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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