JANET Pushes the Boundaries with 100Gbit/S Network for UK Research and Education
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issue 16 JANET news October 2011 1 JANET pushes the boundaries with 100Gbit/s network for UK research and education www.ja.net Changes to Interception Law page 18 JANET(UK) recognised for Training Excellence page 27 JANET News 16 | October 2011 welcome Contents Editorial NEWS Supporting eduroam deployment 3 Harnessing JANET JANET pushes the boundaries with 100Gbit/s 4 for business network for UK research and education Cost savings & enhanced security as the JANET 6 JANET’s proud boast is Certificate Service develops its services to serve the research and JANET(UK) welcomes review 8 education community in the Clouds on the horizon 10 United Kingdom. Instinctively COMMUNITY one might not think of JANET Outstanding for students 12 as serving businesses – but Customer Engagement profile: 14 that is exactly what it does. Robert Prabucki, Customer Engagement Manager Any organisation in our community today must for Eastern & East Midlands run itself as a business; therefore, to serve your FEATURES organisation, that is how JANET must regard you. JANET resilience across the north-south divide 16 Changes to Interception Law 18 At the same time, of course, you are not simply a 2 business: you are probably an organisation with Profile: Paul Harness, Director of IT Services, 20 University of Manchester sector-specific requirements that commercial TECHNICAL suppliers can’t match, simply because they are commercial and you are not. DNSSec – a .uk first for JANET and cam.ac.uk 23 Advanced Persistent Threats 24 Some examples of how JANET can help. Starting RADSEC & IF-MAP: double the solution 26 in this issue, JANET News will feature a series of SERVICES interviews that share the expertise and experience JANET(UK) recognised for Training Excellence 27 of key figures in our industry: people who are all too eduroam on the phone 28 accustomed to treating their academic departments JANET and Skype 29 as businesses. This issue also gives the latest news A week in the life of eduroam 29 from JANET Brokerage, a service set up to serve the Instant collaboration for JANET users 30 community by aggregating JANET’s expertise and EVENTS buying power to help businesses make the most Forthcoming events 31 of the cloud. A fast and secure internet connection Networkshop present and future 32 is the least JANET could bring you. Its value lies in TRAINING what else it delivers to your organisation. Commercial Forthcoming JANET Training courses 34 suppliers alone cannot effectively serve a community EXTERNAL NEWS 36 & 39 as diverse as ours. It is when they work with JANET that together we can serve a small community TELL US WHAT YOU THINK college and a research organisation sharing terabytes Questionnaire 37 & 38 of data, at the same time and with no knock-on PUBLICATIONS effect for its other users. To harness the power of Recent publications 40 JANET, simply join us, look around, and be amazed. JANET News 16 | October 2011 news Supporting eduroam deployment Over the summer the consultancy Mutually convenient days for the requirements of the eduroam service that supports eduroam work are agreed, usually preceded Technical Specification and deployment has been in great by remote analysis of existing conformed to best current demand. This is a reliable service confi guration and a written report practice, particularly with regard to for on-site problem solving, of fi ndings, recommendations the effi ciency and effectiveness of post-deployment auditing and and work carried out is usually their RADIUS server confi guration. quality assurance work, eduroam requested to conclude the job. installation and setup or on-site The full story is available on the training. This is very useful in One project undertaken in July OUCS Network Team blog: situations where an organisation‘s was for the University of Oxford. http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac. IT Support staff do not have the The University already had a uk/networks/2011/09/01/ time or expert knowledge to working eduroam service that maintenance-work-on-eduroam/ effectively and effi ciently carry out had been extensive deployed the work. throughout the University More information on consultancy departments, local hospitals services supporting eduroam is Engaging with the service is simple: and local authority locations in available at: the scope of the work and number and around Oxford. However http://www.ja.net/services/ of days required are agreed and a the Oxford University Computing authentication-and-authorisation/ 3 simple purchase order mechanism Service wanted assurance that janet-roaming/enquiries. is used to purchase the service. the deployment met all html#eduroam_consultancy Christ Church College, Oxford University JANET News 16 | October 2011 news JANET pushes the boundaries with 100Gbit/s network for UK research and education 4 UK research and education benefi t is vital that the technical infrastructure greatest scientifi c endeavours and from a network running at an enables rather than restricts new and this latest advance ensures that the outstanding 100Gbit/s – that is, innovative ways of responding to the UK can collaborate and compete over 16,000 times the size of the challenges ahead. The international with the best there is. However, it average home broadband. With reputation of British education and is not just high-end research that its ultra fast 100Gbit/s network research is fundamental to the future benefi ts. The JANET user base capability, JANET continues to lead economic recovery and prosperity is vast: every user ranging from a the way for research and education of the country and, in a global primary school student learning networks worldwide. marketplace, it can only achieve about the Victorians, through this with the right tools. The JANET to a postgrad researching their As UK education and research is network is designed to handle vast dissertation benefi ts from a single being asked to do more with less, it quantities of data from the world’s unifying network. JANET News 16 | October 2011 news The JANET network is designed to handle vast quantities of data from the world’s greatest scientifi c endeavours and this latest advance ensures that the UK can collaborate and compete with the best there is. 5 Bandwidth demand doubles every education, and to embrace The upgrade has been performed 18 months, and the upgrade is modern technologies in delivering with a 100Gbit/s router-to-router the latest stage of the consistent a distinctive student experience. connection, in contrast to the evolution of the network in line I welcome the development of more usual 100G optical with the growth plan drawn up in JANET’s higher capability network deployment with a 10x10Gbit/s 2006. It is also the best strategic to support and enable the presentation at the router. The and economic response to ever- ever-increasing expectations of use of 100Gbit/s router-to-router increasing user need, as more and students and researchers technology uses advanced more organisations move towards throughout UK education.” encoding techniques that makes cloud services and outsourcing more effi cient use of the underlying of suppliers and as research Jeremy Sharp, Head, Strategic fi bre to provide better capacity projects generate ever-larger Technologies at JANET(UK) scaling capability. amounts of data. commented: “This technical advance is the latest example JANET(UK) will continue to work “A resilient and robust data network of JANET(UK)’s commitment to with its established industry is vital to research-led universities ensuring that UK research and partners: Verizon and Ciena on the like Cardiff,” says Martyn Harrow, education is underpinned by transmission technology involved Director of Cardiff University’s a ‘world-class’ infrastructure. in the upgrade; and Juniper Information Services Directorate. At a time when research and Networks, which is providing “The data network enables the education is being asked to do high-performance, scalable core university to respond to the more with less it is vital that we routing capability at the heart of increasingly ambitious (and data- identify and implement appropriate the JANET infrastructure with heavy) requirements of researchers, technologies that deliver real the Juniper Networks® T Series to provide world-competitive benefits to our customers.” Core Router. JANET News 16 | October 2011 news Cost savings & enhanced security as££’s the JANET Certificate Service develops its services 6 The benefi ts of the JANET of providing JANET certifi cates The JANET Certificate Service Certifi cate Service now extend and processing the orders are remains hugely successful, having to customers in local and unitary absorbed by JANET at no cost to issued over 14,000 certificates – authorities. The new offering the organisation. an increase of over 5,000 since enables these authorities to the start of the year – to over request certifi cates on behalf of JANET(UK) has also acted quickly 500 organisations. Very positive schools under their authority. One to help customers implement feedback from users suggests of the participants in a successful additional security procedures, that this rate of take-up is pilot of the new offering, following a recent security alert expected to continue as more Staffordshire County Council relating to certifi cates. The most organisations begin to use this estimates it will make savings signifi cant impact of the new free service. of almost £50,000 by obtaining security measures is that all server certifi cates on behalf of applications for certifi cates are As well as cost savings, security schools under their authority over now subject to additional checks. is improved and good user the next three years. The savings However, a certifi cate only takes a practice is encouraged, as there come from the fact that the costs matter of hours to be issued. is no bypassing browser security JANET News 16 | October 2011 news messages; relationships The difference for schools It also provides the user with some between the local authority, While local authorities often assurance of the authenticity of the RBC and schools are improved manage web servers on behalf web site they are visiting.