Inter-NREN meeting in Espoo 23rd January 2013
Minutes
1. Welcome
Participants:
Martin Bech (MB), DeiC
Jorgen Qvist (JQ), NORDUnet (VC) (left 14:40, item 6.5)
Harri Kuusisto (HK), CSC/Funet
Jari Miettinen (JM), CSC/Funet (chair/sc)
Marius Olafsson (MO), RHNet (excused)
Magnus Strømdal (MS), UNINETT (VC)
Marita Pajulahti (MP), CSC (left 12:58, lunch break)
Pekka Lehtovuori (PL), CSC (joined 11:16 item 3.2, left 11:40 item 6.6)
Juha Oinonen (JO), CSC (left 14:50 item 6.5)
Site: CSC Office 1st floor, Multi-Purpose Room, Keilaranta 14, Espoo
The meeting started at 10:03 EET
1.1 Agenda bashing
- round of introductions
- agenda review
- agenda was followed until item 3.2 was finished. After that the item number 6.6 was discussed. Then the meeting continued from the item 3.3 onwards.
2. Last meeting
2.1 Minutes from last meeting
- the minutes were accepted
2.2 TODO-list
- the TODO list was revised and the status of the work items was updated
- pending
- Nordic procurements/Qvist. the work is in progress
- Nordic caching and gateway services/Qvist. The action item was receduled March 2013.
- service matrix updates (multiple responsibilities)
- SUNET/Qvist. The new due date is March 2013.
- (Forskningsnett) DeiC/Bech. The new due date Feb 2013.
- new action point: JM to replace FSKNet with DeiC in appropriate places in the group workspace
- UNINETT HA material/Stromdahl. The new due date Feb 2013
- Description of the shared service development fund/Qvist. The new due date March 2013
- DONE
- CSC Kajaani plans/Kuusisto. MP gave a presentation on the topic. Possible use cases were discussed. DONE
3. Short update for the last 3 months (approximately 3 main issues)
3.1 Funet
- HK gave a presentation with a lot of statistics
- the number of lightpaths in Funet backbone keeps growing
- Funet access router service is growing steadily
- fresh statistics of the Filesender and Certificate service were introduced. The number of organisations using Filesender has reached a plateau. Nearly 1000 certificates have been allocated so far.
- the amount of eduroam logins has reached 250k monthly level and raising
- Funet CERT and NOC ticket levels are steady, around 300 and 100 monthly respectively
- general service availability levels have been very good all year
- Funet traffic level towards NORDUnet is growing. The reasons behind the trend were discussed.
3.2 Sunet
- SUNET has got a new CEO, Marie Häll
- the survey tool has been put into production with three universities has initial customers. The service is using SWAMI.
- media distribution service: the existing service has been withdrawn. New service is being planned based on UNINETT Mediasites service. Later Camtasia and Matterhorn support may be added.
- eduroam deployment with the Cloud is 80% completed. The eduroam usage has grown steadily. Apple/Mac devices are dominating the usage.
- The Box service has now 19 universities as customers
3.3 DeiC
- item number 6.6 was before the DeiC presentation
- MB gave an overview using the following presentation:
- there's a clear traffic growth pattern towards NORDUnet as well
- the CWDM/DWDM network is in a growth phase and heavily used. New connections are being deployed more rapidly than ever seen. There's a long queue of customers waiting for new connections
- the use of eduroam is soaring and iPass is growing as well
- a novel ServiceInfo service has been launched. The service gives end users a possiblitity to order notices about the future service breaks or distruptions. Users can log in and ask messages via SMS and e-mail. Next version will be open to any service provider in the network. The service raised several questions and interest.
- new action point: MB to send further information about the ServiceInfo service to the list.
- DeiC is a partner in the joint Nordic HPC centre 'Thor', Iceland. The centre uses 100% renewable energy. The centre is hosting the Gardar computer.
- national strategy is needed first for developing network storage and cloud services
Lunch break 12:05. The meeting continued 13:00. MP left the meeting.
3.4 RHNET
- nobody present
3.5 UNINETT
- UNINETT has started the tender for new AV equipment. The intention is to be able outsource the maintenance and repairs as well. It seems other Nordic instutions can attend the tender.
- Adobe Connect has been upgraded during the Christmas. No major problems have been encountered.
- The SIP infrastructure project has converted some 50% of the users to new service. A new pilot has been started in Finnmark for integrating Cisco Jabber infrastructure to the existing UNINETT SIP infrastructure.
- UNINETT is interested to start to use the new NORDUnet Network Inventory software. The initiative has been started in the NORDUnet NOC co-operation group. The code is open sourced.
3.6 NORDUnet
- Adobe Connect VoiP connection is being developed and it is in testing phase. The pilot service is in dial-in mode only at the moment. Technically dial-out mode is also possible.
- Dial-in from h.323 systems to Adobe Connect is available. The implementation is rather limited (one-way video). The further deployment depends on the NREN interest.
- Voice entrace to the videoconferencing MCU service has been developed. Microsoft Lync clients can now connect to the MCU. The service is available now.
- A tool for datamining syslog (SPLUNK) as been made after the getting feedback from the SUNET Treffpunkt meetings. The licencing model is based on the volume of data, which is analyzed in the system.
- A lot of work is done on preparing procurements. Desktop and mobile device syncronization and collaboration tool procurement is in late preparation phase. Procurement for new transmission equipment is going on and progressing well.
4. Service Matrix
4.1 Status for the Service Matrix
- CSC has withdrawn the "EVO reflection instance" and "Virtual Office" services from the matrix (Network communication tools & conferencing)
- DeiC has withdrawn new e-learning and teleteaching services. Supercomputing and cloud services will be added, among others. The Danish identity federation services are also part of DeiC now.
4.2. Update of the shared services
- item was tabled until next meeting
5. Next meeting
- NORDUnet office, Copenhagen on April 17th, 2013
6. AOB
6.1. Co-operation and outreach
- the service categorization will be raised to the next tf-msp meeting
6.2 Joint HA service development
- UNINETT is planning a new platform of service delivery. The HA work is included in the planning process.
- new action point: MS to deliver a presentation about the UNINETT HA services in the next inter-NREN meeting
- the discussion will continue in the next meeting
6.3 Shared services development fund
- the discussion in the Stockholm meeting was revised
- JQ has discussed with various parties about the relevance of the suggested model.
- JQ will continue the work on developing the model. The next update will be in April
6.4 User cases and testimonials
- the need for user cases and testimonials was discussed
- decision: the task will be removed from the charter
6.5 Shared procurements
- productization aspects and agreement needs were discussed
- there's several different languages in the Nordic countries
- new action point: MS to send a suggestion of an data agreement model to the list
- framework agreement model was seen the best agreement type
- new action point: MB initiate a joint meeting with Nordic CERT forum, where a list of technical services is produced.
- the group will have an update of the ongoing joint procurements in the next meeting
6.6 CSC Datacentre discussion
- PL gave a technical introduction on the planned services in the new datacentre
- CSC is taking part to TIVIT FORGE lab project (http://www.tivit.fi/Services/forgeservicelab), which is a national cloud initiative
- OpenStack has been chosen for building the cloud platform. The previously used OpenNebula is still available but depreciated
- Finland is in a process of renewing the national infrastructure roadmap
- the need for backup and archiving services were discussed
7. Closing
- Meeting ended at 15:10 EET.