Biography
John Dyer is Business & Technology Strategist at TERENA, the pan-European association of NRENs. After six years studying and research in Oxford he started a career in education networking at the Joint Network Team of Janet. He remained with the organsiation through its evolution into UKERNA managing the first SuperJANET applications programme and heading up the Development Group. After a period of secondment as Chief Technical Officer he joined TERENA on permanent basis in 1999. John was awarded an MBA in 2001 and later took on the role of Business and Technology Strategist at TERENA.
John Dyer manages the GN3plus Networking Activity – Status and Trends, led the ASPIRE foresight study and provides support for the TERENA Task Force on the Management of Service Portfolios. He is a member of the TERENA Management Team and the GN3plus Project Management TeamAbstract
TERENA, the NRENs and promoting Campus Best Practice
The Trans-European Research & Education Networking Association (TERENA) provides a forum in which National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) from Europe and beyond can come together to work collaboratively to meet the challenges of developing and supporting network services. TERENA activities are open to NREN staff; users; staff from connected institutions and commercial organisations engaged in the development of research and education network services.
TERENA undertakes several activities that explore the status and trends of research and education networking. The annual Compendium of NRENs benchmarks NRENs and the recent ASPIRE foresight provides much up-to-date information about the research and networking community.
A recurrent theme is the need to ensure that end-users at institutions receive the highest possible quality of network services in the most efficient manner. This can most effectively be achieved by following best practice. In 2006, UNINNET, the Norwegian NREN piloted a process of developing and disseminating best practice for their connected campuses as part of the four year GigaCampus programme. The vision of GigaCampus was: to coordinate, world-class campus ICT infrastructure that encourages innovation, collaboration and efficient research and education.
Following on from the successes achieved by UNINETT in GigaCampus a similar programme was rolled out on a pan-European basis within the GÉANT community. Campus Best Practice (CBP) was first included in the GN3 project (2009-2013) and is continued in GN3plus (2013-2015). The work is undertaken in the Status and Trends networking activity managed by TERENA. This activity contains tasks focused on: delivering the publication of the TERENA Compendium of NRENs; the GÉANT Green Team; GÉANT CBP and support for TERENA Task Forces.
The CBP team comprises of contributors from nine NRENs and staff from connected institutions. CBP works in six broad topic areas: Physical Infrastructure; Campus Networking; Wireless; Network Monitoring; Real-time communications and Security.
To date, more than 60 Campus Best Practice documents have been produced with the most popular being downloaded thousands of times. The documents are reviewed periodically and updated where necessary. To complement the documentation, workshops and training courses have been delivered.
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