Definition :

The so-called GN3 project - ‘Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services’ operates, upgrades and evolves the pan-European Research and Educational Network infrastructure (the GΙANT network) interconnecting the European National Research & Education Networks – NRENs and the innovative network services offered to the European R&E community. The project is performed with the participation of 34 NRENs in Europe. It comes after the GN1 project, in the frame of which the GΙANT network was created to interconnect the European NRENs’ infrastructures and after the GN2 project, which introduced the new generation hybrid GΙANT infrastructure as well as advanced and innovative services offered over the interconnected networks.

The project is coordinated by the urban company of Research & Educational networks for the provision of Internet technologies in Europe DANTE (UK), with the significant participation of the Pan European Organization of Research – Academic TERENA (NL).

Duration:

Beginning: 01/03/2009, End: 28/2/2013

Objectives:

The GN3 project builds on the solid experience and developments gained from GN2. The main difference in GN3 is that where GN2 was revolutionary in its technology objectives (for example, in the acquisition and lighting of dark fibre and the creation of a hybrid network), GN3 will be revolutionary in terms of the services it provides. Whilst the underlying technology at the lower layers of the network is not going to undergo substantial change, there will be a dramatic change in the services that will be developed and offered to end users. This will be particularly true for those high-end users who demand leading-edge services and not just underlying technology. GΙANT is currently a state-of-the-art network. The next step is to develop state-of-the-art network services that will leverage the already significant investment made. GN3 will place more emphasis on developing Service Activities (SAs) to create this range of network services. These services will form the foundation for creating European and, where possible, global research collaborations and virtual communities.

GRNET contributes to a great extent to the Service and Research Activities of the project, by participating to the research and service development conducted, obtaining know-how and disseminating knowledge and experiences to the Greek networking community. More specifically, the participation of GRNET to the project focuses on:

·The preparatory study for the future architecture and transport technologies of the GΙANT infrastructure (Activity SA1)

·The preparation and conducting of procurement for advanced telecommunications equipment and transmission lines for ultra-high data transport over GΙANT (Activity SA1)

·The development and operations of services for the utilization and management of resources of GΙANT and the European NRENs over a multi-technology, multi-domain pan-European environment (Activity SA2)

·The development and operations of user access control services over the available network resources (Activity SA3)

·The control and management of open source software produced in the framework of the project (Activity SA4)

·The research activities on the definition and evaluation of protocols, mechanisms and tools for advanced network management functions, network resources’ and service quality visualization, security workflows and tools for conducting research over the GΙANT-NREN infrastructure (Activities JRA1, JRA2 και JRA3)

Funding :

EC funded

Partners :

 

 

Project Manager : Afrodite Sevasti

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