The BoF session about CNaaS at TNC'25 had the following goals:


  • To provide a forum for exchanging ideas, knowledge and experience of
    developing, deploying, standardizing and testing elements of a Campus of a
    Network Service (CNaaS) portfolio.
  • Cooperate in the development of tools, software and standards
    of a CNaaS portfolio by exchanging best practices, business models, service delivery
    processes and technical solutions.
  • Strive as a group to provide collective, coherent policies for CNaaS services
    to achieve larger economies of scale and more robust service delivery over time.
    Develop standardized frameworks and interoperable solutions for
    CNaaS, and promote the adoption of it. This ensures that services are consistent, reliable,
    and compatible across different NREN organizations.
  • Provide an open collaboration platform, sharing information, standards and
    tools in order for other NRENs and organizations to use (and to provide input).


The presentations held can be downloaded in the links:


SURF (Maurice van den Akker)

 

  • Offering all inclusive full campus servce portfolio 
  • Management can be done by Surf or by the institute itselv 
  • All inclusive or do it yourself 
  • Pilot on greenfield and brownfield: providing migration scenarios 
  • Sovereign: avoid lock-in or use of proprietary  
  • Work more on automation 
  • Support more vendors: only support for juniper and arista 

Sikt (Vidar Stokke)

  

  • 5 years of operation
  • Vendor agnostic architecture
  • Business model - Leasing (as a service)
    • Interesting collaboration
      Iot, AV,WIFI7,

SUNET 

  • No vendor lockin 
  • Collaboration with universities - no one gets fired 
  • Build their own knowledge 
  • Capacity for 3-4 customer installations yearly  
  • Small uni and bigger also some with multiple campuses 
  • News 
  • Geteduroam is working 
  • eduVPN now deployed 

  

 

Around the table - countries participating: 

  • Tanzania 
  • Brazil/RNP x6  
  • Netherlands: Surf x3 + subcontractor on CNaaS in Surf 
  • Germany: DFN x2 
  • Finland: University of Helsinki (also representing CSC) 
  • Japan 
  • California 
  • Equador(?) 
  • Ireland: Heanet x2 
  • Slovania: Arnes: working on network autmation 
  • Germany: Karslruhe tech inst 
  • Ugana: RENU x1:  
  • Hungary - interested 
  • China: CERNET(?)  - person responsible for network(?) 
  • Sunet 

  

RENU challenge 

  • Have 3 customers, 10 in pipeline 
  • High school, university, reasearch 
  • Customer fedback: do we need cnaas after initial installation  
  • Reduce price after first year way to og? Considering… 
  • Add training 

  

RNP 

  • Very big country 
  • University - government funded 
  • Huge, 20 campuses 
  • They build there own solution 
  • RNP can give advice 
  • Eduroam - get it working - that can be something 
  • Monitoring and managing - first step 
  • Oportunity to give them tools 
  • Package - easier for them to deploy 
  • AI solution to analyze the monitoring data 

  

SUNET 

  • Did classes and workshops with new technology - like EVPN/VXLAN 

  

Question from audience: How can you cope with with knowledge of both NREN technology and campus network technology? 

  • Sikt has two dedicate product teams; on for NREN network, one for campus network 

  

Surf 

  • External NOC for CNaaS and for the nren 
  • Considering to do it ourself in the future 

  

Vendor lock-in 

  • How to explain to customer you are not a new vendor lockin 
  • Surf:  
  • We are not a commercial vendor 
  • We will help a customer if customer has new needs 
  • Mutual trust 
  • Collaboration on tools - really important to stay vendor agnostic 

  

Monitoring - regaring Aruba UXI sensors 

  • Quite expensive 
  • SUNET has developed a solution to test network inc wifi 
  • Runs on Raspberry Pi 

  

Sustainability 

  • Power usage 
  • Surf: sustainable wifi - loose less power - idle the wifi 
  • Wifi7 - need more power - a problem 
  • Wait longer before deploying new technology? 
  • Wifi8 coming, do not implement yet 

  

Looking into 5G 

  • Surf: looking into private 5g 
  • Authenticate with eduroam on sim card 
  • Tf-mobilty 
  • Some interest for 5g 

  

Vendor agnostic 

  • Can be challenging



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