About Campus Best Practices
'Campus Best Practices' is a task within the GEANT3 project running from April 1 2009 till April 1 2013. Four NRENs participate; UNINETT from Norway, CESNET from the Czech Republic, CSC/Funet from Finland and AMRES from Serbia.
The overall objective of 'Campus Best Practices' is to address key challenges for European campus networks, organise working groups and provide an evolving and to-the-point set of best-practice documents (BPDs) for the community. Dissemination of results on a European-wide level is a key objective.
The working methods build on the experiences from UNINETT’s GigaCampus project(2006-2009). Each NREN organises a number of working groups dealing with campus issues in different technical areas. Participants from universities are invited to participate in the working groups, which work to propose recommendations in best-practice documents.
The process of developing national best practice documents (BPDs) is as follows; a main author (or team of authors) makes an initial version of a given new BPD. The working group iterates on this document until consensus is reached. The draft will then be on review at the national level (within the HE sector) before it eventually is approved as a national BPD. The work flow is illustrated on the figure below.
A total of nine technical areas are covered: physical infrastructure, audio-visual (AV) lightpath service, LAN infrastructure (including IPv6), wireless, Network monitoring, SIP and IP telephony, security and procurements.