Rationale for GLIF November 2004

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Rationale for GLIFNovember 2004
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CAnet 4 Update

• Network is now 3 x 10Gbps wavelengths
• Cost of wavelengths dropping dramatically
• 3rd wavelength operational in June
• Support for e2e lightpaths for high end
  applications
• most top research institutions interested
• E.g. 10GbE CWDM to TRIUMF on UBC campus
• Future growth likely for international transit
  lightpaths
• Korea, Taiwan, Ireland and others have purchased
  UCLP lightpaths across CAnet4
• In negotiation with other networks
• UCLP being deployed on Internet2, TANet2,
  KREOnet, i2CAT

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CAnet 4 is NOT an optical switched network

• CANARIE has no interest in optical experiments
• E.g. HOPI, GMPLS, etc
• There are few applications that need 10 Gbps
• There are few applications that require 2 Ghz 2
  Gbytes memory on the PC
• Cost of bandwidth is dramatically dropping
• Cost of wavelengths now affordable by individual
  researchers
• CAVEnet good example
• CAnet 4 is made up of many parallel application
  empowered or customer empowered specific networks
  eg
• Computer back planes (Westgrid)
• High energy physics network
• The CAnet 4 tries to answer the question how can
  these autonomous network islands interconnect to
  each other without a central organization like
  telco, CANARIE or Internet 2

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UCLP Objectives

• Network management
• integrate wavelengths and fiber from different
  suppliers
• integrate within network management domain
• offer VPNs to users
• Create discipline specific re-configurable IP
  networks
• Multi-homed network which bypasses firewalls with
  direct connect to servers and routers
• User controlled traffic engineering
• Active replacement for Sockeye and Route Science
• Alternative to MPLS

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Todays hierarchical IP network
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Tomorrows peer to peer IP network
World
World
Anybody can peer with anybody
National IP Network
World
University
Server
World
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Creation of application VPNs
University
Dept
High Energy Physics Network
CERN
Commodity Internet
Research Network
University
University
Bio-informatics Network
University
University
eVLBI Network
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UCLP intended for projects like National
LambdaRail
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UCLP Applications 1

• International Transit
• Korea, Ireland, Taiwan layer 1 transit
• Other countries under negotiation
• ORANs
• Layer 1 restoral and protections paths
• BCnet, ORANO and RISQ to date
• Distributed back planes between HPC Grid centers
• Westgrid (1 GbE moving to 10 GbE)
• AceNet to come
• Distributed Single Mount file systems
• Yotta, Yotta - SGI
• Needs consistent performance and throughput
• Frequent topology changes to meet needs of
  specific applications

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UCLP Applications 2

• ATLAS Canada
• 980 Gbytes FCAL data once a month from CERN to
  Carleton U, UoAlberta, UoArizona, etc
• Will significantly increase to Terabytes when
  production runs start
• Would take over 80 days on IP RE network
• CERN Low level trigger data to UoAlberta
• Initially streaming data rates 1 Gbps moving to
  10Gbps later in the year
• Canadian virtual observatory
• .5 Tbyte per day to UoToronto and UoHawaii
• 250 Mbps continuous streaming from CCD devices
• Canada Light Source Synchrotron remote
  streaming of data acquisition to UoAlberta
• 2 to 5 Gbps continuously

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Typical Large system today
VPN
USER
Security Web Services OGSA
Process
Process
Process
DMAS
Process
Process
SONET/DWDM
Instrument Pod
SONET/DWDM
Layer 3 switch/router
Layer 2 switch
Sensor
Sensor
Instrument
Instrument
Sensor
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Service Oriented Architectures
VPN
WS
HPC
WS
USER
Process
Process
Data Management System
WS
WS
Process
Process
LAN
WS
Instrument Pod
LAN
Web service Interface CANARIE UCLP New web
services
WS
WS
Layer 2/3 switch
WS
Sensor
Sensor
Instrument
Instrument
Sensor
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Science user perspective
WS
CANARIE UCLP
WS AAA process
WS
WS HPC Process
WS
WS
New Web service
Lightpath
WS
WS
New development
ONS15454
WS
NLR or CAnet 4
USER with WSFL binding software
Log Archive Process 2
WS
DMAS
Log Archive Process 1
WS
LAN
WS
UDDI or WSIL service registry
Science Pod
LAN
WS
Sensor/Instrument
WS
User defined WSFL bindings