Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

1. Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe Yannis Mitsos SEEREN2 coordinator Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) The SEEREN2 initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP6 Research Infrastructures contract no. 026748

2. SEEREN2 objectives SEEREN2 aims at: • creating the next generation of the southeast European segment of GÉANT • easing the “digital divide” that still separates most of the southeast European countries from the rest of the continent • assisting the incubating NRENs to fully establish themselves in the European Research Area (ERA) and be integrated in the related European-wide organisations and initiatives (TERENA, CEENet, e-IRG, EUGridPMA, etc) Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

3. Definition of “Digital Divide” • Evidenced by numbers: • 4/5 of the world’s population give or take a few percentage points, lack access to dependable, reliable and affordable public communications networks • First and foremost, the digital divide is an infrastructure divide. There are not enough connections and access points in the world for everyone to connect their video, voice and computing devices; • optical networking is emerging rapidly • very demanding scientific applications (i.e. Grids) demand solid and high bandwidth infrastructure • Research networks are a national asset Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

4. DF for the research community slide fromStanislav Šíma, Lada Altmannová „ Towards advanced CEF Networks lighting“ CESNET presentation - May 30th, 2006 Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

5. The SEEREN2 initiative “… to consolidate the network and services into the pan-European e-Infrastructure and the NREN end-users into the European Research Area …” Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

6. Means of easing the DD: Upgrading Infrastructure Upgrading National infrastructures Support neighboring NRENs Deploying DF connections • SEEREN2 aims at creating the next generation of the southeast European segment of GÉANT, that intends to make leading-edge technologies and services available to the entire R&E communities and all sectors without discrimination between users and sites in southeast Europe in an attempt to further ease the “digital divide” that still separates most of the southeast European countries from the rest of the continent. Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

7. Means of easing the DD: Assist the NRENs • SEEREN2 continue assisting the incubating and existing NRENs in southeast Europe to fully establish themselves and to integrate with related European-wide organisations and initiatives (TERENA, CEENet, etc) and eventually become full members of the GÉANT community by the end of the project. Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

8. Services and tools structure • A plethora of state of the art tools are incorporated • More to be implemented during the rest project’s lifetime Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

9. Elaborating fundamental services • Trouble Ticketing System • Network active/passing monitoring • NetIIS • perfSONAR • Open source tools • Network DB • Hidden inside NetIIS • IPv6 connectivity • Monitoring/management tools integration • Through a one-stop • SLA management Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

10. Active and Passive monitoring using NetIIS (1/2) • Full-featured network monitoring system • Web-based • Customized to the user needs • Database backend for network information (additionally to monitoring information) • Automatic notifications of events • Passive and active monitoring • SLA reports/management • Logical grouping (through tagging) of the objects in the database • …and much, much more! Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

11. Active and Passive monitoring using NetIIS (2/2) Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

12. Active and Passive monitoring using Smokeping • “Smokeping” is hosted in the center of the bockbone network. Namely in Sofia – Bulgaria, where an alternative GEANT connection exists Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

13. Trouble Ticketing system • SEEREN2 deploys the well-known “Request Tracker” (http://bestpractical.com/rt) as a trouble ticketing system Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

14. Cross-domain performance monitoring system • is an infrastructure for network performance monitoring developed by the GN2-JRA1 All cross-border interfaces statistics are publicized RRD & MRTG graphs are created by NetIIS Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

15. Elaborating advanced services • LOBSTER • MoU, help from developers • Deep packet inspection • Anonymized! • CERT • Group created • Links with CSIRT groups established • Further activities planned Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

16. Deployment of testing services Graphical representations of the Daily statistics • Synergies with other research projects. Provision of the SEEREN2 network as a “playground” for the testing of new advanced services: • Network-level Emulation (nemu) is a novel passive network monitoring application for the detection of zero-day polymorphic attacks. Overall statistics Detailed analysis Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

17. Training • Transfer technical knowledge to network engineers from project partners’ and users of the network infrastructure • Theoretical lectures, tutorials, hands-on demonstration labs • 1st training event on network services: Heraklion, Greece, 25-27 September 2006 (Summer School) • QoS (sponsored by Juniper Networks) • NetIIS • perfSONAR • +20 participants from SEE, Black-Sea and Central Asia countries • 2nd training event: Winter School on user-level services, Kopaonik, Serbia, March 2007: • Voice over IP technologies • AAI - Identity Management, federations Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

18. Liaison Activities • Liaison with GÉANT2 and other pan-European and international e-infrastructure projects • SEEREN2 early adoption of GÉANT2 perfSONAR framework – Summer School • 6DISS – people from SEE attended TTT workshop in Brussels, Oct 2006 • ELISA - uses the SEEREN2 infrastructure to deliver seminars to ICT tutors for SMEs in SEE • The project seeks for additional funds by contact with funding bodies and industrial sponsors • BiH: Austrian Development Agency, Norwegian Embassy, Telecommunications Regulatory Agency, UNDP, Swiss Embassy in BiH • Technical Advisory Board to provide advice on technical matters and provide support - started in October 2006 • UCL, NORDUnet, InaTelecom, Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, Meriton Networks, Alcatel, Lucent, HP Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe

19. SEEREN2: Extending the network in the SE Europe Yannis Mitsos SEEREN2 coordinator Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) The SEEREN2 initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP6 Research Infrastructures contract no. 026748

20. SEELight: The lambda facility for SEE R&E South-East European Lambda Network Facility for R&E • Proposal for the deployment of an advanced regional network infrastructure (lambda network facility) for R&E, under the Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkans (HiPERB). • SEELight is the response to the need of SEE for high-quality research and education. The project will • help create a viable economy-of-scale model for the region to reduce networking costs per country, • support the evolving needs of SEE R&E communities in the fields of domestic and international data communications, • provide the foundation for network-based information exchange and co-operation towards a SEE Regional Information Society • serve as a testbed for development of new services, and allow the SEE R&E community to participate in international networking activities • assist the SEE countries to achieve their development goals, support the growth of their National Research & Education Networks (NRENs), accelerate research, fuel national and regional economic growth, and aid their integration with the rest of Europe. Enabling User-oriented Network Services in South East Europe