Conveners
Lightning Talk Plenaries - Second Strike
- Nicole Harris (GÉANT)
- Ann Harding (SWITCH)
Description
Lightning Talks are 5 minute presentations focusing on one key point. This can be an idea, successful project, a cautionary story, collaboration invitation, quick tip or demonstration. This session is an opportunity for ideas to get the attention they deserve.
The rules for this session are easy: five minutes and only five minutes.
For the past 2 years Jisc has been working with cellular technology providers to address important digital poverty issues across the UK, by providing eduroam via 4/5G to support learners without access to sufficient connectivity away from the University campus. This has led to the development of additional use cases such as disaster recovery, emergency provision, service resilience, and remote...
WiFiMon Hardware Probes (WHP's) are vital for WiFiMon operation as they facilitate baseline comparisons with crowdsourced measurements collected from end users roaming the network. Feedback gathered by organisations, i.e. NREN's and Universities, utilising WHP's indicated significant shortcomings in their functionality. Specifically, administrators were required to follow error-prone,...
Log messages represent automatically documented events in the form of chronological records that contain various IT system and network information. Managing log messages is important for every organization, including the Academic Network of the Republic of Serbia - AMRES, and enables efficient and high-quality analysis of work and utilization of both, the service and the network. Elastic Stack...
Colombia has been undergoing a process of digital transformation which has generated the advancement and growth of new technologies that leverage education and research in HEIs within the country. One of the technologies that is growing day by day worldwide is the implementation of the IPv6 protocol, which, in Colombia, has positioned us as the fifth country with the highest traffic generated...
The force for change in favor of IPv6 has increased significantly since the exhaustion of IPv4 in the majority of the Regional Internet Registries in 2015. The need for IPv6 in academic networks is evident as the new IP address enables innovation and research through its support for new applications. While the global availability of IPv6 connectivity hovers around 40%, there is need to...
In recent years, there has been a major development in the field of cluster computing. These solutions often require many dedicated resources to communicate with each other and bind their abilities in a collaborative manner. There is also a requirement to allow multiple users to use a single cluster without affecting each others' computations. Nowadays, the FPGAs provide an excellent...
In the recent years, we came to realise that cybersecurity not only requires technical measures but also cooperation on the part of the users, in order to make organisations more resilient against cyber-attacks. But changing user-behaviour requires more than just a one-time training and demands a different skillset than most experts on cybersecurity have. That's why the field is undergoing a...
The transition to renewable energy is critical to mitigate the effects of climate change and achieving a sustainable future. One promising approach to advance this transition is through the development of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs). These communities are formed by groups of people or organizations that come together to produce, consume and share renewable energy locally and they are...
Secure computer networks rely on monitoring, threat detection, and security operators, who respond to automatically created alerts. Performance of current anomaly and threat detection methods is dependent on the network telemetry data they are developed on. However, network telemetry does not contain truthful information in some cases. An error can occur during transmission, or an attacker can...
This talk aims to highlight the problem of a widening gap between system specifications and actual behaviour in production in the tech industry, which can cause confusion for developers and users. The use of Open API is introduced as a solution to this issue. Open API provides a framework for collaboration that narrows the gap between documentation and code, allowing API consumers to trust...
Several National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) are currently implementing new generations of optical networks based on partially disaggregated designs. These systems have the capability to transparently transport any optical signal, which opens up the possibility of deploying Spectrum Connection Services (SCS) that can provide ultra high-capacity connections. GARR and GEANT have...
The Submerse project has received substantial funding to utilize the GEANT community's submarine cables for seismology monitoring. The project aims to provide high-quality seismological data by leveraging existing submarine and terrestrial fibre-optic cables, which can act as sensors using a range of technologies, such as polarization monitoring and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). The...
This is the story of a hyperconverged cluster based on Proxmox and Ceph. Our journey begins from the requirement of a new mail server, continues with a first 8 node cluster, ends with the current 16 nodes setup and a look in to the future. It will include: some initial pain, incomprehensible network bugs and a successfully running stable cluster.
eduGAIN is a globally active organization focusing on the interconnection of identity federations commonly rooted in national research and education networks. Many of those networks operate an Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) in order to facilitate the utilization of services provided by the separate participating institutions to users of other institutions within the...
Scientific research in 21st century is radically different from what it used to be in the past. The great scientific breakthroughs of our age have happened thanks to the possibility of easily sharing ideas, information and knowledge, irrespective of geographic distances. This has contributed to make the network an integral and inseparable part of any large scientific endeavour. And not just...
NRENs were established and designed to connect people, to connect them among themselves and to connect them to the knowledge sources. Our purpose has always been to help aggregate knowledge. We always wanted to enhance the existing connections among research communities and to create new ones. We have been connecting educators, those who help create and spread knowledge. They are capable of...