Surf
- 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
- Support more vendors: only support for juniper and arista
SUNET
- 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
Around the table - countries participating:
- Netherlands: Surf x3 + subcontractor on CNaaS in Surf
- Finland: University of Helsinki (also representing CSC)
- Slovania: Arnes: working on network autmation
- Germany: Karslruhe tech inst
- China: CERNET(?) - person responsible for network(?)
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…
RNP
- University - government funded
- They build there own solution
- 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
- We are not a commercial vendor
- We will help a customer if customer has new needs
- Collaboration on tools - really important to stay vendor agnostic
Monitoring - regaring Aruba UXI sensors
- SUNET has developed a solution to test network inc wifi
Sustainability
- 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
Vendor agnostic