The EGEE project officially ended on the 31 March 2006
EGEE II started on 1 April 2006 and the new EGEE website can be found at:
http://www.eu-egee.org
SA2 - NETWORK RESOURCE PROVISION
The purpose of the Network Resource Provision activity is to ensure that the Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE) project has access to the appropriate networking services which will be provided by GEANT and the National Research and Education Networks across Europe.
The relationship between the project and the network providers will be managed by the Network Resource Provision team, via a formal body called the Technical Network Liaison Board.
The Network Resource Provision team will ensure that all user requirements are met in terms of network capacity and service class. One of the main objectives is to ensure provision of a high bandwidth network offering guaranteed performance and virtual private network capability to the end users.
The Network Resource Provision team will perform aggregate modelling, derive the Service Level specifications for network provision, create Service Level Agreements with the network providers and monitor the Service Level Agreements against demand (aggregate traffic) and supply (network performance).
In order to achieve the above, the team will work closely with the other activities, particularly JRA4 (Network Services Development), NA4 (Application Identification and Support) and SA1 (European Grid Support, Operation and Management).