Date and time: 24 February 2022, 11:00-13:00 CET Online Seminar
Description:
The purpose of eduVPN is to provide a more secure access to public and private networks for the international research and education community. The essential eduVPN user experience should be: “open your laptop and be securely online”. eduVPN service instances offered by NRENs or universities, research labs, etc. allow students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain a VPN on their devices to known end-points to access private or public networks across the world.
Objective:
The objective of this workshop is to raise awareness among decision makers about eduVPN, describe its value proposition and show eduVPN’s benefit for NRENs and their users. This training covers a technical presentation of eduVPN and hands-on exercises to deploy, configure and join eduVPN community.
Target audience:
!!! Attention: Due to the Interactive format of the training, there will be only a limited number of places available. Preference will be given to participants from EaPConnect project partners and associates and the SEE NRENs. !!!
The workshop will be split in two parts
- Part 1 : For NREN decision makers (CEOs and CTOs) and technical teams from EaPConnect and SEE NRENs
- Part 2 : Engineers and technicians interested to actually deploy eduVPN at their NREN or help their institutions to deploy eduVPN from EaPConnect and SEE NRENs
Dates:
- Part 1: 24 February 2022, 11:00-13:00 CET
- Part 2: First or second week of March. The timing of the training will be agreed on with the prospective participants via Doodle, Evento etc.
Agenda
Part 1 - Online Seminar - 2h
- eduVPN Service description
- Benefits and challenges of eduVPN
- eduVPN Community
- Business models around eduVPN
Part 2 - Interactive Training (3 half days - online and offline)
- Technical description of eduVPN
- Hands-on exercises to deploy and configure eduVPN
- How to join eduVPN community
Facilitators: Tangui Coulouarn (DEIC), Rogier Spoor (SURF)
Workshop Organisers: Leonie Schäfer (DFN) for GN4-3 WP3 (Partner Relations), Neringa Jackevice (LITNET) for EaPConnect2, and the eduVPN team of GN4-3 WP8 (Security)
In case of questions, please contact: schaefer@dfn.de