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December 17, 2024

Infoshare: What's New in the Network eAcademy?

The Network eAcademy keeps expanding its reach and growing, with new educational resources, additional learning units, and entire new tracks. In this Infoshare, we will give details about the recently created Quantum Tech eAcademy and Optical Time & Frequency Networks (OTFN) eAcademy, as well as updates on various developments as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) section in the Network Automation eAcademy. The Infoshare will also serve as the ground for discussion about future developments and needs of the Research and Education Community that can be addresses through the Network eAcademy. Read more...

December 5, 2024

NREN Fibre Infrastructure for Sensing

From an individual NREN perspective, fibre sensing has synergies with existing technologies that NRENs already have installed and provide as services in their networks. With fibre sensing, NRENs can detect physical changes in their networks. This is important for both time and frequency distribution and quantum networking, as well as for security and operational requirements. Detected disturbances – discovered through fibre sensing – can be used to correct the optical signals that are sent. Fibre sensing also helps to pinpoint disturbances or intrusions on the cables that the operational teams rely upon for connectivity and thus facilitates the protection of critical infrastructure. Read more...

November 26, 2024

GÉANT Infoshare: RARE/FreeRTR Use Case: Open-Source Implementation of 5G User Plane Function (UPF)

The main function of UPF in 5G is the routing of traffic between the Radio Access Network (RAN) and other external networks. The RARE/FreeRTR use case not only offers the advantage that UPF packet processing can be offloaded for improved performance but also allows full control of traffic. The UPF implementation developed in the RARE/FreeRTR use case employs the Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) to communicate with the 5G Session Management Function (SMF) that is responsible for monitoring and managing PDU sessions. Forwarding and tunnelling of user data is achieved with the GPRS Tunnelling Protocol (GTP) and its encapsulation/decapsulation. Read more...

November 5, 2024

Infoshare: Telemetry Module for the Workflow Orchestrator

Traditional monitoring of network devices was done by SNMP, however this was resource intensive for the router and slow. In recent years the gNMI interface has evolved into a mature alternative to SNMP. This interface allows users to stream data, at a very high resolution, from routers with a relatively low performance impact on the device. This paradigm shift in collecting monitoring data from devices has the potential to unlock new use-cases in how you could operate your network. When increasing the resolution of network telemetry, operators will need a scalable platform that can handle the increased number of events generated by the devices. Read more...

September 25, 2024

Infoshare: NREN QKD Networks

With NRENs involved in national quantum technologies projects and initiatives, the Network Development Work Package (WP6) of the GÉANT 5-1 project is bringing an infoshare focused on existing NREN Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks, their implementations, their experiences, challenges and lessons learnt. Read more...

July 17, 2024

Infoshare: QKD Long-Distance Trials

This infoshare focuses on the latest experiences with long-distance QKD network trials and experiments.

In one of the experiments three different QKD testbeds were interconnected across Spain, Germany and Poland as part of the OPENQKD project. The second work describes the recent collaboration between Toshiba and GÉANT on implementing a long-distance quantum cryptography experiment. This experiment was conducted over a 254 km telecom network testbed provided by GÉANT, spanning from Frankfurt to Kehl.

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May 14, 2024

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4th European perfSONAR User Workshop

The Fourth European perfSONAR User Workshop will bring together perfSONAR user and developer communities to explore use cases for the toolkit, share best practices, and discuss future features and the perfSONAR development roadmap.

The Workshop is being organised by the GÉANT GN5.1 project, Work Package 6 "Network Development", including the perfSONAR development team within Task 3.

perfSONAR is a network measurement toolkit designed to provide federated coverage of paths and help establish end-to-end usage expectations. There are 1000s of perfSONAR instances deployed worldwide, many of which are available for open testing of key measures of network performance.  This global infrastructure helps to identify and isolate problems as they happen, making the role of supporting network users easier for engineering teams, and increasing productivity when utilising network resources.

The event is open to anyone with an interest in perfSONAR.

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April 18, 2024

OAV Architecture Mapping Workshop

Analysing National Research and Education Network (NREN) architectures from an orchestration, automation and virtualisation (OAV) point of view using a common reference architecture helps align efforts between the NRENs, and find similarities in the way different functionalities and components are implemented, which in turn facilitates potential collaboration and future interoperability between organisations. The TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA) was selected by the Network eAcademy team as a reference blueprint architecture that can be used for such cross-comparison. Several NRENs and GÉANT services have already mapped their architecture to the blueprint. This workshop will give some insights and help to map your own architectures, and will also be a place for discussion of OAV solutions and interoperability among the NRENs. Read more...

February 14, 2024

Network Performance and Monitoring Workshop

This Workshop is organised by the Monitoring task in the Network Development work package (WP6) of the GN5-1 project. Continuing from previous successful workshops, this new edition will bring together network operators, researchers and other members of the GÉANT and NREN community interested in network performance and monitoring, to present and discuss the future development of network performance and monitoring tools and platforms. Read more...

January 31, 2024

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Infoshare: PTP Operational Issues

This infoshare will present insights into the deployment of the Precision Time Protocol (PTP). The main motivation for such a move are services and applications requiring higher levels of accuracy and precision in networks. As migrating from NTP to PTP may involve the introduction of new equipment and entail extensive planning, this exchange of experiences and lessons learnt is intended to bring new understanding and facilitate the process. Read more...

December 12 - 14, 2023

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GÉANT Symposium 2023

Participants from the GN5-1 and GN5-IC1 projects come together for discussions around project progress against objectives, to ensure project plans continue to best reflect any changes in Europe’s highly dynamic environment, and for networking. Read more...

December 08, 2023

Relying on RARE for DDoS Attack Protection

Relying on RARE for DDoS Attack Protection - Demonstrating RARE Integration with GÉANT DDoS Attack Protection Services (FoD and NeMo Use Cases). Read more...

November 30, 2023

GÉANT Infoshare - NMaaS Virtual Labs for Education

NMaaS (Network Management as a Service) is a multi-tenant cloud-based platform for effortless, on-demand deployment of software tools and applications. Read more...

November 14-15, 2023

19th SIG-NOC Meeting

"The insights of your network. Do you see what I see?" Read more...

October 18, 2023

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NANOG 89 - North American Network Operators' Group

NANOG is, and always has been, dedicated to the people who make up our community. Our tri-annual meetings draw up to 1,500 individuals in multiple facets of network engineering, operations, and architecture, who gather in major cities across North America. Read more...

September 18-22, 2023

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2023 Internet2 Community Exchange

The Internet2 Network, Cloud Solutions, and Security Services are designed based on community input and needs. The program reflects research and education’s most pressing challenges and promising solutions, with topics submitted and presented by the community for the community.

The GN5-1 project Network Development work package (WP6) offers and provides support for using several tools that are addressing some of the recognized issues:

 A Network Automation Tapas... Read more...

perfSONAR in GÉANT in 2023... Read more...

Deployment of Virtual Labs with NMaaS... Read more...

GP4L in GN 5-1... Read more...

June 26, 2023

29th STF Meeting

A meeting of NREN Access Port Managers (APMs). The primary purpose of the Services and Technology Forum (STF) is to provide the NREN APMs with the relevant GÉANT service and network information for dissemination within their respective NRENs so as to ensure each NREN is constantly updated with changes to those services that are of importance to a particular NREN.  Agenda and Zoom VC details are on the STF Wiki page. Read more...

June 21, 2023

Infoshare: QKD and Quantum Solutions

Several vendors are invited to present an overview of their Quantum products and solutions providing together - their quantum portfolio and contact details for those that would like to know more. Read more...

May 23, 2023

GÉANT Infoshare - NETDEV Platforms

This infoshare will provide updates and future plans about the production service platforms - NMaaS and SPA and new developments in GP4Lab. Read more...

May 16-17, 2023

18th SIG-NOC Meeting

"The insights of your network. Do you see what I see?" Read more...

May 8-11, 2023

2023 Internet2 Community Exchange

The Internet2 Network, Cloud Solutions, and Security Services are designed based on community input and needs. The program reflects research and education’s most pressing challenges and promising solutions, with topics submitted and presented by the community for the community.

The Network eAcademy (NeA) team from the GÉANT project Network Development work package (WP6) offers and provides support for using several tools that are addressing some of the recognized issues:

 An Orchestration, Automation and Virtualization (OAV)... Read more...

Apr 26, 2023

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Network Technologies Workshop

Task 1 of Work Package 6 in GN5-1 is entitled "Technology" and focuses on three major research areas ranging from Quantum Technology, to Optical Time and Frequency Networks and RARE - Router for Academia, Research & Education. This workshop provides an overview of the ongoing work, the use cases that are being addressed and the roadmap that lies ahead within the current project phase. Read more...

Apr 14, 2023

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Celebrating The World Quantum Day

On the World Quantum Day experts from several European NRENs will present their activities and projects related to quantum technologies. Through their short, lightning-talk like presentations, the participants will be able to learn about the current status of their activities, ongoing projects, meet the NREN experts and get instructions where to find more information. Read more...

Mar 29, 2023

GÉANT Infoshare - NETDEV Incubator

The incubation process created in the Network Development Work Package (WP6) of the GÉANT project provides a mechanism for including new work during the life of the project in an agile manner (with little administrative work). Testing of new ideas, proofs of concept and training can be carried out and the results presented to the community. This infoshare will present the incubator process and how to apply. Read more...

Jan 28, 2023

PTTI 2023

The Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI) meeting is an annual conference sponsored by ION (Institute of Navigation) with a technical program designed to disseminate and coordinate PTTI information at the user level, review present and future PTTI requirements, inform government and industry engineers, technicians, and managers of precise time and frequency technology and its problems, and provide an opportunity for an active exchange of new technology associated with PTTI. Read more...

Dec 05-09, 2022

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TechEx2022

2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange Program. Internet2 is a community providing a secure high-speed network, cloud solutions, research support, and services tailored for research and education. Read more...

NOV 29, 2022

10th SIG-NGN (Next Generation Networking for Science) Meeting

SIG-NGN is the Special Interest Group on Next Generation Networks. This meeting is the10th meeting of the SIG and will be online. Read more...

Nov 28, 2022

GÉANT Infoshare: Argus

Argus is a tool for NOCs to aggregate and correlate incidents from all their monitoring applications into a single, unified dashboard and notification system. Read more... 

Nov 25, 2022

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Quantum Key Distribution Deployments

This infoshare will present feedback of a QKD deployment and the lab test performance results

• The implementation and performance of a QKD line between Warsaw and Poznan
• The results of the QKD performance lab testbed implemented by GÉANT. Read more... 

Nov 24, 2022

In-band Network Telemetry

In this GÉANT infoshare we will present the latest results from the work in WP6 of the GÉANT GN4-3 project on In-band Network Telemetry (INT) using data plane programming.

Each packet in a set of e2e UDP flows between four sites in different NRENs (CESNET, GARR, GRNET) is measured, at capacities between 1 Mbps up to 1 Gbps using INT. The effect of transport in the core backbones on the timing profile of flows is quantified at the microsecond level. Read more...

Nov 16-17, 2022

17th SIG-NOC Meeting

"Kilowatt hour per Gigabyte - How hungry is your network?" Read more...

Oct 21, 2022

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Maturity Model for Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation

The GÉANT Project has worked in the creation of a Maturity Model to assess the orchestration, automation and virtualisation maturity for research and education institutions in different dimensions and with several stages. Join us to have a first glance of the maturity model, assess your organisation's maturity level and share your thoughts. Read more...

Oct 19-20, 2022

27th STF (Service & Technology Forum) Meeting

A meeting of NREN Access Port Managers (APMs). The primary purpose of the Services and Technology Forum (STF) is to provide the NREN APMs with the relevant GÉANT service and network information for dissemination within their respective NRENs so as to ensure each NREN is constantly updated with changes to those services that are of importance to a particular NREN. Read more...

Jun 21, 2022

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Management and monitoring of time & frequency services

This Infoshare will focus on management and monitoring of time & frequency services. Topics that will be presented include White Rabbit deployment, management and monitoring, the management and monitoring of optical carrier transfer, the remote management of optical frequency dissemination equipment in amplifier sites and labs, the monitoring, lasing detection and avoidance in bidirectional TF channels, as well as the management of an ultra-stable frequency service over radio frequency modulation. Read more... 

Jun 7, 2022

26th STF (Service & Technology Forum) Meeting

A meeting of NREN Access Port Managers (APMs). The primary purpose of the Services and Technology Forum (STF) is to provide the NREN APMs with the relevant GÉANT service and network information for dissemination within their respective NRENs so as to ensure each NREN is constantly updated with changes to those services that are of importance to a particular NREN. Read more...

May 24/25, 2022

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3rd European perfSONAR User Workshop

The Third European perfSONAR User Workshop will follow on from the first two workshops (Second European perfSONAR User Workshop and the 2019 inaugural workshop in London) and will again bring together perfSONAR user and developer communities to explore use cases for the toolkit, to share best practices, and to discuss future features and the perfSONAR development roadmap. Read more...

May 4, 2022

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Campus Network Management as a Service (CNaaS)

Several NRENs are offering Campus Network Management as a Service (CNaaS) to their connected institutions. Some of them, include the Wifi network of the Campus. Some of them are exploring possible collaborations with telecom operators to use 5G. Some lessons were learnt in the last 3 years. In this session, the latest news of the NRENs offering CNaaS services will be shared. Read more...

Apr 6, 2022

2nd Telemetry and Data Workshop

This workshop will target the way the monitoring data is collected and how to share the data:

1. The first part will be related to telemetry and traditional vs streaming telemetry;
2. The second part will present data plane programming telemetry (P4);
3. The last part of this workshop will focus on how to share monitoring data between organisations in the research and education community. Read more...

Mar 8, 2022

2nd Performance Management Workshop

The Network Technologies and Services Evolution work package of the GÉANT GN4-3 project is organising a 2nd workshop on Performance Management. The first workshop was organised in Zagreb on 4th-5th March 2020. 

The workshop will include presentations on and discussions of:

• High speed network monitoring and data transfers (100G)

• Monitoring data analytics and correlation. Read more...

Feb 16, 2022

25th STF (Service & Technology Forum) Meeting

A meeting of NREN Access Port Managers (APMs). The primary purpose of the Services and Technology Forum (STF) is to provide the NREN APMs with the relevant GÉANT service and network information for dissemination within their respective NRENs so as to ensure each NREN is constantly updated with changes to those services that are of importance to a particular NREN. Read more...

Dec 8, 2021

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GÉANT Infoshare: White Box in NREN context

This infoshare will present the results of white box subtask within Network Technologies and Services Development work package of GN4-3. This subtask aimed to validate whether the white box solutions available on the market can be useful in an NREN context.

The strategy, defined in detail in [D6.3], is based on potential NREN use cases for which the white box solution is validated and then put into production if the outcome is acceptable to the NREN. Read more...

Nov 10, 2021

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Introduction to WiFiMon for EaP NRENs

• WiFiMon - what is it? What is its purpose?
• Who can deploy and use it? In which environment can I use it?
• What do I need to install it? Possible obstacles and ways to circumvent those.
• Real experiences using WiFiMon.
• Q&A

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Nov 3, 2021

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Internet 2 TechEXtra21 perfSONAR Day

A. Delvaux (GÉANT/WP6), M.Feit (Internet2), "OS Change", Nov. 3, 2021 and Lightning Talk: L. Hrboka, "PMP Data Analysis".Read more...

Oct 26, 2021

24th STF (Service & Technology Forum) Meeting

A meeting of NREN Access Port Managers (APMs). The primary purpose of the Services and Technology Forum (STF) is to provide the NREN APMs with the relevant GÉANT service and network information for dissemination within their respective NRENs so as to ensure each NREN is constantly updated with changes to those services that are of importance to a particular NREN. T. Chown, X. Jeannin and R. Lapacz presented updates on WP6 services and development.

This infoshare will present the results of white box subtask within Network Technologies and Services Development work package of GN4-3. This subtask aimed to validate whether the white box solutions available on the market can be useful in an NREN context.

The strategy, defined in detail in [D6.3], is based on potential NREN use cases for which the white box solution is validated and then put into production if the outcome is acceptable to the NREN. Read more...