1. LHCOPN / LHCONE meeting
Welcome
Lars Fischer
LHCOPN / LHCONE meeting
Helsinki, September 2016

2. Welcome to Helsinki

3. 29th Conference in a series
NORDUnet 2016
29th Conference in a series
Rotating between Nordic countries
First was in 1980 in Sweden
Currently bi-anually
Meeting place of the Nordic R&E Networking community
3-day conference
Week of community meetings
Much is self-organizing
Started NORDUnet collaboration

4. The Nordic Countries Five small countries Three autonomous areas
8 time zones
25 mill people
9 official languages
Shared history, culture
Together, the worlds 7th largest economy (or so)

5. Nordic Region

6. Nordic NRENs 5 independent NRENs, tradition for collaboration
NORDUnet: regional network, international connection
30+ year history
1 million users
Annual budget: About 20 Million $
NORDUnet incorporated, owned equally by NRENs, funded by NRENs
FUNET
SUNET
All universities.. Interconnections; tradition of working together; do not serve users; they do that ND
UNINETT
RHNET
DeIC

7. NORDUnet

8. North and South

9. Nordic R&E Networks

10. Anyone – Anywhere – Any time
Traffic Evolution
Traditional
GÉANT – R&E networks
Commercial – Youtube, Facebook, …
New
Scientific commercial vendors (cloud storage, HPC facilities, computing-on-demand)
Cloud IT services, Outsourced IT
Everything-as-a-Services
Anyone – Anywhere – Any time
Drives traffic to industry partners
(Internet) Exchanges are essential

11. OXPs as Infra Building Blocks

12. Where is Traffic Going? (2)
Includes peerings at Internet Exchangs, Private peerings (google, facebook, twitch, netfliix, amazon, etc), and hosted caches (such as akamai)
Traffic w/ Settlement-free Peers

13. Supporting Cloud Services
Nordic and European collaboration
Nordic initiatives, sharing NREN initiatives among all Nordic NRENs
Participation in GÉANT
Joint procurements
Direct Interconnect w/ providers
Better quality, no man-in-the-middle
Getting rid of network charges
Nordic and GÉANT Project initiatives
Anyone – anywhere – any time
Once we have the base, we can do a lot. A few current examples. Cloud is growth. Critical to keep the cost of cloud services down and access quality up. With a global network, we can do both

14. Meet the Natives