CTO Forum Face-2-Face meeting

Logistics

• • date: 26.05.2016
  • time: 10:00 - 15:00 CEST
  • venue: NORDUnet office Kastrup
  • VC" room for remote participation: 632462520 

Agenda

1. Updates (45 mins)
   
   1. GÉANT (VN)
   2. GN4 Update
   3. EOSC & ECI - short term & long term initiatives
2. Nordic Media Group (11:00-12:00).  
   
   1. Status and Current work (Thorkild Jensen) 
   2. Discussion
3. Low-delay video / Nettmusik (OK)
4. Lunch (45 minutes)
5. Country / NORDUnet updates (max. 20 minutes per NREN)
   
   • FUNET slides
   • SUNET slides
   • UNINETT slides
   • DeIC slides
   • RHnet slides
   • NORDUnet slides
6. AOB

Participants

• Leif, Per, Valter (SUNET)
• Olav, Vindar, Anders (UNNETT)
• Martin, Tangui, Ole, Thorkild (DeIC)
• Jon-Ingi (RHnet)
• none from FUNET
• Lars, Jørgen, Josva (NORDUnet)

Notes

• We discussed network and innovation strategy.  We need a larger community discussion. First step would be a strategy brainstorming workshop, to synthesize views and issue, possible as a two-day event back-to-back with a CTO F2F in the fall, possibly facilitated.
• EOSC: we like the basic idea of data analytics, but worry it is lost in politics.  The larger ECI/EOSC proposal appear to have move far from the NREN field. 
• We believe that data analytics is going to be important and would like to create initiatives, Nordic or European. We may inject something in WP18-20. Possibly a GÉANT TF or workshop on data analytics. 
• Thorkild presented the NMG and the overview of media systems they have produced; the overview gives a nice summary and useful input for vendor discussions and tender processes.  
  • The process was open, but we're only at first step of getting consensus. More work is needed. 
  • Next step is technical requirements for a procurement process, to be done in European procurement process. 
  • Next step for media group is to assist evaluation in the European procurement.
  • Upcoming tender does not mean that AdobeConnect go away; there's not direct connection between the two
• Otto Winther presenting Musikknett - low latency video (conferencing) for music education.
  • UNINETT has built a lab and is testing methods to get rid of delay.  Often delay comes not from the network
  • Over the summer, at student will test how low you can go with WebRTC.
• Updates
  • NORDUnet: 
    • Tundra project going ahead.  Press release now-ish. 
    • LMS tender going ahead.  Tender should be out before summer holidays. Unclear if DANTE procurement team will run it; otherwise, NORDUnet will
  • SUNET:
    • Preparing to trial (connectivity to) MS Express Route; A few universities want it. DeIC is recommending universitites to await the results of the GÉANT IaaS tender. That will happen October. 
    • Anders Nilsson will put a team together to on eduroam probes. SUNET and UNINETT working together on further developing and testing eduroam probes. Other Nordic NRENs are welcome to join.  A Nordic WiFi Group is an option.    
    • New network progressing. 8 links up.  Fibre challenges encountered. 
    • Interest in eduID statistics and status.  LJ will find references and send to list.
    • ESS: SUNET is talking to local ESS IT in Lund about connectivity; SWAMID it talking to them about membership. SUNET is considering fibre access to the instrument sites. 
  • UNINETT
    • Router procurement concluded.  Juniper selected.  UNINETT is testing Ansible for automation and orchesration. 
    • Norwegian cable project Virginia - Blåbjerg, for 2019. Kurosh can make introductions.
    • Aquacom project to build cable Ireland - Trondheim. Possible element if future NDN footprint.
    • FEIDE has implemented two-factor authentication.  
    • UNINETT has built a prototype data analytics, as a container based service  UNINETT is piloting with researchers, and now demonstrating a web-based frontend.   UNINETT Sigma is considering a larger-scale pilot.
  • DeIC: 
    • data.deic.dk moving from pilot to production. 
    • Optical network procurement:  Pre-qualitification completed: Ciena, Cisco, ECI, ADVA, Nokia.  Offers due 6 June.  Contract August, deployment 2h 2016.
  • RHnet:
    • 10G upgrades to non-Reykjavik campuses coming this summer. 
    • Danish met office HPC facility has gone live, connected to RHnet.  Production run so far with about 1 Gbps. 
• AOB
  • NTW2017 dates set:  Sep. 12-14, Radisson park inn, Copenhagen.
  • NDN2016 registration is open.
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Actions

• JK / LF to make proposal for strategt brainstorm workshop, for NDN board.
• LF to put Data Analytics on a future CTO F2F
• LF/VF to talk to Anders and Tom about creating Nordic Wifi Group.
• LF to consider "Nordic WG framework", at first for Nordic Wifi Group.