General Resources

The GÉANT Network eAcademy is a community-driven learning platform supporting the GNA-G NREN working group, providing training and resources on network automation, orchestration, virtualisation, and emerging technologies to help address skills gaps across the R&E community.

Find out more on the Network eAcademy website

The Global Research and Education Network (GREN) map highlights major Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G) projects worldwide.

View the GREN map

The GNA Technical Working Group produced six documents that together are the Global Network Architecture Reference v1.0. These documents were published in January 2017:

• GNA Reference Architecture v1.0
• GNA Exchange Point Specifications v1.0
• GNA Multi-Layer Transport Services v1.0
• GNA Operations v1.0
• GNA Technical Notes v1.0
• GNA Glossary v1.0

The files above are in “PDF/Universal Accessibility” (PDF/UA) format, and hence are available to those equipped with appropriate software. The conformance with PDF/UA ensures accessibility for people with disabilities who use assistive technology such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, joysticks and other technologies to navigate and read electronic content.

Please also note that the above six documents replace the older version numbered lower than v1.0 or with version number v1.0-technical.

The GNA Technical WG also maintains an archive of GNA White Papers that are published by their respective authors, and are relevant to the GNA and define possible future work:

• The Commons in the GNA v2.5
• GNA Information Architecture v0.6
• Global Virtualization Architecture for the GNA v0.91

KDDI / APAN-JP are maintaining a monitoring effort on the GNA Compliant infrastructure for Research and Education, in the form of a reachability matrix using MaDDashes:

• Check out the GNA MaDDash run by KDDI.

Thanks to KDDI / APAN-JP for maintaining this.

The following documents are available on how GNA-G conducts its business:

• GNA-G Guidelines for Conduct v1.1
• GNA-G Leadership Team ToR v1.0

Please direct any questions or comments to the Leadership Team.