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Session Chair:
Léonie Schäfer (DFN)
Erik-Jan Bos (NORDUnet)
slides (pdf)
While regional networks like GÉANT and NORDUnet interconnect NRENs
within continents, until recently the global interconnect for research and
education was rather ad-hoc, mission oriented, and unstructured. The
effort of the Global Network Architecture (GNA), started by a number of
leading R&E networks world-wide, aims to organise this more
efficiently. The goal is to have access to more bandwidth and more
resilience, so the NRENs can even better serve scientists, researchers,
educators, and students who work in global projects.
This talk will highlight the progress inside the Global Network
Architecture effort to date, will look back at past achievements,
and will peek into the future of intercontinental R&E networking,
highlighting opportunities and challenges.
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