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Collaboration Area | Description | Current Experience/Competence (what you do today) | Future Plans/Interests (what you want to achieve) 2026 | Future plans (2027+) | Where do you want to collaborate on? | NREN | Names of NRENs interested in collaboration |
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Knowledge sharing / competence mapping | Use of BookStack as internal documentation system |
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| Experiences in use of different documentation systems (Wikis) for internal and external use. | Sikt |
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Standardisation of architecture and interoperability |
| wireless-as-a-service architecture and implementation plans |
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| SURF | Sikt |
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| Preferred design based on Juniper FW, switches and WiFi. | Less implementations that deviate from preferred design |
| Find designs that can be used to the majority of customers | Sikt |
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| WiFi design and planning with Hamina |
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| WiFi7 | Sikt |
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| EVPN/VxLAN with Juniper |
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Tools and automation |
| Argus - Alarm Aggregation and Correlation Tool https://network.geant.org/argus/ | Further development of glue services and adaptable views for different use cases. |
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| NAV - Network Administration Visualized https://nav.uninett.no/ |
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| Scripts for configuration of Juniper equipment | Investigate the possibility of multi vendor support | Making it more usable for customers to configure themselves. | Sikt |
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| Network sensors acting as clients for alerting and troubleshooting. Today with Aruba UXI sensors. | Investigating a glue service for Argus | Investigating other vendors or solutions for a more cost effective solution | Sikt |
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| Firewall-rules and ACL administration with Juniper Security Director and FWBuilder |
| Investigate the possibilty of tools like Capirca to be more vendor agnostic. | Sikt |
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| Radius as a Service throught freeRadius and RadSecProxy | Today this service is not something we offer officially, but we would like to do that. Through Aruba ClearPass, Mist NAC or freeRadius? |
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| Sikt | SURF |
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| Log management through LogScale | Migrate to Loki/Grafana |
| More use of AI to generate alerts based on logs | Sikt | Sikt |
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| Out of Band Management through LTE |
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| Sikt Sikt | Sikt, SURF |
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Business models and financial frameworks |
| Business Models of different parts of campus services |
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| Business models with different "packages" for different needs with leasing of equipment | Lower the amount of different packages that we offer |
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| Sikt | SURF |
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Product management |
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Security and compliance |
| Some experience with seeing the security not only by implementation in firewalls, but looking at security at the client and server levels |
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| Network sensors (IDS) from Sikt eduCSC where traffic north/south gets mirrored to the sensor. This to lessen the need for IDS functionality in the firewalls. | Closer collaboration with our security teams to get these two services closer together (Sikt eduCSC and Sikt CNaaS) |
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| Sikt | SURF |
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| Use of custom feeds from Sikt eduCSC to block known malware sources (MISP) |
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| Security/ZeroTrust | Sikt |
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IoT and new applications |
| iotroam: authentication of IoT stuff on Wi-Fi | Service growth, identifiy user requirements | Stable service | International adoption of iotroam by providing the service or the software to other NRENs | SURF | Sikt |
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| iotnet: service development of a campus-wide covering IoT low powered (LoRaWAN) network | Working towards an operational service national wide | Operational service | Share knowledge, research advantages of international collaboration/standardization/roaming possibilities | SURF | Sikt |
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| Audio/Video (AV) and Multicast | Sikt | ||
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| eduVPN delivered as a service to customers both OnPrem and in private cloud |
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| geteduroam delivered a service to customers | Make the solution more robust and easier to manage |
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| Wireless Guest Portal through the use of Aruba ClearPass |
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Hybrid event and network support |
| NOC internal in place (24x7), field services by the institutes themselves, training by the NREN to the engineer at the institute |
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| Sharing en enhancing NOC documentation and training stuff; training engineers | SUNET | SURF, Sikt, RENU |
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| NOC is at the specialists internal | NOC internal |
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| NOC is outsourced, 3rd line internal | Evaluate NOC |
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Training and competence development |
| Used Juniper All Access Pass for education of CNaaS engineers on Juniper products |
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