Transcript CHECO networking update

Networking updates
CHECO April 2009
Jeff Custard
Acronym soup
•University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
•National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
•Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP)
•UCAR Point of Presence (UPoP)
•Questions and discussions throughout please -- and as for
acronym soup ingredients, please ask if I miss one or check
the decoder page at tinyurl.com/nw-decoder
Review and update topic list
•Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP)
•UCAR Point of Presence (UPoP)
•Utah and FRGP: Summit
•Western Region Networking (WRN)
•Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN)
•Colorado K-12 networking: EAGLE-Net (EN)
•Stimulus related items
Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP)
•10 years of operation
•Utah leaving (more on that in Summit discussion)
•USAFA joining? (discussions pending)
•SuperDREAM project essentially completed:
•increased redundancy
•multiple location connection options
•two commodity carriers (one at each location)
•Increased peering traffic
•ESnet connection to 10G
•RMIX and Comcast ongoing
•SECOM peering coming
•NASA peering coming
•Intra-member traffic and Akamai caching
Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP)
•Increasing commodity traffic
•Quilt – Level3 and Qwest (multiple 10Gbps via the Quilt
CIS program so seeing $/Mb price decreases)
•Increasing TransitRail (TR) traffic
•TR and CPS discussion…
•Any E-fort questions or follow up (10G State to E-Fort and
1G from FRGP to State)?
•Any demand from users or researchers (or any app?) for
IPv6?
•SCONE and BiSON fiber project connectivity (GENI
proposal--10G bison updates?)
•NCAR Wyoming Supercomputer Center (NWSC)
Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP)
•Other FRGP questions or related discussion items?
•Anyone attend the Colorado Broadband Summit held on
01-Apr-2009? Any feedback on emphasis or direction for
State of Colorado?
•Quilt tracking nationally in this area (examples available)
•Discussion (here if time or later?)…
FRGP members (16)
•Colorado School of Mines
•Colorado State University system
•Fort Lewis College
•Ithaka
•National Center for Atmospheric Research
•National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
•State of Colorado
•UNAVCO
•University of Colorado at Boulder
•University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
•University of Colorado Denver
•University of Denver
•University of Northern Colorado
•University of Utah
•University of Wyoming
•United States Antarctic Program
UCAR Point of Presence (UPoP)
•2 years of operation
•Just brought up 1G QMOE
•Thanks to DU for their QMOE circuit sharing (past for
CDHE and CARL (and present for ADR))
•Thanks to UCD (and others) for continued support
•Increasing cost sharing as UPoP grows
•Variety of options for education, government, and nonprofit institutions (e.g., backup/failover connections; diverse
circuits or direct fiber connections)
•Intra-member access (e.g., direct ADR access)
•National R&E peering traffic (TR/CPS)
UPoP Members (15)
•Auraria Higher Education Center
•Boulder Valley School District
•Colorado Association of Research Libraries
•Centennial Board of Cooperative Educational Services (EN)
•City of Boulder
•City and County of Denver (DIA pending)
•Colorado Department of Higher Education
•Colorado Mountain College
•Deproduction
•Denver Health and Hospital Authority
•EDUCAUSE
•Metropolitan State College of Denver
•St. Mary's Academy
•Science and Technology in Atmospheric Research (STAR)
Institute
UPoP Members (ESS)
•Educational Support Services
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San Luis
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Montrose-AHEC
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Greeley-AHEC
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Western-AHEC
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Craig Memorial-AHEC
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SW Health Hospital
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Pueblo CC
UPoP diagram
Related UPoP items
•Sponsored Education Group Participant (SEGP;
Internet2)—July 2009
•EDUCAUSE Denver meeting Oct-2009
•Others?
Summit
•The Mountain West Advanced Networking Cooperative
•Goal: establish a lightweight, nimble collaborative overlay
above the Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) and the Utah
Education Network (UEN) for managing regional
connectivity (including peering) and potentially other
related regional IT projects
Summit
•Initial members: FRGP and UEN
•Open to other aggregating members over time
•Governance:
•Summit Policy Oversight Committee (SPOC)
•Summit Technical Operations Committee (STOC)
10Gbps
I2
WDM
SLC
I2
WDM
Denver
I2
Router
SLC
UEN
Switch
SLC
FRGP
Switch
Denver
UEN
Router
SLC
FRGP
Router
Denver
I2
WDM
KC
I2
Router
KC
Future topology (late spring 2009)
1)10Gbps primary IP connection to
Internet2 Network (IP) in SLC
2)10Gbps backup IP connection
from Denver to Kansas City
3)10Gbps dedicated wavelength
between Denver and SLC for
Summit use
4)Internet2 DCN connection
(2.5Gbps) for Northrop Grumman
in Denver (not shown)
Western Region Networking (WRN)
•A parallel discussion going on regarding possibility of a
larger Western affinity group
•An opportunity to improve network service for “the West”:
•Arizona
•California
•Colorado
•Idaho
•New Mexico
•Utah
•Washington
•Wyoming
WRN
•Intra-region peering
•NLR and Internet2 services
•Back each other up (provide diverse layer 2 and 3 if on-net
failures)
•Efficient and cost-effective commodity and Transit Rail
(TR) and Commercial Peering Service (CPS) connections
Colorado Telehealth Network
(CTN)
•The FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program (RHCPP)
•Colorado received two awards:
•Colorado Health Care Connections (CHCC; from
Colorado Hospital Association (CHA))
•Rocky Mountain Healthcare Network (RMHN; from
Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council (CBHC))
CTN
•Governance:
•IT Advisory Council
•Architecture Task Force
•Membership and AUP Task Force
•Medical Advisory Council
•Business Advisory Council
EAGLE-Net (EN)
•Enhanced Education Gateway Learning Environment
Network
• Development of:
•Student Systems – electronic content / curriculum
access for students and teachers
•Teacher Development – professional development and
IT systems
•Information Systems Coordination – networking,
applications and data management
•Also K-12 support for videoconferencing, distance
learning, and consortium based cost-sharing on a statewide
level.
•E-rate options
•White paper draft posted at www.checoweb.org (or current
from reference link)
Stimulus
•American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
•National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA)
•Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)
•U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities
Services (RUS)
•Lots of examples and update sites in reference section—
others tracking?
References
FRGP: www.frgp.net
UPoP: upop.ucar.edu
CTN: www.cotelehealth.com
EN: www.co-eaglenet.net
The Quilt, Inc: www.thequilt.net
UCAR: www.ucar.edu
NCAR: www.ncar.ucar.edu
References
NLR: www.nlr.net
Internet2: www.internet2.edu
SEGP: k20.internet2.edu/about/segp and
www.internet2.edu/k20
CRDC: www.ruralcolorado.org
NWSC: www.cisl.ucar.edu/nwsc
CTN References
CBHC: cbhc.org
CHA: www.cha.com
USAC RHCPP: www.usac.org/rhc-pilot-program
Internet2 HNI: www.internet2.edu/health/hni/
Stimulus related references
broadbandcensus.com
www.internet2.edu/government/stimulus
www.educause.edu/Resources/Browse/EconomicStimulus/3
4622
www.grants.gov
www.dowlohnes.com/News/Detail.aspx?newsid=150
www.silicon-flatirons.org/events.php?id=641
Stimulus related references
www.colorado.gov/recovery
www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants
www.recovery.gov
online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/infoSTIMULUS0903.html
www.cra.org/ccc/docs/init/Unleashing.pdf
Contact information
me: jcustard (at) ucar.edu or tinyurl.com/jcustard
FRGP: frgp-eng (at) ucar.edu
UPoP: upop-eng (at) ucar.edu
Discussion / wrap-up
Questions?