Theme of the meeting:
"Operational challenges in the new normal"
Zoom link will be sent out to the registered participants prior to the meeting.
Date and Time:
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
09:30-12:30 CET
Registrations
AGENDA
(times in CET)
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:30-9:40 | Welcome |
| 9:40-10:00 | GÉANT Network refresh - Paul Shelswell, GÉANT |
| 10:00-10:20 | Experiences of integrating of new Inventory Management System - Tony Barber, Steve Hagger and Emma Apted, GÉANT. An insight into the challenges of replacing a home built bespoke inventory and service management system with an off the shelf product which required much customisation to meet the needs of the very varied GEANT service catalogue and far spread network. We will look at the project management challenges, the data transfer challenges and the operations difficulties that were encountered and mostly overcome. |
| 10:20-10:35 | Mentimeter - operational challenges in the new normal - Magda Haver, GÉANT |
| 10:35-10:45 | Coffe break |
| 10:45- 11:00 | Post Covid operational processes - What is the new normal? Round table updates from participants. Moderated by Ivana Golub, PSNC |
| 11:00-11:15 | Timemap: latency and jitter monitoring tool - Fabio Farina, GARR |
| 11:15-11:45 | Automation e-Academy - Maria Isabel Gandia, CSUC Orchestration, automation and virtualization are increasingly important to the challenges faced by network operators, whose users demand self-service on a digital platform. To help network engineers in the process of learning automation techniques, the GÉANT project has created the Network Automation e-Academy, free to access and with capsules on different topics, from formats, protocols and languages to case examples of the academic world, which are published regularly on the e-Academy (https://e-academy.geant.org/)” |
| 11:45-12:00 | Wrap up, future in-person? meeting and Christmas cake and drink |