Logistics

    • date: 03.05.2019
    • time: 9:00 - 15:00 CEST
    • venue: NORDUnet office Kastrup (tentative)
    • VC room for remote participation: 
      https://nordunet.zoom.us/j/8804330816 or see below agenda for other options
    • Dinner on 02 Maj, 19:30: restaurant TBD.

Registration

Please register for the meeting in order that dinner, lunch, etc can be provided. 

Agenda (tentative)

  1. Review, presentation of technical strategies for each NREN
  2. TNC19 update - presentation at Nordic booth
  3. NTW19 update
  4. AoB

Presentations:

Presentations can be found in the CTO Forum folder on Box. If you do not have access and believe you should have, contact Lars Fischer or Jørgen Qvist.

Participants

  • CSC / FUNET: Matti, Harri
  • UNINETT: Vidar, Olaf
  • UNIT: none
  • DeIC: Martin
  • SUNET: Pelle, Leif
  • RHnet: none

Notes

SUNET presentation

  • High-level strategy mostly formed 8 years ago. Is reviewed regularly, but has remained mostly stable since
    • guidelines
      • Collaboration
      • economy of scale + cost effective
      • "solutions based on standards or de-facto standards 
      • build on existing infrastructure and service; 
    • There are considered when thinking about new initiative 
    • SUNET believe that strategy is a day-to-day tool
    • Interpretation
      • Swedish research is #1 customer
      • don't do anything unless there's an identified gain
      • listen to customer, but stay a step ahead
      • be at the forefront of technology
      • Network and Identity are our core enabling skills and infrastructure
      • Always be ready to re-evaluate what you do
      • Don't be religious
    • (Vidar: this could be a UNINETT slide; Harri: ditto)
    • (Harri - doing a list like this on "what strategy means for us" would be a good idea for FUNET as well)
    • Overall service view 
      • adding a few extra service areas along with network and identity: CnAAS, SOC, Security, Storage & Cloud
      • Research and Collaboration is becoming a important area - new services being built
      • National Robustness (discussion - now much of this before it becomes a distraction)
      • Education services (i.e., LMS - most campuses use the SUNET offering)
      • Media?
    • Challenges
      • Staying agile
      • Keeping focus, avoid growing too much
      • breaking business models of commercial players
      • Remain relevant to research

UNINETT presentation

  • New organisation
  • Vision: enable world leading research in Norway (used to be "provide world leading netwowrk infrastructure")
  • Four pillars
    • Foundation: trusted advisor on Infrastructure, middleware for the sector
    • networks access
    • Service Platform
    • Security Platform
  • Security has become much more important in recent years, and much more concrete - actual services being done
    • Same for SUNET. Just received a 3 M€ grant for developing sw for security services
  • Teknology strategy
    • 4 innovation areas: mobility, data sharing, network quality, network architecture
    • in addition: idea lab: storage, client ops, cloudification, ....
  • Milestones for the next 6 months
    • offer eduroam to highschools
    • establish CNaaS architecture agency for physical construction (who build campuses etc). Forming such a partnership at strategic level is very interesting. Should be possible in other countries. 
    • Collaborate with national 
    • lauch zoom as a service
    • Port phone # from Telenor to Telia
    • UNINETT believes there's a fundamental change for universities happening; The relation of education to time and location with dramatically change.  Everything has to adapt to that, starting with buildings, 
  • Milestones for Security
    • New "DNS Firewall" service
    • Governance structure for security programme
    • Foundations for a operative security analusis programme
    • Investigate new log analysis service (possibly based on HUMIO)
  • Milestones for Service Platform
    • Procurement for common IAM platform
    • New FEIDE login GUI
    • Targets for new FEIDE infrastructure
    • Establish cloudificaiton team
    • HW platform for  Mediasite service
  • Discussion of strategic implications
    • Key drivers: cost pressure, gaining more customers
    • challenges:
      •  5G + mobility.  Our mobile track record is not good, but data-only MVNO, e-SIMS, etc maybe change things
      • More focus on latency & performance
      • High availability networks
      • Network Quality for future immersive solutions
  • SHort-term activities
    • survey needs in sector
    • cooperation with other public fibre owners
    • utilise nordic synergies
    • Connect data centres
    • explore and develop cross border and cross-ocean cable opportunities
    • support government sectors with network know-how - infrastructure, measurement, consulting
    • Improve legacy tools

DeiC

  • New board, all C-level university people
  • Major process of reorganisation and evaluation of future direction
  • Major evaluation of current and future services
  • Push to do a lot of things locally at campuses 
  • Strategic direction for DeiC currently in limbo
  • Comparison to situation in Norway a year or two ago, suggestion of sharing experience. 

FUNET

  • Quick review of CSC strategy
  • FUNET as an element of CSC strategy, essential to reaching CSC goals
  • Close corporation with customers / users, ensure that users have the means to be excel 
  • FUNET technical strategy prepared for the build of the FUNET 2020 network
  • Disaggregation at optical layer 
  • Procurement of cross-border links on-going
    • Turku - Stockholm
    • Vasaa - Umeå
    • Klipsijærvi - Skibotn
    • Helsinki - Tallinn (in place)
    • Kemi - Kalix (in place)
    • Discussion of AUP; NDN is by BoD policy AUP-free, and so links meant for sharing should be as well
  • Automation w Ansbile
    • Juniper router core for FUNET2020 in production with Ansible, no  CLI
    • Net data centre networks in development, Juniper routers and Huawei switches no Ansible
    • CNaaS - service development in progress, Ansible automation of campus router / swtches in progress, collaboration with one university for development. Target: no CLI from the campus side.
  • Interest in sharing Ansible playbooks. 
    • Session at NTW19 is a good idea.  Also, future workshops
    • Pelle: the tools being developed for CNaaS will in the future also be the tools used to run SUNET in the future


  • TNC slides
    • CNaaS (per / vidar)
    • Ansible / automation (Matti)
    • Faroese islands (Martin)
    • SAT-kom / leosat (martin, Jørgen)
    • EuroHPC (Lars, Harri)
    • EOSC-Nordic (Lars, NeIC)
    • NDN NGN (Qvist)
    • FUNET 2020?
    • EISCAT?
    • ESS?
    • CAE-1


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