TERENA NREN Compendium 2009
Technical Services

Updated: 21 July 2009 at 11:36

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Basic Information

Quality Of Service
D1. Do you offer the same levels of QoS on your network, as are offered by GÉANT?
( )Yes
( )No, but plan to provide in the future
(x)No
D2. Our NREN offers GÉANT QoS
( )Yes
( )No, but plan to provide in the future
(x)No
D3. IP Best Efforts
(x)Yes
( )No, but plan to provide in the future
( )No
D4. Premium
( )Yes
( )No, but plan to provide in the future
(x)No
D5. Less than best efforts
(x)Yes
( )No, but plan to provide in the future
( )No
For reference, the proposed levels of Quality of Service on GÉANT can be found at:
http://www.geant2.net/server/show/conWebDoc.1582
D6. If your NREN does not provide these Quality of Service levels, please tick the ONE MAJOR overriding factor why you do not provide them:
( )Our NREN hardware is not currently capable of supporting these classes
(x)Our NREN sees no user demand for these services
( )Not physically possible unless all domains in path participate
( )Not economically viable
( )Prefer to over-provision the network
( )Other reason, please state
Computer Security Incident Response (CSIRT)
D7. Does your NREN offer security incident response to its user community:
(x)Yes ( )Planned ( )No
It is provided by the NREN
(x)Yes ( )Planned ( )No
It is provided by another NREN
( )Yes ( )Planned ( )No
It has been outsourced to another organisation
( )Yes ( )Planned ( )No
Please tick the following that apply to your NREN's CSIRT:
[x]The CSIRT is a member of the TERENA Trusted Introducer (TI) Scheme
[ ]The CSIRT is currently an accreditation candidate with TI
[x]The CSIRT is a member of FIRST
Authorisation and Authentication infrastructure
D8. AAI provided
(x)An AAI is provided by the NREN
( )An AAI has been outsourced to another organisation
D9. Do you run one or more federation(s)?
(x)Yes ( )No
D10. Which versions of SAML are supported by your federations?
[x]SAML 1.x
[x]SAML 2
D11. Does your federation have a policy?
(x)Yes ( )No
D12. If YES, please provide URL:
http://www.csc.fi/english/institutions/haka/join
D13. How many institutions belong to this federation?
41
D14. How many identity providers do you have in your federations?
32
D15. How many service providers do you have in your federations?
62
D16. What kind of services do the service providers of your federation(s) offer?
library services, learning support and collaboration tools (Moodle, wiki)
D17. Can you estimate the number of users per federation?
D18. Can you provide an indication on the type of users?
(students, researchers, librarians, etc. . . . )
students, researchers, staff, faculty
D19. Do you operate a Certification Authority?
( )Yes (x)No
D20. What sort of certificates do you issue?
[ ]Issue server certificates
[ ]Issue CA certificates
[ ]Issue end user certificates
D21. What do you use the certificates for?
[ ]GRID
[ ]AAI
[ ]Other, please specify
D22. Is the CA part of the EUGridPMA (or another PMA)?
D23. How many server certificates issued under the NREN's responsibility during 2008?
D24. What percentage of these were issued under the TERENA SCS scheme?
D25. How many additional server certificates do you expect to issue during 2009?
D26. What percentage of these will be issued the TERENA SCS scheme?
D27. Do you intend to issue user certificates in the future
( )Yes (x)No
D28. When do you expect to start issuing the user certificates?
D29. How many user certificates would you expect to issue during 2009?
D30. How many user certificates would you expect to issue in future years?
D31. Which other institutions/bodies will issue user certificates for users of NREN services?
User certificates for GRIDs are obtained through Nordugrid. Server certificates are obtained by a framework agreement from a commercial supplier.
Housing, Storage, Hosting and Content Delivery Services
This section explores the level of deployment for each type of service. Please enter a tick to indicate if services are currently deployed, planned or no interest to your NREN.
D32. Distributed Storage for GRID users
(x)Currently deployed ( )Planned ( )No interest
D33. Distributed Storage for any NREN users
( )Currently deployed (x)Planned ( )No interest
D34. Dedicated/special connectivity to provide high levels of connectivity to commercial content servers or commercial content
(x)Currently deployed ( )Planned ( )No interest
D35. Hosting of commercial content servers or commercial content on the NREN network
(x)Currently deployed ( )Planned ( )No interest
D36. Video servers for use by NREN sites
(x)Currently deployed ( )Planned ( )No interest
D37. Mirroring of content from outside the NREN network
(x)Currently deployed ( )Planned ( )No interest
Voice Services over IP (VOIP)
D38. Does your NREN run VOIP as a service to its users?
( )Yes (x)Planned ( )No
D39. Do you provide central administration of the service?
( )Yes ( )Planned ( )No
D40. Do you provide VOIP to PSTN services for your users?
( )Yes ( )Planned ( )No
D41. Do you provide inter-institutional VOIP services for institutions on your network?
( )Yes ( )Planned ( )No
Video Streaming and Video Conferencing
D42. Do you provide a centrally managed video conferencing service?
(x)Yes ( )Planned ( )No
D43. Do you provide Standard Definition (SD) Services MCU channels?
( )Yes (x)Planned ( )No
D44. Do you provide High Definition (HD) Services MCU channels?
( )Yes (x)Planned ( )No
D45. Are members of other communities outside your NREN able to book channels on your MCUs?
( )Yes (x)Planned ( )No
D46. Do you offer centrally provided archiving of conference/streaming?
( )Yes (x)Planned ( )No
D47. Do you have an online booking system?
( )Yes (x)Planned ( )No
D48. Is there centrally provided support for users?
( )Yes (x)Planned ( )No
D49. Is GDS supported?
(x)Yes ( )Planned ( )No
Networked Computing Resources (Grids)
D50. Is your NREN offering GRID services to the community you serve?
(x)Yes ( )Planned ( )No
D51. Dedicated optical paths for GRID users
(x)Yes ( )Planned ( )No
D52. Dedicated point-to-point IP circuits
( )Yes (x)Planned ( )No
D53. Storage facilities run by the NREN
(x)Yes ( )Planned ( )No
D54. Compute cpus provided by the NREN
(x)Yes ( )Planned ( )No
D55. Other GRID services, please state:

D56. Which disciplines make use of GRIDs in your country?

High Energy Physics `(x)`Currently running `( )`Planned `( )`No / Don't know	Other Physics `(x)`Currently running `( )`Planned `( )`No / Don't know	Computational Chemistry `(x)`Currently running `( )`Planned `( )`No / Don't know
Other Chemistry `( )`Currently running `( )`Planned `(x)`No / Don't know	Biomedical `(x)`Currently running `( )`Planned `( )`No / Don't know	Astroscience `(x)`Currently running `( )`Planned `( )`No / Don't know
Earth Science `(x)`Currently running `( )`Planned `( )`No / Don't know	Climatology `( )`Currently running `(x)`Planned `( )`No / Don't know	Arts and Humanities `( )`Currently running `( )`Planned `( )`No / Don't know

Other - please state:
User Interaction
D57. Does your NREN provide support for the work of specific groups of users?
(x)Yes ( )No
D58. Do you organise national user conferences?
(x)Yes ( )No
D59. Do you organise training courses?
(x)Yes ( )No
Remarks or further information regarding this section
The annual two-day user conference is arranged every November or December. CSC/Funet also organizes inexpensive training courses and workshops for member organizations.

TERENA NREN Compendium 2009 Technical Services

Quality Of Service

Computer Security Incident Response (CSIRT)

Authorisation and Authentication infrastructure

Housing, Storage, Hosting and Content Delivery Services

Voice Services over IP (VOIP)

Video Streaming and Video Conferencing

Networked Computing Resources (Grids)

User Interaction

TERENA NREN Compendium 2009
Technical Services