Vertically Integrated Optical Testbed for Large Applications in DFN Implementation of a testbed for

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Vertically Integrated Optical Testbed for Large
Applications in DFNImplementation of a testbed
for optical networking as a cooperation of
industrial and research partners Peter
Kaufmann (DFN-Verein)Kaufmann_at_DFN.DEFerdinand
Hommes (FhG/IMK)Ferdinand.Hommes_at_IMK.FRAUNHOFER.D
E September 2005 www.viola-testbed.de
VIOLA
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Project and Partners

• Organized as consortium, Leader DFN-Verein
• Members of consortium
• Alcatel SEL AG, T-Systems International GmbH,
• Siemens AG, FhG (IMK, SCAI),
• FZ Jülich, Stiftung caesar,
• Universität Bonn, FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (U Appl.
  Sc.)
• RWTH Aachen
• Associated partner GasLINE, Navtel
• Term of Project 3 Years
• Start of VIOLA June 2004
• Funding ca. 11 M from BMBF (Ministry of
  Research)
• Total costs ca. 20 M

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General Goals (1)

• Test evaluation of current developments of
  netwoking technology including signalling
  management
• State-of-the-art (pre-)products of industrial
  partners
• Signalling mechanisms and interfaces
• Wide area field tests, laboratory environment for
  specific tests
• Preparation for X-WIN of DFN (successor of G-WIN)
• Call for tender for fiberWDM late 2004
  implementation since Summer 2005
• Implementation of (new) routing/switching
  equipment in 2006/07
• Implementation as a stepwise process with
  increasing service complexity
• Implementation of a vertical testbed
• Applications
• Middleware tools
• Optical transport technology for IP, SDH and GE

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General Goals (2)

• Project structure Vertical Integration

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General Goals (3)

• Networker's perspectiveFrom laboratory
  experiment to deployment in NREN
• Evaluation of network technology in
  close-to-production environment
• Involve users from leading scientific
  institutions in the local region
• Applications with a broad spectrum of
  requirements
• Users perspectiveEarly access to
  next-generation technology may be competitive
  advantage
• Deployment in X-WiN in 2006
• Evaluation of Grid-System by means of applications

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Testbed Topology
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Fibre-Structure and WDM
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Components Connections
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Equipment (1)

• Equipment and Connectivity offers
• Different SDH-domains
• In triangel in parallel with up to 10 Gbps
• SDH-connectivity and
• L2-Ethernet-connectivity
• User access with n GE
• e2e-connectivity via L2-service or via
  L2/SDH-service

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Equipment (2)

• Alcatel 1678 (SDH-Cross-Connect)
• Interfaces up to 10 Gbps-SDH (STM-64) and GE,
  with GFP
• Signalling OIF/UNI-N 1.0 R2 and E-NNI
• Alcatel 7750 SR (Router)
• Interfaces up to 10 Gbps-SDH, GE and 10GE,
  L2-Service VPLS (H-VPLS)
• Alcatel 1696 (WDM-System)
• Interfaces 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64) and 10 GE
• Riverstone 15008 (GE-Switch)
• Interfaces GE and 10GE, L2-Service VPLS
  (H-VPLS)
• Siemens SURPASS hiT 7070 (SDH Cross-Connect)
• Interfaces up to 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64) and GE,
  with GFP
• Signalling I-NNI, Cross-connect capacity 160
  Gbit/s
• Siemens/Sycamore Networks SN16000 (SDH
  Cross-Connect)
• Interfaces up to 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64),
• Signaling E-NNI, I-NNI, OIF/UNI 1.0 R2,
  Cross-connect capacity 2.5 Tbit/s

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Equipment (3)

• Siemens/ADVA FSP 1500 (GE Multiplexer)
• Interfaces GE (multiplexed to 2.5 Gbps SDH
  (STM-16) via GFP)
• Siemens/ADVA FSP 3000 (Metro-WDM-System)
• Interfaces 10 Gbps SDH (STM-64) and 10 GE

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Network Signalling (1)
Applications
GRID Virtual Reality
Layer 2 Services
Layer 3 Services
Layer 3 VPNs
VPLS/HVPLS
Layer 2/3 Switch/Router
GFP/LCAS
SDH Cross Connects
MPLS
GMPLS / UNI / I-NNI / E-NNI
DWDM
CWDM
Fiber
(GMPLS , all optical Switch)
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Network Signalling (2)

• Interworking in optical transport networks
• Signalling concepts analysis and test them,
• contribution to specification
• GMPLS for IP-based control plane (IETF)
• ASON / ASTN (Automatic Switched Optical/Transport
  Network, ITU)
• UNI for user controlled signaling and E-NNI
• (Optical Internetworking Forum, OIF)
• Interoperability at UNI/NNI (OIF)
• I-NNI-GMPLS-Interface

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Network Signalling (3)

• First Signalling-Results
• GMPLS with Soft-Perm-Conn at Alcatel-CC1678 in
  operation
• OIF-E-NNI at Alcatel-CC1678 and Sycamore-CC
  SN16000 available
• OIF-UNI 1.0,R2, network side at Alcatel-CC1678
  available
• OIF-UNI 1.0,R2, network side at
  Sycamore-CC-SN16000 available
• OIF-UNI 1.0,R2, client side Late 2005
• OIF-UNI 2.0, planned for 1Q 2006 at Alcatel and
  Siemens CC
• Interworking tests of OIF-E-NNI between
  Alcatel-CC1678 and
• Sycamore-CC-SN16000 some problems
  (interpretation of Unicast/Multicast OSPF-Packets
  when using IP-tunnels)

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Network Signalling (4)

• Provision of Ethernet-Service over SDH with
  bandwidth adjustment (New SDH GFP, LCAS, VC).
• GFP Generic Framing Procedure (ITU-T G.7042),
  method to transport data packets (e.g. Ethernet)
  over SDH
• LCAS Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (ITU-T
  G.7041), dynamical bandwidth adjustment for
  SDH-links (variable VC4-container)
• Virtual Concatenation (VC) instead of Continuous
  Concatenation (CC) VC4-Container may use
  different ways in the transport network
• First New-SDH-Results
• Basic tests/interworking between Alcatel-CC-1678,
  Siemens-CC-hiT7070 and ADVA-GE-MUX-1500
  successful
• LCAS tests in 4Q 2005

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Network Signalling (5)

• Operation of L2-Subnetworks
• VPLS, H-VPLS (Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN
  Service)
• Based on Riverstone15008 and Alcatel-7750,
  connected via SDH-Equipment (Alcatel-CC 1678) or
  directly with 10GE-LAN-Phy
• Test Performance, Functionality
• First L2-Results
• VLL and VPLS OK
• H-VPLS Problems, Alcatel/Riverstone not fully
  compatible
• Interworking Ether Flow Control between
  L2/SDH-Switches OK
• QoS-Fkt. for b/w limitations (Shaping,PolicingIng
  ress,Egress) OK

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Network Signalling (6)

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Network Signalling (7)

• Development of interfaces for user controlled
  signalling

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Project Goal Middleware

• Implementation of an operational environment for
  PC-cluster based on UNICORE
• UNICORE supports the operation of a Compute-Grid
• Interoperability with Globus-toolkit and
  compatibility with OGSA (Open Grid Services
  Architecture) is planned
• Development / Portation of missing components
• Development of a Meta-Scheduler based on Global
  Grid Forum Standards (Grid Resource Allocation
  Agreement Protocol)
• Portation of MetaMPI and integration in UNICORE
• Adaptation/upgrading of local tools to connect
  and analyse distributed applications
• Development of high-performance
  parallel-I/O-interfaces (main memory, file
  server)

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Project Goal Applications (1)

• Usage/upgrading of (existing) applications with
  high and dynamical transfer requirements (e.g.
  e-science / Grid)
• Several GE-tunnels per application
• Dynamical requirement of bandwidth with
  guaranteed QoS
• User controlled networks (E2E)
• Integration of real users
• Variable requir. (time,size,quality) for
  stress-test of network equipment
• Based on experiences with new networks
• Creation of new ideas for applications
• Motivation of user groups for GRID-technology

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Project Goal Applications (2)

• The chosen applications will
• Create high throughput requirements
  (Multi-Gigabit/s)
• Demand latency and jitter limits
• Demand bandwidth reservation, dependent on time
• Support performance analysis of the network
• Enable operational experiences with new network
  technology (e.g. management)
• Demonstrate the capabilities of the new network
  technology for challenging applications
• Integration of further non-funded applications
• national and cooperation with international
  projects (FP6)

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Application Requirements
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Access of Applications to the Transport Network
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Distribution of Costs/Funding
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International Aspects

• DFN participates in EGEE (Enabling Grids for
  e-science in Europe)
• international Grid-Infrastructure based on
  existing networks
• VIOLA-Participation (DFN, TSI, Uni Erlangen) in
  FP6-projects
• GN2 - Geant2
• MUPBED - Multi-Partner European Testbeds for
  Research Networking
• The testbed VIOLA forms the national base to
  contribute successfully to international projects
• Interested for cooperation with similar
  projects/activities in Europe and elsewhere

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Status (1)

• Testbed implementation was finished early 2005
• circuits are connected (including connection to
  G-WIN/GEANT)
• equipment is installed
• network management is operational
• Work items of Transport Signalling have been
  started
• I-NNI Available for Siemens-CC-hiT7070
• E-NNI Available for Alcatel-CC-1678 and
  Sycamore-CC-SN16000
• E-NNI interoperability tests between Alcatel
  Sycamore
• UNI-N 1.0 R2 Available for Alcatel-CC-1678
• GFP/LCAS-Tests between Alcatel-1678
  Siemens-hiT7070
• E2E Specification of user interface design of
  reservation system

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Status (2)

• L2-Test/Operation
• VLL/VPLS interoperability tests with Alcatel
  Riverstone OK
• H-VPLS interoperability tests with Alcatel
  Riverstone Some problems
• Initial version of middleware is deployed,
  Integration of new middleware components in
  progress
• Application projects have finished preparatory
  work
• First runs over the network have been made
• Applications are beginning to stress network
  middleware.

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Summary (1)

• VIOLA will support (beyond the specific project
  goals)
• Reflection on and influence to changing
  conditions in research networks
• new user requirements (e.g. e2e) demand new
  architecture
• maybe new operating models (e.g. usage of dark
  fibre)
• Cooperation with international activities
• North America (USA, CANARIE)
• IST program of EU
• national programs in Europe (e.g. NL, CH, PL)
• Cooperation with national programs and projects
• D-Grid (e-science), MultiTeraNet, TransiNet

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Summary (2)

• Usage of VIOLA-platform for further NGN-topics
• German industry to test and develop future
  network techniques and services
• Implementation of innovative (bandwidth
  demanding) VR- and Grid-applications
• Preparation of the X-WIN