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NORDUnet 2012 Conference - Call for presentations

Dear Colleagues,

The Programme Committee for NORDUnet 2012 invites you to propose presentations for the 27th NORDUnet conference.

NORDUnet 2012 is the Nordic networking meeting place, bringing together the networking community from Nordic universities and NRENs, along with their European and global colleagues. Our aim is to showcase Nordic, European & global collaborations, as well as future developments, current challenges and recent results within the topics and areas covered by the conference.

The NORDUnet 2012 Conference will take place in Oslo, Norway, on 18-20 September, 2012. The conference will focus on collaboration, collaborative technology, and collaborative projects, with special focus on Nordic collaboration. It will have three tracks: technical, services, and users & applications.

The conference programme will be made up of keynote talks, invited and submitted presentations. The program committee invites talks on technical developments, new services, advanced applications of research and education networks. Examples of topics and areas of interest:

• New technologies - Future Networks, Virtualization, Mobility, Bandwidth-on-Demand
• Campus & Researcher - Campus Networking, User Communities, Identity, Collaborative Tools
• Rising Demand - Demanding Applications, Data Deluges, Storage, Clouds
• Putting It All Together - Operations, Security, Green IT, Social Impact

Submit your abstract of 200-300 words, here
Proposal deadline is: Monday, 5 March, 2012

For questions, please send mail to Jacqueline Brown, jbrown@nordu.net

Vidar Faltinsen
UNINETT
Chair of the NDN2012 Programme Committee

Visit the Conference website: http://www.nordu.net/conference

NORDUnet is now present at DE-CIX (Frankfurt, Germany)

Copenhagen, Denmark - December 16'th. 2011

NORDUnet is proud to announce its presence at DE-CIX in Frankfurt.

NORDUnet is present at the following Internet eXchange Points:

NORDUnet plans to continue expanding it's public peering presence which is part of an expansive public peering strategy, to secure the best possible commodity internet service for the Nordic research and educational networks.

You can follow the peering traffic at the NORDUnet Load Plot Page and you can find *NORDUnet's Peering Policy here*.

Peering requests can be sent to NORDUpeering

Copenhagen, November 15th. 2011

NORDUnet and partners demonstrate OpenNSA - On Demand circuit provision - at Supercomputing 2011

Today NORDUnet and a number of NORDUnet friends and partners demonstrate the On Demand Circuit Provisioning Service Architecture base on the Network Service Interface specification at Supercomputing 2011 in Seattle.

This is giant leap forward for the NREN community's effort en advance and rapid network provisioning over a federated global network Infrastructure that spans across the panet from Japen to Europe involving a large amount of partners:

You can read more about the Demostration and the setup here

You can follow the Demo setup here

NORDUnet complete 2011 Network expansion by taking a third connection to the US in production

Copenhagen, Denmark - October 5th. 2011

By taking another 10Gbps connection to the US in to production NORDUnet completes the 2011 network expansion. This new connection between Ashburn and London complemets the already existing connections from New York to Amsterdam and Reykjavik.
Other elements in the 2011 plan included upgrading the European network ring traversing Amsterdam and London to 20Gpbs, as well as upgrading several NREN network connections. The NORDUnet peering footprint was also expanded as part of the plan.

NORDUnet is connected at the following Internet eXchange points.

NORDUnet plans to continue expanding it's public peering presence which is part of an expansive public peering strategy, to secure the best possible commodity internet service for the Nordic research and educational networks.

You can follow the peering traffic at the NORDUnet Load Plot Page and you can find *NORDUnet's Peering Policy here*.

Peering requests can be sent to NORDUpeering

EC GEANT Expert Group Releases report on "Knowledge without Borders - GÉANT 2020"

Copenhagen, Denmark - October 4th. 2011

Today at an event at the EU Commission in Brussels the report from the GEANT Expert Group "[Knowledge without Borders - GÉANT 2020\|^GEG_Knowledge without Borders - GÉANT 2020.pdf|]" was presented to EU Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes.

The GEANT Expert Group's mandate from the Eu Commission was to:

"The GÉANT Expert Group (GEG) will articulate a 2020 vision for European Research and Education
networking and will identify an action plan for realising this vision. The report is expected to exercise a
strong influence in EU policy in the area, and it will feed into the 2012-2013 FP7 work programme for
Research Infrastructures and into the FP8 preparations."

The GEANT Expert Group has received input from stakeholders within the NREN Community including NORDUnet's 2020 Inspirations Paper as well as industry partners and user communities. A full list of contributors can be found on page 51 of the report.

The full press release can be found here.

The Term of Reference for the GEANT Expert Group can be found here.

Pictures from event can be found here

NORDUnet is now present at Equinix Ashburn (Washington D.C.)

Copenhagen, Denmark - June 20'th. 2011

NORDUnet is proud to announce its presence at Equinix Ashburn.

NORDUnet is also present at the following Internet eXchange Points:

NORDUnet plans to continue expanding it's public peering presence which is part of an expansive public peering strategy, to secure the best possible commodity internet service for the Nordic research and educational networks.

You can follow the peering traffic at the NORDUnet Load Plot Page and you can find *NORDUnet's Peering Policy here*.

Peering requests can be sent to NORDUpeering

SURFnet and NORDUnet collaborate to create an international, multi-domain 40Gb/s Alien Wave network over more than 4300km

Copenhagen, Denmark - May 23'rd. 2011

SURFnet, Ciena, NORDUnet, Mellanox, Telindus-ISIT, CERN and the University of Amsterdam demonstrated a collaborative experiment that produced a high-speed, ultra long-haul 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) network to demonstrate capabilities of 40G Ultra Long Haul technology for terrestrial applications and over multi-vendor DWDM networks.

The demo was shown for the first time at the TERENA Networking Conference (TNC) 2011 in Prague. The organizations came together to create a 40 Gbps long-haul optical service across 4300 kilometres of fiber via the SURFnet and NORDUnet networks, including an unregenerated ultra long-haul section over 2700km between CERN in Geneva and the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This 40Gb/s ULH technology allows SURFnet and NORDUnet to groom their network for a future in which they continue to be an enabler not only for local, regional and national but also for wide area international research collaboration through the support of high-performance data distribution, next-generation video and data processing.

You can find the full press release here.

You can find the Demonstration Data Here

NORDUnet Publish the NREN 2020 Inspiration paper.

Copenhagen, Denmark - April 4'th. 2011

I relation to the on going discussions about the role of NREN's in 2020 NORDUnet have now published the "NORDUnet NREN 2020 Inspiration Paper"

NORDUnet History - Now available in ePUB Format

Copenhagen, Denmark - December 1'st. 2010

The book about the first 25 years of NORDUnet history is now available for download in ePUB Format.

The Book will also shortly be available as free book on major internet bookstores.

NORDUnet is now present at NYIIX (New York)

Copenhagen, Denmark - April 20'th. 2010

NORDUnet is proud to announce its presence at NYIIX.

NORDUnet is also present at the following Internet eXchange Points:

NORDUnet plans to continue expanding it's public peering presence which is part of an expansive public peering strategy, to secure the best possible commodity internet service for the Nordic research and educational networks.

You can follow the peering traffic at the NORDUnet Load Plot Page and you can find *NORDUnet's Peering Policy here*.

Peering requests can be sent to NORDUpeering

NORDUnet MPLS workshop

Copenhagen, Denmark - April 20'th. 2010

NORDUnet would like to invite the nordic NREN community to a MPLS workshop aimed at network engineers. The goal of the workshop is to raise the awareness about using MPLS in IP networks and to increase collaboration between senior network engineers in the nordic research networks.

The focus will be to give practical knowledge of MPLS configurations in IP networks. The majority of the workshop is formed as a tutorial with mixed theory and practical configurations using the NUNOC experimental network. The lab consists of Juniper routers.

MPLS L2VPN and VPLS configuration will be presented with labs about using MPLS for transit, MPLS pseudo-wire, MPLS/BGP L3VPN, traffic engineering, fast re-route, traffic shaping, etc.

The workshop will take place at the NORDUnet premises in Stockholm, May 18 - 20.

NORDUNET AND CANARIE PARTNERSHIP ESTABLISHES NEW TRANS-ATLANTIC POLAR NETWORK CONNECTIONS

Copenhagen, Denmark - December 4th. 2009

NORDUnet, a joint collaboration by the five Nordic National Research and Education Networks, CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network and the NSF GLORIAD Project, are pleased to announce their new strategic partnership in the IceLink Project

IceLink will establish a high-capacity circuit in the northern polar regions through Iceland and Greenland, linking the US, Canada, and the five Nordic countries. IceLink will provide researchers with efficient data transfer capacity on one of the most advanced networks in the world and give Iceland a long-awaited high capacity network connection. It also paves the way for additional connectivity to Greenland and The Farao Island with a capacity that, until now, was uncommon to this region.

IceLink will connect the CANARIE Network to Europe through a new submarine cable traversing Greenland with a strategic connection point in Reykjavik, Iceland. The new capacity will provide CANARIE with a much-needed redundant path to Europe through a northern connection. Prior to IceLink, CANARIE's only link to Europe was via a connection originating in New York.

Full Press Release can be found here or downloaded as PDF

THIRD GENERATION GÉANT PROJECT LAUNCHED TO EXTEND PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION CAPABILITIES

Copenhagen, Denmark - December 1st. 2009

National Research and Education Networks interconnect with the GÉANT network to enable faster and closer collaboration for 40 million users

Tomorrow's Internet will be shaped by the networking innovation and advanced user services being introduced as part of the third generation of the successful GÉANT project, officially announced today at its Launch Event in Stockholm, Sweden. The project, which will run to 2013, has recently been awarded funding of €93 million from the European Commission (EC) under the EU's 7th Framework Programme, and a matching amount from Europe's National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).

GÉANT is the dedicated high-bandwidth pan-European network at the core of the project, that provides advanced interconnectivity between Europe's NRENs through 50,000 kilometres of mostly optical fibre. As a result, nearly 40 million research and education users in over 8,000 institutions can have the capability to share vast quantities of data, and collaborate across multiple disciplines throughout Europe and beyond.

The Nordic countries is connected to GEANT3 through NORDUnet

Full Press Release can be found here or downloaded as PDF

NORDUnet brings 40 Gbit backbone in to operation

Copenhagen, Denmark - September 16th 2009

Alcatel-Lucent and IPNETT has completed the 40 Gbit/s upgrade of the first link of NORDUnet's optical and IP transport network, which provides the Nordic infrastructure for research and education. Preparing the move to 100 Gbit/s, this network upgrade will further support new application enablement for universities and scientists in the Nordics and strengthen international collaborative environment. The new 40 Gbit/s per channel technology utilises the existing network capabilities that allow for up to 96 parallel channels on a single fiber pair.

The full text of the press release can be viewed here or in pdf format

NORDUnet Strategy 2009-2012

The NORDUnet Board has during a series of Board meeting discussed and agreed on a NORDUnet Strategy for the Period 2009-2012.

You can find the NORDUnet Strategy Page here.

The 25th NORDUnet Conference is in Copenhagen is finished. See you next time in for the 26'th NORDUnet conference, April 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland

You can watch webcast of the main track here and fine the conference program and presentations here

The NORDUnet Conference was sponsoret by NORDUnet, Forskningsnettet, UNI-C, NDGF, Alcatel Lucent and Global Connect.

NORDUnet Core IP backbone to be upgraded to 40Gb/s

Copenhagen, May 28th 2009.
IPnett has won the contract for building out and upgrading the NORDUnet IP core network. The contract includes an upgrade to 40Gb/s core links and makes NORDUnet ready for 100Gb/s. To facilitate this NORDUnet invest in an upgrade of current Juniper Networks T-640 routers to T-1600 core routers as well as the Juniper Networks MX-480 Series routers for the build out of the network from IPnett. The framework agreement includes a multi-year service and support agreement.

The full press release can be read here

NORDUnet is now present at LINX (London Internet eXchange)

Copenhagen, April 14'th. 2009

NORDUnet is now connected to the London INternet eXchange Point (LINX).

NORDUnet is also present at:

NORDUnet plans to continue expanding it's public peering presence, to also include peering at overseas locations. This is part of an expansive public peering strategy, to secure the best possible commodity internet service at the optimum cost for the Nordic research and educational networks.

In addition to peerings at internet exchange points, NORDUnet operate a number of private peerings, securing superior quality to NORDUnets nordic customers at the lowest possible cost.
The private peerings include major global and regional cooperations and content providers like Google.

You can follow the peering traffic at the NORDUnet Load Plot Page and you can find NORDUnet's Policy here. Peering requests can be sent to NORDUpeering

NORDUnet is now present on NIX and DIX (Nordic Internet eXchange Points)

Copenhagen, March 3rd. 2009

Continuing our efforts to improve network connectivity and reduce cost, NORDUnet has now connected to the Danish Internet eXchangepoint (DIX) and the Norwegian Internet eXchange (NIX). The first peering on DIX came live the 20th of February 2009 and the first on NIX the 23rd of February 2009.

NORDUnet is also present at the NETNOD internet exchange in Stockholm and on AMS-IX in Amsterdam; NORDUnet plans to continue expanding it's peering presence.

In addition to peerings at internet exchange points, NORDUnet operate a number of private peerings, securing superior quality to NORDUnets nordic customers at the lowest possible cost.

You can follow the peering traffic at the NORDUnet Load Plot Page and you can find NORDUnet's Policy here. Peering requests can be sent to NORDUpeering

NORDUnet Public Presentation Library

Presentations given by NORDUnet staff and essential presentation that NORDUnet staff ensounters is available at the NORDUnet Public Presentation Library.

NORDUnet 2009 Tender for IP Transit

Copenhagen June 9'th 2009
Sponsored The NORDUnet 2009 Tender for IP Transit is now open

The object of the NORDUnet call for tender is:

1. A Primary IP Transit service between NORDUnet and the global Internet, with capacity up to 10 Gbit/s delivered as 1 x 10 Gigabit/s connection in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
2. A Secondary IP Transit service between NORDUnet and the global Internet, with capacity up to 10 Gbit/s delivered as 1 x 10 Gigabit/s connection in Stockholm or Copenhagen.
3. An option of an additional connection in either Copenhagen or Stockholm.
4. An option of upgrading these connections to 20 Gbit/s

Further information and tender material can be found at the NORDUnet tender site

SUNET & NORDUnet Demonstrate Ultra Long Haul 40 Gbit/sec. capability.

Stockholm, November 24th. 2008

SUNET - the national Research and Education network of Sweden and NORDUnet - the pan-Nordic R&E network, continue to demonstrate their leadership among R&E networks in Europe. Since the beginning of 2007, the two networks have been running various trials and production services with 40 Gbit/s, and are now taking another step to gain experience with high speed long haul IP connections by participating in test of first ever native 40 Gbit/sec transatlantic IP link; 9600 km between Luleå, Sweden and New York.

The entire press release can be found here.

More information can obtained by contacting René Buch

NORDUnet T-MPLS/MPLS-TP workshop

NORDUnet is organizing a T-MPLS/MPLS-TP workshop on April 27'th where representatives from Alcatel-Lucent will come to Denmark to present the latest news regarding this technology. Furthermore, this workshop will contain a Live TMPLS Demonstration.

The idea is to get a better understanding of the technology and Alcatel-Lucent's view about its future.

This workshop is of special interest as it would be subject of the GN3 EU research activities of Task 1 in JRA1.

NORDUnet would like to invite you to this workshop as we consider your participation of great value to us.

More information here

NORDUnet Hands on DCN Workshop

NORDUnet host a high level technical DCN workshop on January 21st and 22nd 2009.

This 2-day workshop provides attendees with a working knowledge of how to design and deploy a dynamic circuit network. This workshop uses the control plane software currently in service on the Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) and numerous other regional and national R&E networks. This software includes the "DICE" developed Inter-Domain Controller (IDC), the DRAGON (Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks) GMPLS-based software and the OSCARS (On-Demand Secure Circuits and Advance Reservation System) webservice-based software. These are packaged together and made available as the DCN Software Suite.

The workshop provides an overview of GMPLS architecture, RSVP and OSPF protocols, control plane design concepts, and specifics of dynamic circuit network engineering as relates to campus, regional, and national network facilities in the R&E community.

Upon completion of this workshop, attendees will be better prepared to design and deploy a dynamic hybrid network.
More information here