Greek Research

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Greek Research Technology NetworkProfile,
Role, Involvement
Tryfon Chiotis GRNET Technical Director Greek
Research Technology Network tchiotis at
grnet.gr www.grnet.gr
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About GRNET Project Coordinator

• GRNET is a state-owned corporation, under the
  auspices of the Greek Ministry of Development
  General Secretariat for Research and Technology.
• Mission Statement
• Provide high-quality international and national
  networking services to the Greek academic,
  research educational community and to the
  public and private sector to support their
  research and educational activities.
• Promote and disseminate the use of ICT in the
  public and private sector towards an eGovernment,
  eLearning and eBusiness environment.
• Role
• Operation (VNOC) and upgrade (towards DF/10Gbps)
  of the National RE Backbone Electronic Network
  (connecting more than 80 institutions).
• Coordinates the development of the National Grid
  Infrastructure (storage computing nodes).
• Provision of backbone networking services to the
  Greek School Network (more than 12.000 schools).
• Operation of the Athens Internet Exchange (AIX),
  peering of Greek commercial ISPs.
• Development with Greek and international RE
  institutions of Pan-European and Regional
  electronic infrastructures (Pan-European and
  Balkan RE Internet Backbone, Pan-European and
  Balkan Grid infrastructure).
• Introduce small-sized companies into the Internet
  economy, focusing on e-business and e-government
  applications.
• Contributes to the National State policy-making
  process by planning and funding a series of
  activities for the introduction of
  Telecommunications and Information Technologies.

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GRNET Network infrastructure

• 12-PoP high speed backbone network based on
  2.5Gbps leased lambdas and Gigabit routers.
• Interconnects academic and research institutions
  (more than 80 today) at up to 1Gbps and primary
  and secondary schools (more than 10.000) at Mbps.
• A total of up to 1.500.000 potential end-users.
• International 2x2.5Gbps (to be upgraded to
  2x10Gbps 4Q05)

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GRNET Grid infrastructure

• 6 clusters/sites in deployment (770 CPUs, 34 TBs
  storage).
• Involves all major research and academic
  institutes working on Grids-eScience all over
  Greece.
• High Energy Physics, Bio-informatics,
  Meteorology, Astronomy, Computer
  scientists-Virtual Collaboration Environments
• Providing services to the Pan-European GRID
  community through the EGEE Project and the SEE
  community through the SEE-GRID Project.

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Dark fibre plans (2005)

• Initiated the process of acquiring dark fibre
  spans in 4Q2004.
• Tenders for DF issued in 1Q2005 (first public
  ones released in Greece) aiming at three fibre
  lines
• One terrestrial in northern Greece
  (Thessaloniki-Xanthi)
• Two submarine lines in the Aegean Sea
  (Syros-Samos islands and Athens-Crete)
• DF Tenders requirements
• 15-year IRUs.
• Maintenance support at layer-1 (against fibre
  cuts and fibre performance degradation).
• Fibre pairs supporting 10Gbps transmission.
• Option of installing GRNET optical equipment
  (passive or active) in intermediate locations of
  the end-to-end fibre spans.
• Monitoring system for automatic detection of
  fibre cuts or performance degradation with
  indication of each Failure Report Time
• Availability of at least 99
• Optional protection of fibre spans.
• Currently (October 2005) in delivery phase.
• Tender for transmission equipment has been issued.

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Dark fibre plans (2006)

• The whole of the GRNET backbone is planned to be
  implemented using dark fibre pairs obtained via
  long-term IRUs.
• Within 2005, tenders will be released requesting
  for dark fibre between all of the existing GRNET
  PoPs currently operating with leased lambdas.
• Actions for obtaining dark fibre towards the
  northern part of Greece, in an attempt to
  establish cross border fibre links with
  neighbouring countries, are also planned.
• Tender for long haul, multiple wavelengths
  optical transmission switching equipment also
  planned

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Broadband Access (DF local loops)

• Objectives
• Broadband Access services to the GRNET research
  network for academic and research institutions.
• 39 academic institutions
• 14 research institutions
• Provision of 1 Gigabit speed access to the
  nearest node of GRNET-2 network to all the
  institutions
• Obtain dark fibre IRU contract for Gigabit access
  to current nodes of GRNET-2 network, using
  optical technologies
• For academic and research institutions in Athens
  and Thessalonica.
• Obtain equipment for access to the current
  GRNET-2 research network.
• Total Budget 9.982.315
• Activities undertaken from GRNET in order to
  ensure the interoperability with the current
  backbone network, the quality and the optimal
  utilization of the provided access services of
  GRNET.

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Greek School Network

• The Greek School Network uses GRNET as backbone
  with 7 entry points.
• The Distribution network consists of 51 nodes
  (one in each prefecture)
• 9 main nodes,
• 42 secondary nodes
• and are equipped with 60 routers, 41 servers, a
  large number of telecommunication circuits and
  the appropriate software

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International Activities

• SEEREN http//www.seeren.org
• SEE-GRID
  http//www.see-grid.org
• NATO Science Programme http//www.nato.int
• TERENA http//www.terena.nl
• CEENet http//www.ceenet.org
• GRIDCC http//www.gridcc.org
• INSME http//www.insme.gr
• SEEFIRE http//www.seefire.org
• SEELight
• 6DISS http//www.6diss.org
• INSME http//www.insme.gr
• ACTION http//www.action-leonardo.org
• ELISA
• Networking, Grid, eLearning, SMEs

• Pan-European Backbone Infrastructure GEANT2
  http//www.geant2.net
• Mediterranean Network Infrastructure EUMEDCONNECT
  http//www.dante.net/eumedconnect
• Pan-European Network IPv6 6NET
  http//www.6net.org
• Pan European Grid Infrastructure EGEE
  http//www.cern.ch/egee
• elearning Platform Time2Learn
  http//www.time2learn.org
• Internet2
• http//www.internet2.org
• Pan European Network of Ebusiness Forum
• http//www.e-bsn.org
• ForSociety
• http//www.eranet-forsociety.net

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Role - GRNET

• GRNETs role is evidently wishing to promote
  awareness in the region, ease the digital divide
  and reduce the so-called brain drain and
  justifies the coordination initiative of the
  project.
• GRNET will be leading WP1, WP2 WP3. In WP4, WP5
  and WP6 GRNET will contribute to all the
  activities not with a leading role.
• GRNET will be responsible for the management of
  the project, assessing the project progress,
  coordinating the overall work and informing the
  project sponsors (EC and National Governments)
  according to the standard procedures.
• GRNET will establish and maintain the project
  management information system, will maintain the
  contractual relationships, will be the main
  responsible for the preparation of cost
  statements and financial transactions.
• GRNET will also provide directions, feedback and
  guidance in all WPs based on the experience
  gained by the participation in national and
  international projects. In this way GRNET will
  play the role of linchpin liaising these projects
  together.
• GRNET will assess the user community needs and
  will compile the regional networking
  requirements. In addition, GRNET will be
  responsible for following the execution of the
  sustainability plan and for seeking additional
  sources of funding. GRNET will also lead the
  documentation of the integrated conclusions from
  the requirements studies and analysis.
• GRNET will sign subcontracts (one or more) to
  cover the networking fees necessary for the
  network deployment and operation as well as for
  equipment upgrades. These subcontracts will
  result from public tendering procedures.
• GRNET will contribute in the acceptance tests, in
  the configuration of the network and the network
  operations/management.
• GRNET will be also the main responsible for the
  deployment of various core services on the
  infrastructure (Routing and Switching services,
  Domain Name System, NTP service, Web and FTP
  service, Mail relay/Mailing lists, SLA
  management, DDoS attack prevention and detection)
  and will cooperate with other partners in the
  deployment of other services
• In WP6, GRNET will provide the project portal and
  the communication tools, will contribute to the
  promotional package and to the liaison
  activities..

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Involvement - GRNET

• Project Coordination Jorge-A. Sanchez-P.
  Yannis Mitsos
• Technical Coordination Kostas Kotsokalis
  Yannis Mitsos
• Dissemination Coordination Dimitra Kotsokali
• Financial Coordination Anna Loukakou
• Legal Advice Zoi Panagiotara
• Administrative Support Athina Sakka
• PSC member Jorge-A. Sanchez-P. Nikos
  Vogiatzis
• WP1 Leader Jorge-A. Sanchez-P.
• WP2 Leader Yannis Mitsos
• WP3 Leader Jorge-A. Sanchez-P.
• Access Port Managers Yannis Mitsos Kostas
  Kotsokalis
• Liaison to GEANT2 Tryfon Chiotis
• Liaison to SEEFIRE Jorge-A. Sanchez-P.
• Liaison to 6DISS Thanassis Liakopoulos
• Liaison to SEE-GRID Nikos Vogiatzis
• Liaison to TERENA Jorge-A. Sanchez-P.
• Liaison to CEENet Jorge-A. Sanchez-P.
• Liaison to EU-GridPMA Nikos Vogiatzis

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Involvement - GRNET

• D01a SEEREN2 project handbook Mitsos Y.
• D04 Market analysis and requirements for
  SEEREN2 Mitsos Y.
• D05 Networking topology options and
  implementation approaches Mitsos Y.
• D06a Tender evaluation results (connectivity and
  equipment tender) Mitsos Y.
• D06b Tender evaluation results (connectivity and
  equipment tender responses) Mitsos Y.
• D07 SEEREN2 topology Mitsos Y.
• D11a Periodic reports (1st period progress
  report) Mitsos Y.
• D01b SEEREN2 project handbook Mitsos Y.
• D11b Periodic reports (2st period progress
  report) Mitsos Y.
• D18 Final report Sanchez J.
• Interim activity reports Mitsos Y.
• Advance payments and cost statements
  Loukakou A.