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15 February, 2011 Ljubljana, Slovenia Peter Szegedi, PDO szegedi@terena org

TF NOC

szegedi@terena.org www.terena.org

TF-NOC

About TERENA

› TERENA offers a forum to collaborate innovate and › TERENA offers a forum to collaborate, innovate and share knowledge in order to foster the development of Internet technology, infrastructure and services to be used by the research and education community. › TERENA is first and foremost a collaborative

• rganisation.

› Its core business is to bring together managers, technical specialists and other people in the research networking community with their counterparts from other countries in Europe, mobilising the expertise and experience of

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hundreds of professionals in the research and education networking area.

TERENA Com m unity

› National members › National members

› 39 NRENs

› International members

CERN ESA › CERN, ESA

› Associate members

› DANTE, NORDUnet, vendors...

› Peers

› Internet2, APAN, CLARA, Ubuntunet... , , ,

› Affiliated comminuties

› EGI EUNIS GLIF Europeana › EGI, EUNIS, GLIF, Europeana... › research and education communities...

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TERENA bodies

› TERENA General Assembly (GA)

› Members’ representatives › Members representatives

› TERENA Executive Committee (TEC)

d › Janne Kanner – president

› TERENA Technical Committee (TTC)

› Technical programme, coordination

› Technical Advisory Council (TAC) ec ca d so y Cou c ( C)

› Special Interest Areas, consultation

› TERENA Secretariat › TERENA Secretariat

› Operative body

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TERENA Executive Com m ittee

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TERENA Secretariat

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Technical Program m e i l Special I nterest Areas

› Netw ork Services and Technologies › Security › Middlew are › Media Services › Virtualisation and Cloud Services › Cam pus and End-to-End issue coordination › Grid collaborations › Grid collaborations

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Activities

› TERENA Compendium

› Printed › On-line: http: / / www.terena.org/ activities/ compendium/

› TERENA Networking Conference

› Seminars › Technical workshops › Trainings

› Task Forces

M ti › Meetings › Small projects › EC funded projects

› Services › Services

› TACAR, REFEDs, SCHAC, TI, TCS, eduroam...

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TF-NOC

TERENA Task Force started in Sep 2010

› to offer a forum for leading staff members of › to offer a forum for leading staff members of Network Operation Centres (NOCs). › It is facilitating know ledge exchange and collaboration in order to foster the development and p improvement of NOCs, primarily within the research and education community. › Today’s NOC functions are essential, costly, and iti l i t f NREN ’ i b i ll critical in respect of NRENs’ main business, as well as of regional, metropolitan and campus network providers and infrastructure development projects. › However there is extrem e diversity in terms of › However, there is extrem e diversity in terms of NOC organisation, structure, and roles across various domains. › I t is also hard to find inform ation about com m on practices related to day-to-day NOC

• perations.

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TF-NOC W ork I tem s

A) Taxonom y of NOC organisations, internal processes w orkflow s processes, w orkflow s Led by Stefan Listrom (NORDUnet) B) NOC front-end developm ent and im provem ent Led by Gareth Eason (HEAnet) C) NOC tools, interw orking/ interfacing issues, and autom ation Led by Maria Isabel Gandia Carriedo (CESCA) D) Efficient com m unication/ collaboration tools and practices Led by Wiktor Procyk (PSNC) and Rachael Holt (HEAnet) (HEAnet) E) Facilitate the collection/ creation of best practice docum ents Led by Pieter Hanssens (BELNET) F) I nvestigate and liaise w ith other com m unities Led by Peter Szegedi (TERENA)

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I nvestigate and liaise w ith other i i com m unities

Id tif th iti ( GN3 NANOG

• Identify other communities (e.g., GN3, NANOG,

TERENA Task Forces, ITIL, TM-forum) working on TF- NOC related issues and investigate whether TF-NOC can benefit from their work.

• Identify and investigate synergies between TF-NOC and
• ther communities that can be exploited later on.
• Identify how other communities approach similar issues

that TF-NOC is working on (e.g., can we learn from the commercial companies?).

• Present our work to related communities and invite

them to present their work at TF NOC meetings them to present their work at TF-NOC meetings.

• Investigate the possibility to invite equipment vendors

and/ or tool developers in order to give presentations or demos at the TF-NOC meetings. demos at the TF NOC meetings.

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TF-NOC com m unity

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2 3 NRENs in Europe

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Regional/ research/ uni in Europe

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W orldw ide...

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How to w ork together?

M i Meetings:

• 3-4 times a year...
• Agree on next meeting dates

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• 1-2 focused topic(s) for all meeting
• Invite speakers...
• What happens between meetings
• What happens between meetings
• Homework for all!
• Active mailing list, wiki (Confuence Wiki)?
• WI leaders’ responsibility

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Peter Szegedi Peter Szegedi szegedi@terena.org

Thank you!