Panel and Breakout Questions

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Panel Questions

The panel questions are available as a PDF file (13 KB).

• From the list of break-out session questions, what should be removed from the list?
• From the list of break-out session questions, what should be added to the list?
• What are the cross-cutting issues that keep you up at night?
• What does the future network look like to your science community?
• What changes are necessary and what stays the same?
• What must remain constant and what would be nice to leave alone?
• What are the foundational research issues you want to see addressed?

 

Breakout Sessions Questions

The breakout sessions questions are available as a PDF file (19 KB).

 

Overarching Questions for All 3 Break-out Sessions

• What is the mix of traffic and how will it change over time?
• What are the application drivers for your science?
• What are the basic services/functions you need/expect from the network?
• How do you expect the network to be used, and how does that change or stay the same?

Break-out Session 1: Short: 1-3 years (Terabyte/hour bulk transfer rates)

• What is the most pressing problem for scientists?
• What is the most pressing problem for network operators?
• Rank order and Discuss these issues
• status of Analysis Tools
• status of simulations and models
• status of management tools
• multi-domain troubleshooting
• protocol performance and implementations
• traffic growth and projections
• testing and deploying new tools and services

Break-out Session 2: Medium: 4-6 years (Petabyte/hour transfer rates)

• Assume that the network infrastructure consists of highly parallel and redundant physical links.
• Assume that new protocols can be deployed over the global Research and Education Network infrastructure.
• Rank order and discuss the following problems
• Effectively support for bulk data and more interactive flows
• Routing over this infrastructure
• Active queue management in routers/switches
• monitoring and managing the network
• debugging and troubleshooting
• predictable transport performance
• When must work begin on solving each specific problem (now, or delay 3 years)

Break-out Session 3: Long: 10-12 years (Exabyte/hour transfer rates)

• Assume that the network infrastructure consists of massively parallel links with multiple DWDM channels per link.
• What revolutionary changes are required (e.g.; parallel bit streams)?
• What work must start now to be ready in time?
• What work can be delayed 3-6 years?