GÉANT Enabling Global R&E Collaboration
Thomas Fryer, DANTE AMERICAS Conference, CUDI Friday, 4th October 2013 Europe’s 100Gbps Network - e-Infrastructure for the “data deluge”
Latest transmission and switching technology Routers with 100Gbps capability Optical transmission platform designed to provide 500Gbps super-channels Hybrid network – GÉANT IP: packet routed – and VPNs – GÉANT Plus: switched point-to-point circuits – GÉANT Lambda: dedicated wavelengths 12,000km of dark fibre over 100,000km of leased capacity (inc. transatlantic links) 28 main sites covering European footprint
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GÉANT Global Connectivity - at the heart of global research networking
GÉANT connects to 65 countries outside of Europe, reaching all continents through international partners http://global.geant.net/
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GÉANT: The Best-connected R&E Network
66 countries outside Europe connected to GÉANT
Americas & the Caribbean Middle East & Africa Asia & Oceania (cont.)
CANARIE Canada ANKABUT United Arab Emirates JGN-X Japan C@ribNET Anguilla, Antigua, ARN Algeria HARNET Hong Kong Barbados, BVI, ENSTINET Egypt KazRENA Kazakhstan Dominica, Dominican KENET Kenya KOREN/NIA Korea Rep., Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, MoRENet Mozambique KRENA-AKNET Kyrgyzstan St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Qatar Foundation Qatar LEARN Sri Lanka Vincent, Trinidad SARInet Saudi Arabia MAFFIN Japan CEDIA Ecuador SUIN Sudan MYREN Malaysia CUDI Mexico TENET South Africa NKN India ESNet USA TERNET Tanzania NREN Nepal INNOVA|RED Argentina ZAMREN Zambia PERN2 Pakistan Internet2 USA PREGINET Philippines NISN (NASA) USA Asia & Oceania REANNZ New Zealand NLR USA AARNet Australia SINET3/NII Japan RAAP Peru AfRENA Afghanistan SingAREN Singapore RAGIE Guatemala NAS RA Armenia TARENA Tajikistan RAICES El Salvador ASGC Taiwan ThaiREN/ThaiSARN Thailand RAU2 Uruguay AzRENA Azerbaijan ThaiREN/UniNet Thailand REACCIUN2 Venezuela BdREN Bangladesh TuRENA Turkmenistan Red CoNARE Costa Rica CamREN Cambodia TWAREN Taiwan RedCyT Panama CERNET China VINAREN Vietnam RENATA Colombia CSTNET China REUNA Chile INHERENT/ITB Indonesia RNP Brazil USLHCNet USA http://global.geant.net/
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GÉANT (GN3plus) - vital to the EU’s e-Infrastructure strategy
GN3plus: extension and expansion to 3rd Key Facts GN3plus term of the successful GÉANT networking Start date April 1 2013 project, vital to the EU’s e-Infrastructure strategy. Duration 24 months
Total budget €84,283,018 GÉANT vision: to become the unified EC contribution €41,800,000 European Communications Commons - driving knowledge creation as the global hub Participants 250+ for research networking excellence 41 Project Partners: 38 NRENs, DANTE, TERENA, GÉANT Mission: to deliver world-class NORDUnet (representing 5 Nordic countries) services with the highest levels of operational excellence
Co-funded: by the EU and Europe’s NRENs
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GN3plus in numbers
14 58 250+ 41 Activities Tasks People Partners
50,000,000 users Reaching over 10,000 institutions 100 countries across Europe worldwide
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Global Collaboration: Services
Performance Monitoring
Mobility
Authorisation & Authentication
Videoconferencing eduCONF
Collaboration tools
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Who Uses R&E Networks? (i)
Radio astronomy
BIG SCIENCE
The Large Hadron Collider - PIC, Barcelona, is a Tier 1 site
SUPERCOMPUTING BSC, Barcelona, is a PRACE participant
Source of image: CERN
E-LEARNING Benefits teachers, E-HEALTH AND THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES lecturers and students 8 Connect | Communicate | Collaborate 8
Who Uses R&E Networks? (ii)
EARTH OBSERVATION
Environmental monitoring
THE ARTS
Musicians have Disaster warning and new ways to recovery TELEMEDICINE create music, rehearse and perform together.
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