, GEANT), TERENA, European NRENs, etc. to research network operators, universities, commercial organizations, governments and regulators in various regions in the world • Organise 8 workshops to disseminate IPv6 awareness • Target areas: • Balkan countries (inc. Bulgaria, Rumania, Moldova & Turkey) • Mediterranean countries • Central Asia • Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa • The Caribbean • Asia-Pacific region • South and Central America • . … and will exchange information with such organisations in India & China Expertise & material from 6NET, Euro6IX, GEANT, NRENs, … IPv6 modules tuned for each Workshop Workshop organization & technical support Support for IPv6 deployment & future IST participation

13. SEE-Light • Proposal to be submitted to the Greek HIPERB programmee (Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkans) to acquire access to dark fiber and interconnections in SEE • Target: The implementation of a regional optical network, a viable infrastructure for the development and operation of the national research networks in SEE

14. SEEFIRE • South-East European Fibre Infrastructure for Research and Education • Target: tobuild on the success of SEEREN and the results obtained by GN1 and SERENATE and the best practices in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia-Montenegro and Greece. Τhe project will produce a study on the availability of options for networking infrastructures, as well as on the possible strategies for R&E Networking development in SE Europe • Budget: 496 600€ • Project Coordinator: TERENA

15. The HellasGrid Initiative • Deployment of National GRID Infrastructure with 6 installation sites (770 CPUs, 34 TBs storage) • Involves all major research and academic institutes working on Grids-eScience all over Greece • High Energy Physics, Bio-informatics, Meteorology, Astronomy, Computer scientists-Virtual Collaboration Environments • Providing services to the Pan-European GRID community through the EGEE Project

16. The SEE-GRID initiative Contribute to building a Pan-EU eInfrastructure by expanding the “eInfrastructure inclusion” into South-East Europe SEEREN SEEREN Contract No.: FP6-RI-002356 Project type: Specific Support Action (SSA) Start date: 01/05/2004 Duration: 24 months Total Budget: 1,215,000 Є > http://www.see-grid.org

17. Participation to GN2 • Further develops the successful GN1 (FP5) project which has created the GEANT pan-European network • Upgrade of the network backbone: GEANT2 • Emphasis on switched end-to-end provision of services across multiple interconnected networks • Migration from IP services to combination of routing and switching • A number of Joint Research Activities are working towards this direction • Greece a hub for Turkey, Cyprus and Israel

18. Large scale IPv6 networks • GEANT (http://www.geant.net/server/show/nav.00700a001) • Native IPv6 interconnection services (2Q2003), multicast (1Q2004), IPv6 traffic monitoring tools. - Similar policy for IPv6 and IPv4 traffic & services • Most of the NRENs are already connected: REDiris, Renater, FCCN, GARR, SURFNET, Heanet, IUCC, PSCN, Litnet, EEnet, Switch, ... • Interconnection with other research, e.g. Abilene, and commercial networks

19. 6NET • 3½ year project, ~37 partners, ~18.4 M€ • Objectives: Operate a large scale native IPv6 network and validate / gain experience with protocols, applications and new services • Services: DNS (DNSSec), Multicast, DHCPv6, Routing policies & RPSLng, Security, IPv6 QoS, Mobile IPv6, VPNs, etc. • Application, e.g. Videoconferencing, Streaming, Online Games, etc. • Management, e.g. ASPath, Looking Glass, Weathermap, IRRToolSet, MRTG, Nagios, rancid,etc. • Technical Workshops – “Cookbooks” • Migration, Security, Advance services, Management, etc • Similar projects: EURO6IX (www.euro6ix.org), 6TAP (www.6tap.net), etc.