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Description
SRCNet provides the international data movement infrastructure for the SKA Regional Centre (SRC) network, connecting geographically distributed facilities that will store, distribute, and process SKA science data. As SKAO approaches operations, validating reliable, high-throughput, and scalable data transfer services becomes a critical challenge.
This talk presents the current status of SRCNet, recent large-scale data movement tests, and lessons learned from deploying and operating a globally distributed research infrastructure. We discuss requirements driven by SKA-scale workloads, experiences with transfer technologies and data access frameworks, including FTS and XRootD-based approaches, and ongoing work to optimise performance, monitoring, and operational resilience.
We conclude with a roadmap towards production operations and highlight opportunities for collaboration between the radio astronomy and wider data-intensive science communities.