Despite the best efforts of COVID-19 and the resultant national lockdowns and travel restrictions, the €63.125m GÉANT GN4-3N Project – representing the most significant refresh of the pan-European GÉANT network in a decade – continues apace. This project – ambitious enough without the additional challenges presented over the past 12 months – is progressing well thanks to the tireless efforts and...
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FCCN is the first NREN to migrate from leased capacity to the new GÉANT fibre network as part of the €63.125m GÉANT (GN4-3N) project. Representing the most significant refresh – and enlargement – of the pan-European GÉANT network in a decade, the GN4-3N project will see all GÉANT NRENs benefit from fibre or spectrum connectivity, helping to further narrow Europe’s digital divide Read the full...
GÉANT’s terabit-ready network is the most advanced and well-connected research and education network in the world. Managing such a large network is a complex task and GÉANT has created an expert support structure to ensure the reliability, integrity and security of the GÉANT network and its users. We also support the EUMEDCONNECT and FED4FIRE network infrastructures. GÉANT supports the...
GN4-3N’s mission is to deliver unconstrained access at higher minimum capacity thresholds, highest levels of security across the network, and equal access to clouds and other services in the European research area and beyond. It will also increase network footprint, future proof connection speeds and stimulate the market in cross-border communications infrastructure while decreasing the digital...
Key Performance Indicators – Response Times The GÉANT network prides itself on the high performance and reliability of its services and NRENs across Europe rely on the network to support their users. Because of this reliance on the network it is vital that the GÉANT Operations Centre is able to respond to any issues rapidly and effectively. The following graphs demonstrate the Operations...
Tony Barber – Head of the GÉANT Operations Centre Tony has worked in the I.T./Telecoms/engineering industry since 1985. Starting with OSS support in the UK Ministry Of Defence, network administration at the University of Oxford and then through the early days of the European internet designing and building ISP backbones for the largest UK, European and global ISPs of their day. He then left...
The preferred method of contact is by e-mail. Please send incident reports to cert@oc.geant.net. Please use encryption for all mails that contain highly confidential information: Key ID: 0x99833085 Key type: RSA Key size: 4096 Expires: never GÉANT CERT PGP = 3CBF F211 8305 635D 5839 BB27 BA6B F34A 9983 3085 Phone number: +44 1223 733033 Physical Address: GÉANT CERT City House 126-130 Hills Road...
GÉANT CERT is actively engaged in the European and international CSIRT community, which shares data and experiences, and is a member of TF-CSIRT, Trusted Introducer, and FIRST.
Helping NRENs defend against DDoS and other malicious attacks Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a severe and growing problem throughout the R&E community. The impacts on time sensitive research can be major and DDoS can often be used to mask other malicious attacks. GÉANT has implemented a range of services to help NRENs and the wider community mitigate against DDoS. By delivering...
GÉANT use a wide range of security monitoring tools to help identify, mitigate and resolve security issues. FlowMon A netflow collector and the first tool within the NSHaRP process. Having the capability to process and analyse flows gathered from all GÉANT project routers, it is able to extract information about various attacks such as DoS, SSH/HTTP/RDP/telnet, ports scans and others. Splunk A...