ESA Earth Observation High Speed Network (HiSEEN) Rhodes, 10 th June 2004

1. ESA Earth Observation High Speed Network (HiSEEN)Rhodes, 10th June 2004 HiSEEN Presentation

2. Agenda • The ESA Earth Observation use of NREN/GEANT • Network solution • Technical description • Pre-operations schedule • Challenges • Implementation • Operational • Issues for discussion • Conclusions and way forward HiSEEN Presentation

3. The ESA Earth Observation use of NREN/GEANT HiSEEN Presentation

4. The European Space Agency Funded in 1969 15 members states ESTEC ESOC HQ ESRIN The European Space Agency promotes the exploration and development of space activities in Europe The member states can perform more ambitious programmes while combining their know-how and financial resources HiSEEN Presentation

5. The European Space Agency HUBBLE (1990) Universe exploration SOHO (1995) • Increase the knowledge of the: • solar system and universe • Earth and its environment Sun observation • Develop technologies based in the satellites use MARS ESPRESS (2003) Looking for live signs in Mars • Promote the European industry activities COLUMBUS (2004) Scientific laboratory for the ISS ARTEMIS (2001) New telecommunication technologies GALILEO (2004, 2008) The European satellite navigation system ERS (1991,1995), ENVISAT (2002) Earth Study Which are the ESA activities ? HiSEEN Presentation

6. ESA ESRIN organisation • Earth Observation Directorate • Science and Application Department • Ground Segment Department • Operations and Infrastructure Directorate • Information Systems Department • ESACOM Network (WAN, LAN) • Security & Mobility • IT infrastructure HiSEEN Presentation

7. Satellites observing the Earth HiSEEN Presentation

8. EO data: Ozone hole Derivated UV index HiSEEN Presentation

9. EO data: Digital Elevation Model Roma DEM derivated from SAR HiSEEN Presentation

10. EO data Amsterdam Airport (ERS SAR, 25 m) Portugal (ENVISAT MERIS, 300 m) HiSEEN Presentation

11. The Earth Observation Ground Segment ENVISAT Ka-Band ARTEMIS X-Band Ka-Band NRT Products NRT Products USERS KIRUNA ESA/ESRIN HiSEEN Presentation

12. Data shipment in the Ground Segment NRT Processing Centres at ESRIN and Kiruna Processing and Archiving Centres (PAC) in different European locations PDHS-K UK-PAC S-PAC F-PAC D-PAC E-PAC PDHS-E I-PAC HiSEEN Presentation

13. Data shipment in the Ground Segment NRT Processing Centres at ESRIN and Kiruna Processing and Archiving Centres (PAC) in different European locations PDHS-K UK-PAC S-PAC F-PAC D-PAC E-PAC PDHS-E I-PAC HiSEEN Presentation

14. Online Data Access Objectives • The EO products shall be distributed electronically to the end users located around the world • The EO data (Raw, and level 1 products) shall be primarily distributed in the Payload Data Segment electronically • Phase 1 – 2004 • On-demand products distribution • Electronic data circulation between centres • Phase 2 – 2005 • Interactive online data request and retrieval • Integration of non-ESA missions HiSEEN Presentation

15. Basic Principles • On-line Archive: Mass Storage Tape Libraries or on disk • User data request via Internet (order or subscription) • Product retrieval via Internet: • High speed Internet backbone (GEANT/NREN) • ISP augmented with load-balancing and re-routing COTS • Product distribution via Satellite • Electronic data distribution between GS Centers using High Speed Intranet VPN (based on GEANT/NREN) • Security • Detect and avoid unauthorized use of EO data • User authentication • Standard COTS encryption (IP VPN) • Accounting of data downloaded • Protection from malicious intrusion • ESA Network Security policy as baseline with Intrusion Detection System HiSEEN Presentation

16. Architecture MUIS PFD-NS DFFS EWFS INTERNET Archive SDS PFD-NS DFFS EWFS Acq Stations ESRIN INTRANET SDS Archive End Users SATELLI TE TX Acq. Stations Archive SDS PFD-NS DFFS HiSEEN Presentation

17. Centres • Frascati (IT): ERS, Envisat • Kiruna Salmijarvi (SE): ERS, Envisat, Cryosat • Kiruna ESRANGE (SE): Landsat MMS, ALOS • Farnborough (UK): ERS, Envisat • Oberpfaffenhofen DLR (DE): ERS, Envisat, MODIS, DLR missions • Matera (IT): ERS, Envisat, Landsat TM/ETM • Maspalomas (ES): Envisat, ERS, SeaWiFs, NOAA • CNES, Toulouse (FR): Envisat, CNES missions, Cryosat • Svalbard (NO): Envisat, ADM • Tromsoe (NO): ERS-2 ATSR, TPM • Neustrelitz (DE): TPM, ALOS • Gatineau (Canada) ERS-2, ADM • Prince Albert (Canada) ERS-2, ADM • (Finland) Envisat HiSEEN Presentation

18. Initial requirements • Electronic data shipment between Centers • 34 Mbps incoming or outgoing nominally 60% occupied • ~200 GByte per day • MTTR maximum 1 day • Internet Data distribution to users • > 34 Mbps outgoing per Centre • High availability and guaranteed QoS for NRT users • Bandwidth requirements evolution (next 10 years) • X10 for EO constellations for Global Environmental Monitoring (GMES) • X50 for high resolution satellites HiSEEN Presentation

19. Network solution HiSEEN Presentation

20. HiSEEN: High-Speed Network Tromsoe(KSAT) HiSEEN Farnborough (Infoterra) Svalbard (KSAT) 100 34 Uninett (Norway) 17 Ukerna (UK) Kiruna Salmijarvi (SSC) SUNET (Sweden) 100 1000 RedIRIS (Spain) Esrange (SSC) GEANT 16 Neustrelitz (DLR) G-WIN (Germany) 34 Maspalomas (INSA) Renater (France) GARR (Italy) 34 20-30 Oberpfaffenhofen (DLR) Toulouse(CNES) 16 16 (155) Matera(ASI, Telespazio) Frascati (ESA) HiSEEN Presentation

21. HiSEEN NREN Connections Status HiSEEN Presentation

22. EO Centres Connections Speed HiSEEN Presentation

23. HiSEEN NREN Connections Interfaces HiSEEN Presentation

24. HiSEEN Generic Centre Design NREN/GEANT Internet Others ISP Internet Site Front-End LAN HiSEEN Router Electronic Data Shipment Data Access Portal and Distribution Server Satellite Distribution Network Data Acquisition and Processing High-Speed Firewall Data Archive Com-Net EO Centre HiSEEN Presentation

25. HiSEEN Secure Centre-to-Centre Communication NREN/GEANT Internet VPN HiSEEN Router HiSEEN Router Electronic Data Shipment Electronic Data Shipment High-Speed Firewall High-Speed Firewall Centre A Centre B HiSEEN Presentation

26. HiSEEN User Scenario NREN/GEANT Internet Local ISP Internet Generic User Academic User Sat User Site Front-End LAN HiSEEN Router Electronic Data Shipment Data Access Portal and Distribution Server Satellite Distribution Network Data Acquisition and Processing Data Archive Com-Net EO Centre HiSEEN Presentation

27. Pre Operations HiSEEN Presentation

28. Challenges:ESA is a customer with points of presence in many countries HiSEEN Presentation

29. ESACOM IP VPN Kiruna ESTEC (Noordwijk) Establishments Redu EAC Cologne ESOC (Darmstadt) Offices Brussels ESA Paris Toulouse ESA ground stations Ground stations used by ESA Ariane downrange stations Villafranca ESRIN (Frascati) Fucino CDN Moscow Washington Maspalomas Houston Libreville Natal Kourou Malindi Perth Ascension HiSEEN Presentation

30. ESACOM IP VPN Map HiSEEN Presentation

31. HiSEEN Implementation Challenges • Several and different contracts and prizing policy to manage • Different approaches in procurement phase • Direct via NRENs • Indirect via 3rd Party (SSC, KSAT) • Complex interface with national TELCO • changes from country to country • difficult in some locations • Different technology for Access Routers to be procured and configured • ATM, F/G-Ethernet, E3/G.703 HiSEEN Presentation

32. Implementation Challenges • In few words: • A new NREN is another small new project with consequent cost • fortunately the implementation challenges are “one off” • unfortunately some of the issues remain over time during the operational phase. HiSEEN Presentation

33. HiSEEN Operational Challenges • Operations are carried by the ESANOC as for the ESACOM • ESANOC Team located in Italy interface with: • NRENS, • customer, • implement changes, • manage the network and related IT Infrastructure • perform the administrative day to day tasks • “One to many” interface with NRENs is complex • Interfacing with different NREN implies: • Learning different operational procedures for handling: • trouble ticket / troubleshooting • maintenance • changes management • often using different languages HiSEEN Presentation

34. HiSEEN Operational Challenges • Not all NRENs provide the same services • Different access to important information likes: • Network Maps • Tools for bandwidth utilization • Tools for link health status • Access to router configurations HiSEEN Presentation

35. Services that not all NRENs provide • Tools for: • access link bandwidth utilization • link health • logical and geographical network maps and information related to utilization and available bandwidth. • Notification services to the customer: • planned outages, • detected faults • foreseen time to recover • Burst rate options rather than pure committed fixed rate HiSEEN Presentation

36. Issues for discussion • A “more standard” interface for the customer rather then different interfaces • End-to-end QoS • Today maybe possible only by direct agreement between 2 NRENs. • Service Level Agreement (SLA) for: • performance • availability • time to repair • etc… • Quick time for bandwidth adaptation • E.g. time commitment for increase of capacity HiSEEN Presentation

37. Connectivity Requirements • Connectivity with commercial providers for Data Access • Connectivity with US, Canada and Japan and southern hemisphere for Data exchange amongst Centers HiSEEN Presentation

38. Policy and Limitations to use the NREN/GEANT network? • Earth Observation scenarios • Data: • ESA or other space agencies missions • Dual use missions • Value-adding data for service provision • EO Commercial missions (I.e.: SPOT, Ikonos • Data source: • ESA centres hosted at ESA or other establishments • Research institutes • Public organisations • Commercial centres • Destination / users • Scientific users • Experimental value-adding • Public value-adding service providers • Commercial value-adding service providers • Defense HiSEEN Presentation

39. Discussion and Way forward HiSEEN Presentation