From KAREN wiki
By Emma Bottomore, REANNZ on 25th February, 2010.
I credit most of the work on this page to Koen Schelkens of BELNET from his contribution to TERENA TF-LCPM on 09/03/2006 but I have also added some others to his list.
Network & Connectivity Services
- Basic IP-connectivity services: commercial internet vs. research & educational networks
- Customer connections to the NREN-backbone: type of connections +specific routing configurations (BGP, VRRP, ...)
- Carrier/telco -service between NREN<-> “customer” managed circuits or dark fiber
- Bandwidth on demand
- End-to-End connectivity for end users groups (incl. Lightpaths-wavelenghts)
- Access@home - for end users – Student rooms...
- Wireless access (WLAN services from NREN ? – WIMAX- WIFI)
- VPN-services (incl. Lightpaths, MPLS-VPN’s, VPN- encryption & IP-tunnels)
- DNS services
- NTP-service 1.11 IPv6 (enabled network, experiment & promotion)
- IP-Multicast (enabled network, experiment & promotion)
- Network Support services :
- 7*24 Helpdesk
- 7* 24 Network Monitoring (customer connection: for ex. incl real-time & periodic reporting services- bandwidth usage – SLA measurement etc..)
- Performance Enhancement Response Team (PERT)
- Detective”” –tool (cfr.Surfnet, Internet2 detective)
- IP & DNS Registration services:
- IP-address allocation (RIPE LIR for IPv4, IPv6, Multicast IP)
- Domain name registration ( National TLD + other:.eu, .org...)
- ENUM registration (Phone number -> internet domain name)
- Performance Monitoring
- Quality of Service (QoS)
Security Services
- CSIRT - CERT: Computer Security Incident / Emergency Response Team
- Anti-virus control (+ anti spam)
- Intrusion prevention
- Netflow monitoring tool
- Vulnerability testing tool (Network & Web services)
Authentication & "Mobility" services
- Authentication & Authorisation Infrastructure (Single Sign On)
- (Federated) Identity Management Systems
- PKI certificate service
- Server Certificate Service
- Inter-(W)LAN/network access: EDUROAM
Housing - Storage - Hosting - Content Delivery Services
- Housing / co-location facilities
- Webhosting / hot standby
- Mail relay / back-up services
- Disaster recovery - off site back-up services
- Storage Area Network (SAN) Infrastructure
- Netnews / Usenet server
- Academic / educational software distribution : framework agreements and clearing
- FTP and Mirroring Services
- Hosting services / applications for research and educational community
- Media storage and streaming facilities
- Media portals
- Streaming facilities (streaming server, podcasting, p-to-p facilities)
- Media conversion services
Network Communication Tools & Conferencing
- (Video)conferencing tools / applications + MCU & gatekeeper services
- VOIP / IP telephony and / or IP-Voice gateway service (VOIP <-> PSTN)
- Instant Messaging (IRC, jabber,etc)
- Mailing list services
- email gateway services (email-fax, SMS, pager..)
- Search engines
- Anti-spam services
Network Computing Resources
e-Learning / Tele-teaching / e-Research
- Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
- Digital Repositories
User Interaction
- Consultancy & Advice
- Training, workshops, seminars
- Support & user portals
- User (advisory) groups / forums
- User blogs
- User conferences
- NREN publications
- newletters
- magazines
- cookbooks / user manuals
KAREN Services Working Group : Main
KAREN Services Working Group : Meeting Minutes
KAREN Services Working Group : Service Catalogue
KAREN Services Working Group: Content & Service Partners
