SERVICES – HARNET R&E Node
As a R&E Node, HARNET R&E Node aims at facilitating policy-free exchange of traffic among any connected R&E networks, R&E organizations, and cloud service providers. HARNET R&E Node supports the following services using a non-blocking switching infrastructure residing in a carrier-neutral facility:
- Peering Service:
- Layer 2 (initially) or Layer 3 (under planning)
- Support Private Peering (or Bilateral Peering) with respective parties reaching peering agreement by themselves
- Provide Route Servers(under planning) to provide routing information to facilitate and streamline the implementation of Multilateral Peering arrangements, and to lower the barrier of entry for new peering participants
- Support Ethernet connection port speed of 1G, 10G or 100G
- Support IPv4 and IPv6 traffic natively
- Support Q-in-Q (802.1Q Tunneling), Port Trunking, and Jumbo Frames of up to at least 9,000 bytes of Ethernet payload
- Support Point-to-Point and also Multipoint Layer 2 Transport Service
- Support Static (initially) and Dynamic VLAN provisioning (under planning)
- Support setting up of a dedicated point-to-point VLAN between two parties for private communication
- Network Performance Tools: