High Level Description
Introduction
The GÉANT IP service provides high-bandwidth, international Internet connectivity for over 50 million users through GÉANT, the pan-European research and education network that interconnects Europe's National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).
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When load sharing is enabled, the total volume of traffic across all the active accesses must remain within the NREN-subscribed IP capacity.
Routing Information
GÉANT maintains prefix lists on each NREN peering, to ensure integrity of the route announcement. Each of these lists are built on the RIPE object maintained by the NRENs to ensure the latest information is used. It is the NRENs responsibility to ensure the RIPE information are kept up to date.
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Security
As an IP transit service, GÉANT IP provides security by monitoring the network for suspicious behavior and the GEANT CERT is the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) makes sure that an appropriate response is given to possible threats. The team will inform NRENs if any security incident affecting them is detected. NRENs are also able to subscribe to the Network Security Handling and Response Process (NSHaRP), without incurring any additional cost.
By subscribing to the NSHaRP service, the NRENs will be able to decide which events they want to be informed about and will start receiving automated emails informing about anomalies. More information on NSHaRP is available at:
http://www.geant.org/Networks/Network_Operations/Pages/NSHaRP.aspx
Demarcation Points
The management demarcation point between GÉANT and the NREN network is a port on the Optical Distribution Frame (ODF) rack, as described in Figure 8, below. The exact port will be specified at the time of the connection.
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The responsibility of the GÉANT Operations Centre (OC) ends at the declared demarcation point. Patching beyond this point is the responsibility of the ordering NREN.
Configuration Details
The following configuration details will be provided by GÉANT:
- IP addresses to be used in the GÉANT network and on the NREN access router.
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- IP address space to be used for the access link.
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- Authentication Server (AS) number of the GÉANT network.
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- Domain Name Service (DNS) record, corresponding to GÉANT network address space.
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- Message Digest Algorithm 5 (MD5) password for the BGP session (unless the NREN prefers not to use MD5).
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- MSDP peer address (if multicast is being supported).
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- Any other interface-specific configuration.
The NREN must specify:
- AS number of customer NREN.
- RIPE DB as-set (as-macro) to be accepted by GÉANT.
- MSDP peer address (if Multicast is being supported).