3. About CESNET a. l. e.
● CESNET, Association of Legal Entities, was established in
1996 by the Czech universities and Academy of Sciences
● Non-profit organisation oriented to major activities:
– Development and operation of NREN in the Czech Republic – to
support science & research (non-public operator)
– Research and development of advanced network technologies and
applications
– Broadening knowledge about the advanced networking topics
– International cooperation
● Participation in projects - GN3+, GLIF, EGI (European Grid
Infrastructure) and many others
● Dante shareholder, TERENA member, Internet2 affiliate
member, CEENet member
● More information on http://www.cesnet.cz (cz) or http://www.ces.net (en)
4. About CESNET a. l. e.
● Member Organizations
– 26 Universities
● 24 public universities
● 2 state universities
– Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
● 54 research institutes
5. About CESNET a. l. e.
● Non-member Organizations
– 12 Primary schools
– 100 Secondary schools
– 2 Public universities (non-members)
– 7 Private higher education institutions
– 26 Research institutes
– 41 Hospitals and Health institutes
– 44 Government and Public administration
– 24 Libraries
– 9 Museums, Archives, Cultural institutions
– 4 Other
6. About CESNET a. l. e.
● In 2011 two new projects started - to develop e-Infrastructure
for research and development community of the Czech
Republic → transformation of CESNET NREN to complex
e-Infrastructure
● CESNET Large Infrastructure Project
– Five-year strategic project 2011 -2015, approved by the
government (€10,3 mil. / year public funding), CAPEX and
OPEX
● eIGeR project (e-Infrastructure and Grids for e-Regions)
– Two-year project (2011-2013) funded by the Ministry of
Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (15%)
and EU structural funds (85%)
– CAPEX mostly (regions support [not Prague], cca €20,4 mil.
total)
7. About CESNET a. l. e.
● e-Infrastructure components (four major) included in projects
● Network communication infrastructure
– Advanced DWDM optical and IP/MPLS infrastructure (connected to
GEANT, GLIF)
● Grids
– Advanced National Grid Infrastructure (NGI) and its integration with
the European environment of the EGI (European Grid Initiative)
● Data storage
– Provide storage capacity implemented as Hierarchical Storage
Management (HSM) solution
● Collaborative environment
– Complex collaborative environment for research institutions and
project teams – high-quality videoconferencing, high-quality
videostreaming, IP telephony
● Supporting components
– focusing on user identity management, security, monitoring and
other areas
8. Network Communication Infrastructure
Basic Services
● IP connectivity (global Internet access - part of this service)
● IP service v4, v6, ucast, mcast
● Dedicated circuits & networks & pseudo media
services
● Circuit (L2, L3, EoMPLS, VPLS)
● Lambda
● Photonic
VPLS
9. Network Communication Infrastructure
Related Services
● Address allocation services (NIC) – v4, v6, LIR
● DNS – primary, secondary, DNSSEC
● Mail services – backup, transport, Antispam Gateway
● eduroam
10. Computation and Data Services
● Massive computations – MetaCentrum – CESNET coordinates
NGI (EGI national part) operations and development
– Grid services, High Performance Cloud for scientific purposes,
application SW, SW packages/licenses administration
– Integration of current and planned computing capacity of
academic and research centers into NGI
– 10k cores
11. Computation and Data Services
● Data storage services
– Backup, archiving, data sharing services, data storage for
special applications
– FileSender, OwnCloud
● Distributed, HSM based infrastructure
– 21PB+ phys., 3 localities, dedicated internal network
infrastructure Nx10Gbps
12. ● Videoconferencing & webconferencing services, IP telephony
services
– serving end-users and/or intergation of user capacities into
appropriate infrastructure
● Streaming, videoarchive services
● Special high quality & low latency video transmissions
● Foodle
Collaboration Support & Multimedia
Services
13. Security & Identity Services
● CSIRT – CESNET CERTS
● Czech academic identity federation – eduID.cz
● Certificates for users and servers (PKI)
– CESNET CA (internal purposes)
– TERENA Certificate Service
● eduroam - authentication services for federated access to nework
● Services of common user account administration system in CESNET
e-infrastructure
14. Other Supporting Services
● Monitoring services – infrastructure, IP traffic, security based,
network quality
● Time services - rubidium clock, stratum-1 NTP servers, Time Stamp
Authority Service
● Service desk – 24x36[56]
● Security training – students, staff (topics on demand); technical &
legal aspects
● Consulting services – any area
● Technology transfer – photonic systems and networks design;
license granting ~ to manufacture devices developed by CESNET
15. e-Infrastructure Services Main Goals
● Communication infrastructure services
– Reliability, flexibility, etc.. - ..subject of my colleagues'
presentations ;-)
● Services for individual users (not standalone services)
– Transparent environment (not standalone services) - user location
independent (some limits in global scope)
– Meet user needs – multiple ways (protocols) to access
resources/data etc.., variety of options (from simple, easy to
handle to advanced sophisticated tools), etc..
– Reliability, security – redundant resources (critical), geographically
distributed but within adminstrative domain of community
– Unified access - common user account administration system –
relying on federation
– Building communities - community based identity management
scheme (AAI), aggregation of resources (NGI), direct support of
user groups
● e-Infrastructure under control
– security based monitoring, anomaly detection, service desk &
specialists, CSIRT, etc...
