April 2002 - Premium IP connectivity for IST Aquila

On April 15 Premium IP was configured between sites in Vienna and Warsaw to provide connectivity to the AQUILA project. The configuration which was performed over GEANT, ACONET and POL-34 represents the first instance of Premium IP supporting an IST project.

February 2002 - SEQUIN workshop

A SEQUIN Workshop was held on February 1st 2002. The workshop was attended by 35 people representing NRENs, users, IST projects and industry. The workshop aimed at disseminating the results achieved to date and to seek co-operaation from international user groups in WP6 - testing in a user environment.
7 IST projects presented thier project requirements for QoS, and 4 of the presented projects have significant possibilities to make use of the Premium IP service defiend within the timescales of SEQUIN.

January 2002 - H.323 testing on production networks

Tests involving real H.323 traffic has started. The tests will be performed between locations in France, Italy Switzerland, Germany and Greece. The preparation started in December 2001, including initial configuration of EF treatment and aggregate policing on the GÉANT routers in the relevant part of the network. The H.323 setup is validated without use of Premium IP first. Until early January, the remaining (NREN) parts of the test network will be configured with Premium IP support so that H.323 tests can be performed using differentiated QoS.