bandeau haut JRES 2009

Innovation and international collaboration in the research and education networking environment


Valentino Cavalli

Chief Technical Officer, TERENA


TERENA is the association in which research and education networking organisations from countries in and around Europe collaborate. The primary members of TERENA are the national research and education networking organisations of 37 countries, including RENATER.


TERENA organises a number of collaborative activities at the European level that are of interest to persons who are responsible for computer networking at the level of universities or research institutes. In part, the organisation of this collaboration is co-funded by the European Union through the GÉANT3 project.


Some of the many areas that are covered by this international collaboration are: security, authentication and authorisation, mobility and network middleware, data storage facilities, end-to-end service provisioning, and applications supporting end-users in specific fields, e.g. the arts and humanities.


TERENA supports collaboration and coordination of Computer Security Incident Teams in Europe in a task force called TF-CSIRT. Trust and accreditation scheme for CSIRTs is provided by the Trusted Introducer service.


The research and education networking community has been pioneering the development of Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure enabling users to access the network and various services. Identity federations provide the technology and policies required to manage this infrastructure. Latest developments see national federations peering with each other at regional and pan-European level as a way of supporting authentication and authorization across institutions in different countries.


The development and deployment of mobile technologies and the usage of network middleware to support interoperable roaming services are becoming key activities among NRENs and academic research institutions. The successful eduroam ® service was initially piloted as part of the work of the TERENA task force on Mobility, which started in 2002.


As more research and education networking organisations provide ever richer services and support to their users, there is an increasing demand for large-volume storage solutions for uses as diverse as library archiving, online network monitoring, video-streaming, data backup, disaster recovery and other services. Following the initiative of a number of member organisations, TERENA is running a task force that focuses on collaboration on data storage services in Europe.


Today, individual e-science applications can generate network flows measured in Gbps, enduring hours, days or even weeks, often between a well-defined set of nodes and with tight constraints on quality of service. Other applications require multicast to be supported across the whole end-to-end path, encompassing not only national research and education networks and the GÉANT3 pan-European backbone, but also campus networks and, when relevant, regional or metropolitan networks. These are just a few examples of how essential it is to ensure coordination across the various levels that make part of the European network provisioning model.


Finally, in the area of supporting end users in the arts and humanities, TERENA is promoting exchange of information and knowledge transfer about management, distribution and access to educational media content as well as about the technology enabling the production of networked performing art events.


In the talk, special attention will be given to how, practically, it is possible for interested people to stay informed of the latest developments at the European level in their areas of interest, and how to become involved and to contribute. This will include information about workshops and mailing lists, as well as an explanation of the working methods of European task forces in various technical and non-technical areas.

® eduroam® is a registered trade mark of the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA).

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Innovation and international collaboration in the research and education networking environment


Valentino Cavalli

Chief Technical Officer, TERENA


TERENA is the association in which research and education networking organisations from countries in and around Europe collaborate. The primary members of TERENA are the national research and education networking organisations of 37 countries, including RENATER.


TERENA organises a number of collaborative activities at the European level that are of interest to persons who are responsible for computer networking at the level of universities or research institutes. In part, the organisation of this collaboration is co-funded by the European Union through the GÉANT3 project.


Some of the many areas that are covered by this international collaboration are: security, authentication and authorisation, mobility and network middleware, data storage facilities, end-to-end service provisioning, and applications supporting end-users in specific fields, e.g. the arts and humanities.


TERENA supports collaboration and coordination of Computer Security Incident Teams in Europe in a task force called TF-CSIRT. Trust and accreditation scheme for CSIRTs is provided by the Trusted Introducer service.


The research and education networking community has been pioneering the development of Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure enabling users to access the network and various services. Identity federations provide the technology and policies required to manage this infrastructure. Latest developments see national federations peering with each other at regional and pan-European level as a way of supporting authentication and authorization across institutions in different countries.


The development and deployment of mobile technologies and the usage of network middleware to support interoperable roaming services are becoming key activities among NRENs and academic research institutions. The successful eduroam ® service was initially piloted as part of the work of the TERENA task force on Mobility, which started in 2002.


As more research and education networking organisations provide ever richer services and support to their users, there is an increasing demand for large-volume storage solutions for uses as diverse as library archiving, online network monitoring, video-streaming, data backup, disaster recovery and other services. Following the initiative of a number of member organisations, TERENA is running a task force that focuses on collaboration on data storage services in Europe.


Today, individual e-science applications can generate network flows measured in Gbps, enduring hours, days or even weeks, often between a well-defined set of nodes and with tight constraints on quality of service. Other applications require multicast to be supported across the whole end-to-end path, encompassing not only national research and education networks and the GÉANT3 pan-European backbone, but also campus networks and, when relevant, regional or metropolitan networks. These are just a few examples of how essential it is to ensure coordination across the various levels that make part of the European network provisioning model.


Finally, in the area of supporting end users in the arts and humanities, TERENA is promoting exchange of information and knowledge transfer about management, distribution and access to educational media content as well as about the technology enabling the production of networked performing art events.


In the talk, special attention will be given to how, practically, it is possible for interested people to stay informed of the latest developments at the European level in their areas of interest, and how to become involved and to contribute. This will include information about workshops and mailing lists, as well as an explanation of the working methods of European task forces in various technical and non-technical areas.

® eduroam® is a registered trade mark of the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA).

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