About
[SCIERA][1] is the SCION Education, Research and Academic Infrastructure and leverages the layer 2 connectivity fabric of RRENs, NRENs and other academic networks to enable a global deployment of the [SCION][2] path-aware network architecture, spanning over 5 regions, covering institutions in the EU, Asia, North and South America, as well as Africa.
After a short review of the benefits and trade-offs of such an architecture, we describe how we overcame the initial deployment hurdles for SCIERA, by leveraging existing connectivity within the participating networks, while staying entirely overlay-free between networks, and reducing costs.
Following an overview of the state of the deployment of SCION in other networks, spanning from [financial settlement networks][3][\[4\]][4] to [critical infrastructure providers][5], and their reliance on IP-to-SCION-to-IP gateways, we show how we increased the number of *native* SCION use cases in SCIERA, where applications are fully SCION-aware and optimize communication across all path choices offered by the network.
We then present the lessons learned while deploying SCIERA for bootstrapping user adoption of native SCION, enabling application developers, hardware deployment for the border routers, maintenance and observability and community support.
To conclude the talk, we give an overview of the ecosystem of [cloud providers and NSPs offering SCION][6] and present some use cases in the file sharing space and beyond enabled by the SCIERA infrastructure as well as the open source application development libraries available for SCION [\[7\]][7][\[8\]][8][\[9\]][9].
[1]: https://sciera.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2]: https://docs.scion.org/en/latest/overview.html [3]: https://www.six-group.com/en/products-services/banking-services/ssfn.html#scrollTo=about [4]: https://www.sepn.ch/ [5]: https://www.strom.ch/de/service/shop/secure-swiss-utility-network-ssun [6]: https://www.scion.org/business/#providers [7]:…
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Speaker
- Francois Wirz
- Year
- 2026
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Computer science
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
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