Transcript IEEAF Links and Multi-layer Networking Initiatives

International Interconnect
Options in the USA
John Silvester
[email protected]
Vice-Provost for Scholarly Technology, USC
Chair, CENIC
Board Member, NLR
International R&E Networks connecting
to US
Canada
Europe
Asia
Australia
Mexico
S. America
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International Links to US – some issues
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Fairly Complex picture!
How to link up with US networks?
How interconnect between other networks in N/S
America?
Current interest in dedicated waves and
reconfigurable waves (GLIF, Lambdagrid, etc) –
how to participate?
NationalLambda Rail project provides new options
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NLR – Financial Structure
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Non-profit corporation
Cover costs over a 5 year window
Owned by R&E community - participation based on a
commitment of $5M (US) over 5 years
Initial build is a sparse network with 4 wavelengths lit
Ability to add wavelengths (up to 40) at incremental cost
NLR supports Production and Experimental (breakable)
infrastructures at each layer (1,2, and 3)
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Current NLR Participants
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Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC)
Pacific Northwest GigaPOP (PNWGP)
Carnegie Mellon-Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Duke (representing a coalition of North Carolina universities)
Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership
Cisco Systems
Internet2
Florida LambdaRail
Georgia Institute of Technology
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Lone Star Education and Research Network (LEARN) - Texas
Cornell University – New York
Louisiana Board of Regents
University of New Mexico
ONENet (Oklahoma)
Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
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Production DWDM Network
1st pair Fiber
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Optical packet
switching
architecture
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Experimental L1-3
Networks
Production Switched
Ethernet
ETF distributed
backplane
Production Routed IP
Network
Production L23 Networks
Prod. L3
Networks
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XCP reference
implementation
Exp. L3
Networks
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Experimental
L2-3 Networks
Deterministic
UltraLight
access
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New routing
protocols
Infrastructure
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AUP-free
Internet service
Internet BGP
visibility
Use Examples
NLR - Potential Use Examples
Additional
Fiber Pairs
Adapted from: Network and computing research infrastructure: back to the future, Robert J. Aiken, Javad
Boroumand, Stephen Wolff, Communications of the ACM,Volume 47, Number 1 (2004), Pages 93-98
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Architecture and Initial Configuration
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Obtained fiber (initial build from Level 3, second
stage includes other providers) – 20 year IRU’s
Base NLR lambdas operated at 10 Gbps -- up to
40/32 lambdas
Lit with Cisco gear
Initial deployment is 4 10 Gig wavelengths
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10 Gig layer three
81 Gig layer two
dedicated to Internet2 HOPI
hot spare
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NLR – Optical Infrastructure - Phase 1
Seattle
Portland
Boise
Sunnyvale
Chicago
Ogden
Denver
Clev
Pitts
KC
Wash DC
Raleigh
LA
San Diego
NLR
Route
Atlanta
Jacksonville
NLR
MetaPOP
NLR Regen or
OADM
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Seattle
NLR Phase 1 - Installation Schedule
Will Complete Aug 2004
Chicago
Boise
Portland
Ogden
Cleveland
Denver
Kansas
StarLight
Pitts
Sunnyvale
Wash DC
15808 Terminal
Los
Angeles
15808 Regen (or
Terminal)
Raleigh
15808 OADM
15454 Terminal
15808 LH System
San Diego
15808 ELH System
Atlanta
15454 Metro System
CENIC 15808 LH System
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NLR Phase 2 – the Southern Route
Seattle
Clev
Chicago
Denver
Sunnyvale
Pitts
New York
KC
Wash DC
Raleigh
LA
Phoenix
Albuq.
Tulsa
San Diego
Atlanta
Dallas
Jacksonville
El Paso Las Cruces
Pensacola
San Ant.
Houston Baton
Rouge
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‘Abilene’ backbone
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Abilene / NLR Overlay
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Features
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Abilene
– 10G IP Backbone
– “Production” high performance advanced network
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Dedicated Waves
10 x 1GE channels
(10G IP Backbone – details of use not yet determined)
HOPI – Hybrid Optical Packet (Internet2)
Focus on Experimental and Research Use
AUP free
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Possibilities to consider
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US shares land borders with CANDA and MEXICO
Rest of connections are submarine (or satellite)
Important to look at landing points for fiber (east
and west coasts).
Typically expensive to backhaul from coasts to
Chicago (say) using commercial providers – NLR
provides another low cost alternative
Build exchange POPS close to landing points – or
provide a shared fiber backhaul to an exchange
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Related Developments - Pacific Wave
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Takes advantage of NLR to connect the two exchanges
point in Seattle and Los Angeles
Link (10G) is now up
Exchange to come into operation later this summer
Extension to Sunnyvale (and into other US research nets)
soon.
Link to Chicago also likely soon to allow additional interexchange options.
CENIC is considering developing an exchange POP in San
Luis Obispo (near Los Osos cable landing) with a CalREN
link to LA exchange point.
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Related Developments - IEEAF
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The links donated by TYCO to IEEAF and made
available to the R&E community have similar use
model to NLR waves.
Both trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific links are now
operational. (recent event at Interop in Japan)
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Final Comments
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New exchange and interconnect options taking advantage of NLR
facilities
GLIF, Lightpaths, Lambdagrids are providing new opportunities in
support of data and compute intensive science.
Availability of reconfigurable waves allows this to move forward.
Contact Points
National LambdaRail – www.nlr.net
Tom West (CEO) – [email protected]
John Silvester – [email protected]
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