Open Grid Services for Management of Optical Networks

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Open Grid Services for Management of Optical
Networks

• Edmonton Grid Workshop
• May 1, 2002
• Bill.st.arnaud_at_canarie.ca

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Many e-Science Lambda Grids
LHC
ATLAS
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Customer Control of the Network

• There is a growing trend for many schools,
  universities and businesses to control and manage
  their own dark fiber
• Can we extend this concept so that they can also
  own and manage their own wavelengths?
• Will empowering customers to control and manage
  their own networks result in new applications and
  services similar to how the PC empowered users to
  develop new computing applications?

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CAnet 4 Architecture Principle

• End user control of the network
• A network of point to point lightpaths where
  individual users can manage, control and route
  their own lightpaths and cross connects
• Initial users expected to be high end grid
  applications
• Web service architecture for customer management
  of lightpaths and cross connets
• Uses OGSA or WSDL, UDDI, JXTA, J2EE, etc for
  optical management
• Network becomes another Grid service
• Lightpath owners can recursively sub partition
  their lightpaths and cross connects and give
  control to other entities
• Lightpaths become objects complete with
  polymorphism, inheritance, classes, etc Object
  Oriented Networking

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Networks are like Grids

• Management of inter-domain networks face the same
  challenges as management of Grids
• Grids allow shared usage of resources in
  different management domains
• But more importantly (with web services
  architecture) allow for shared and distributed
  use of processes (in addition to resources)
• Grids are more than time sharing on steroids as
  networks are more than making long distance phone
  calls

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Advantage of Web Services

• Elimination of the protocol standards process
• Functionality of a service is defined in WSDL as
  opposed to being locked into a standard
• WSDL and SOAP make it easy to define new services
  and functionality without going through complex
  standards approval process
• WSDL and SOAP can be bound to traditional API
  calls e.g. O-UNI to provide open interface to
  users
• Web services will be the foundation of Grids and
  distributed computing
• Allows for optical networks to be just another
  seamless service in the grid toolbox

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Wavelength Assignment
Carrier A
12
10
University
Regional Network D
3
13
15
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AS 1
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AS 5
14
AS 2
5
7
9
AS 6
Regional Network C
6
8
University
Carrier B
LightPath switch
STAR LIGHT router
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CAnet 4 Architecture
CANARIE
GigaPOP
ORAN DWDM
Carrier DWDM
Edmonton
Saskatoon
St. Johns
Calgary
Regina
Quebec
Winnipeg
Charlottetown
Thunder Bay
Montreal
Victoria
Ottawa
Vancouver
Fredericton
Halifax
Boston
Chicago
Seattle
New York
CAnet 4 node)
Toronto
Possible future CAnet 4 node
Windsor
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Initial Version of Mini-IXExternal Proxy Server
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e2e Light Paths

• High end users (e.g Grids) can apply for their
  own end 2 end light path
• Requirements
• Must demonstrate real need for required bandwidth
• Must implement high performance kernels and IO
  process to take advantage of bandwidth
• Must resolve bandwidth bottle necks across campus
  and local loop (funding may be available for
  this)
• If demand is greater than supply then CANARIE may
  prioritize or implement charges
• Examples (illustrative purposes only)
• OC48 TRIUMF to CERN
• CWDM across UBC campus and local loop to CAnet 4
• OC48 light path to Chicago to connect to CERN
• WestGrid Interconnection
• SNO Interconnection to HPCVL