European collaboration on research networking development update on TERENA activities Karel Vietsch TERENA CEO Spring 2002 Internet 2 Member Meeting Arlington VA, 6 May 2002
What is TERENA? An association consisting of: • the national research & education networks of 33 countries • CERN, ESA • 11 associate members (regional networks, industry) www. terena. nl
What does TERENA do? The four pillars of TERENA: • providing an environment for fostering new initiatives of the European research networking community • e. g. pilot services • supporting joint European work in developing, evaluating, testing, integrating and promoting new networking, middleware and application technologies through the TERENA Technical Programme • task forces, projects, workshops/meetings • supporting the exchange of information in the European research networking community, and promoting knowledge transfer to networking organisations in less favoured regions • conferences/workshops, training • promoting members’ interests by representing the common interests and opinions of the membership in contacts with relevant organisations
TERENA Technical Programme Collaboration between technical experts from the European research networking community (research & education networks, universities, research institutes, industry) to develop, test and promote new technologies Organised through ad-hoc meetings, task forces, projects Supported by the TERENA staff Current Special Interest Areas: • Lower Layers (IPv 6, MPLS, VPNs etc. ) • Quality of Service • Videoconferencing and Streaming • Content Delivery, Indexing and Searching • Middleware • Mobility
TERENA Technical Programme Lower Layer Technologies Task Force TF-NGN • Includes work for GÉANT deliverables • Qo. S (Premium IP, AF, over-provisioned networks, …. . ) • Multicast • IPv 6 testing • Flow-based monitoring, Qo. S monitoring • Optical networking (possible international testbed) www. terena. nl/task-forces/tf-ngn 6 NET project • Large-scale IPv 6 testbed • Involves > 30 partners , including national research networks www. 6 net. org
TERENA Technical Programme Videoconferencing and Streaming Task Force TF-STREAM • Practical experiments with videoconferencing • Best-practice recommendations • Directory of videoconferencing services www. terena. nl/task-forces/tf-stream IP telephony • Document best-practice • Cookbook • Interworking testing www. terena. nl/tech/IPtel/iptelws. html
TERENA Technical Programme Security Task Force TF-CSIRT • Collaboration of CSIRTs (CERTs) in Europe • Exchange of knowledge and experiences • Incident Object Description Format • Clearinghouse of incident handling tools • Trusted Introducer service • Training courses for new CSIRT staff members www. terena. nl/task-forces/tf-csirt www. ti. terena. nl
TERENA Technical Programme Middleware Task Force TF-LSD • Directories • Open. LDAP www. terena. nl/task-forces/tf-lsd Task Force TF-AACE • Authentication and authorisation • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Certification Authorities • Information exchange and co-ordination between many national initiatives www. terena. nl/task-forces/tf-aace
Conferences and Workshops on topical issues • European Middleware Workshop (June 2000) • International Lambda Workshop (September 2001) • Mobility Workshop (March 2002) • …………. TERENA Networking Conference 2002 Limerick (Ireland), 3 -6 June 2002 • Middleware • Grids • IPv 6 • ……… www. terena. nl/tnc 2002/
TERENA Compendium Annual collection of information about national research and education networks • History • Legal form • Number and types of institutions connected • Number of students connected • Core capacity of the network • International connectivity • Access capacities • Network size • Technologies used • Staffing, funding Benchmarking www. terena. nl/compendium/
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