SWITCH. A general introduction. Christoph Witzig christoph.witzig@switch.ch. Universität Basel

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1 SWITCH A general introduction Universität Basel Christoph Witzig christoph.witzig@switch.ch

2 Agenda The foundation Network and security Communication and collaboration services Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure Innovation Engine: future services Cooperation projects 2

3 A little bit of history... (1/2) 1986: Swiss Parlament approves targeted support program including building teleinformatics services for higher education 1987: Foundation of SWITCH by the Swiss Confederation and 8 university cantons: SWIss Tele Communication system for Higher education.ch domain transfered to SWITCH 3

4 A little bit of history... (2/2) 1988: 1990: 2 Mbit/s links between ETHZ, EPFL and PSI SWITCH becomes the official registry for.ch domain 2001: Start of SWITCHlamda project: 2.5 Gbit/s between the Swiss universities 2006: Production operation of SWITCHaai infrastructure 2010: DNSSEC for.ch and.li Jungfraujoch connected to SWITCHlan 4

5 SWITCH Today: Location: Werdstrasse 2 Zurich 98 FTE Revenues: CHF 13 Mio (excluding domain names) 5

6 Organisational structure Foundation Committee - Markus Brönnimann, President - Torsten Braun, Vice President - Mario Gay - Peter Kofmel - Raymond Werlen Foundation Council Markus Brönnimann Foundation Committee Secretary General Fiorenzo Scaroni Assistants Managing Director Andreas Dudler Business Development Special Projects Universities & Public Christine Lanner Central ICT Providers Christoph Witzig Researchers & Lecturers Konrad Jaggi Learning Individuals Christoph Graf a.i. Commercial Customers Urs Eppenberger Supporting Operations Christoph Graf Management Board Staff Sept 2013, 98 FTE 6

7 Foundation Council Governing body SWITCH 34 members 10 University Cantons Cantonal Universities (10), Universities of Applied Sciences (2) ETHZ, EPFL, ETH Research Institutions SBFI, BBT, SUC, CRUS, KFH, COHEP, ETH-Council, SNF, BIT Representative University of Basel: Prof. Christian Tschudin 7

8 Mission and Vision SWITCH is opening up the Knowledge Area SWITCH, as part of the Swiss university landscape, ensures that its researchers, lecturers and students are more successful globally through comprehensive networking and pioneering ICT services. 8

9 Our Customers 1. SWITCH Community Our current target community Cantonal universities Federal universities and research institutions Universities of applied sciences Universities of teacher education All these organizations can get SWITCH access regardless of their location, fees according to the actual tariff. 2. SWITCH Extended Community Other organizations involved in research or education 3. Commercial customers Service offering depending on mutual synergies 9

10 How we work with our customers SWITCH considers the Swiss higher education institutions as members of a community For SWITCH: Customer = Partner Key elements of partnership: Trust Direct contact between stakeholders Community meetings at various levels Working Groups Cooperation projects Foundation as legal structure Working Groups Network WG Security WG Mail WG ICT Law Procurement WG Shared Services WG 10

11 Fields of Action SWITCHlan SWITCHpki SWITCHaai SWITCHcert SWITCHham SWITCHprocure eduhub SWITCHcast SWITCHinteract SWITCHtoolbox SWITCHvideoconf SWITCHsms Cloud Services Grid / Cloud Services 11

12 Agenda The foundation Network and security SWITCHlan Security (CERT) Communication and collaboration services Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure Innovation Engine: future services Cooperation and innovation projects 12

13 SWITCHlan

14 Project ALPSTEIN AgiLe AgiLe Photonic ALPSTEIN Scalable TErabIt Network Network 14

15 Topology modifications additional links to improve overall network stability migration from one-fiber to two-fiber transmission (ongoing) massive core backbone extension planned core backbone topology

16 For you: more power at more places capacity reserves up from 160 Gbps to 8 Tbps easy availability of 10G channels at all core nodes core backbone will cover all of Switzerland new service: protected lambda 10Gbps / 100Gbps 16

17 For you: more flexibility rapid service turn up tunable lasers in transponders and plugins easy to keep some more on stock colorless & directionless access ports reduces size of access filters less patching work automatic calibration of optical paths improved availability rerouting capabilities on the photonic layer manual and automatic path restoration protected links (for critical non-ip circuits) 17

18 The European Research Network The world-leading research and education network for Europe 18

19 SWITCH PERT The backbone network has plenty of free capacity and the link to my desk runs with 100Mbps, says my network manager, but my data transfers don t even reach 10Mbps of throughput. What might be wrong here? applications operating system TCP stack configuration network links far end system (server)? A team of specially trained network experts is available to track down this type of performance problems all the way from your machine to the far end system, crossing the borders of countries and providers. 19

20 Uni Basel and SWITCHlan Redundant 10 Gbit/s Used by: Uni Basel FHNW FMI STI Kinderspital (geplant) Peak rate achieved so far Mbit/s Average traffic in 2013 to: 259 Mbps from: 136 Mbps Max : 111 TB/mt = 334 Mbit/s on average. 20

21 Commodity-Internet TByte/mt Mbit/s To Uni Basel total To Uni Basel peakhours

22 SWITCH Security: Mission We protect our customers critical ICT Infrastructure 22

23 Security Services Monitoring Backbone for attacks Reports for customer Analysis Threat analysis Consulting Incident Response Coordination Forensic analysis Training / Info Regular Meetings (Security WG) Courses 23

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25 Agenda The foundation Network and security Communication and collaboration services SWITCHcast SWITCHvideoconf and SWITCHinteract SWITCHtoolbox SWITCHham eduhub Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure Working Groups Innovation Engine: future services 25

26 SWITCHcast: Lecture Recording Laptop format Handheld format (e.g. for iphone) 26

27 SWITCHcast Video Management 27

28 SWITCHvideoconf / SWITCHinteract Video Conferencing Hardware Multipoint Communication Unit and AAI reservation Communication and Collaboration Based on Adobe Connect 28

29 Video Support Uni Basel Support Website at URZ: Reference to SWITCH for additional information Tel: Mo-Fr: 9-12, SWITCH offers 2x / year ½ Tag of training for SWITCHcast 29

30 SWITCHtoolbox Group Collaboration 30

31 SWITCHtoolbox is A set of collaboration tools for virtual organisations Solution for short-term and long-term projects Intuitive, easy to use, fast setup, no training is needed AAI protected web application Providing access for guest-accounts (non AAI-Users) Expandable, more tools can be added 31

32 SWITCHtoolbox usage Serving users This are 1945 unique users in 555 groups This are 5.43 groups per user There are 6 tools so far LetoDMS - Document management Sympa - Mailinglist DokuWiki - Wiki Docendo - Open Learning Content Authoring & Management) AAI Viewer Displaying AAI Information SWITCHinteract Webconferencing 32

33 eduhub is a community for new learning technologies at Swiss institutions of higher education. The aim of eduhub is to implement sustainable IT-based methods in academic teaching, to exchange experiences and to promote collaboration. Eduhub days 2014: Feb 18/19 in Geneva 33

34 Agenda The foundation Network and security Communication and collaboration services Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure SWITCHpki SWITCHaai Innovation Engine: future services Cooperation and innovation projects 34

35 SWITCHpki and SWITCHaai PKI Certification for high security needs in education and research X.509 public key infrastructure for the Swiss universities High quality certificate at attractive prices AAI Single sign-on within the Swiss academic world 35

36 SWITCHaai Federation Autumn 2013! # Home Organizations ' ' ' ' '000 # AAI enabled accounts # Resources '000 50' % coverage in higher education

37 SWITCHaai enabled Services e-learning platforms SWITCH services such as SWITCHcast, SWITCHsms,... Access to libraries and content providers Some Swiss libraries Elsevier, Springer,... Some commercial vendors Microsoft Neptun 37

38 Agenda The foundation Network and security Communication and collaboration services Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure Innovation Engine: future services Cloud Services e-portfolio e-identity Innovation and Cooperation projects 38

39 Cloud Services (1/2) Offering cloud services is a strategic direction for SWITCH Foundation Council Requests from Community for Cloud services e.g. Academic Drop Box Cloudy Activities in 2013 Building Cloud Competence (BCC): SWITCH-internal project Swiss Academic Compute Cloud (SACC): jointly with Community 39

40 Cloud Services (2/2) Decision to build an infrastructure for an initial set of new services such as Academic Drop Box FileSender and making sure it is scalable to include Storage and virtual machines as a service Offering access to licensed software product(s) 40

41 Academic Dropbox service Dropbox-like solution with high usability Support desktop and mobile clients AAI required to use the service Connected to SWITCH backbone 10++ GBytes of storage for end users Subscription by institution Planned for beginning of Q2 /

42 Purpose of Dropbox use 6% Not used Private use 26% 49% University use Private and university use 19% 55 per cent of the respondents use Dropbox for data in the university context 42

43 People using Dropbox for university data Students" 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%" Researchers and lecturers" IT services" University administration" 43

44 The SWITCH Cloud 2014 Software as a Service Academic Dropbox Filesender functionality Academic Software Infrastructure as a Service Virtual Machines Storage as a Service Identity Reporting Monitoring Cloud Infrastructure 44

45 Relevant Communities GN3+ - new activity (SA7) on Support to Clouds SWITCH active in T1 (Cloud Strategy) and T3 (Cloud Brokerage and Vendor Management) SATW Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences Participated in creating Cloud Computing white paper Cloud Computing in Bildung und Forschung workshop in Jan 2014 Swiss OpenStack User Group Swiss Academic Compute Cloud (SwissACC) CUS P-2 Cloud Strategy 45

46 E-Portfolio! Activities of Students in the e-portfolio Collect proofs for acquired competencies Document the learning progress Make learning plans Present skills and competencies Manage their artifacts Teaching and learning tool Life-long Learning 46

47 Innovation Engine Milestones! Test service (without support) Submission to Innovation Engine by 5 representatives of universities in March 2012 Pilot service May 2013 July Universities 140 Users Results of pilot phase: 6 universities plan to use the service Enhance institutional integration Enhance import-export Enable long-term access Usage scenarios not entirely clear 47

48 SWITCHportfolio Start Jan 14! Start organization centric For teachers, students Tariff for university 5k/a Later user centric for alumni, continuing education With swiss edu-id Start with 5 Organizations: - BFH - FHNW - FH St.Gallen - PHBern - PH St.Gallen 48

49 Lifelong Learning & Career School School AAI AAI AAI AAI University education Employment Employment Self- Employment Side Job Side Job Side Job Community Work Postgraduate Further education Further education 49

50 but this is what we actually want! School School Swiss edu-id University education Employment Employment Self- Employment Side Job Side Job Side Job Community Work Postgraduate Further education Further education 50

51 Agenda The foundation Network and security Communication and collaboration services Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure Innovation Engine: future services Innovation and cooperation projects 51

52 Innovation and Cooperation Projects CRUS / SUC supports collaborative projects between Swiss universities AAI: AAA: P-2: Information scientifique :

53 AAA/SWITCH April 2008 March 2013 Domain Cooperation projects in the domains Number of projects AAA functional enhancements of AAI e-learning AAA Grid 17 Support for virtual e-learning organizations 68 Grid 26 VO 5 Total

54 CRUS P-2: Information Scientifique Role for SWITCH e-identity: Create a sustainable basis for identity and access management to national service upon which the other domains of the program can build upon Cloud: From a leading position collaborate with the other stakeholders in order to make sure that the SWITCH cloud offering is the basis of an interinstitutional national infrastructure e-learning: Support the e-learning community in a non-leading role within the framework of eduhub Data management, working environment: Support on a to be defined basis 54

55 Q & A 55