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Service général d'informatique-SEGI (MORE THAN) 25 YEARS OF COLLABORATION BELNET – UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE BELNET NETWORKING CONFERENCE 2018 BNC 2018 Simon.Francois@uliege.be 18-10-18

Agenda (the dark era) before Belnet 1. Early years 2. Nowadays 3. future past present 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

Starting Point : 1817 1817 1830 1960 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

CECTI  Pre-IT dept.  Punch card calculators 1960 1981 Belgium 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

CECTI becomes SEGI  Officially IT Dept.  IBM mainframe  Local only network CECTI 1981 1984 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

EARN  European Academic and Research Network  Based on and connected to BITNET (USA)  IBM as a sponsor (EARN mostly used to connect their mainframes in ≠ universities) SEGI 1984 1987 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

Internet @ULg BITNET (US) EARN (EU) IBM US ULg IBM Montpellier internet Univ Montpellier KUL EARN 1987 1989 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

SEGI moves | Information Technology Impulse  IT dept. moves to new Sart Tilman campus  Opening, with Belgian Science Policy  Belspo is asked to co-fund (with IBM) the connectivity of supercalculators  creation of a board : the ITI 1989 1991 Internet 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

UNIX community  UNIX community has setup its own network based on UUCP, not on IBM protocols  Used by research dept. in univs and private enterprises  No internet access ITI 1991 ~1992 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

the .ac.be origins  Private enterprises research dept. willing to connect to EARN/internet  Not at the same cost as education !  Split academic and private traffic based on name   + .ac.be for universities  + .co(m)(.be) or similar for private sector UNIX ~1992 1993 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

TCP/IP versus X.25  Subsidies from Europe to fiber main campus  Two clans : european X.25 vs US TCP/IP  Trip to MIT  TCP/IP .ac.be 1993 1993 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

Belnet is born !  Research program within the BelSPo  27 connected institutions, including ULg  Network capacity : 64kbps TCP/IP 1993 1995 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

Bandwidth, .be, IPv6  Bandwidth 100Mbps (commercial use)  DNS  .be/.eu/.com/.net provider  Secondary servers  Early IPv6 adventure 1st PoP 2005 2009 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

More services !  Three PoPs : 2xLiege + 1xArlon  Redundancy in Liege  eduroam since 2007  Belnet Leased Lines to Campus Gembloux  CERT.be collaboration 2005 2010 2015 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

More bandwidth! BANDWIDTH USAGE (MBPS) used filesharing free 1000 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 2005 2007 2008 2009 oct '09 2010 PoPs 2010 2015 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

More of everything  Digital Certificates Service  Bandwidth : 2Gbps (+8Gbps)  CÉCI interconnections 2010 2015 2018 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

clear SSL free Even more bandwidth 10000 9000 BANDWIDTH EVOLUTION (MBPS) 8000 clear SSL free 7000 6000 2000 1800 5000 1600 4000 1400 1200 3000 1000 2000 800 600 1000 400 0 200 2017 2018 0 2010 2011 4/29/11 2013 2014 2015 2016 2015 2018 2018 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

Latest services  edugain (2016)  DDoS mitigation (last week) 2018 2018 2018 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

As a conclusion …  High performance  Cutting edge technology  ↑ number of services  Affordabl €  Human (size) 2018 2018 2043 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

Belnet 50th anniversary  Ready to sign for another 25 years of partnership ! 2018 2043 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18

Thank you ! 25 years of Collaboration | BELNET − ULiège 18-10-18