- The SEEREN, SEE-GRID, SEEFIRE, 6DISS and 6NET initiatives are co-funded by the European Commission under FP5 and FP6 IPv6 activities in Balkan countries Jorge-A. Sanchez-P., GRNET SEE Initiative Coordinator

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March Conceptualization: working on areas of common interest A couple of rakis in Ochrid… Followed by a memoranda of understanding INIMA (Albania) RoEduNet/RNC (Rumania) UNICOM-B (Bulgaria) MARNET (FYROM) GRNET (Greece) AMREJ (FRY) ULAKBIM (Turkey) …and first interconnections… Athens-Belgrade [2Mbps PCM] daily graph (5 Minute Average) Athens-Sofia [5.2Mbps ATM] daily graph (5 Minute Average)

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March Vision

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March SEEREN: A “small” step for the SEE NRENs, a big leap for the region… SEEREN  South-Eastern European Research and Education Networking Initiative (more at admin.seeren.org) Interconnects the Research and Education Networks of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, FYROM, Serbia-Montenegro, Hungary, Romania and Greece among them and to GEANT. Built in 2003, launched and entered its stable operation on Jan In 2005 connectivity is co-funded by GN2. Constitutes today the South Eastern European segment of the multi- gigabit pan-European Research and Education network GÉANT Initial seed funding by the EC/IST programme (1.3 m€). Additionally around 4 m€ pulled together in various complementary (sub)- projects (FP6, NATO, National funds, etc.). SEEREN performing very well: 100% availability for all links for consecutive months. Distributes the Network Management & Operations to competent Academic Groups in the Region (the Virtual Network Operations Center – VNOC concept developed by GRNET). Created a one-stop-shop for all the open source tools/applications setup by the SEEREN VNOC to monitor and manage the SEEREN infrastructure ( SEEREN capitalized on the growing aspiration of the SEE countries to integrate to the rest of Europe and eventually be equal peers with advanced European nations. Still a major driving force. SEEREN enacted a communication channel between the SEE scientific community. Refocused the R&E community in their common endeavors and wealthy cultural heritage that dates from several hundred years ago. Today working on a reinstated vision; to benefit the whole SEE R&E community and the society at large – by opening the eInfrastructure to all scientific sectors in a sustainable way.

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March Services stack the project has been developing several services and tools on top of the infrastructure, including a one-stop-shop for the management tools ( admin.seeren.org)

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March IPv6 deployment (1/3) Since spring 2004, the deployment of IPv6 services started to be planned. To fast-track the deployment, a MOU was signed with the 6NET consortium. …to formalize the continuation of the dissemination and promotion of the best practices from the 6NET project to the SEEREN network of countries and partners; …to help the main SEEREN beneficiary countries to study potential deployment scenarios/solutions, experiment and get familiar with IPv6; …to support (technically) the continued connectivity of SEEREN countries via IPv6; …to support the transfer of 6NET’s IPv6 application demonstrations to SEEREN; …to organise a joint technical workshop based on the 6NET Cookbooks and the programme of workshops in SE Europe, held within the scope of the SEEREN project. …to provide information about experiences of IPv6 deployment in less developed network user communities. SEEREN is bringing am interesting and complex case for IPV6 deployment over: Carrier supporting Carrier MPLS VPNs with heterogeneous boarder routers. CsC is a way for service providers to allocate VPNs for other service providers

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March IPv6 deployment (2/3) In order to deploy IPv6, GRNET provided from its address space IPv6 addresses for this sub- project (2001:0648:C000::/36). Α working setup (IOS versions, configuration) found on September (Kalogeras, van der Velde, Liakopoulos, Polyrakis, Kotsokalis). Cisco organized a lab setup for testing the configuration. IOS images of NREN border routers were upgraded: Cisco 37xx, Cisco Catalyst 65xx/MFC2, Cisco 75xx, Cisco7206VXR, Cisco GSR. The solution that was implemented -never deployed before- was to enable 6PE services in the SEEREN CE routers with transparent forwarding of IPv6 traffic over the Carrier Provider MPLS network. This solution did not require any software and hardware upgrades in the Carrier Provider network nor the creation of tunnels between the CE routers.

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March IPv6 deployment (3/3) Deployment phase Started with AMREJ; IOS upgrade caused stability problems for SEEREN beneficiaries. A different IOS version allowed for proper operation of the IPv4 network and on the same time IPv6 connectivity for AMREJ. AMREJ/Serbia–Montenegro connected on 11/11/2004. ISTF/Bulgaria connected on 28/12/2004 MARNET/FYRoM on 30/12/2004. In the future plans, SEEREN plans to deploy IPv6 security/monitoring mechanisms and complete the IPv6 address assignment

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March Future Plans GN2/NA4 NREN Development and support Further contribution towards the establishment of NRENs in the region. SEEFIRE (South-East European Fibre Infrastructure for R&E) Very important for the continuation of the activities in SEE in a sustainable way, aiming at producing a dark-fibre footprint database, a report on networking status in SEE, a report on dark-fibre lighting technologies, a study on the regulatory and legal framework for the support of dark-fibre infrastructures, and economic models for dark-fibre acquisition at international and national level. 6DISS (IPv6 Dissemination and Exploitation) Will transfer knowledge and deployment experiences from European IPv6 projects (6NET, Euro6IX, GEANT), TERENA, European NRENs, etc. to research network operators, universities, commercial organisations, governments and regulators in various regions in the world. SEEREN/SEE-GRID follow up proposals to be submitted to the forthcoming RI calls in SEE-Light proposal to be submitted to the Greek HIPERB programme (Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkans) to acquire access to dark fiber and interconnections in SEE.

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March DISS: key data Partners: Martel Cisco, Alcatel RENATER, GRNET, FCCN TERENA University College London, University of Southampton Duration: 1st April 2005, for 30 months EC Funding: EUR 900K Objective: To build constituencies, raise awareness, exchange best practices, and engage the organisations in future IST projects. Target areas: Balkan countries (inc. Bulgaria, Rumania, Moldova & Turkey) Mediterranean countries Newly-Independent States (Central Asia, including Afghanistan) Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Africa The Caribbean Asia-Pacific region South and Central America. … and will exchange information with such organisations in India & China

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March To organise 8 workshops to disseminate IPv6 Cookbooks and training material on: IPv6 deployment and migration in fixed and wireless environments Multicast QoS Renumbering DNS DHCP Routing Monitoring and management tools IPv6-enabled applications 6DISS: technical approach Material preparation DisseminationLonger-term assistance Personal expertise & Cookbooks Expertise & material from 6NET, Euro6IX, GEANT, NRENs, … IPv6 modules tuned for each Workshop Workshop organisation & technical support Support for IPv6 deployment & future IST participation “Tiger Teams” (1 expert per topic for back-up technical support, maintaining FAQ lists, etc.) IPv6 Training at Cisco in Brussels (hands-on) “Training the Trainers” (people can be trained in all topics and go back to their regions to teach others) e-learning (on-line guide to where reference information can be found – eg. 6NET Cookbooks)

IPv6 Tutorial – Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, 2-3 March Here we are… Thank You ALL!