Contingency plan for FCCN
FCCN is keeping a close eye on developments and regularly monitors official guidelines from the competent authorities: The Directorate-General for Health, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization.
Following the government's decisions, considering the current situation and believing that we all have an important role to play in stopping the spread of this virus, it was decided to implement additional protection and contingency measures in order to guarantee everyone's safety, as well as the continuity of services FCCN, adjusting and ensuring critical activities in the context we are currently experiencing.
Thus, the following preventive measures were taken:
- All trips scheduled in the near future have been limited or cancelled;
- Preference should continue to be given to meetings by videoconference, and face-to-face meetings should be avoided. Meeting rooms can be used, ensuring the rule of 4m2/person, and with one day spacing between meetings for cleaning of the space.
- Visits to the FCCN spaces are assessed on a case-by-case basis and, when approved, all protection, hygiene and distancing recommendations are followed;
- Access to the FCCN datacenters has been limited to situations of extreme urgency;
- Access to the Studio FCCN is open by appointment only, with rules on attendance and sanitation;
- Access to Sala Tejo is subject to scheduling - used for videoconferencing in telepresence, with attendance and hygiene rules;
- The services are ensured with the teams in an alternate regime of partial teleworking;
- All the usual contact channels are available remotely and online;
- In-person events are limited or have been postponed. They will be held online or new dates will be announced as soon as possible;
- The capacity of the Colibri videoconferencing service was reinforced and the most useful FCCN services were publicized in order to better respond to the entire higher education and research community in the practice of teleworking, making classes and meetings available at a distance.
- Colibri - Videoconference System
- Videocast - Live video streaming
- educast - Record, edit and publish educational videos
- NAU - Online courses for large audiences
- Filesender - secure sharing of large files
- The Science, Technology and Society Network connection to the GigaPIX traffic exchange point was upgraded to 100 Gbps speed;
- The eduVPN service was launched, aimed at the research and education community, to provide more secure access to public and private networks and/or remote access to institutions' terminals.
During this challenging period, we wish the entire FCCN community and their families good health.