Introducing

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Jan Eveleth, Mgr. Gigapop Services University
of Washington Pacific Northwest
Gigapop Internet2 Fall Meeting Los Angeles, CA
USA October 28, 2002
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Pacific Wave Seattle, Washington USA

• International Network Peering Services
• Opportunities for high-speed, efficient exchange
  of IP packets without using commercial Internet
  services
• Pacific Wave is a recommended exchange point for
  international research and education networks
  peering with Internet2's Abilene network.
• A service of the

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Courtesy S. Corbato and Internet2
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Pacific Northwest Gigapop System
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Features of Pacific Wave

• Accessible from all submarine cable landing sites
  on US Pacific coast
• Located in incumbent telecommunications carrier
  grade hotel
• Many colocation options
• Easy access to fiber-meet-me-room
• Redundant environmentals (DC power, HVAC)
• Multicast enabled with PIM-SM snooping
• IPV6 traffic between IPV6 capable peers supported
• 24 x 7 Network Operations Center

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Distances from US Pacific Landing Sites
(Km) Seattle Pacific Wave Chicago New York City Miami
Hillsboro, OR 237 2821 3777 4340
San Francisco, CA 1094 2984 4126 4155
Los Angeles, CA 1548 2802 3933 3742
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Pacific Wave Architecture
Abilene
Switch
PNW Router
CAnet3
. . .
Switch
PNW Router
AARNet

• An ATM free zone! Redundant Gigabit Ethernet
  switch architecture provides two subnets and
  128Gbps throughput.

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Pacific Rim Connections October 2002
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Research Education Networks at Pacific Wave

• Abilene/Internet2
• International Transit Network (ITN)
• Serving APAN
• Australian Academic
• Research Network
• Canadas Advanced Research
• Education Network
• TANET2 Taiwan Research Network

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Networks via Abilene ITN at Pacific Wave
Europe-Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Americas
Argentina (RETINA) Brazil (RNP2, ANSP) Canada
(CAnet4) Chile (REUNA) Mexico (CUDI) United
States (Abilene, vBNS)
Austria (ACOnet) Belgium (BELnet) Croatia
(CARnet) Czech Rep. (CESnet) Cyprus
(Cynet) Denmark (UNI-C) Estonia (ESnet) Finland
(FUnet) France (RENATER) Germany (G-Win) Greece
(GRnet) Hungary (HUNGARnet) Iceland
(ISnet) Ireland (HEANET) Israel (IUCC) Italy
(GARR) Latvia (LATNET) Lithuania (LITNET)
Luxembourg (RESTENA) Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway
(UNINETT) Poland (PCSS) Portugal (FCCN) Romania
(RNC) Slovakia (SANET) Slovenia (ARNES) Spain
(RedIris) Sweden (SUNET) Switzerland
(SWITCH) United Kingdom (JANET) CERN
Australia (AARNET) China (CERNET, CSTNET,
NSFCNET) Hong Kong (HARNET) Japan (SINET,
WIDE, IMNET, JGN) Korea (KOREN,
KREONET2) Singapore (SingAREN) Taiwan
(TANET2) Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN)
More information about reachable networks at
www.internet2.edu/abilene/peernetworks.html Slid
e Courtesy of Internet2
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Additional Participants at Pacific Wave

• DREN Defense Research and Engineering Network
• ESNet Energy Sciences Network
• ATT Broadband Cable Internet
• Microsoft Corporation
• Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services
  Corporation (Pointshare)
• and more

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Pacific Wave Peering with PNWGP

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• Microsoft Research NOAA
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
• Plus Major Research Universities of
• Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Portland
  Research Education Network

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Partnerships, Memberships, Affiliations

• Asia Pacific Advanced Networks (APAN)
• IEEAF/GEO/Tyco Telecommunications
• KEXP Radio
• Pacific Lighthouse
• Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC)
• PAIX Seattle Peering Interconnects
• ResearchChannel
• The Quilt
• University of Washington
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Worldwide University Network (WUN)

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Futures

• 2003 Fiber facility expansion along U.S. Pacific
  CoastNational LightRail
• 2003 IEEAF/GEO/Tyco Telecommunications 10-Gbps ?
  from Japan to Seattle
• 2003 10GbE connections at Pacific Wave
• Additional Peering Partners focusing on Pacific
  Rim Research Education Networks
• Continued support of advanced applications (e.g.,
  streaming media, LSR, HDTV applications)

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Optional PNWGP Commodity Internet

• Upstream service providers
• Cable Wireless
• Level3
• NTT/Verio
• Geographically diverse vendor connections
• Diverse geographic connection options for
  participants
• 3Gbps total throughput structured over 3
  independent, fully burstable Gigabit circuits

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For More Information

• Email gigapop-info_at_pnw-gigapop.net
• Web http//www.pacificwave.net
• Phone [phone]