HEAnet Dark Fibre Update

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HEAnet Dark Fibre Update

• Workshop on
• Customer Empowered Fibre Networks
• Prague, May 16th, 2004
• Eoin Kenny eoin.kenny_at_heanet.ie

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Brief Overview

• Timescale of fibre work to date
• Dublin metro network
• Regional metro network
• National fibre network
• International/cross border fibre projects
• Out sourcing
• Provisioning tool
• New possibilities with fibre!

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A bit of History

• Year 1 2003 2004
• First steps ask clients for requirements
• Talking to international peers
• Defining requirements
• Year 2 2004 2005
• Test links
• Select technology (tender)
• Test services
• Year 3 2005
• Extend network
• Launch service for clients
• Out source the management of layer 1 and 2
• New possibilities Research/Technical/Tools

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2003 First HEAnet Fibre

• HEAnets first metro fibre pair was in New York!
  20th of November 2003.
• 12Km in Manhattan from NYSERnet connecting 32AoA
  with 60 Hudson St
• Annual Lease 3.1/2.4 per metre
• Will end Nov 2005

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2004 First Irish Fibre Lit

• 25th of March 2004 First HEAnet Irish fibre pair
  lit at 2.5Gbit/s from DCU to Inflow (HEAnet PoP).
  Now upgraded to 10Gbit/s.
• 10 more point to point fibre links added since.
• HEAnets first 10GE link delivered 2nd of
  November 2004, 4 more added since.
• Equipment currently used
• 10GE directly onto fibre no WDM
• nx1GE directly onto fibre using CWDM add/drop
  muxes.

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Fibre Map Dublin - 6 providers
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Survey of Dublin fibre
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Current Dublin Metro
Cisco 7606
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Dublin Facts

• 146 Km of fibre
• Average price per metre 1.22 per year including
  VAT average is falling as more fibre is leased.
• 5 year lease agreements
• Currently in pre-operations
• Mix of production/non-production traffic
• Currently providing 5 P2P GE links over our fibre
  network for clients and 6 GE point to point links
  for our own IP Network

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Regional Metro

• E-net awarded tender to operate the Government
  regional Metro networks in June 2004
• E-net contract is for 15 years. A private
  company.
• Phase 1 27 towns (ending completion)
• Phase 2 89 towns
• Very complicated method of calculating price.
  Based on of the metro used and also on the
  number of Metro networks ridiculous model!
• Pricing example
• 70 of metro no discount for additional metros.
  Vat included.
• 5 year lease 3.15 per year

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Galway MAN fibre
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National Fibre network
LetterKenny
Derry
Belfast
Dublin
Galway
Limerick
Cork
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National fibre pricing

• HEAnet has received a pair of fibres on the ESBT
  National network via an agreement with the
  Government. Due to the network receving public
  funding.
• Contract signed?
• 8 Year agreement
• HEAnet only pays 2 of commercial price per year
  for maintenance approx 60k per annum
• Commercial price 2.54 per metre per year
  annual lease
• 20 Year IRU 13.5 per metre once off

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National Fibre

• Fibre length 1300Km
• Not yet in production
• Contract for DWDM equipment finished awaiting
  signing very soon
• Installation/Commissioning of equipmrnt this
  July/August
• Lighting one 10Gbit/s wavelength
• Scalable to 32x10Gbit/s designed for 4x10Gbit/s
  wavelengths

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Cross border fibre

• An EU Interreg project is currenlty working on a
  cross border project between Letterkenny(Republic
  of Ireland) and Derry(Northern Ireland), to
  provide dark fibre between the 2 towns. HEAnet
  and local councils working togther. Expected
  completion September 2005.
• HEAnet may also avail of fibre from Dublin to
  Belfast. Fibre is available today.

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Submarine fibre

• Tender to be announced shortly by Dante for dark
  fibre out of Ireland as part of GN2.
• 3 Telcos have privatley said they are willing to
  discuss providing submarine fibre to
  HEAnet/GEANT2
• Will have to wait and see.

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Fibre topolgy 05/06
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Multilayered Network
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Out-sourcing L1/L2

• All fibres are leased with a support contract.
  SLA.
• Layer 2 Ethernet/MPLS network currently managed
  by HEAnet.
• Tender started 2 weeks ago, looking for a company
  to manage our fibre contracts and to manage the
  layer 2 Ethernet/CWDM equipment.
• Out sourcing company will provide
• P2P links to HEAnet IP Noc.
• FLEXIBILITY/Proper partner
• ability to listen to HEAnet
• provide national service (44, 24365)
• Extend and build the network

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Service/User provisioning

• Control plane, UCLP/CLI
• Working with i2Cat/Cisco on UCLP for Cisco
  equipment using MPLS and Vlan Tags
• Grnet IP VPN tool modified by HEAnet to configure
  MPLS Layer 2 P2P circuits
• Grnet tool allows EWS (Ethernet wire service) and
  ERS (Ethernet relay service) circuit provisioning

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Grnet config tool
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Creating Circuits
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Viewing configs
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2005 Plan

• Extend the Dublin Metro network
• Commission 3 regional networks, Galway, Limerick
  and Cork
• Commission the National backbone
• Cross border - Commission the Letterkenny to
  Derry link
• Submarine fibre possibly GN2 will avail of
  international fibre

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New possibilities - 2005

• Provided first Wavelength to researchers between
  2 Universities to enable tunable laser research.
• Tested 10GE Xenpak (1550nm) with CWDM mux/demux
  and 2.5Gbit/s wavelength at 1570nm
• Enabling the possibility of further optical
  research with OXC and UCLP and new control
  protocols.
• Possible international (submarine) fibre
  connectivity to other fibre networks/testbeds