Conveners
Taming Your Infrastructures: 7A
- Tomasz Szewczyk (PSNC)
Description
This session will explore key aspects of infrastructure orchestration in NRENs, focusing on automation and management strategies. Topics that will be discussed include simulation and monitoring of network changes, orchestration practices within Europe’s leading research networks, highlighting successful implementation and the lessons learned. Finally, we’ll try to outline future initiatives and advancements in orchestration for NRENs, offering a forward-looking perspective on emerging technologies and strategies. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how orchestration can enhance network efficiency, reliability, and scalability. The session will also encourage discussions on the role of automation in shaping the future of collaborative research infrastructures. This session promises to offer a comprehensive view of orchestration in the context of scientific networking, with a focus on innovation and future trends.
The GÉANT Orchestration and Automation Team (GOAT) presents 2 of its tools, aimed primarily at network operators, but also suitable for academic environments: Containerlab-as-a-Service, a management stack to easily replicate production-like networking environments; and Moodi, a real-time telemetry tool that provides on-demand telemetry with dynamic dashboards and custom metrics.
Our presentation will highlight the procedural changes made at GÉANT to enable the packet layer migration of all routing equipment in the GÉANT backbone network. We will highlight the importance of working in cross-disciplinary teams, the challenges that come with this and how we have overcome them. We will present how both backbone and NREN-facing services are migrated via the GÉANT...
SURF has fully orchestrated its network and is now advancing NOC efficiency by integrating real-time data and automating daily operations. In 2025, SURF will begin migrating its fully orchestrated SURFnet8 to SURFnet ∞, facing challenges in leveraging growing telemetry data and AI-driven network management. This talk explores the evolution of SURF's orchestration stack, how the number of...
