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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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.Read more...

Oct 15, 2021

Quantum Key Distribution, Physical Implementation and Testbed

This infoshare will present different physical implementations of Quantum Key Distribution:

• The QKD implementation between Ostrava - Cieszyn
• The GÉANT QKD PoC between 2 GÉANT PoPs in collaboration with Toshiba
• The CESNET testbed
• The PSNC testbed 

The objective is to show practical implementations and to answer NREN questions regarding potential deployment. The infoshare will also give the latest update on the European Quantum Communication Infrastructure call (QCI). Read more...

Oct 13, 2021

Quantum Key Distribution Simulation

Quantum Key Distribution is a technology at an early stage. A QKD link requires optical connection between the network nodes. For now, there are not many quantum hardware suppliers and the hardware available is very expensive. Network simulation appears a good solution to validate the different elements that made up a QKD service (network algorithm or protocol), to save a lot of money and time in creating a testbed and to start becoming familiar with this technology. The simulators are different levels of simulation (optical layer, the key distribution service, ...). Read more...

Jun 25, 2021

Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation: Focusing on the user

A successful digital transformation entails flexibility, efficiency, and self-service provisioning. In other words, a user-centric approach, which implies the usage of Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation techniques (OAV). The OAV team in GN4-3 created several resources to help the NRENs in their journey to this digital transformation through OAV (Training, Wiki, Terminology, Blueprint, Mapping of Architectures for NRENs..) The goal of this session is to gather ideas for future work, presenting the existing resources together with use cases from the NRENs. The BoF is an opportunity for NRENs to come together to agree on common actions. Read more...

Jun 18, 2021

P4 and Data Plane Programming BoF held at TNC21

People from many different teams and organisations from Europe, North and South America took part in the “P4 and Data Plane Programming BoF” organised as part of the TNC21 conference. 

Apr 28, 2021

Tools for Campus Network Management as a Service (CNaaS)

Several European NRENs have started offering Campus Network Management as a Service (CNaaS) to their connected institutions. This Infoshare includes presentations of tools that some NRENs are using to offer the service, for monitoring, configuration management, etc. Read more...

Apr 14/15, 2021

2nd European perfSONAR User Workshop

The Second European perfSONAR User Workshop is a sequel to the 2019 inaugural workshop in London and again brings 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...

Mar 24, 2021

online

Workshop on Network Management and Monitoring Tools

This is a sequel to the 1st NEMMO workshop held in Copenhagen in 2019, this workshop brings together network operators, researchers and other members of the GÉANT and NREN community interested in network monitoring and management tools, to present and discuss the future development of network monitoring platforms. Read more...

Mar 17, 2021

Quantum Key Distribution - Practical Implementations, Challenges, R&E Use Cases and Standardisation outlook

This second Infoshare focuses on the first use case of quantum communication: Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Key Distribution. In this first use case, the NREN community can play an important role by demonstrating how Quantum Key Distribution can be implemented in a production network context and a wide range of use cases. Read more... 

Mar 9, 2021

European Time and Frequency Services - Principles, Challenges and Use Cases

"Time & Frequency (T&F)" transport as an optical service has become a hot topic for the past ten years, mainly boosted by a dramatic improvement in performance. National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) in collaboration with NRENs have demonstrated three orders of magnitude higher stability of time and frequency services than any existing commercial service over distances of at least 1,500 km, offering tremendous potential for new services in a wide range of scientific, societal and economic domains. Read more... 

Mar 2, 2021

Infoshare

Deploying In-band Network Telemetry (INT) on R&E Networks

This GÉANT Infoshare presents the results to date from the development work and tests of In-band Network Telemetry (INT) performed by the data plane programming (DPP) team in WP6 T1 of the GÉANT GN4-3 project. Read more... 

Feb 25, 2021

online

22nd Service and Technology Forum

Presentations include "In-Band Network Telemetry" (Mauro Campanella (GARR)) and "WP6 News" (Tim Chown (Jisc)). Read more...

Jan 26, 2021

online

13th SIG-NOC Meeting

Presentations include "Telemetry and Big Data" (Tim Chown, Jisc) and "LoLa" (Claudio Allocchio, GARR). Read more...

Jan 20, 2021

Quantum Technologies - Principles, Challenges and Applications

This event is the first in a series of Infoshares dedicated to QKD technology in detail; there is also a presentation of quantum initiatives all over Europe and worldwide. Read more...

Dec 16, 2020

Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation in the NRENs. Ready, Steady, Go!

The increasing usage of data cloud services, IoT and new network services is accelerating the usage of automation and orchestration on all levels. Some NRENs started the journey to automation a long time ago. Is your NREN prepared for it? Read more...

Dec 9, 2020

Data Transfer Nodes: How Fast can your Data Travel?

Some research projects need to move huge amounts of data. Using a desktop computer and the regular network to do it may not be the right option to get the best performance. Setting up a DTN node is not always straightforward: there are different types of software, some parameters need to be tuned in the servers, distances reduce the performance in TCP. Read more...

Nov 25, 2020

How to Benefit from Network Management as a Service (NMaaS)

NMaaS (Network Management as a Service) is a GÉANT production service offering a portfolio of well-known network management applications run on a per-user, secured, cloud-based network monitoring infrastructure. The deployment of the new monitoring application instance takes only a few clicks in a web-based portal and just a few minutes. Read more...

Nov 10, 2020

online

1st GÉANT Telemetry and Big Data Workshop

The workshop has the objective to collect production-level experience on telemetry, the use of very large amounts of monitoring data, their sharing and current efforts on actual use cases. Another goal is to assess the community's interest in and the validity of telemetry approaches and challenges in the use of the large amounts of monitoring information which current networks have to deal with. Read more...

Nov 5, 2020

Measuring WiFi and eduroam Network Performance with WiFiMon

WiFiMon, a WiFi network monitoring and performance verification system, is a new GÉANT service. It is capable of detecting performance issues, visualising the workload of the network, and providing technical information about the WiFi network (e.g. signal strength, link quality, bit rate, etc.). WiFiMon leverages well-known performance verification tools like Akamai Boomerang and Speedtest/Libretest and in addition uses data from the WiFi physical layer in order to gather a comprehensive set of WiFi network performance metrics. It combines crowdsourced measurements and measurement data obtained from small form hardware probes. Read more...

Oct 26, 2020

online

21st STF - (Virtual) Meeting, October 2020

Update on WP6 activities (RARE, NMaaS, WiFiMon). Read more...

Oct 7, 2020

Offering Campus Network Management as a Service: Challenges and Lessons Learnt

Several European NRENs have started offering Campus Network Management as a Service (CNaaS) to their connected institutions, either because the end-institutions or the governments have requested them to do it. Defining the new model, automating the infrastructure and sharing the management are some of the new challenges to solve. Read more...

Sept 14/15, 2020

Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation (OAV) in GÉANT

Maria Isabel Gandia, Sonja Filiposka (19'), pre-recorded presentation at the Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G) Meeting. Read more...

June 23, 2020

Online

12th SIG-NOC Meeting via VC

"New normality" and follow up on what became our new tools and processes. Read more...

Mar 25, 2020

Online

11th SIG-NOC meeting via VC - extraordinary edition

Continued NOC operations in the face of a pandemic. COVID-19: Concerns, common problems and experiences at the NOC. Read more...

Mar 4/5, 2020

Zagreb, Croatia

Performance Management Workshop

The Network Technologies and Services Evolution work package of the GÉANT GN4-3 project organised a workshop on Performance Management in Zagreb on 4th-5th March 2020, directly after the 19th STF meeting on the 3rd and 4th March at the same venue. Read more...

Mar 3/4, 2020

Zagreb, Croatia

19th STF (Service & Technology Forum) Meeting

Face to face meeting of NREN APMs or nominated deputies, hosted by CARNET in Zagreb. Read more...

Feb 4/5, 2020

Ljubljana, Slovenia

GÉANT Project Symposium

Tim Chown, Ivana Golub, WP6 Deeper Dive - Network Services, Ljubljana, February 4-5, 2020, (agenda) (slides). Read more...

Jan 15/16, 2020

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

4th SIG-NGN (Next Generation Networking for Science) Meeting

SIG-NGN is the Special Interest Group on Next Generation Networks. This meeting is the fourth meeting of the SIG and hosted by CERN in Geneva. Read more...

Dec 9-12, 2019

New Orleans, LA, USA

Automation, Orchestration and Virtualisation in European NRENs

I. Golub, Internet2 Technology Exchange 2019 (TechEx 2019). Read more...

Nov 13/14, 2019

Prague, Czech Republic

10th SIG-NOC Meeting

Keeping the competitive edge in the NREN community. Learn how your colleagues are working with the latest tools, processes and people as the results from the SIG-NOC survey are presented and discussed. In addition to this the meeting focuses on Campus Network as a Service, Monitoring tools and automation. Read more...

Oct 29, 2019

Infoshare

Network technologies (WP6)

GÉANT GN4-3 WP6 Infoshare: Overview of the WP6 activity on Network Technologies and Services Development for the General Assembly Members. Read more...

Oct 21/22, 2019

Copenhagen, Denmark

Workshop on Network Management and Monitoring (NEMMO)

Faced with challenges to maintain an appropriate level of existing ICT services and to adopt new ones, many end institutions (e.g., university campuses, schools, etc.) in different European countries have started to ask NRENs to manage parts of their ICT infrastructure (wired LAN, WiFi, some specific services). Read more...

June 20, 2019

OAV Side Meeting (BoF)

TERENA Networking Conference (TNC19), Tallin, Estonia, June 20, 2019. Read more...

May 9, 2019

GN4-3 Future Service Strategy Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This workshop aims to get NREN strategic level guidance, feedback and build a consensus on GÉANT Network and Cloud Service Evolution. NREN survey (pdf), NREN survey summary results (pdf). Read more...