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• • 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. 

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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. 
• RHnet: 

Notes

• • • 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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