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Logistics
The date for the next NORDUnet operational meeting will be on Thursday the 10th of November, starting at 12:00 CET and end on Friday the 11th of November at 13:00 CET.
The meeting will take place at the NORDUnet Stockholm office
Participants
Stefan Liström - SL (NORDUnet)
Fresia Pérez - FP (NORDUnet/SUNET)
Jan Ferre - JF (Forskningsnettet) - via VC
Vegard Vesterheim - VV (UNINETT)
Marius Olafsson - MO (RHnet)
Jani Myyry - JM (Funet)
Draft agenda
- Introductions and setting the agenda
- NREN Operational updates
- NREN development update
- Trouble ticket information exchange
- Funet "CPE-router" service (non-virtualized)
- TF-NOC update
- GN3 wavelength and BoD services
- Service forum update
- Operational forum review
- AOB and next meeting
Minutes of meeting
Introductions and setting the agenda
The agenda was accepted
NREN Operational updates
- UNINETT - VV
services
camtasia relayserver for recording presentations
firewall builder - generating access lists (included in the toolbox server for campuses) both ipv4 and ipv6, opensource, cisco & unix (iptables), ssh
NAV reference group founded, it has been suggested to create a NORDUnet forum for NAV, new version in september
IRU with ventelo extended
plans for seacable spitzbergen-newÂlsunds
10G deployment to several customers, MX80s
upgrade in core network, three router core use new isr9010 in core in Oslo
new 10G links along west coast of norway. - Funet - JM
upgraded uplink to ndn to 2times 10G
metro ring network in Helsinki area, soon in production (this month)
two routers (connected to ndn)
6 routers in whole network (2 in helsinki)
new customer portal (software still in evaluation), goal to have production in december
active in ipv6, internal ipv6 taskforce in csc to make sure that services are ipv6 available
ipv6 planning based on surfnet document for internal services ip allocation
ipv6 training for customers
evaluation of dnssec
dynamic services, oscars 0.6, mpls testbed in routers - FSKnet - JF
new staff, (working with the DWDM network)
faster provisioning of services in the network to customers
layer 2 connections to customers, looking into how to monitor these connections
centralizing routers (from universities to copenhagen) routers in lyngby and orestad, harder to make proper redundancy
CWDM - 4 channel to 8+1 channels. Happy with it but harder to monitor
VC conferencing - using the NORDUnet MCU, initially issues between old and new equipment
jm - Funet using UNINETT system (stager) to monitor DWDM circuits
dwdm nms - unix - stager - SUNET
Finalized change of 4350 routers to MX80s (june), 50% less incidents
completely separated red/green network, core split up in two sites
Connection between SUNET and UNINETT done and successful
Adobe connect, more licenes due to the increased nmuber of users (about 500 concurrent users in SUNET)
mailfilter service
Central service in UNINETT (graylisting system, in-house developed) many customers using it, blacklist in Funet, customers run their own in RHnet. option to use centralized in FSKnet but not used much - NORDUnet
Adobe connect for UNINETT and maybe Funet
11 october, power outage. 36 seconds UPS and generator did not have time to start up.
network worked as expected (problem with single homed customers)
services (adobe connect)
a few changes in staff
training on customer service
goals for NORDUnet NOC, customer survey sent out to NRENs
Marius - problem with US circuits. Hard to get respons from the providers, we are getting replies but hopefully useful information soon. Any penalty for the greenconnect circuit?
FP - check if we are paying for it
JM - peering precense in US?
JM - 100G test?
new network tender for NORDUnet
SL - Peering, why are we not peering in Finland - RHnet
not much has happened with RHnet
secondary schools adult education centers funded by ministary of education (26000 students, 60 institutes) applied to use RHnet network
10G buildout done in raykavik, fibers 10 years old, auality can not always carry 10G
new NORDIC HPC facility,
preparing for the terena conference
Decided to use NAV, waiting for hardware to be able to install it.
NREN development update
- Networking inventory
AP SL - arrange a demo - Trouble ticket information exchange
VV - create ticket in hobbit, work on it in RT and see it in the inventory system
JF - OTRS as ticket system, looking into how to send information to the affected customers
Funet "CPE-router" service (non-virtualized)
VV - Monitoring - snmp
out of band access using mobile networks
Inter-NREN update
FSKnet using MCU
Funet is testing MCU
Adobe video service
SUNET 900 licence 600 users
UNINETT
FUNET is going to test the service
UNINETT developed filesender
interest among all NRENs, discussions how it could be integrated into Kalmar and hosted for the NRENs
Mailfilter/spamfilter (Canit domain pro) -used by sunet, investigated if other NRENs are interested to use it
"Gateway serices"
maybe connecting with Akamain in NORDUnet
ToR
How will we develop new services? how can we develop them together and tendering together
Support issues for services?
peering?
TF-NOC update
- Nagios/monitoring
- Ticket system integration
- Script library
- Survey
GN3 wavelength and BoD services
- Wavelength
- I-share
- BoD
tail-f- Presentation
Operational forum review
what is good, what is not so good
what do we want more of, what do we want less of
VV - agree on some actual work being done (common interests)
important and useful to exchange experiences
unnessecary to reinvent wheels all the time
Marius - What is happening in GEANT and Europe
what are the plans for network buildout in NORDUnet
one year might be to seldom
AP - Fresia to check code for RT ticket integration
AP - all think about Unsolved problems, brainstorming for common areas of interest
AP - Jani check peering in Finland
Knowledge base, hard to get dissemination back to the NOC
AOB and next meeting
Next meeting RHnet on iceland