1. Slide 1 John Dyer TERENA ASPIRE Project Manager dyer@terena.org TF-MSP 28 September 2012 ASPIRE Foresight Study www.terena.org/aspire

2. Slide 2 Ten Years of Foresight ›Foresight update ›2012-(2014/15)-2020 ›Research and Education Networking ›Community Perspective ›Included users ›Funded by GN3 Project as part of NA3 2002-2003 2006-2008 2011-2012

3. Slide 3 ASPIRE Timeline Slide 3 Project Team TERENA Workshop consultation Expert Panels Topic Reports Stakeholder Workshop Final Report April 2011 May 2011 Berlin Autumn 2011September12 13 Sept 12 Brussels Due End Nov 2012

4. Slide 4 Candidate Topics ›Security / Privacy / Trust / Legal Issues ›Cloud Services ›Social Media adoption and use in the R&E Community ›Non-commodity IP services as a substrate for science ›Architectures; Technologies and Organizational approaches for Future R&E networking ›Content and Access ›Mobility ›The Digital Divide Slide 4

5. Slide 5 Study Topics selected ASPIRE workshop May 2011 ›The Adoption of Cloud Services ›The Adoption of Mobile Services ›Middleware and Managing Data and Knowledge in a Data Rich World ›The Future Roles of NRENs Slide 5

6. Slide 6 The last 12 months Slide 6 Project Team TERENA Workshop consultation Expert Panels Topic Reports Stakeholder Workshop Final Report April 2011 May 2011 Berlin Autumn 2011September12 13 Sept 12 Brussels Due End Nov 2012

7. Slide 7 Contributors Slide 7 cloudsmobilitydatanrens

8. Slide 8 Working Methods ›Panel Meetings – Virtual and Physical ›On-line Surveys ›Interviews with Community Visionaries ›Visits to commercial partners ›2 ASPIRE Workshops ›Presentations at Conferences and Workshops ›Electronic Publication of 4 Topic Reports ›Soliciting input & feedback from stakeholders ›FINAL ASPIRE REPORT – due end November 2012 Slide 8

9. Slide 9 Published 2 September 2012 http://www.terena.org/aspire http://www.terena.org/aspire

10. Slide 10 Reports ›Executive Summary ›Where the R&E networking community is now ›Developments - Technical, Policy and Business ›Implications for Future ›Issues & Recommendations

11. Slide 11 Recommendations on Clouds ›Users: consuming the public cloud: aggregating demand, vendor management and cloud brokering; ›producing community clouds: business cases; ›connecting the clouds, by means of collaboration infrastructures and federations; ›At EU level: legal issues; standardisation, and interoperability Slide 11

12. Slide 12 Recommendations on Data & Middleware ›Collaborate with user communities to fully understand networking requirements ›Define standardised datasets, metadata, middleware and applications ›Globally recognised AAI ›Create common process to certify and authenticate data. ›Common policies and procedures for data curation and preservation. Slide 12

13. Slide 13 Recommendations on Mobile Services ›Prepare for rapid increase in the demand for mobile connectivity (BYOD) ›Work with Commercial providers to explore innovative solutions for the integration of Wi-Fi and LTE ›Make use of mobile device sensors for innovative location dependent federated access to learning resources. Slide 13

14. Slide 14 Recommendations on Future Roles for NRENs ›Strategic body for R&E networking & single vision ›NRENs need diversified and sustainable models ›Strategic business planning and understanding of their user-base ›TERENA to develop a European user-requirements compendium ›NRENs should partner with commercial providers not compete. Slide 14

15. Slide 15 General Points ›Do NRENs really know their customers? ›Getting to the end-user is really hard! ›Should NRENs focus on high-level service integration? ›Brokerage (Business-to-Business) role ›Forget about fixed line except for Class C users ›NRENs should partner with users and suppliers? ›Do rules, CPs, AUPs etc.... hinder progress ›Lack of Agility in serving users ›Particularly at the pan-European level

16. Slide 16 Strategic Issues ›Strategy is discussed in many fora: ›Market intelligence sources include: ›Need a Single coherent strategy & voice: ›Environmental Scanning ›Central Intelligence Unit Slide 16 TERENA GA NREN-PC TF-MSP GN3 EXEC E-IRG DANTE ASPIRE EGI GEG REPORT GN3-INYT NREN Compendium Riding the Wave NRENs NREN Strategies REGIONALLY Reykjavik Group

17. Slide 17 NREN Services & Customers ›One size does not fit all ›Should Diversify our customer base ›Should diversify out service offering ›Need to market ourselves to new breed of CEO, CIO ›Network service is our single greatest asset ›Multi-domain, cross-border ›partner with the outside world ›Our users are also the customers of the big aggregators ›Use our power ›Partner, do not compete Slide 17

18. Slide 18 Authorisation & Authentication ›AAI is a growing success story in “Club NREN” ›AAI is critical ›We do not serve R&E community generally ›eduroam® ›needs to be more pervasive ›More hot-spots in more diverse places ›Better user awareness and hence users ›Cover the whole R&E community ›eduGAIN Slide 18

19. Slide 19 Status quo is NOT an option ›NRENs need to move to new business models ›Deliver seamless ubiquitous mobile access on and off campus to users own device ›Take the lead in providing users with cloud best practice; choice and seamless integration ›Understand and meet the needs of large data users ›Act with one voice to: users; commerce and EU Slide 19

20. Slide 20 Have your say Topic Reports: http://www.terena.org/aspire/ Email distribution list: aspire@terena.orgaspire@terena.org ASPIRE team: aspire-team@terena.orgaspire-team@terena.org ASPIRE report due end November 2012 Slide 20

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