4CNet Update June 30, 1999 Dave Reese Director, Network Planning

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4CNet UpdateJune 30, 1999Dave ReeseDirector,
NetworkPlanning Development
Building tomorrows networks today
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The New Backbone
QCHI
SAC
QSV
QSTO
QSAL
QFRE
SLO
BAK
QANH
WE
QSD
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Why?

• Current DS-3 (45 Mbps) backbone nearing capacity
  - need more bandwidth
• Community College video project - need more
  bandwidth
• Research projects at some campuses - need more
  bandwidth

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More Bandwidth

• Most current Sprint/ATT DS-3 circuits being
  replaced by OC-3 (155 Mbps)
• OC-12 (622 Mbps) between Los Angeles and San
  Diego
• New vendor Qwest (http//www.qwest.net/)

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More Reliability

• Most of the backbone will move off CSU campuses
  into Qwest points of presence (POPs)
• Telco-quality facilities UPS, generator, etc.
• Campuses will connect to Qwest POPs

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It has to be done when?

• Western backbone July 1999
• Northern backbone October 1999
• Eastern backbone October 1999

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In the metro areas

• Pacific Bell providing OC-48 (2,400 Mbps) SONET
  rings in LA, SF, SD areas
• Connect CSU campuses, Qwest POPs at OC-3c, OC-12c
• Some campuses (LB, SB, POM, SON, HUM) are too
  far from the rings to be included

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Whats SONET?

• High-speed optical (fiber) networking
• Ring topology means that circuit failures dont
  cause outages -- traffic re-routes around the
  ring in less than a second

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SONET rings
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In the LA area...
CI
SB
NOR
POM
DH
LB
LA
CO
To BAK
FUL
To SLO
To BAK
WE
QANH
To QSD
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And in San Francisco...
HUM
SON
CMA
HAY
SF
To QCHI
SJ
QSV
To QSTO
To QSAL
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And in San Diego
To QANH
QSD
SDSC
SM
SD
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It has to be done when?

• LA Ring - July 1999
• Northridge, Los Angeles, Dominguez Hills,
  Fullerton
• SD Ring - July 1999
• San Diego, San Marcos, UCSD/SDSC
• SF Ring - September 1999
• Hayward, San José, San Francisco

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It has to be done when?

• Pomona, San Bernardino, Long Beach - September
  1999
• Sonoma - already at OC-3
• Humboldt - OC-3 pending telco facilities

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Connecting 4CNet to CalREN-2

• At UCSD/SDSC - July 1999
• At Anaheim - October 1999
• Caltech, JPL, USC, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside,
  UC Santa Barbara, USC/ISI
• Possibly at Sunnyvale - November 1999
• UC Davis, UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, UC Santa
  Cruz, Stanford

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Related Upgrades Abilene

• Abilene is a NSF-recognized High Performance
  Network Service
• CalREN-2 is connecting to Abilene in 3 locations
• Abilene fees (per institution)
• UCAID annual membership of 25K
• Abilene annual fee of 20K
• Pro-rated gigapop access fees from CalREN-2

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The Big Picture

• Were building the biggest university network in
  the country
• And making it better, faster, more reliable

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Whats next?

• We would like to hear from you on how we can help
  you
• Dave Reese, Director
• dave_at_csu.net
• Mark Crase, Senior Director
• mcrase_at_calstate.edu

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes
is worn out
- Italian Proverb