Peter Szegedi is currently the Joint Research Activity 2 and Networking Activity 2 leader of the FEDERICA project. He received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary, 2002). He then worked towards a PhD at the Department of Telecommunications. His main research interests include design and analysis of dynamic optical networks, especially optical Ethernet architectures, network control and management processes. He worked for Magyar Telekom (2003-2007) then he joined TERENA in January 2008.
The core business of TERENA is to bring together managers, technical specialists and other people in the research networking community, mobilising the expertise and experience of hundreds of professionals in the research and education networking area. The broader TERENA Community consists of NRENs, Research Labs, Universities, and even individual PhD students all over Europe. Provisioning end-to-end network services for the demanding applications of those users is one of the challenging issues in the NRENs’ service portfolios. This paper summarises the key motivations behind those emerging services and highlights the TERENA joint activates concerning the general question on how the end-users can seamlessly be connected at gigabit speeds.