Network Development in the GÉANT Project
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The document outlines the objectives and structure of the GN5-1 project, emphasizing network development, production services, and various work packages in research and education. It highlights tasks involved in project management, user engagement, security, and technology implementation with a focus on optical time and frequency networks and quantum technologies. The project engages over 31 research organizations across 25 countries, aiming to provide enhanced network services and innovative solutions.
Network Development in the GÉANT Project
- 1. GN5-1 Public (PU) TNC23 June 5-9, Tirana, Albania Network Development in the GÉANT Project Maria Isabel Gandia Carriedo, CSUC/RedIRIS Ivana Golub, PSNC
- 2. 2 | GN5-1 2 ● Environment ● Network Development ● Production Services ● NETDEV Incubator Agenda
- 3. 3 | GN5-1 WP1 Project Management WP2 Marcomms, Events and Policy Engagement WP3 User and Stakeholder Engagement WP4 Above-the-Net- Services WP5 Trust & Identity Services Evolution and Delivery WP6 Network Development WP7 Network Core Infrastructureand Core Service Evolution and Operations WP8 Security WP9 Operations Support Task 1: Project Governance, Management & Coordination Task 1: Communications and Design Task 1: Partner Relations Task 1: User-Facing Service Delivery Chain Task 1: Operations and Enhancement of eduroam Task 1: Technology Task 1: Network Engineering and Implementation Task 1: Security Management Task 1: Operations Centre including CERT Task 2: Finance Task 2: Services Marketing Task 2: Supporting International User Groups Task 2: Vendor- Facing Service Delivery Chain Task 2: Operations and Enhancement of eduGAIN Task 2: Platform Task 2: Network Infrastructure and Services Evolution Task 2: Human Factor Task 2: Software Governance and Support Task 3: ICT Task 3: Events Task 3: External Relationships Task 3: Infrastructure Cloud Procurement Task 3: AAI Core platform and eduTEAMS Services Task 3: Monitoring Task 3: Network Management, Automation and Orchestration Task 3: Security Products and Services Task 3: Service Management Task 4: PLM Task 4: Policy Engagement Task 4: Community Programme Task 4: Above Net Services Strategic Planning Task 4: InAcademia Task 4: Academy Task 4: Packet Layer Renewal Task 4: Research; Security for High- Speed Networks Task 4: GÉANT Software Development and Operations Task 5: Human Capital Development Task 5: Above Net Services Developments Task 5: T&I Incubator Task 6: Procurement & Supplier Management Task 6: T&I Enabling Communities Task 7: Distributed Identities The GÉANT Project Structure WP Leaders: Ivana Golub (PSNC), Pavle Vuletić (UoB/AMRES) WP6 budget: > 3,1 mil EUR 31 R&E organisations from 25 countries 85 team members https://wiki.geant.org/display/netdev NETDEV
- 4. 4 | GN5-1 4 Network Development ● Optical Time and Frequency Networks - OTFN ● Quantum Technologies - QT ● Router for Academia, Research and Education - RARE ● GÉANT P4 Lab - GP4L ● TechLab
- 5. 5 | GN5-1 Exploring approaches for Time and Frequency (T&F) Services in NREN Networks: • T&F service and infrastructure study - considering CLONETS-DS results • T&F Gateway - national signal sources and cross-border transfer • Monitoring and calibration solutions Optical Time and Frequency Networks - OTFN https://wiki.geant.org/display/NETDEV/OTFN
- 6. 6 | GN5-1 Exploring Quantum Technologies (QT) for NREN Use cases • Quantum / QKD services in NRENs Supporting NRENs in their QT deployments • QT training material in the Network eAcademy • Discussion forums: • Open Quantum Group Meeting • quantum-discuss@lists.geant.org • QT wiki Infoshare “Quantum Solutions”: 21 June 2023, 1-3pm CEST Quantum Technologies https://wiki.geant.org/display/NETDEV/QT
- 7. 7 | GN5-1 An open source router OS for R&E use cases RARE - Router for Academia, Research and Education Supports six data planes: ● based on UNIX socket ● Libpcap ● DPDK ● BMv2 (P4) ● INTEL TOFINO ASIC (P4) ● XDP, eXpress Data Path RARE rare-users@lists.geant.org rare-dev@lists.geant.org rare@lists.geant.org RARE features (not limited to): ● Interior Routing Protocol ● Dataplane forwarding ● External Routing Protocol ● Link local protocol ● Network management
- 8. 8 | GN5-1 P4 switch-based lab infrastructure interconnected through the GÉANT network • 4 switches in Europe: AMS, POZ, FRA, BUD Initially aimed to validate the RARE/FreeRtr open source routing stack software With growing interest, offering experimental dataplane programming facilities to researchers to perform geographically distributed network experiments: • With the usage of RARE/FreeRtr NOS • Using a clean slate environment (i.e use exclusively GP4L without RARE/FreeRtr dataplane & control plane) GP4L - GÉANT P4Lab https://wiki.geant.org/display/GP4L
- 9. 9 | GN5-1 Global P4L May 2023 Over 20 locations worldwide Strong collaboration with the GNA-G DIS GNA-G Data Intensive Sciences Working Group
- 10. 10 | GN5-1 GP4Lab NMaaS perfSONAR in NMaaS SPA/E-Line in NMaaS SPA Inventory2 in NMaaS WiFiMon in NMaaS Increases the visibility of test infrastructures and there developed solutions Promotes test infrastructures whose owners are open for collaboration TechLab is an initiative to facilitate access to information on research network infrastructures and services that can be made available to work on modern and innovative solutions. Brings together specialists and researchers to share knowledge and experience and promote work results Offers shared resources and services for advanced testing, piloting and research. https://wiki.geant.org/display/NETDEV/TechLab
- 11. 11 | GN5-1 11 Production Services ● Network Management as a Service - NMaaS ● Service Provider Architecture Platform - SPA ○ and (SPA) Inventory ● perfSONAR ● Performance Management Platform - PMP ● WiFiMon ● TimeMap ● Argus ● Network eAcademy
- 12. 12 | GN5-1 28 applications available, easy to add new tools Use cases: • Network/Equipment Management for Small/Medium size networks/ institutions • Project-owned equipment • NMaaS Virtual Lab - NEW! How to use NMaaS? • Managed service • Production NMaaS instance: https://nmaas.eu • Sandbox instance: https://nmaas.geant.org • Self-hosted • On your own NMaaS instance: https://docs.nmaas.eu/install-guide • On a local machine: https://docs.nmaas.eu/local-vm NMaaS - Network Management as a Service A portfolio of network management applications run as dedicated, cloud-based per-user instance nmaas.eu nmaas@lists.geant.org
- 13. 13 | GN5-1 Design a LEGO® type of service architecture Support the service lifecycle of all network services Use automation wherever possible Orchestration (workflows) Common information model TMF Frameworx compliant Reusable components spa@lists.geant.org https://wiki.geant.org/display/NETDEV/SPA ● Used for the GÉANT Connection Service (GCS) ● Test service instance available in NMaaS
- 14. 14 | GN5-1 Resource Inventory and Service Inventory implemented as a stand-alone application • Storage for the information about resources and service instances One of the key components of SPA The Source of Truth for automation Inventory version 3 • Use of NoSQL (MongoDB) database • Data model can be easily updated/ extended and validated • In testing in PSNC/PIONIER Inventory
- 15. 15 | GN5-1 Over 2000 registered hosts in more than 1000 organisations around the world perfSONAR 5.0 released April 17th, 2023 • Greater visualization and analysis capabilities • New pScheduler test plugins to support WiFi BSSID, 802.1X authentication, DHCP response time and more perfSONAR https://www.perfsonar.net/ Open-source, modular, flexible architecture for IPv4 and IPv6 active network measurement and monitoring Supported on Ubuntu 20 More OSs to follow in early summer (EL8, EL9, Ubuntu 22, Debian 11)
- 16. 16 | GN5-1 Performance Measurement Platform - PMP Exploring the performance of the GÉANT backbone while experiencing perfSONAR on small nodes ● Low-cost hardware nodes with pre-installed perfSONAR software and deployed in GÉANT collaborating organisations in Europe and Africa. ● Central components including a central Measurement Archive (MA) and a Dashboard. ● Measurement points in the GÉANT backbone network ● PMP data analysis for new service report using AI/ML ● In green: Countries with the PMP service coverage in Europe Dashboard: https://pmp-central.geant.org/maddash-webui/ Contact: perfsonar-smallnodes@lists.geant.org
- 17. 17 | GN5-1 WiFiMon WiFiMon A WiFi network monitoring and performance verification system
- 18. 18 | GN5-1 TimeMap Based on TWAMP (RFC 5357) Easy and quick modular installation Initial AI-based anomaly detection implemented Deployed in the GÉANT backbone network Documentation ● TimeMap ● Code and documentation ● TimeMap page Per-segment latency and jitter monitoring tool
- 19. 19 | GN5-1 19 https://wiki.geant.org/display/netdev/argus ● A single unified dashboard and notification system for aggregated incidents from all monitoring applications ● Based on the CNaaS use case ● In production in Sikt and SUNET ● A production service since Sept 2022 An alarm aggregation and correlation tool
- 20. 20 | GN5-1 Network eAcademy Powered by: Architecture /Mapping CNaaS (use case) Terminology OAV public wiki OAV Training DTN (use case) Maturity Model Quantum Training Network eAcademy
- 21. 21 | GN5-1 https://wiki.geant.org/display/NETDEV/OAV+Training+Portal CC BY-NC-SA license eduGAIN access (or social media)
- 22. 22 | GN5-1 22 NETDEV Incubator
- 23. 23 | GN5-1 NETDEV Incubator 23 A mechanism to include new work during the project Simple proposal procedure following simple rules A proposed project MUST be: • Relevant to the NETDEV project (GN5-1 WP6) • SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Resource- and Time-bound • With evident interest for the results from the community https://wiki.geant.org/display/NETDEV/NETDEV+Incubator
- 24. 24 | GN5-1 Challenges Achievements Conclusions Q&A More Information Future events • 21 June, Quantum Solutions, online Contact details • netdev@lists.geant.org • https://wiki.geant.org/display/NETDEV/ NETDEV Incubator Network eAcademy Argus TimeMap WiFiMon Performance Measurement Platform perfSONAR Service Provider Architecture Inventory RARE GP4L NMaaS TechLab Quantum Technologies Optical Time and Frequency Networks