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During 2007 the NORDUnet Board decided to initiate a number of strategy sessions at each board meeting eventually leading to the finalization of a firm NORDUnet Strategy for the period 2009-2012
The Key strategy drivers has been:
Globalization and International Competition
To push the scientific borders further Global Collaboration is necessary and to pool global resources and knowledge fx. CERN, eVLBI GLEON, GENI, CINEGRID etc. This raises the competition between international scientists and institutions.
Cross Boarder Collaboration - Federated Networking
To be a recognized as participant in Global Research Projects it requires that national and regional institutions collaborate and pool resources. The Nordic NREN experience is that a coordinating and facilitating interregional coordination body add significant value to the national efforts as a common level play ground.
Network Paradigm shift
In addition to the general usage of the network the requirements for specialized high capacity E2E connections are rapidly increasing. This requires a new approach to inter network and inter organizational provisioning and coordination.
Dependencies of various disciplines
In addition to the paradigm shift in networking the interdependencies between multiple disciplines like Networking, Storage, GRID, AAI etc. raises the international and inter regional coordination challenges to a new complexity level.
The NORDUnet Strategy will continue to evolve as a part of the continuous discussion at the NORDUnet Board meetings.
The contributors to the NORDUnet Strategy discussions has been:
Janne Kanner - Funet (Chair)
Hans Wallberg - SUNET
Petter Kongshaug - UNINETT
Sæþór L. Jónsson - RHnet
Steen Pedersen - Forskningsnettet
Sven Tafvelin - SUNET
Jørgen Qvist - CNO2 NORDUnet A/S
Lars Fischer - CTO NORDUnet A/S
Jerry Sobieski - Director IRI NORDUnet A/S
René Buch - CEO NORDUnet A/S