Meeting on Managing BT Research on Managing Multiservice Networks
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Attendance

Tony Bence, BT
Les Clyne, UKERNA
Bob Cooper, UKERNA
Jon Crowcroft, UCL
James Cowan, UCL

Purpose

To agree the methods for access to SuperJANET, and to its
management functions by the partners of the BT funded project
(partners = Cambridge CL, Imperial DOC, Lancaster CS, Loughborough, 
Oxford Brookes, UCL CS).
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Agenda
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WP1 Configuration management.

WP2 Policy based Traffic Management

WP3 End system QoS management.

WP4 Traffic monitoring and Measurement.

WP5 Security.

Interactions with:
UKERNA
JISC
Edinburgh
Netcomm
Other ATM Projects (Video, LAN, End system, PNO)

Problem reporting/response & Red Flag Mechanisms

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Desired Outcome
Access to the ATM and SMDS net for experimental traffic
Access to monitoring functions in switches and routers
Methods for Connection of experimental switches and routers
Possible Interaction with Management functions of ATM switches

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Minutes
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Les Clyne reported on the current status of the SuperJANET ATM
configuration, PDH plans, End System and LAN pilots and so forth.
Slides available from Les.

We then went through the workpackages to ascertain the requirements
for SMDS, PDH or ATM attachment, and for traffic.

We addressed year 1 requirements only at this stage.

The basic conclusions/actions are that

1. For WP 2 and 5, we will initially use VP for UCL/CAM/IC (2 out of 3 sites for
initial experiments). Bandwidth to be determined, but request 10Mbps.

When we demonstrate the bandwidth requirement for more than this, as
well as the requirement for control of traffic behaviour on the full
path, we will move to attaching switches at 2 out of the 3 sites to 34Mbps PDH,
around 4th quarter 94, and thereafter to 3 sites, in a line, with
either IC or Cam in the 'middle'. 

2. We will provide the SMDS managers with traffic profile estimations
for the experiments that WP 3&4 may carry out.

3. Les will provide us with any contacts for ATM site and managers.
This to include Edinburgh ATM and Video contact info
(name/phone/fax/email and booking guide etc), and SMDS contact
people.

4. If we start direct liaison with Netcomm/GDC (or suppliers in similar
position), we will copy Les on
anything, but obviously not imply any official SuperJANET approach.

5. We will invite Bob & Les to any management meetings, and also give
them information from WP that may be useful (e.g. non-results from
kit!), although we reserve the right to have private sections of
management meetings.

6. Les will coordinate on liason about interference later in year 1 of
the project  between our work here, and the PNO pilot work.

Note that towards the end of year 1, the SDH rollout will be
happening, which should also make configurations for experimentation easier.

Crowcroft thanked everyone for a very constructive meeting.