On-line%20collaboration%20with%20SURFnet

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On-line collaboration with SURFnet
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Outline

• SURFnet organisation
• Lightpaths for science
• Goup Communication
• SURFgroepen
• Videoconferencing and webconferencing

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Introducing SURFnet

• Dutch National Research Education Network
  (NREN)
• Not for profit organization, 60 employees
• 100 ownership SURF Foundation
• 180 connected institutions, 750.000 end-users
• Business-model
• Innovation by project subsidies (14 Meuro/year)
• Operations by tariffs from connected institutions
  (18 Meuro/year)

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Ambitions

• Connecting Dutch researchers to a world-class
  network-infrastructure
• Delivering innovative high-end internet-based
  services to higher-education and research in NL
• Intensive use of services by a broad range of
  functional users (security officers, researchers,
  teaching staff etc.)
• Operational excellence in service-provisioning

Stimulate use of services
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SURFnet6 overview

• The first nation-wide hybrid optical and packet
  switching infrastructure
• Based on 6000 km of SURFnet-owned managed dark
  fiber, all the way to the customers premises
• SURFnet6 delivers 1/10 Gbit/s IP services (native
  IPv4 and IPv6) plus lightpath provisioning
• Over a single transmission infrastructure
• Managed via a single control plane
• Hence, in an economically sound way

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SURFnet6 DWDM on dark fiber
Hamburg
Muenster
Aachen
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Advantages from a user perspective

• Advantages for institutions
• Lightpaths provide safe high-speed connections
  (1G, 10G) with an excellent quality (low and
  predictable latency, no jitter)
• Lightpaths facilitate applications that dont
  function optimal using the regular internet
• Advantages for researchers
• Lightpaths provide applications with dedicated
  bandwidth at relatively low costs

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Lightpath speeds

• 150 Mbit/s
• 600 Mbit/s
• 1 Gbit/s
• 10 Gbit/s

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Private networks for special user groups
Faculteit
High Energy Physics Network
CERN
Healthcare OPN
Universiteit
Research Network
Universiteit
Bio-informatics Network
eVLBI Network
Telescoop site
This slide based on original slide from Bill St.
Arnaud (CANARIE)
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Radio astronomy
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Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

• Two Global Crossing wavelengths on the
  NetherLight-CERN route were replaced by three
  wavelengths on the GÉANT2 network in 2006.
• In 2007 a fourth wavelength was added for
  USLHCNet.
• A number of other LHC project partners created
  direct lightpaths to CERN via NetherLight.
• The Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC)
  of Taiwan intends to set up a 10 Gbit/s circuit
  to Amsterdam and has applied for 10 Gbit/s
  connectivity between there and CERN.

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Enlighten Your Research Winners

• The 5 winners are
• Distribution of radiology images in the NELSON
  lung cancer screening study UMCG UMCU
• High-throughput genome-wide analyses in
  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) UMCU UCLA
• Intelligent CCTV monitoring at Arke Stadium TI
  e.a.
• Electron microscopy using lightpaths LUMC, TUE
  SARA
• Remote High-Resolution Visualisation of Climate
  Data using Pixel Streaming UU SARA

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Lightpath switching
But why not automatically?
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Lightpaths will becomeuser controlled
public
DRAC
internal
User
Admin
CPE
Customer equipment
CPE
Customer equipment
Resource
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• Online collaboration in high demand
• There must be more than browsing a websiteand
  sending e-mail

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Optimal online collaboration SURFgroepen enables
easy and efficient online collaboration! Save
documents online and keep in contact with team
members via chat en videoconferencing.
Employees and students of organizations
connected to SURFnet can work with SURFgroepen
without costs. They can even invite
co-workers/friends from all over the world to
join there teamsite.
Document Sharing
VideoconferencingWebconferencing
Instant Messaging
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Group environment Can be requested by student or
employee guest access for others possible
Webconferencing
Personal environment Students and employees
Instant Messaging
Document Sharing
Document Sharing
Teamsite
MySite
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What is SURFgroepen not? SURFgroepen is a
collaboration environment no alternative or
replacement for instute storage or archive.
Although SURFnet takes care of calamity-backup
of all data, SURFgroepen is not an online backup
service. Take care of your own safety copy of
your files.
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Document Sharing Online document storage and
information management. Calendar, forum and
web-poll posibbilities. Sharing images,
documenten tas lists.
Videoconferencing
Instant Messaging
Document Sharing
Online collaboration
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Data encryption during transport (https)
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Instant Messaging Zie welke teamleden online
zijn (presence) en overleg met behulp van chat
voorzieningen.
Videoconferencing
Instant Messaging
Document Sharing
Online samenwerken
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Presence
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Session Initiation Protocol

• The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an
  Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard
  protocol for initiating an interactive user
  session that involves multimedia elements such as
  video, voice, chat, gaming, and virtual reality.

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Videoconferencing en webconferencing Eenvoudig
online videovergaderen.
Videoconferencing
Instant Messaging
Document Sharing
Online samenwerken
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Two ways of videoconferencing
Webconferencing
Hardware videoconferencing
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Hardware videoconferencing

• Advantages
• High quality
• Suitable for large rooms with more people
• No headsite necessary
• Switch-on and dial
• Disadvantages
• More expensive than webconferencing
• Network demands (NAT en firewalls)
• Application sharing more difficult

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Hardware videoconferencing
Universiteit Wageningen
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http//www.surfnetkennisnetproject.nl/voorbeeldsch
olen
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Expert op afstand
http//www.expertopafstand.nl
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Maarten van Rossem Migratie
Leerlingen 6VWO 2College - Tilburg
Leerlingen 6VWO KSE Etten-Leur
Maarten van Rossem SURFnet- Utrecht
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Sharing stories with palestina
Leerlingen Scholen Palestina
Leerlingen Mill-Hill Goirle
Leerlingen KSE Etten-Leur
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Govert Schilling Is there extraterrestrial
live?
Leerlingen 6VWO KSE Etten-Leur
Leerlingen 6VWO 2College - Tilburg
Govert Schilling SURFnet- Utrecht
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HD videoconferencing
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Webconferencing
A virtual meeting room where team members can
conference via a webcam and a headset, and where
they van collaborate in realtime.
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Future plans
Met SURFgroepen maken we samenwerken makkelijk.
SURFnet is constant bezig SURFgroepen te
innoveren. Op SURFgroepen Labs lees je over die
ontwikkelingen.

• Integration with other services like
• SURFnet federated authentication infrastructure
  (A-select)
• Videostreaming
• Videoconferencing (scheduling of resources)