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FCCN: Network and Services Gavle, 7 May 2008

RCTS

• RCTS (Rede Ciência Tecnologia e Sociedade)

– Science Technology and Society Network

• Portuguese NREN
• Managed by FCCN

– Private Non-Profit Foundation

• Financed by Ministry of Science Technology and

Higher Education

11 years ago …

Early1997

• Highest bandwidth for (some) universities –

1.4Mbps

– only Lisbon and Porto

• National coverage < 65%
• International Connectivity – 2*512kbps

– EuropaNet (512kbps) – EBONE (512kbps; link to Stockholm)

• Operation of Registry for .PT (since 1990)

Green Paper on the Information Society in Portugal

End 1997

• Connect (ISDN) all public and private schools to

the Internet

– 1623 schools – 14 PoPs

• International connectivity – 10Mbps

– Satellite link to CERN

• National broadband coverage increased

Today

1998 - Key Decisions

• Connect to the NREN public libraries and

teacher training centres – 1998

• Connect all schools – until 2001
• Upgrade connections of all universities and

politechnics – done1999

• International connectivity – 34 Mbps, 56 Mbps,

…

Infrastructures – 2008

• RCTS - Management and Operation of the portuguese

NREN – Acquire fibre – Lease fibre – Public tender for links to connect institutions – New switching / routing systems

FCCN owned fibre

Existing fiber, in operation

• Lisboa, Coimbra, Aveiro,

Porto, Braga

• Aprox. 400km

Existing fiber, installed Sep/2007

• Porto, Viana do Castelo,

Valença

• Aprox. 160km

New fiber, ready Oct/2008

• Lisboa, Setúbal, Évora,

Portalegre, Elvas

• Aprox. 270km

Owned Fibre

• 400 km + 160km

– 24 G-652 fibres – 24 G-655 fibres

• 270 km

– 24 G-652 fibres – 24 G-655 fibres

• Several owned fibre loops

– Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra

• Several leased fibre loops

– Braga, Lisbon

Rede de Transmissão Óptica actual.

Schools

• 1997

– 1.623 Schools connected using ISDN (128 kbps; 1 B-Channel)

• 2001

– 11.000 schools and other institutions using ISDN (256kbps; 2 B-channels)

• 2005

– 8.000 schools using ADSL (1Mbps and 4Mbps) – 2 x 1Gbps traffic collection points into main backbone

• Several services for schools

– Web-hosting, Moodle, Joomla, Central Mail services, Mailing list services, …

• Help-desk

Mobility

• e-U Virtual Campus and RCTS User

– 96% coverage of all Higher Education institutions with Hotspots

• Roaming Services

– eduroam, of course (100% coverage and compliance)

• Federation of RCTS users with authentication

and authorisation

– AAI

Security

• CERT.PT
• Computer incident

response;

• Creation of a network of

national CERTs/CSIRTs

• Training
• Cooperation with police

forces

Security

• Safer Internet Plus

– Hot Line to report illegal and harmful content

• Security of RCTS: IDS and Honeynet

IPv6

• RCTS is a fully dual-stack network since 2003
• Users moving slowly to IPv6
• IPv4 address space exhausted in 2011 ?
• Target for 2008

– All DNS, Mail and Web servers connected to RCTS must be IPv4 & IPv6 enabled – http://ipv6-tracker.fccn.pt

• Connect all NREN instituions using VoIP

– Session Board Controllers for all PABXs – SIP servers – Implementation being done right now

• Connect to the Public Networks

– Public Tenders soon

VoIP@RCTS

Multimedia Services

Video Diffusion

• Central Windows Server
• Video encoder cookbook
• Training and Support
• Video storage and editing (non professional)

Video Archive

• Servers - Windows and Quicktime (Darwin)

Multimedia Services

HD Video-conferencing in all institutions

• Service components

– On-line reservation of rooms and H.323 MCU – Global Dialing Scheme (GDS) – Lending H.323 terminals – Training and advice

Nature on the WEB

Part of our activity of video broadcast

GRID Computing Room

B-ON – Scientific Digital Library

Biblioteca On-Line

• 16.500 Scientific Magazines
• Access to ISI Web of Knowledge
• Negotiation with Publishers
• Federated searches from the Portal
• User training (librarians, end-users)
• Statistics

Scientific and Educational Contents Server

Other Activities

6DEPLOY

.PT Registry

• Liberalisaton of the Registration under .PT
• Resilience of the Infrastructure

– Secondary of .PT in Porto – F-root server copy at FCCN – DNSSEC soon

• 212.000 domains
• IDNs since 2004

Security and the DNS

• R&D activity on Automated Reaction to Security

Attacks

– More and more frequent attacks to the DNS system

• DDoS
• Fast flux

– Smart Network Sensors – Analyse all traffic directed to the TLD server – Identify “strange” traffic patterns – Automatically control firewall to filter out

What Else?

• Outreach activities

– Promotion of the Internet usage for scientific and educational purporses in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Guiné Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe) – .AO and .CV Primary Servers in Lisbon – Ubuntunet and GÉANT

• Relevance is moving from Layer 3 to Layer 7 (old OSI

model)

What Else?

• Outreach activities

– Promotion of the Internet usage for scientific and educational purporses in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Guiné Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe) – .AO and .CV Primary Servers in Lisbon – Ubuntunet and GÉANT

• Relevance is moving from Layer 3 to Layer 7 (old OSI

model)

• Layer 8 – Political

What Else?

• Outreach activities

– Promotion of the Internet usage for scientific and educational purporses in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Guiné Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe) – .AO and .CV Primary Servers in Lisbon – Ubuntunet and GÉANT

• Relevance is moving from Layer 3 to Layer 7 (old OSI

model)

• Layer 8 – Political
• Layer 9 - Religious

Tack / Obrigado