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install lambda services for 2008 and to replace these services with DF provided within SEELight

projects starting with 2009.

Also it should be mentioned that starting with Q2 2008 a new GEANT POP will be installed in

Bucharest in the premises of the new data center of RoEduNet in the same room with RoEduNet

national NOC. GEANT POP in Bucharest connected with GEANT POPs in Budapest and Athens

will provide connectivity for the NRENs in Bulgaria and Turkey and will continue to provide

connectivity for the RENAM, the NREN from Republic of Moldova, using the national

communication infrastructure of RoEduNet. Within RoEduNet2 lambda services can be offered

to RENAM (most probably free of charge) to allow transit for direct connection to the GEANT

POP in Bucharest.

Networking services:

All services offered by RoEduNet in 2007 will continue to be offered in 2008, but new services

are planned to be introduced.

CSIRT:

In order to prevent and deal with computer and network security incidents, RoEduNet plans to

establish an Incident Response Team - CSIRT. This team will try to prevent such incidents from

happening and to coordinate the handling of such incidents when they occur. Cooperation with

similar teams will be mandatory, also participating to Terena TF-CSIRT and to be accredited

within the Trusted Introducer for CSIRTs in Europe ((http://www.ti.terena.nl/)) and other

international bodies. In 2008 RoEduNet will start with working out the processes and procedures.

Centralized Helpdesk:

To prepare for the new GEANT POP which will be located in Bucharest this year, RoEduNet will

create a centralized and easy accessible Helpdesk system to be used by all connected institutions.

Service must/will be available 24x7x365. TTS with Web access interface will be used to track all

the requests (already in place).

QoS for GRID:

GRID computing is a resource-intensive activity, including network usage for increasing access

to distributed data and dynamic allocation of computational resources. As GRID activities will

grow this year in Romania, RoEduNet has to be prepared to guarantee QoS in order to

accommodate the specific needs of this environment. Network equipment and RoEduNet2

structure will permit an efficient scaling to meet various demands of GRIDs.

Lambda service for GRID:

Modern GRID activities related to the network resources aim to extend the middleware functions

to permit match-making of the transmission capacity inside of a GRID. RoEduNet2 with its

WDM structure will step into test-beds which are dealing with systems for the programmed pre-

allocation of bandwidth and wavelengths to use in so-called Lambda GRIDs or G-lambda. This

service is planned as experimental only in 2008.

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