Speaker
Peter Clarke
Description
The global network is more than ever taking its role as the
great "enabler" for many branches of science and research. Foremost
amongst such science drivers is of course the LHC/LCG programme,
although there are several other sectors with growing demands of the
network.
Common to all of these is the realisation that a straightforward
over provisioned best efforts wide area IP service is probably not
enough for the future.
This talk will summarise the needs of several science sectors, and
the advances being made to exploit the current best efforts
infrastructure. It will then describe current projects aimed as
provisioning "better than best efforts" services (such bandwidth on
demand), the global optical R&D testbeds and the strategy of the
research network providers to move towards hybrid multi-service
networks for the next generation of the global wide area production
network.
