Transcript Marla`s Presentation - University Corporation for Atmospheric

National LightRail: Towards a
National Optical Research
Network
Marla Meehl
UMC
2/20/03
National Light Rail
Dark Fiber National footprint
– Building from California via Denver to Atlanta initially and
completing national footprint in a ring back to California as
funds and partners available
Serves very high-end experimental and research
applications
4 - 10Gb Wavelengths initially
Capable of 40 10Gbps wavelengths at build-out
Partnership model
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NLR Footprint and Layer 1 Topology
SEA
POR
SAC
BOS
NYC
CHI
OGD
DEN
SVL
CLE
FRE
PIT
WDC
KAN
NAS
STR
LAX
RAL
PHO
SDG
WAL
OLG
ATL
DAL
JAC
15808 Terminal, Regen or OADM site (OpAmp sites not shown)
Fiber route
Goal of NLR
“The fundamental and overriding goal of NLR
is to provide an enabling experimental
infrastructure for new forms and methods of
science and engineering.” – Peter O’Neil
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Elements of NLR
Enable science that cannot be done today
• Distributed Terascale Facility/Extended Terascaled
Facility (DTF/ETF) access
• Grid/Distributed computing
• Distributed Storage Area Networks (SANs)
• Real-time, high-speed data access and service
• Distributed coupled modeling
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Elements of NLR
There are three broad areas of research activity that
the proposed NLR infrastructure would facilitate:
– Experimental Computational Science and Engineering
• Application Research grid computing, load migration, latency
tolerant algorithms, resource aware algorithm selection and
scheduling, distributed and multidisciplinary efforts involving
multiple length and time scales in the simulations and multiple
science and engineering disciplines, very tightly-coupled
simulation codes and algorithms, data sensing and collection
elements, data repositories, visualization environments, etc.
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Elements of NLR
High Performance Networking Research
• conduct network layer or link-layer research on some
wavelengths, while maintaining a stable link layer and
network layer on other wavelengths to conduct research
at the transport layer or higher layers
• build the next generation of network protocols using a
protocol development environment (PDE)
• conduct research activities in the optronics space itself
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And, Long Term
Evolution of Networking ‘Spiral’
Commercialization
Privatization
Today’s
Internet
Research Nets
Research and
Development
Source: Ivan Moura Campos
‘NGI’ efforts
Partnerships
R&E Network Tiers
LEADERS
NETWORK TYPE
NETWORK DISCONTINUITIES
CAPABILITIES/USERS
Academic Research, papers, lab. Experiments,
spools of fiber In labs & sparse testbeds
Research
CS, Comp. Science & ‘Grid’ researchers,
Bleeding-edge e2e services & facilities
’s,
+ major experiments (eg DTF) & net.
for key experiments, programs,
P2p fiber,
experimenters + leading edge labs & >=10g ip …
projects, researchers & for next gen.
and centers, optics sys.& net.
tech., architectures, Grids, content,
apparatus, etc. ‘Things that
Industry R&D groups + I-WIRE
Experimental &
Developmental
haven’t been done before; with,
PACIFIC LIGHTRAIL +
Networks
to, on or over networks’.
Internet-2 wave projects;
Computer Science & Net. Researchers
I2-Abilene,
GigaPoPs;
Fed. ‘NGI’ Nets.
Internet-2,
GigaPoPs
I2-K20
Operational High Performance
Research Support Networks
Leading-Edge ip Services
for demanding apps .
& middleware
Common Denominator, Advanced
Services Research & Education Network
ISP’s, hosting
.com’s etc.
Commodity Internet
Advanced
Services for
R&E users
Business,.Gov.
& General Public
12/05/01
Drivers and Motivations
“NSF must be prepared to assume a great S&E
infrastructure role for the benefit of the Nation.”
An increasing number of researcher and educators,
working as individuals and in groups, need to be
connected to sophisticated array of facilities,
instruments, and data bases.”
Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the 21st Century Report
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Drivers and Motivations
“Develop and deploy an advanced cyberinfrastructure to enable
new Science & Engineering in the 21st century”
“Expand education and training opportunities at new and existing
research facilities.”
“Develop interagency plans and strategies to provide high-end
high performance computing and networking infrastructure.”
Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the 21st Century Report
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Drivers and Motivations
Cost
Control
Flexibility
Responsiveness
Innovation
End-to-End networking
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Rationale for NLR:
Current market demonstrates willingness of private sector setting stage for
strong partnership of academia, corporations and government
Research community in USA and worldwide working on large scale
research and development applications calling for increasing bandwidth as
evidenced by the Grid and Terascale projects
Unified approach best investment for biggest payoff for the most users
Federal program funding support focused on research and experimental
applications needing significant network capacity
Leadership worldwide in research and education increasingly dependent
upon large-scale collaborative research activities
Meet the future needs of the research and community most economically
Why Fiber?
Capacity needed is not otherwise affordable
Capabilities needed are not available
Cheaper in the long range
Leverage with “carriers”
Insurance against monopoly behavior
Stable and predictable anchor points
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NLR Service Offerings
Waves!!!!
Dark Fiber
‘MetaPoP’ capabilities
Dedicated OC-192c or 10GE waves
– No wave can interfere with others
Shared IP service
– Must be able to tolerate outages
– Supports experimental code
Shared Layer 2 server
Access to 2 unused waves
Subdivided waves for dedicated uses
– Delivered as gigabit Ethernet
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NLR Governance
LLC - Equity Partners
Joint Research Council
Joint Technology Council
Distributed Network Engineering/ Operations
Waves governed/managed by various groups
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Potential Participants
Carnegie Mellon/PSC
Virginia Tech
Duke
Georgia Tech
Florida Group (FSU lead)
Texas Group (UT Austin lead)
CENIC
NOTE: There are many sites
behind each of these lead
sites
PNWGP
UCAR
UCAID
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Technology Partners
Cisco Systems
Level 3
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Total NLR Costs
$80.2 Million Over 5 Years
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Westnet LightRail (WLR) Costs
$4.6 Million over 5 years
Westnet LightRail is a consortium of the
FRGP Abilene members and the
InterMountain GigaPop (IMG)
– University of Utah, Utah State, Utah Education
Network
Share geography and research goals
IMG would become members of the FRGP to
help off-set total costs
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Costs to UCAR/UCAR
Share commodity Internet, engineer,
equipment, Abilene, and NLR costs
$100-$200K new dollars per year for
UCAR for five years depending on WLR
financial commitments
Without WLR consortium the cost to
UCAR would be $920K per year for five
years
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UCAR Benefits/Risks
Benefits
Enables advanced scientific
research
Least expensive way to obtain
DTF/ETF waves to LA or
Chicago
Positions participation in NSF
solicitations e.g. Experimental
Infrastructure Network and
Networking Research Testbeds
Provides experimental lambda
to PSC for jointly funded work
Further aggregation of Abilene
and commodity links to reduce
future costs
Founding partner least cost/
potential profit position
Risks
As founding partner, UCAR
provider of services for WLR
members - bears more financial
& liability risks
FRGP and IMG may take
different time frames to gather
funds
WLR members can’t join
corporations of any kind
Puts 5 year liability w/o offset
asset on our books
Some risk, but still most prudent
and cost effective way for
UCAR to proceed
Liability and financial risks are
being further evaluated by legal
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and finance
Questions?