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End-to-End Provisioning Workshop

• Establishing Lightpaths -

E2E Provisioning Workshop Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1-2 December, 2008 Peter Szegedi Project Development Officer szegedi@terena.org www.terena.org

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Scope and Objectives

Researchers

• n networking

Researchers

• n non-networking

related topics Vendors Local admins NREN NREN GÉANT Metro LAN LAN LAN LAN Third-party

NRENs

• End user (application) to End user (application)
• Easy for user to deploy
• Easy for operator to support
• Flexible to existing networks/mechanisms

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Scope and Objectives

Researchers

• n networking

Researchers

• n non-networking

related topics Vendors Local admins NREN NREN GÉANT Metro LAN LAN LAN LAN Third-party

NRENs

• Focusing to the both ends of the connections
• Challenges on networking level / application level

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E2E networking problem

› Problem space (many aspects…)

› How to reach the end-user (technically) › How to reach the end-user (logically) › Crossing over third-party metros › Crossing over NRENs › Various campus requirements, policy › What about addressing, firewalling, routing integrity › How to create/provide such services › How to setup and manage automatically › and so on…

› Keep the scope as wide as possible!

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Participants (institutions)

43% 20% 11% 26%

NREN University Research Lab Commercial

29% 34% 4% 33%

NREN University Research Lab Commercial

Mailing list members Registered participants

• Good balance
• Not easy to mobilize the

campus people

• NRENs are highly interested in
• Vendors are on the boat

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Structure of the workshop

› 1st half day: Massive, one way flow of information

› Background session › Provisioning in the core domain › Optical, Layer 2 and IP › Vendor session › L3 core domain › WDM-based L3/L2 aggregation in the metro › PON-based access solutions

› Social activities… › 2nd half day: More interactive discussions

› Coordination session I › Country studies (Czech Republic, Netherlands) › Coordination session II › Various talks on E2E networking

› In the afternoon: Panel discussion

› Ask the experts!