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Compendium
The Compendium should be the first stop when looking for basic information about NRENs in and around Europe. Published since 2001, the Compendium provides unique information about the development of NRENs in key areas such as legal form, users, network and traffic and budget and staffing. The 2005 and later editions are part of the GN2 project and provide basic analysis of developments over time and comparisons between groups of NRENs.
Connecting Schools
Schools are an important and large part of the broader educational and research community with very specific needs regarding the use of Internet technologies. In addition to providing connectivity and services to higher education, many NRENs are expanding their services to include schools. The TERENA Connecting Schools initiative began in 2004 and brings together people from the NRENs involved in providing connectivity and/or services to schools to exchange information and learn from each other's experiences.
CSIRT Training
Together with FIRST, the global Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, TERENA regularly organises training workshops for (future) members of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs). The training course covers the organisational, operational, technical and legal issues involved with running a CSIRT. The course is based on the materials that were developed originally in the TRANSITS project which ran from 2002 until 2005.
Development Support
This GÉANT2 NA4 Activity - assistance to the development of research and education networking in less-advanced regions - aims at understanding the status of research and education networking in less developed regions in and around Europe and to undertake specific actions in support of the research networking organisations in the countries concerned.
EARNEST Foresight Study
The Education And Research Networking Evolution Study (EARNEST) provides inputs for initiatives that could help to keep the evolution of European research networking at the forefront of worldwide developments, and enhance the competitiveness of the European Research Area. It prepares the ground for the planning of the development of research and education networking infrastructure and services after the completion of the GN2 project, at the local, national, European and intercontinental level.
eduroam
eduroam, which has been running since 2003, is the educational network roaming infrastructure that allows users of participating institutions to access a wireless LAN at other participants’ locations using their home institutions’ credentials. The eduroam infrastructure is based on 802.1X standard technology and RADIUS proxy servers backend.
eduroam MiniCAMP
The eduroam miniCAMPs are workshops aimed at promoting the usage of eduroam in countries where eduroam is not yet known.
These workshops are meant for system administrators and IT managers, who are involved in the installation of RADIUS servers and all of the other components required to set-up an eduroam enabled wireless LAN.
End-to-End Provisioning
Today, individual e-science applications can generate network flows measured in Gbps, enduring hours, days or even weeks, often between a well-defined set of nodes, and with tight constraints on quality of service. The needs of such applications are best met by 'traffic engineered' point-to-point circuits, rather than 'best effort' routed networks. That is why the provisioning of end-to-end (E2E) lightpaths (i.e. Gigabit Ethernet circuits or even lambdas) is becoming very important in the service portfolios of national research and education networks (NRENs).
EuroCAMP
The TERENA EuroCAMP (European CAMPUS Architecture Middleware Planning) workshops started in 2005. The aim of EuroCAMP is to reach out to the European campuses and promote state-of-the-art middleware technologies.
FEDERICA
The FEDERICA project will implement an experimental network infrastructure for trialling new networking technologies. This infrastructure is intended to be agnostic as to the type of protocols, services and applications that may be trialled, whilst allowing disruptive experiments to be undertaken. The aim is to develop mechanisms that will allow such experiments to be run over existing production networks without adverse effect.
GLIF
GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is an international virtual organisation that promotes the paradigm of lambda networking. GLIF provides lambdas internationally as an integrated facility to support data-intensive scientific research, and supports middleware development for lambda networking. GLIF was established in August 2003.
Identity Management Workshops
With the increasing demand to provide online access to resources for their constituency, universities need to think of proper Identity Management System to allow online access without affecting security and avoiding data duplication.
NGN Workshops
These events are held in order to exchange information about lower-layer networking issues (typical Layers 0-4), and to provide an open forum for discussing new initiatives. Research and education networks (national and regional), network researchers and commercial vendors are welcomed.
NoAH
The NoAH project aims to gather and analyse information about the nature of Internet cyberattacks. It will also develop an infrastructure to detect and provide early warning of such attacks, so that appropriate countermeasures may be taken to combat them.
NRENs and Grids Workshops
The purpose of the NRENs and Grids workshops is to bring together members of the NREN community with members of Grid projects in order to understand the common issues for these communities and to seek agreements and recommendations. TERENA has been running the NRENs and Grids workshops since May 2005.
PEACHES
PEACHES (Panel of Experts on Arts, Culture and Humanities E-Support) will collect and review information on network requirements, performance and specific techniques (like sound, video and lighting setups) that are needed for collaborative performances over the network. Novel uses of networking technologies, like applications in the Arts and Humanities area that are not related to collaborative environments, are also of interest to the panel.
REFEDS: Research and Education Federations
The aim of the REFEDS (Research and Education FEDerationS) activity is to look at technical specifications as well as policies to define procedures and guidelines to allow for interoperability of federations.
Server Certificate Service (SCS)
The Server Certificate Service (SCS) aims to provide low-cost ‘pop-up free’ server certificates for the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and their constituency.
The ‘pop-up’ problem (which results in a message saying “the issuer of this certificate is not trusted”) occurs when the server certificates are issued by a CA whose root is not listed among those recognised as a trusted one by popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
On January 2006, TERENA on behalf of the NRENs involved in the project and after a tender process contracted GlobalSign as CA provider to issue server certificates.
TACAR
Since 2003, TACAR (TERENA Academic CA Repository) offers a trustworthy solution to the problem of downloading root CA certificates. The problem that TACAR addresses is the use of Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) and how to get the appropriate root CA certificates needed by browsers in a practical and cost-effective manner. A possible solution that can be applied within the TERENA community is the provision of a trusted repository which contains verified root CA certificates.
TERENA Networking Conference
The TERENA Networking Conference has developed into the place to meet for NREN managers, senior technical staff, industry representatives, policy and decision makers and researchers. Through keynote speeches by renowned specialists and many parallel sessions, the Conference presents an overview of all the latest developments in research networking, both in the technical field and in the areas of application and management. A selection of the best papers is published every year on the web and an archive of presentations is available as well.
TF-CSIRT
Computer security incidents require fast and effective responses from the organisations concerned. Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs), either internal or outsourced, are service providers responsible for receiving, reviewing and responding to computer security incident reports and activity. The TF-CSIRT task force promotes the collaboration between CSIRTs at a European level.
TF-ECS
The Task Force Enhanced Communication Services (TF-ECS) will explore collaboration tools and technologies that go beyond simple voice and video conferencing. They will coordinate current national activities and assist in the rollout of next-generation collaboration services. The task force will investigate the impact of future developments in real-time communications and will define an architecture and trust model for peering such deployments in national research and education networks.
TF-EMC2
TF-EMC2, the TERENA Task Force on European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration, started its mandate in September 2004. The aim of the task force is to provide a forum to discuss middleware issues and foster collaboration in the middleware arena.
TF-MOBILITY
The TERENA Task Force on Mobility investigates the issues that arise when users move between different organisations (generally campuses and NRENs) and try to gain access to the Internet using their own mobile devices.
TF-MSP Management of Service Portfolios
The purpose of the task force TF-MSP is to promote collaboration between research and education networking organisations in Europe in the area of management of service portfolios.
TF-PR
The public relations task force (TF-PR) promotes the quality and quantity of public relations and information dissemination about research and education networking in Europe, through collaboration between research and education networking organisations in at the level of PR Manager / Information Officer.
TF-Storage
The storage task force TF-Storage coordinates the development of open and inter-operable data storage and management infrastructures and services among national research and education networks and academic and research institutions.
TF-Storage continues the discussion on opportunities and areas for collaboration on data storage services which began with two meetings in 2007.
Training
TERENA is involved in co-organising a number of training events under the GN2/NA8 (training) activity, including security training, network monitoring and eduroam administration training.
Trusted Introducer
In Europe joint CSIRT activities are undertaken within a cooperative body called TF-CSIRT. To cooperate efficiently and swiftly when security incidents occur, a certain level of mutual trust is needed between CSIRTs. An important pre-requisite for mutual trust is shared and accurate operational knowledge about one another. The TI accreditation service is meant to do just that: facilitate trust by formally accrediting CSIRTs that are ready to take that step.