1. www.terena.org John Dyer Business & Technology Strategist TERENA dyer@terena.org Business & Technology Strategist 4 October 2013 European NRENs Evolution & Future

2. www.terena.org EENet 20th anniversary conference Networks, Data & People AGENDA ›About TERENA ›Collaboration ›Evolution of the NRENs & Networks ›Some findings of the ASPIRE Foresight Study ›The future

3. www.terena.org About TERENA ›Founded June 1986 (RARE) ›A not-for-profit association of European National Research and Education Networks, based in Amsterdam, NL ›Main goals: ›Representing common interests and opinions of membership ›Knowledge transfer ›Developing, testing and promoting new technologies ›Fostering new services ›Sister organisation: DANTE (1993)

4. www.terena.org Membership ›40 European NRENs ›International Members ›includes: CERN; ESA ›Associate Members ›includes 12 commercials ›EMBL; NORDUnet; DANTE

5. www.terena.org TERENA Activities ›8 Task Forces ›Security, Middleware; Media; NOC; PR; Business ›Open to all – email; meetings; remote ›Workshops ›Middleware; Network Architects; Security ›Training ›Security; TRANSITS ›Publications ›Compendium of NRENs; ASPIRE reports; TCD; AAI ›TERENA Networking Conference ›Dublin, Ireland 19-22 May 2014 ›Major Contributor to GN3+ Project

6. www.terena.org TERENA Compendium of NRENs Twelve Years of Benchmarking //compendium

7. www.terena.org Growth of NRENs in Europe 40 //compendium

8. www.terena.org Growth in Capacity

9. www.terena.org Dark Fibre on the Backbone //compendium

10. www.terena.org Traffic and Budgets //compendium

11. www.terena.org /aspire

12. www.terena.org 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 12 /aspire

13. www.terena.org 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 13

14. www.terena.org Recommendations on Mobile Services ›Prepare for rapid increase in the demand for mobile connectivity (BYODs) ›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 14 /aspire

15. www.terena.org 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 15 /aspire

16. www.terena.org ASPIRE - Summary ›KEY Asset › G É ANT; NRENs and Community ›Users are key ›Collaboration ›NRENs, R&E, Users; Industry ›Data is not only BIG, it is a valuable resource ›Enablers ›Federation ›Mass Mobile Access ›Collaboration

17. www.terena.org Users are Key

18. www.terena.org Technological Evolution Slide 18 ?

19. www.terena.org Important Technologies ›Authorization and Authentication AAI ›vital to scalable access control ›ease of use ›Integration of Wi-Fi & cellular data networks ›connection of ubiquitous mobile devices ›Simple, easy, reliable, secure way. ›These services must reach the whole of the research and education community not just those close to the NREN.

20. www.terena.org User Evolution Slide 20 ?

21. www.terena.org Market of the Evolution Commodity: That which satisfies a demand without qualitative differentiation across a market ›Fixed line telephony ›Mobile telephony ›Internet connectivity ›Storage ›Software as a Service ›Gbps connectivity from ISPs

22. www.terena.org Why the need for NRENs ? ›Collaboratively unique community ›pan-European / global reach ›Cutting edge multi-domain network ›High Quality & tailored to user needs ›Our users are also customers of big aggregators ›NRENs can act as a BROKER

23. www.terena.org Influences Slide 23

24. www.terena.org NREN connections Slide 24 Academic Research Universities Colleges Libraries Museums Schools Commercial Research Broadcasters Local Government Galleries Theatres Hospitals

25. www.terena.org In Conclusion ›NRENs cooperate and partner: ›Commercial providers (on the supply-side) ›Users (on the demand-side) ›Undertake a business-to-business broker role. ›Adopt sustainable business models ›embrace the availability of commodity: ›Connectivity, Storage, online services ›Diversification ›Products & Services (one size does not fit all) ›New User Communities: PSN and CEF