PAN EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORKING

JISC Committee for networking

29 April 2002

Matthew Scott - Commercial Manager DANTE

DANTE- Delivery of Advanced Network

Technology to Europe• Founded in 1993 by NRENs as a not for profit

organisation• NRENs are shareholders and customers (except in

UK where roles are split: HEFCE and UKERNA)• Builds and manages the network that provides

Pan european connectivity for 27 NRENs, serving over 3000 research centres across Europe

• Also connects to other regional research communities across the world.

Introduction to GÉANT: The latest Pan European

network

• New network launched December 2001 after:– 9 month tender process– 6 month implementation and migration

from old network

• Now connects 31 countries in Europe – 7 new countries connected– 20 X more bandwidth

GÉANT

• Gigabit Connectivity (possibly 2.5 Gbps)• Geographic Expansion/Global access• Guaranteed Quality of Service

Objectives (pre tender)

Technical/commercial Environment

•10 Gb connectivity largely untried outside labs•Huge investment in infrastructure by Telcos•Competition in market varied greatly

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Development of Prices for International Bandwidth (Logarithmic Scale) over 5 years

Effect of deregulation

Pan European Network History

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IXI 1990-1993

EUROPANET 1993-1996

EUROPANET 2 1996-1997

TEN-34 1997-1998

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GEANT 2001-

Trunk network capacity (KBps)

Pan european Network History- logarithmic scale

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EUROPANET 1993-1996

EUROPANET 2 1996-1997

TEN-34 1997-1998

TEN-155 1998-2001

GEANT 2001-

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GEANT backbone

topology March 2002

GÉANT - Capacities

• Network Capacity @10 Gbps = 90 GBps• Network Capacity @ 2.5 Gbps = 30 GBps• Other Capacities = 3 Gbps• Total Network Capacity =123 GBps• Subscribed access Capacity = 32 GBps

GÉANT Backbone Access Speeds

4 year cost profile

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How much does a Pan european network cost?

How is GEANT funded?

• NRENS subscriptions pay for 100% of total costs incurred by DANTE

• EC pay 50% of allowable costs claimed by DANTE to DANTE

• NRENS then receive from DANTE approx 50% credit on their paid subscriptions

Geographic expansion

• New connectivity planned for Malta and Croatia

• Regional Balkan network under consideration

• Other feasibility studies now underway:– EUMEDCONNECT- 12 mediterranean/N African

NRENs– CAESAR - connecting to South American NRENs

Global Connectivity

• European Distributed Access• Connectivity to North American

research organisations– 2 x 2.5 Gbps from January 2002– Discussions with North America about

reciprocal connectivity (paid for by US/Canada)

Guaranteed Quality of Service

• Objective is end-to-end QoS by combinations of edge to edge QoS

• ‘IP premium’ guarantees bandwidth,delay,loss etc using mainly Diffserve techniques

• VPN service suitable for IPv6 and other testbeds/GRIDS etc

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GEANT

Thank you for your attention

Matthew Scott - Commercial Manager DANTEMatthew.scott @dante.org.uk