This session is sponsored by Fortinet.
Chair: Frances Burton, security services group manager, Jisc.
Cybersecurity has long been an area of activity for those responsible for providing, protecting and supporting digital services in research and education, but recent events have focused public and media attention on the scale of the threat.
Our security thread at this year’s conference is picking up on some of these themes and we have sessions covering a number of cybersecurity areas. There will be presentations on organisation experiences of email phishing and the results of our RPZ trial. Accreditation of services is being requested more often by project funders and will have a case study presentation on experience of obtaining ISO27001.
Running order of talks:
11:30-11:55 - RPZ trial
Speaker: Peter Dorey, Spamhaus
11:55-12:20 - Addressing the skills shortage in cybersecurity
Speaker: Debbie Tunstall, Cyber Security Challenge.
12:20-12:45 - Institutional issues with Bitcoin
Speaker: Jethro Perkins, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
This session is sponsored by Aruba: Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
Chair: Mark O'Leary, head of above-net services development, Jisc.
Wireless connectivity and mobility are mission critical to most organisations today.
This session addresses how govroam is building upon the proven success of eduroam to offer the same seamless authentication experience to a much wider reaching community of users, we look at the highs and lows of a Wi-Fi project across an urban university, and we bring you the latest updates to our eduroam support portal.
Running order of talks:
16:15-16:40 - govroam
Speaker: David Hayling, University of Kent.
16:40-17:05 - Wi-Fi improvement project
Speaker: Jamie Lee, Goldsmiths, University of London.
17:05-17:30 - eduroam support portal changes
Speakers:
Edward Wincott, Jisc
Nik Nitev, Loughborough University
The document discusses a presentation about Lancaster University's experience with Storm Desmond, a major flood event, and lessons learned for improving campus disaster preparedness. Key points:
- Lancaster University lost power for 4 days during Storm Desmond due to flooding that cut off the main power substation. Emergency response was hampered by a lack of backup communications.
- Shortcomings were identified in emergency planning, backup power testing, and communications during the outage. Temporary fixes like wireless access points helped but were inadequate long-term.
- Upgrades have since included connecting more buildings to generator-backed systems, increasing fiber capacity, and improving radio communications. However, full readiness for a similar large-scale event is still limited
Chair: Tim Chown, network development manager, Jisc.
IPv6 is now becoming mainstream for UK Internet users. By the time Networkshop45 takes place, it is expected that over 30% of UK residential users will have access to IPv6. It is therefore becoming important that higher and further education sites keep pace with commercial deployment.
With that in mind, in this session we look at IPv6 deployment at Imperial College London, which is the largest example in the UK and includes up to 40Gbit/s of CERN Large Hadron Collider data, we review various perspectives of measuring IPv6 deployment activity on the Janet network, and we explore the options for IPv6 address planning for campus sites.
Running order of talks:
11:30-11:45 - Imperial College IPv6 deployment
Speaker: Phil Mayers, Imperial College London.
11:45-12:15 - IPv6 deployment around the world
Speaker: Mat Ford, Internet Society (ISOC).
12:15-12:45 - IPv6 address planning
Speakers:
Emma Cardinal-Richards, UCL
George Margaritis, University of Reading
This document summarizes a presentation on supporting data intensive applications. It discusses the Janet end-to-end performance initiative which aims to engage with data intensive research communities to help optimize performance. Some key points include:
- Seeing increasing data intensive science applications and remote computation scenarios requiring high bandwidth.
- Importance of understanding researcher requirements and setting expectations on practical throughput limits.
- Using perfSONAR to measure network characteristics and identify performance issues between sites on the Janet network.
- Adopting the "Science DMZ" model of separating research and campus traffic to avoid bottlenecks and optimize data transfer performance.
This document summarizes a presentation on the evolution of the Vscene videoconferencing service. It discusses:
1. The history of Vscene and its use by universities, schools, and content providers.
2. Plans to develop Vscene into a commercial product through a new partnership between Jisc and Ajenta. Ajenta will develop Vscene 2.0 and introduce charges in 2018.
3. An introduction to Ajenta, the new commercial partner, and next steps which involve further developing Vscene and transitioning it to a fully commercial service run by Ajenta.
This session is sponsored by Fortinet.
Chair: Frances Burton, security services group manager, Jisc.
Cybersecurity has long been an area of activity for those responsible for providing, protecting and supporting digital services in research and education, but recent events have focused public and media attention on the scale of the threat.
Our security thread at this year’s conference is picking up on some of these themes and we have sessions covering a number of cybersecurity areas. There will be presentations on organisation experiences of email phishing and the results of our RPZ trial. Accreditation of services is being requested more often by project funders and will have a case study presentation on experience of obtaining ISO27001.
Running order of talks:
11:30-11:55 - RPZ trial
Speaker: Peter Dorey, Spamhaus
11:55-12:20 - Addressing the skills shortage in cybersecurity
Speaker: Debbie Tunstall, Cyber Security Challenge.
12:20-12:45 - Institutional issues with Bitcoin
Speaker: Jethro Perkins, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
This session is sponsored by Aruba: Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
Chair: Mark O'Leary, head of above-net services development, Jisc.
Wireless connectivity and mobility are mission critical to most organisations today.
This session addresses how govroam is building upon the proven success of eduroam to offer the same seamless authentication experience to a much wider reaching community of users, we look at the highs and lows of a Wi-Fi project across an urban university, and we bring you the latest updates to our eduroam support portal.
Running order of talks:
16:15-16:40 - govroam
Speaker: David Hayling, University of Kent.
16:40-17:05 - Wi-Fi improvement project
Speaker: Jamie Lee, Goldsmiths, University of London.
17:05-17:30 - eduroam support portal changes
Speakers:
Edward Wincott, Jisc
Nik Nitev, Loughborough University
The document discusses a presentation about Lancaster University's experience with Storm Desmond, a major flood event, and lessons learned for improving campus disaster preparedness. Key points:
- Lancaster University lost power for 4 days during Storm Desmond due to flooding that cut off the main power substation. Emergency response was hampered by a lack of backup communications.
- Shortcomings were identified in emergency planning, backup power testing, and communications during the outage. Temporary fixes like wireless access points helped but were inadequate long-term.
- Upgrades have since included connecting more buildings to generator-backed systems, increasing fiber capacity, and improving radio communications. However, full readiness for a similar large-scale event is still limited
Chair: Tim Chown, network development manager, Jisc.
IPv6 is now becoming mainstream for UK Internet users. By the time Networkshop45 takes place, it is expected that over 30% of UK residential users will have access to IPv6. It is therefore becoming important that higher and further education sites keep pace with commercial deployment.
With that in mind, in this session we look at IPv6 deployment at Imperial College London, which is the largest example in the UK and includes up to 40Gbit/s of CERN Large Hadron Collider data, we review various perspectives of measuring IPv6 deployment activity on the Janet network, and we explore the options for IPv6 address planning for campus sites.
Running order of talks:
11:30-11:45 - Imperial College IPv6 deployment
Speaker: Phil Mayers, Imperial College London.
11:45-12:15 - IPv6 deployment around the world
Speaker: Mat Ford, Internet Society (ISOC).
12:15-12:45 - IPv6 address planning
Speakers:
Emma Cardinal-Richards, UCL
George Margaritis, University of Reading
This document summarizes a presentation on supporting data intensive applications. It discusses the Janet end-to-end performance initiative which aims to engage with data intensive research communities to help optimize performance. Some key points include:
- Seeing increasing data intensive science applications and remote computation scenarios requiring high bandwidth.
- Importance of understanding researcher requirements and setting expectations on practical throughput limits.
- Using perfSONAR to measure network characteristics and identify performance issues between sites on the Janet network.
- Adopting the "Science DMZ" model of separating research and campus traffic to avoid bottlenecks and optimize data transfer performance.
This document summarizes a presentation on the evolution of the Vscene videoconferencing service. It discusses:
1. The history of Vscene and its use by universities, schools, and content providers.
2. Plans to develop Vscene into a commercial product through a new partnership between Jisc and Ajenta. Ajenta will develop Vscene 2.0 and introduce charges in 2018.
3. An introduction to Ajenta, the new commercial partner, and next steps which involve further developing Vscene and transitioning it to a fully commercial service run by Ajenta.
The Janet end-to-end performance initiative aims to help communities optimize the use of the Janet network for data-intensive applications by identifying and sharing best practices, raising awareness of issues that impact performance, and promoting awareness of what high performance is possible. The initiative documents techniques for tuning end systems, data transfer tools, local site networks, and application monitoring. Today's talks provide an overview of some key topics addressed by the initiative.
The University of Dundee underwent a campus network refresh and IT restructuring project. The goals were to replace aging network infrastructure, improve wireless access and performance, reduce complexity, and improve security. A tender process was used to select a new vendor. The selected solution involved switching, software-defined networking, firewalls, and wireless access points to provide a modernized network across campus. The project has been progressing on time according to updates published online and through social media.
My slides for the Innovate UK e-Infrastructure SIG meeting in August 2014, introducing the work we have been doing with HPC Midlands to create a standard heads of agreement for HPC services, to make it easier for academic supercomputer centres to share their facilities with other institutions and with industry.
UK e-Infrastructure for Research - UK/USA HPC Workshop, Oxford, July 2015Martin Hamilton
The document summarizes the UK's investments in e-infrastructure for research from 2011-2015. It discusses the major investments made in high performance computing (HPC), networking infrastructure, and big data projects. The investments totaled £160 million in 2011-2012, £189 million in 2012-2013, and £257 million in 2014-2015. It also summarizes the results of a survey of the UK's e-infrastructure, including details on the largest HPC systems and datasets. Finally, it mentions that the Research Councils UK (RCUK) developed a roadmap for the UK's e-infrastructure with a vision for an integrated infrastructure to support researchers.
The document summarizes a presentation on cloud computing given by Norman Wiseman and Rachel Bruce of JISC. It defines cloud computing and discusses different cloud service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). It outlines benefits of cloud like flexibility, cost savings, and environmental benefits but also risks around costs, data protection, contractual issues. JISC activities are described to help institutions develop cloud strategies including research on cloud adoption, brokerage services to negotiate deals, and support for flexible service delivery pilots across UK universities.
Presentation given at Digital Humanities in Practice Seminar, Open University, UK. 24th January 2013.
More info at http://ww1.discovery.ac.uk/digital-humanities-and-the-first-world-war/
Stronger together: community initiatives in journal managementJisc
There has been a recent growth of initiatives to address common problems regarding current and long-term access to e-journal content. Jisc is at the forefront of many of these with the close participation and active input of educational institutions.
This session aims to summarise the current state of key themes with pointers to future directions of areas such as sustainability, the move towards e-only environments, and shared consortia approaches. It will provide an overview and panel discussion on developing the supporting infrastructure to meet the needs of users. The discussion will focus on how institutions, community bodies and service providers can best work together to ensure sustainable, long-term initiatives by seeking to introduce uniformity, standardisation and collaboration to an even greater extent.
The session will introduce two new Jisc-supported projects in this area, the Keepers Registry Extra and SafeNet initiatives, and discuss how these fit alongside existing Jisc services such as Knowledge Base+, UK LOCKSS Alliance, Journal Archives and JUSP (Journal Usage Statistics Portal). The panel will address how this catalogue of services contributes towards a coherent strategy in the management of e-journal content.
The slides for my talk on "HPC as a service" at the 25th anniversary Machine Evaluation Workshop in December 2014. I cover Jisc's HPC brokerage and related initiatives including our shared data centre, industry connectivity to Janet, our VAT cost sharing group, and our pilot of the Kit-Catalogue equipment sharing database.
Slides from my panel session at Science & Innovation 2015 with STFC DiRAC, HPC Midlands, Francis Crick Institute and UCL. As we move into the expected post-election comprehensive spending review, it is a good time to take stock of some of the innovations that have helped the UK’s institutions and industry to work together to accelerate innovation whilst achieving operating efficiencies over the last few years.
In this session we hear about trend setting initiatives such as Jisc’s shared data centre and equipment sharing initiative, which makes over £200m of capital equipment available for sharing between institutions and with industry, and industrial connectivity to the UK’s Janet network.
This session brings people together with a common interest in getting the best possible performance from their networks. You’ll hear a brief summary from last October’s end-to-end workshop, and a little more about our new end-to-end performance initiative.
Highlights of what is coming - presentation from Paul FeldmanJisc
Jisc plans to upgrade the Janet network to have 600gbps core capacity and use 400gbps optical technology. It will also rearchitect the regional network and explore network virtualization. Jisc will launch several new cybersecurity services including a security portal, DDoS mitigation, and a security conference. It will also offer cloud migration consulting, improve the geospatial service through a partnership, and expand the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase. Additionally, Jisc will provide various digital capability and learning analytics services.
Supporting open research - how to help your researchers - Vitae15Kevin Ashley
A talk given at a Vitae event in Leeds, 2015-12-01, on how universities and other research organisations can help their researchers practice open research, with a special focus on the training resources provided by FOSTER.
The future of cloud computing - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
In Jisc's future of cloud computing horizon scan report, we identified three strategic areas where Jisc could support universities and colleges in moving to the cloud – cloud as a utility, app as a service, and working to build capability in cloud technologies.
Come along to this session to hear more about this work from Jisc futurist Martin Hamilton, and find out how you can get involved.
The latest developments affecting the Janet network, the services Jisc provides over the network, and future development of products, services and technologies.
Save money and consolidate data in one safe environment - Jisc Digital Festiv...Jisc
Making the right decision about how and where to manage your data is key to an organisation’s IT strategy. The new Jisc shared data centre has been procured to provide a cost effective environment to co-locate systems and services in one safe environment.
So whether you are supporting enterprise activities or high end research, the Jisc shared data centre can provide significant benefits to your organisation.
Big data and the dark arts - Jisc Digital Media 2015Jisc
There still remains a certain misunderstanding by the very definition of "big data" and the perceived hype around the term. This workshop clarified the concepts and give examples of relevant big data projects.
Rachel Bruce's presentation at the CNI conferenece on research at risk and developing a shared research data management service for UK universities. December 2015.
Dealing with pervasive monitoring - Networkshop44Jisc
This document provides an overview and summary of a talk on pervasive monitoring given by Stephen Farrell from Trinity College Dublin. Some key points:
- Pervasive monitoring by intelligence agencies has revealed the unexpectedly broad scope and scale of their surveillance activities.
- The IETF has taken several actions in response, including establishing new working groups, publishing BCPs like RFC 7258 that establish pervasive monitoring as an attack to mitigate, and promoting opportunistic security and encryption by default.
- Ongoing work includes efforts around DNS privacy, TLS 1.3 improvements, and allowing content delivery without revealing private keys. However, balancing security, privacy and network operations remains challenging.
Trust and identity in the Géant project - Networkshop44Jisc
The document discusses trust and identity in the GÉANT project. It provides an overview of how identity federations currently work through interoperability via eduGAIN [1]. It then discusses how research environments are becoming more complex, requiring identity solutions that can support more flexible collaboration beyond local campuses [2]. Finally, it outlines some developments underway through the GÉANT project to develop tools and services that can help balance risk while enabling attribute sharing to better support modern research needs like those of the LIGO collaboration [3].
The document discusses Janet Network's experience with DDoS attacks in early December 2015. It provides a timeline of attacks from December 1st to 8th that lasted between 20 minutes and 3.5 hours. The attacks targeted both individual institutions and Janet infrastructure. In response, Janet declared a major incident, implemented defensive blocks on routers, and communicated updates on their website and Twitter. The document also examines lessons learned and the need to accelerate DDoS mitigation in their security program given changes in the evolving threat landscape.
Dave Tinkler and Tony Hacche lead engineering teams for various regional networks that are part of Janet, the UK education and research network. They provide support for layer 2 and layer 3 services on Janet, including BGP, resilient site connections, private wire services, lightpath services, private LAN, and optical circuits. They were giving a presentation to take questions from attendees about engineering issues on Janet.
The University of Edinburgh is undergoing a large project to reprocure its campus networking infrastructure. The existing network, which has grown organically over many years, contains equipment that is up to 20 years old and no longer meets the university's needs. After an internal review in 2014 recommended a new network be procured, the university embarked on a multi-stage competitive dialogue procurement process that is still ongoing. The process involves pre-market engagement, shortlisting bidders, and multiple rounds of dialogue and evaluation to refine solutions before selecting a final vendor. The procurement has proven to be a large undertaking but may result in a network solution tailored to the university's unique requirements.
The Janet end-to-end performance initiative aims to help communities optimize the use of the Janet network for data-intensive applications by identifying and sharing best practices, raising awareness of issues that impact performance, and promoting awareness of what high performance is possible. The initiative documents techniques for tuning end systems, data transfer tools, local site networks, and application monitoring. Today's talks provide an overview of some key topics addressed by the initiative.
The University of Dundee underwent a campus network refresh and IT restructuring project. The goals were to replace aging network infrastructure, improve wireless access and performance, reduce complexity, and improve security. A tender process was used to select a new vendor. The selected solution involved switching, software-defined networking, firewalls, and wireless access points to provide a modernized network across campus. The project has been progressing on time according to updates published online and through social media.
My slides for the Innovate UK e-Infrastructure SIG meeting in August 2014, introducing the work we have been doing with HPC Midlands to create a standard heads of agreement for HPC services, to make it easier for academic supercomputer centres to share their facilities with other institutions and with industry.
UK e-Infrastructure for Research - UK/USA HPC Workshop, Oxford, July 2015Martin Hamilton
The document summarizes the UK's investments in e-infrastructure for research from 2011-2015. It discusses the major investments made in high performance computing (HPC), networking infrastructure, and big data projects. The investments totaled £160 million in 2011-2012, £189 million in 2012-2013, and £257 million in 2014-2015. It also summarizes the results of a survey of the UK's e-infrastructure, including details on the largest HPC systems and datasets. Finally, it mentions that the Research Councils UK (RCUK) developed a roadmap for the UK's e-infrastructure with a vision for an integrated infrastructure to support researchers.
The document summarizes a presentation on cloud computing given by Norman Wiseman and Rachel Bruce of JISC. It defines cloud computing and discusses different cloud service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). It outlines benefits of cloud like flexibility, cost savings, and environmental benefits but also risks around costs, data protection, contractual issues. JISC activities are described to help institutions develop cloud strategies including research on cloud adoption, brokerage services to negotiate deals, and support for flexible service delivery pilots across UK universities.
Presentation given at Digital Humanities in Practice Seminar, Open University, UK. 24th January 2013.
More info at http://ww1.discovery.ac.uk/digital-humanities-and-the-first-world-war/
Stronger together: community initiatives in journal managementJisc
There has been a recent growth of initiatives to address common problems regarding current and long-term access to e-journal content. Jisc is at the forefront of many of these with the close participation and active input of educational institutions.
This session aims to summarise the current state of key themes with pointers to future directions of areas such as sustainability, the move towards e-only environments, and shared consortia approaches. It will provide an overview and panel discussion on developing the supporting infrastructure to meet the needs of users. The discussion will focus on how institutions, community bodies and service providers can best work together to ensure sustainable, long-term initiatives by seeking to introduce uniformity, standardisation and collaboration to an even greater extent.
The session will introduce two new Jisc-supported projects in this area, the Keepers Registry Extra and SafeNet initiatives, and discuss how these fit alongside existing Jisc services such as Knowledge Base+, UK LOCKSS Alliance, Journal Archives and JUSP (Journal Usage Statistics Portal). The panel will address how this catalogue of services contributes towards a coherent strategy in the management of e-journal content.
The slides for my talk on "HPC as a service" at the 25th anniversary Machine Evaluation Workshop in December 2014. I cover Jisc's HPC brokerage and related initiatives including our shared data centre, industry connectivity to Janet, our VAT cost sharing group, and our pilot of the Kit-Catalogue equipment sharing database.
Slides from my panel session at Science & Innovation 2015 with STFC DiRAC, HPC Midlands, Francis Crick Institute and UCL. As we move into the expected post-election comprehensive spending review, it is a good time to take stock of some of the innovations that have helped the UK’s institutions and industry to work together to accelerate innovation whilst achieving operating efficiencies over the last few years.
In this session we hear about trend setting initiatives such as Jisc’s shared data centre and equipment sharing initiative, which makes over £200m of capital equipment available for sharing between institutions and with industry, and industrial connectivity to the UK’s Janet network.
This session brings people together with a common interest in getting the best possible performance from their networks. You’ll hear a brief summary from last October’s end-to-end workshop, and a little more about our new end-to-end performance initiative.
Highlights of what is coming - presentation from Paul FeldmanJisc
Jisc plans to upgrade the Janet network to have 600gbps core capacity and use 400gbps optical technology. It will also rearchitect the regional network and explore network virtualization. Jisc will launch several new cybersecurity services including a security portal, DDoS mitigation, and a security conference. It will also offer cloud migration consulting, improve the geospatial service through a partnership, and expand the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase. Additionally, Jisc will provide various digital capability and learning analytics services.
Supporting open research - how to help your researchers - Vitae15Kevin Ashley
A talk given at a Vitae event in Leeds, 2015-12-01, on how universities and other research organisations can help their researchers practice open research, with a special focus on the training resources provided by FOSTER.
The future of cloud computing - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
In Jisc's future of cloud computing horizon scan report, we identified three strategic areas where Jisc could support universities and colleges in moving to the cloud – cloud as a utility, app as a service, and working to build capability in cloud technologies.
Come along to this session to hear more about this work from Jisc futurist Martin Hamilton, and find out how you can get involved.
The latest developments affecting the Janet network, the services Jisc provides over the network, and future development of products, services and technologies.
Save money and consolidate data in one safe environment - Jisc Digital Festiv...Jisc
Making the right decision about how and where to manage your data is key to an organisation’s IT strategy. The new Jisc shared data centre has been procured to provide a cost effective environment to co-locate systems and services in one safe environment.
So whether you are supporting enterprise activities or high end research, the Jisc shared data centre can provide significant benefits to your organisation.
Big data and the dark arts - Jisc Digital Media 2015Jisc
There still remains a certain misunderstanding by the very definition of "big data" and the perceived hype around the term. This workshop clarified the concepts and give examples of relevant big data projects.
Rachel Bruce's presentation at the CNI conferenece on research at risk and developing a shared research data management service for UK universities. December 2015.
Dealing with pervasive monitoring - Networkshop44Jisc
This document provides an overview and summary of a talk on pervasive monitoring given by Stephen Farrell from Trinity College Dublin. Some key points:
- Pervasive monitoring by intelligence agencies has revealed the unexpectedly broad scope and scale of their surveillance activities.
- The IETF has taken several actions in response, including establishing new working groups, publishing BCPs like RFC 7258 that establish pervasive monitoring as an attack to mitigate, and promoting opportunistic security and encryption by default.
- Ongoing work includes efforts around DNS privacy, TLS 1.3 improvements, and allowing content delivery without revealing private keys. However, balancing security, privacy and network operations remains challenging.
Trust and identity in the Géant project - Networkshop44Jisc
The document discusses trust and identity in the GÉANT project. It provides an overview of how identity federations currently work through interoperability via eduGAIN [1]. It then discusses how research environments are becoming more complex, requiring identity solutions that can support more flexible collaboration beyond local campuses [2]. Finally, it outlines some developments underway through the GÉANT project to develop tools and services that can help balance risk while enabling attribute sharing to better support modern research needs like those of the LIGO collaboration [3].
The document discusses Janet Network's experience with DDoS attacks in early December 2015. It provides a timeline of attacks from December 1st to 8th that lasted between 20 minutes and 3.5 hours. The attacks targeted both individual institutions and Janet infrastructure. In response, Janet declared a major incident, implemented defensive blocks on routers, and communicated updates on their website and Twitter. The document also examines lessons learned and the need to accelerate DDoS mitigation in their security program given changes in the evolving threat landscape.
Dave Tinkler and Tony Hacche lead engineering teams for various regional networks that are part of Janet, the UK education and research network. They provide support for layer 2 and layer 3 services on Janet, including BGP, resilient site connections, private wire services, lightpath services, private LAN, and optical circuits. They were giving a presentation to take questions from attendees about engineering issues on Janet.
The University of Edinburgh is undergoing a large project to reprocure its campus networking infrastructure. The existing network, which has grown organically over many years, contains equipment that is up to 20 years old and no longer meets the university's needs. After an internal review in 2014 recommended a new network be procured, the university embarked on a multi-stage competitive dialogue procurement process that is still ongoing. The process involves pre-market engagement, shortlisting bidders, and multiple rounds of dialogue and evaluation to refine solutions before selecting a final vendor. The procurement has proven to be a large undertaking but may result in a network solution tailored to the university's unique requirements.
Chair: Shirley Wood, training and support director, Jisc.
Welcome to Networkshop45
Speaker: Professor Edward Peck, Nottingham Trent University.
Janet update
Speakers:
Rolly Trice, deputy network operations director, Jisc
Steve Kennett, security director, Jisc
Machine learning for network security
Speaker: Miranda Mowbray.
This document provides an overview of NoSQL databases and HBase. It discusses why NoSQL databases are gaining popularity due to trends in data and architecture. It also summarizes the CAP theorem and how different databases balance consistency, availability and partition tolerance. The document describes research activities including evaluating HBase for telco usage and performing bulk processing tests on HBase. It finds that while HBase can scale horizontally, managing compaction storms and small files is challenging.
EPOC and NetSage provide engagement and network monitoring services to support research and education. NetSage collects anonymized network flow data to help understand traffic patterns and troubleshoot performance issues. It provides dashboards and analysis to answer common questions from network engineers and end users. Examples of NetSage deployments and use cases were shown for the CENIC network, including top sources and destinations of traffic, debugging slow flows, and analyzing international traffic patterns by country over time.
The document discusses potential future services and enhancements for Janet. It describes efforts to improve automation through tools like Ciena MCP and zero touch provisioning. It also discusses enhancing layer 2 and 3 VPN services, virtualizing network functions, optimizing IPv6 deployment, and supporting larger scale data transfers through the Janet end-to-end performance initiative. Measuring network performance with perfSONAR and following science DMZ principles are recommended to optimize high-performance research networking.
This document provides an introduction to networking, including definitions of basic networking concepts and components. It defines what a computer network is and discusses reasons for networking like sharing information and resources. It also describes different types of networks based on transmission medium, size, management methods and topology. Specific transmission media are explained in detail, including twisted-pair cables, coaxial cables and fiber-optic cables. Local area networks and wide area networks are defined. Peer-to-peer and client-server network models are introduced. Common network topologies of bus, star and ring are outlined.
The Jisc Research Data Shared Service (RDSS) is a
project that will integrate the offerings of a number of
repository, preservation, storage, reporting and information
management providers in order to allow UK universities to
easily deposit data for publication, discovery, safe storage,
and long-term archiving and preservation. This is a pilot
project until April 2018 working with 17 UK universities with
the overarching aim to ensure the long-term accessibility of
valuable research data, allowing it to be reused and shared.
Research data zone: veilige en geoptimaliseerde netwerkomgeving voor onderzoe...SURFnet
This document discusses using dedicated servers called data transfer nodes (DTNs) to improve data transfer speeds between research institutions. DTNs are part of a network architecture called a Science DMZ that optimizes high-speed transfers. The document recommends:
- Deploying high-performance DTNs with fast storage in a separate network zone dedicated to research data and services.
- Configuring lossless connections and security policies that don't impede transfers between DTNs and research networks.
- Educating IT departments on maintaining and supporting the infrastructure to improve end-user performance for data-intensive research collaborations.
Shared services - the future of HPC and big data facilities for UK researchMartin Hamilton
Slides from Jisc panel session at HPC & Big Data 2016 with contributions from the Francis Crick Institute, QMUL and King's College London covering their use of the Jisc shared data centre and the eMedLab project
The Janet network provides connectivity for research and education in the UK. It aims to deliver high bandwidth and availability to connect the UK research sector and infrastructure to global networks. Janet is designed for research and education purposes, not commercial or central government use. It has a hierarchical design with access connections to customer sites, regional infrastructure, and a national backbone with high-capacity external connections. Looking ahead, Janet plans to standardize equipment, rationalize its infrastructure, and increase use of fibre to reduce costs and complexity while improving availability, speeds, and flexibility.
This document provides an introduction to networking, including definitions of basic networking concepts and components. It defines what a computer network is and discusses reasons for networking. It also describes different types of networks including LANs and WANs, transmission media like twisted pair, coaxial, and fiber optic cables. Additionally, it covers topics like network topologies, peer-to-peer vs. client-server networks, and network devices.
Research network engineering: Community kick-off meetingJisc
This document provides an agenda and overview for a kick-off meeting of the Research Network Engineering community. The meeting will include presentations on the Janet Network, lessons from shifting real data from CERN to Lancaster, and Jisc's network performance test tools. The broad goals of the community are to discuss and share best practices in research networking, learn from each other, and help Jisc support the community. Examples of potential activities include looking at applicability of existing tools to other communities, documenting Science DMZ implementations, and testing data transfer tools. Existing resources that can contribute include experience from science communities and material from previous Jisc events.
This document provides an introduction to networking, including definitions of basic networking concepts and components. It defines what a computer network is and discusses reasons for networking. It also describes different types of networks including LANs, WANs, peer-to-peer and client-server networks. Additionally, it covers various networking transmission media such as twisted pair, coaxial, and fiber optic cables. Finally, it discusses common network topologies like bus, star and ring configurations.
Press conference joint fcg odva_pi 20171108 draft 20171104.1FieldComm Group
FieldComm Group, ODVA and PI Provide Joint Update on an Advanced Physical Layer for Industrial Ethernet
Organizations are cooperating to promote developments for industrial Ethernet to expand use of EtherNet/IP™, HART-IP™ and PROFINET™ into hazardous locations in the process industry
This document provides an agenda and information for a Tech 2Tech event at Durham discussing Jisc's new Janet access infrastructure. The agenda includes welcome remarks, presentations on the current and new Janet architectures, member experiences, and future Janet services. It is aimed at providing information on the network access program, opportunities to ask questions, and discussing challenges of the future. Working with partner Ciena, the new infrastructure aims to standardize equipment, management, and reduce costs while improving reliability and provisioning speeds. The regions of South, South West, East Midlands, West Midlands and London have started transitioning to the new infrastructure as existing regional contracts expire over the next 3-4 years.
Rob Leenderts, Director of Next Generation Internet Services and Vice-Chairman of INCA, will give a presentation at the INCA Conference Technical Workshop in Newcastle on November 15, 2017. The presentation will discuss backhaul, which typically connects a local access network to the core network via fiber or radio technologies, providing high bandwidth in an uncontended and scalable manner. While there is currently a significant amount of fiber infrastructure in many parts of the UK including London, Canary Wharf, Newcastle, and Manchester, more fiber is still needed to meet demands.
Accelerating Science and Innovation - It's Good to Share (HPC & Big Data 2017)Martin Hamilton
The business of research is getting more and more data intensive, as digital technology spreads into every discipline. At Jisc we provide shared services such as the Janet network, eduroam wireless roaming and shared data centres – reaching around 18 million people in the research, education and skills sectors. In this session at the HPC and Big Data 2017 conference we heard from the Francis Crick Institute and the Wellcome Trust about how their vision for using digital technology to accelerate science and innovation. We heard how they are using Jisc services to reduce the “time to science”, enable ground breaking research collaborations, and achieve significant operating efficiencies.
From Jisc's campus network engineering for data-intensive science workshop on 19 October 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/campus-network-engineering-for-data-intensive-science-workshop-19-oct-2016
The document discusses future services and developments for the Janet network. It covers several areas including automation, layer 2 and 3 VPNs, virtualized services, optimizing large data transfers, and working with the GÉANT project. perfSONAR is highlighted as a useful tool for measuring network performance when investigating throughput issues or evaluating new deployments.
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The document announces a community launch event for digital storytelling in January 2024. It discusses using digital storytelling in higher education to support learning and teaching. Examples include using digital stories for formative assessment, reflective exercises, and research dissemination across various disciplines. Feedback from students and staff who participated in digital storytelling workshops was very positive and found it to be transformative and help give voice to their experiences. The document also profiles speakers who will discuss using digital stories to explore difficult concepts, hear the student voice, and facilitate staff reflections. It emphasizes that digital storytelling can introduce humanity and creativity into pedagogy and help develop core skills. Attendees will participate in a Miro activity to discuss benefits, applications,
This document summarizes a Jisc strategy forum that took place in Northern Ireland on December 14, 2023. It outlines Jisc's planned services and initiatives for 2023-2024, including expanding network access and launching new cybersecurity, analytics, and equipment services. It discusses feedback received from further and higher education members on how Jisc can better deliver solutions, empower communities, and provide vision/strategy. Activities at the forum focused on understanding members' needs/challenges and discussing how Jisc can better support key priorities in Northern Ireland, such as affordable infrastructure, digital skills, and cybersecurity for FE and efficiency, student experience, and collaboration for HE.
This document summarizes a Jisc Scotland strategy forum that took place on December 12, 2023. It outlines Jisc's planned solutions and services for 2023-2024 including deploying resilient Janet access, IT health checks, online surveys, SD-WAN services, and more. The document discusses how Jisc engages stakeholders through relationship management, research, communities, training and events. It summarizes feedback from further education and higher education members on how Jisc can improve advocacy by delivering the right solutions, empowering communities, and having a clear vision and strategy. Finally, it outlines activities for the forum, including understanding members' needs and priorities and discussing how Jisc supports national priorities in Scotland.
The Jisc provided a strategic update to stakeholders. Key highlights included:
- Achievements from the last year like data collection and analysis following the HESA merger, digital transformation support, and cost savings from licensing deals.
- Customer testimonials from Bridgend College on extending eduroam and from the University of Northampton on curriculum design support from Jisc.
- Priorities for the coming year like connectivity upgrades, new cybersecurity services, and improved customer experience.
- A financial summary showing income sources like membership fees and expenditures on areas like connectivity and cybersecurity.
This document summarizes VirtualSpeech, a company that provides virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) powered professional development training. It offers over 150 online courses covering topics like public speaking, leadership, and sales. Users can practice skills in immersive VR scenarios and receive feedback from conversational AI. The training is used by over 450,000 individuals across 130 countries and 150 universities. VirtualSpeech aims to enhance traditional learning with interactive VR practice sessions and real-time feedback to boost skills retention.
Temple of Asclepius in Thrace. Excavation resultsKrassimira Luka
The temple and the sanctuary around were dedicated to Asklepios Zmidrenus. This name has been known since 1875 when an inscription dedicated to him was discovered in Rome. The inscription is dated in 227 AD and was left by soldiers originating from the city of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv).
Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
"Learn about all the ways Walmart supports nonprofit organizations.
You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
The webinar may also give some examples on how nonprofits can best leverage Walmart Business+.
The event will cover the following::
Walmart Business + (https://business.walmart.com/plus) is a new shopping experience for nonprofits, schools, and local business customers that connects an exclusive online shopping experience to stores. Benefits include free delivery and shipping, a 'Spend Analytics” feature, special discounts, deals and tax-exempt shopping.
Special TechSoup offer for a free 180 days membership, and up to $150 in discounts on eligible orders.
Spark Good (walmart.com/sparkgood) is a charitable platform that enables nonprofits to receive donations directly from customers and associates.
Answers about how you can do more with Walmart!"
The chapter Lifelines of National Economy in Class 10 Geography focuses on the various modes of transportation and communication that play a vital role in the economic development of a country. These lifelines are crucial for the movement of goods, services, and people, thereby connecting different regions and promoting economic activities.
Level 3 NCEA - NZ: A Nation In the Making 1872 - 1900 SML.pptHenry Hollis
The History of NZ 1870-1900.
Making of a Nation.
From the NZ Wars to Liberals,
Richard Seddon, George Grey,
Social Laboratory, New Zealand,
Confiscations, Kotahitanga, Kingitanga, Parliament, Suffrage, Repudiation, Economic Change, Agriculture, Gold Mining, Timber, Flax, Sheep, Dairying,
This presentation was provided by Racquel Jemison, Ph.D., Christina MacLaughlin, Ph.D., and Paulomi Majumder. Ph.D., all of the American Chemical Society, for the second session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session Two: 'Expanding Pathways to Publishing Careers,' was held June 13, 2024.
ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, and GDPR: Best Practices for Implementation and...PECB
Denis is a dynamic and results-driven Chief Information Officer (CIO) with a distinguished career spanning information systems analysis and technical project management. With a proven track record of spearheading the design and delivery of cutting-edge Information Management solutions, he has consistently elevated business operations, streamlined reporting functions, and maximized process efficiency.
Certified as an ISO/IEC 27001: Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) Lead Implementer, Data Protection Officer, and Cyber Risks Analyst, Denis brings a heightened focus on data security, privacy, and cyber resilience to every endeavor.
His expertise extends across a diverse spectrum of reporting, database, and web development applications, underpinned by an exceptional grasp of data storage and virtualization technologies. His proficiency in application testing, database administration, and data cleansing ensures seamless execution of complex projects.
What sets Denis apart is his comprehensive understanding of Business and Systems Analysis technologies, honed through involvement in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). From meticulous requirements gathering to precise analysis, innovative design, rigorous development, thorough testing, and successful implementation, he has consistently delivered exceptional results.
Throughout his career, he has taken on multifaceted roles, from leading technical project management teams to owning solutions that drive operational excellence. His conscientious and proactive approach is unwavering, whether he is working independently or collaboratively within a team. His ability to connect with colleagues on a personal level underscores his commitment to fostering a harmonious and productive workplace environment.
Date: May 29, 2024
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Philippine Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) CurriculumMJDuyan
(𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝟏𝟎𝟎) (𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏)-𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐬
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐏𝐏 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬:
- Understand the goals and objectives of the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) curriculum, recognizing its importance in fostering practical life skills and values among students. Students will also be able to identify the key components and subjects covered, such as agriculture, home economics, industrial arts, and information and communication technology.
𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫:
-Define entrepreneurship, distinguishing it from general business activities by emphasizing its focus on innovation, risk-taking, and value creation. Students will describe the characteristics and traits of successful entrepreneurs, including their roles and responsibilities, and discuss the broader economic and social impacts of entrepreneurial activities on both local and global scales.
3. What do we do ?
»CAT
› Lead engineers for Regional Networks
–Tony – East , E Midlands andW Midlands
–DaveT – London, South,ThamesValley Network , Northern
Ireland
› 3rd line support
»NEG
› 2nd line support
› Managed Router Services
12/04/2017 Network Engineering Surgery
4. PossibleTopics for Discussion – Layer 3
»Layer 3 Services on Janet
› Operating Resilient Site Connections
› Data Centre Connections
› Safeshare
12/04/2017 Network Engineering Surgery
5. PossibleTopics for Discussion – Layer 2
»Janet Private Network Services (JPNS)
› Netpath
–Janet Private Wire Services JPWS
–Janet private LAN JLAN
› Netpath+
–Janet Lightpath Services JLPS
–Janet Optical Circuits (JOC)
› Microsoft ExpressRoute
12/04/2017 Network Engineering Surgery