Presentations

Updates from the GNA-G Leadership Team

Updates from the Community
– Cape Town, Fortaleza, Sao Paolo GXPs & AtlanticWave-SDX and Interconnections – Siju Mammen, Aluizio Hazin, Julio Ibarra and Jeronimo Bezerra
– Update from SingAREN – Francis Lee Bu Sung
– Arctic Connect R&E – Erik-Jan Bos
– Telemetry – Joe Breen, Jeronimo Bezerra

Securing the GREN – Steve Kennet (JISC) & Charles Sterner (AARNet)

Working Group updates and discussion
– GREN Mapping WG – Ryan Davies
– AutoGOLE/SENSE WG – Gerben van Malenstein
– Offshore Students WG – David Wilde
– Data Intensive Science WG – Harvey Newman

Please see meeting page for the pre-recorded sessions.

Due to COVID-19, we held our first GNA-G Community VCs on May 26th, 2020. Two identical 2-hour VC slots were organised to allow global presence at this GNA-G event.

• Opening & Welcome, Gerben van Malenstein
• GNA-G Current State & Outlook, Buseung Cho, David Wilde, Dale Finkelson
• Update on AmLight network infrastructure, Julio Ibarra
• New ideas & proposals for Working Groups, Harvey Newman
• COVID-19 Readiness, Erik-Jan Bos
• Updates from the Working Groups, Erik-Jan Bos
  • a) AutoGOLE/SENSE, Gerben van Malenstein
  • b) GREN Mapping, Ryan Davies
  • c) Telemetry, Dale Finkelson
  • d) Q&A
• Closure, Gerben van Malenstein

Co-located with APAN45, the GNA Technical WG had its first of four meetings in 2018. Four slide decks were used during this WG meeting that ran from 1:30pm until 5pm:

• Dale Finkelson (Internet2) and Erik-Jan Bos (NORDUnet) used slides to run the meeting.
• Prof. Francis Lee (SingAREN) presented the latest on APR.
• Dale Finkelson (Internet2) presented on Federated Operations on ANA.
• Alexander van den Hil (SURFnet) presented on Collaboration, the MoU, and cost sharing on ANA

At the 2017 Global Summit, a full session was dedicated to the developments of the Global Network Architecture. After a short introduction by Jim Williams, nine speakers jointly talked about their views on the GNA:

• 0 – Global Summit 2017 – GNA Intro (James Williams, Internet2)
• 1 – GNA – The Narrative (René Buch, NORDUnet)
• 2 – GNA – Where are we now? (Erik-Jan Bos, NORDUnet)
• 3 – The Value of the GNA (Dale Finkelson, Internet2)
• 4 – SingAREN, SOE, and the GNA (Francis Lee Bu Sung, SingAREN)
• 5 – Pacific Wave and the GNA(Dave Reese, Pacific Wave)
• 6 – The South African NREN and the GNA (Len Lotz, TENET)
• 7 – IRNC and the GNA (Jennifer Schopf, Indiana University)
• 8 – The ANA Collaboration and the GNA (Alexander van den Hil, SURFnet)
• 9 – AmLight-ExP and the GNA (Julio Ibarra, Florida International University)

• Advances in the Global Network Architecture (Jim Williams & Erik-Jan Bos)

Erik-Jan Bos (NORDUnet) presented an update about the work on GNA at the GÉANT Symposium 2017 in Budapest, Hungary, on 3-4 October 2017, as part of the session called “GÉANT collaborations: inside and out” chaired by Cathrin Stöver (GÉANT). Slides:

• Global Network Architecture: Vision & Ambition – A Status Update

René Buch (CEO, NORDUnet) gave a keynote presentation at the closing plenary session of APAN44, titled “Global Collaboration – The cornerstone of the Next Generation Global R&E Infrastructure”. This keynote premiered the new video on the vision of the Global Network
Architecture, produced under auspices of the members of the Global R&E Network CEO Forum.

• Global Collaboration – The cornerstone of the Next Generation Global R&E Infrastructure
  (René Buch, NORDUnet)
• The GNA Vision – A Whiteboard Video (produced under auspices of the members of the Global R&E Network CEO Forum)

• Global Network Architecture, Status and Next Steps
  (presentation in the Network Engineering Workshop track of APAN 43, chaired by Kazunori Konishi-san) (Erik-Jan Bos, NORDUnet)

• An inclusive Blueprint for a Global R&E Network Interconnect (Chris Hancock, AARNet & René Buch, NORDUnet)