Who's Who in GÉANT2

Nicolas Simar (DANTE)

Performance Monitoring and Measurement

Nicolas Simar graduated from the University of Liege with a MA in Computer Science Engineering, and now works in the Network Engineering and Planning team at DANTE. He is playing a key role in efforts to ensure the alignment and interoperability of European performance monitoring initiatives and Internet2's End-to-End Performance Initiative Performance Environment System, in order to provide performance information seamlessly to users in Europe and the USA.

Nicolas is also involved in the IST EGEE project (Enabling GRIDs for E-sciencE), contributing to the activity focused on the interactions of the Grid environment, and in particular between the EGEE Grid middleware and networks. Nicolas is involved in the engineering of the GÉANT network. He took part in the IST SEQUIN project, the goal of which was to study IP Quality of Service in a multi-domain environment, and in the deployment of several IP QoS services on GÉANT. Nicolas’s main responsibility in GÉANT2 is the coordination of the pan-European initiative on multi-domain performance monitoring.