Transcript NWSC Wide Area Network Planning

How the Bi-State Optical Network
(BiSON) serves UCAR and the NWSC
John Hernandez
Network Engineer IV
NCAR/CISL
Network Engineering & Telecommunications Section
Overview
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Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) Partnership
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UCAR’s footprint on BiSON
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What BiSON does for us
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Work in Progress
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My other projects at NCAR
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Questions?
BiSON Partnership
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Current partners are NCAR, NOAA-Boulder, CUBoulder, University of Wyoming and Colorado State
University
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Original fiber network connected Boulder, Denver,
Laramie, Fort Collins and Longmont in a ring.
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Cheyenne build incorporated the NWSC in 2011
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Adva is our vendor for Wave Division Multiplexing
(WDM) equipment
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Capacity of 80 x 10G channels in 2010, support for
100G circuits
UCAR’s BiSON Footprint
•60 Gb/s - Boulder campuses
•50Gb/s - NWSC
•50 Gb/s - Denver
•40 Gb/s - Front Range
GigaPoP
•10 Gb/s - XSEDE
BiSON facilitates…
• Movement of large data sets between Boulder
and NWSC
• Scientific collaboration within the CO-WY area
• Dissemination of data to peer institutions,
nationwide and abroad
• Access to National Research and Education
Networks and shared, XSEDE, high capacity,
commodity Internet connections
Work in Progress…
• Linear expansion Denver to Golden for
Colorado School of Mines
• Technology refresh
• Some components end-of-support in 2015
• Additional circuits for partners
• Leasing new / replacement fiber paths
• Relocation of existing path between Ft Collins
and Laramie
What else I do at NCAR
• Security & engineering services for UCAR-Net
• Engineering services for the GigaPoP network
in Denver
• Wireless point-to-point links in the Front Range
• Maintain network statistics
• Operate a Nagios monitoring environment for
our networks
Thanks and Q & A
• Thank you
• Questions?