Infrastructure Update

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Infrastructure Update

• Rick Summerhill
• Associate Director, Backbone Network
  Infrastructure, Internet2
• Joint Techs, HENP Working Group
• Honolulu, Hawaii
• 26 January 2004

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Outline

• Infrastructure
• Abilene
• NLR
• FiberCo
• MANLAN
• RONs
• Projects
• HOPI Project The Hybrid Optical and Packet
  Infrastructure
• HOPI is only one of many of the ongoing projects
  from the International community. Expect to
  collaborate with other groups working within this
  arena.

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Abilene - Upgrade Completed!
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Abilene Upgrade Completed!

• September - November
• Atlanta - Washington
• Houston Atlanta
• Los Angeles Houston
• For Detail, See
• http//loadrunner.uits.iu.edu/upgrade/milestones.
  shtml
• Mid-December
• Split out of Sunnyvale to Kansas City
• Upgrade went very smoothly Kudos to the NOC,
  Qwest, and Juniper
• Recent performance experiments and demos
• During October member meeting, 5.4 Gbps flows
  from CalTech to CERN
• Peak rates at SC2003 of 8.7 Gbps in and 9.5 Gbps
  out

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SC2003 Bandwidth Challenge
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Abilene Peering

• Peering at Exchange Points
• 10 GigE
• PacWave, Starlight (2 Connections, one supporting
  experimental projects), MANLAN
• LaLaLan, NGIX-East Soon
• 1 GigE
• NGIX-West Soon
• Direct Peering
• ESnet-Abilene Peering Upgrade minimal peering
  of OC-48
• Sunnyvale, Chicago OC-48c in place
• Three additional peering points at OC-48c,
  minimally
• MANLAN
• Partnership with NYSERNET for collocation and
  support
• Supports peering with Abilene, but also between
  other networks
• Will support an experimental component related to
  the HOPI project
• Currently 26 International Peers and 8 Federal
  Research Peers

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NLR Summary

• Disclaimer Ive not been directly involved in
  NLR activities. This is a summary after talking
  with NLR participants.
• Largest higher-ed owned/managed optical
  networking research facility in the world
• 10,000 route-miles of dark fiber
• Four 10-Gbps ?s provisioned at outset
• One allocated to Internet2
• One an experimental IP network
• One a national scale Ethernet
• One a spare
• Connectivity between the experimental IP network
  and Abilene will be on a limited basis much
  like the TeraGrid and Darpa experimental
  connections.
• First foremost, an experimental platform for
  research
• Research committee integral in NLR governance
• Advance reservation of ? capacity for research
• Experimental support center

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NLR Current Members and Associates

• CENIC
• Pacific Northwest Gigapop
• Pittsburgh SC
• Duke Univ./NCLR
• MATP/Va. Tech
• Cisco Systems
• Internet2

• Florida LambdaRail
• Georgia Tech
• CIC
• Texas University Consortium

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FiberCo

• Designed to support optical initiatives
• Regional
• National
• Not an operational entity supporting project
• Will not light any fiber
• Fiber options
• Holding company for any future initiatives
• Assignment vehicle
• Regional initiatives
• National initiatives (e.g., NLR)
• Internet2 took responsibility for LLC formation
• Idea was spin-off from NLR formation discussions
• National RE Fiber Company incorporated in
  Delaware
• First acquisition of dark fiber for FiberCo
  through Level 3 Communication 3/21/2003

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Available fiber topology
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Leading Emerging Regional Optical Initiatives

• California (CALREN)
• Colorado (FRGP/BRAN)
• Connecticut (Connecticut Education Network)
• Florida (Florida LambdaRail)
• Indiana (I-LIGHT)
• Illinois (I-WIRE)
• Maryland, D.C. northern Virginia (MAX)
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• New York New England region (NEREN)
• North Carolina (NC LambdaRail)
• Ohio (Third Frontier Network)
• Oregon
• Rhode Island (OSHEAN)
• SURA Crossroads (southeastern U.S.)
• Texas
• Utah
• Wisconsin

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MANLAN Experimental Facility

• MANLAN Proper is an Ethernet Exchange Point for
  RE Networks
• Addition of Cisco 15454 to support projects such
  as the Global Lambda Integration Facility (GLIF)
• Current IEEAF/Tyco Circuit between Surfnet and
  Abilene will be used for international
  experimentation
• Expected connections
• CAnet
• Abilene
• Surfnet
• There are many other experimental facilities
  StarLight, NetherLight, etc.

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HOPI Project

• Examine new infrastructures for the future
• Examining a Hybrid of shared IP packet switching
  and dynamically provisioned optical lambdas
• The eventual hybrid will require a rich set of
  wide-area lambdas and the appropriate switching
  mechanisms to support high capacity and dynamic
  provisioning.
• Immediate Goal
• Create a plan for a test-bed within the next 3
  months
• Implement test-bed within the next year
• Coordinate and experiment with other similar
  projects

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HOPI Project

• Resources
• The Abilene network MPLS tunnels
• Wave on the full NLR footprint
• MANLAN Experimental Component to support
  international and federal connections
• Regional Optical Networks (RONs)
• Look toward future architectures as we go forward
• Examine Backbone, RON, Campus hierarchy
  understand interface options
• Network operations
• Measurement activities

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HOPI Project

• Assembled a Design Team
• Linda Winkler and myself as Co-chairs
• A variety of people from the community
• Experimental MANLAN Component
• Installing Cisco 15454 Expected within two
  weeks
• Connection to MANLAN Switch and Abilene to
  support experiments
• IEEAF/TYCO Circuit between Surfnet and Abilene
  (in collaboration with GEANT) an important
  experimental facility
• International Connections Important
  collaborations with Canarie and GEANT/DANTE
• Full NLR Wave expected by 3Q2004
• MPLS Experiments on Abilene
• Currently have MPLS tunnel between NC ITEC and
  the NOC
• Other experiments planned TeraGrid and
  International

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Support

• Support
• Our goal at Internet2 is to support the bandwidth
  needs of the community as networking
  infrastructures evolve in the future through
  shared, high-performance infrastructures and
  dedicated capabilities as required.
• More Information
• http//abilene.internet2.edu
• http//abilene.internet2.edu/observatory
• http//www.nationallambdarail.org
• http//www.fiberco.org
• A HOPI site to be announced in the near future
• abilene_at_internet2.edu

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