The 15th meeting for the Special Interest Group on Next Generation Networks (SIG-NGN) will take place on 9 September 2024, co-located with the NORDUnet Conference 2024 (NDN2024) in Bergen, Norway. This will be an in-person meeting, however remote participation is also an option. The agenda will be divided to include the newly established Special Interest Group for the Time & Frequency Network (SIG-TFN).
The theme of the meeting will be “Building communities for committed network evolution activities”. The evolution of the next generation of research and education networking happens largely through a number of dedicated activities of individual RENs, working alone or together in coalitions of the willing, developing the tools, technologies and architectures that may become the components of networks for the future. To be successful, such efforts need commitment – time, money, people. To have impact on the wider community, they need a community of practice and a community of RENs with a joint commitment to the effort.
In this meeting, there will be discussions and presentations on four areas that have established commitment from one or more RENs, and where a community is emerging:
- Optical fibre sensing: a number of NRENs and national agencies have committed to investigating and exploiting optical fibre sensing technology. A European community is emerging.
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite communication: a long-established technology, independently exploited for remote locations by some NRENs, but also with ambitious effort by ESA and a desire for coordinated action by NRENs.
- Orchestrator: an open source network and service orchestration tool originally built by SURF, recently adopted by several RENs as the orchestrations engine of choice, driven by a core group of committed organisations.
- Time & frequency distribution in Europe: a long-standing topic with national infrastructure in some countries, time & frequency distribution has been included in the European GN5 project and a GÉANT special interest group SIG-TFN has recently been established.
The organisers of this meeting hope to raise awareness of the activities in these four areas and to enable participation and eventually commitment by more NRENs.
The full agenda and location details can be found here on the SIG-NGN wiki: https://wiki.geant.org/display/SIGNGN/15th+SIG-NGN+Meeting
Details about the agenda for SIG-TFN’s part of the meeting can be found here: https://wiki.geant.org/display/SIG/SIG-TFN+side+meeting+-+9+September+2024
Learn more about the NORDUnet Conference 2024: https://nordu.net/ndn2024/
