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MAX Update
SURA IT
Committee
July 29,2005
Tony Conto
High Growth in Production IP Network
• Currently 37 Participants
• Near-Term Connectors Summer ’05
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Johns Hopkins APL campus
• U.S. Food & Drug Administration
• Max will likely have 40 connectors by end of 2005
• Doubled network size in 2-3 years
• Forecast is for continued growth!!
Participant Consortium
of Higher Education, Federal Labs and Private
Non-Profit Institutions
(37 Participants and Networks Directly Connected)
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Higher Education (18)
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Baltimore Education & Research Network
(BERnet)
Catholic University
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Johns Hopkins University
Montgomery College
National Consortium for Supercomputing
Applications / ACCESS
Network Virginia (aggregating the State of
Virginia)
Smithsonian Institution
Southern Universities Research Association
(SURA)
University of California, D.C. campus
University Consortium for Advanced Internet
Development (UCAID / Internet2)
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland, Baltimore
University of Maryland, Baltimore Co.
Univ. System of Maryland Network
(aggregating 11 campuses)
University of Southern California, Information
Sciences Institute / East
Washington Research Library Consortium
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Federal Labs and Agencies (14)
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Library of Congress
NASA / GSFC
National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
Naval Research Lab & ATDnet
U.S. Census
U.S.D.A, Beltsville Agr. Research Ctr.
U.S. Department of State (through GWU)
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Private Non-Profit (5)
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Howard Hughes Med. Institute
Fujitsu Labs of America
The Institute for Genomic Research
Windber Professional Services, Inc
World Bank
National/International
Peering Networks
BoSSNET
Abilene
ESNet
DREN
NASA
NREN
ISP
NISN
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads
Regional Network
Participants
ATDnet
Univ System Md
NGIX-East
MAX
Regional
Infrastructure
DRAGON
Network Virginia
37 Higher Education, Federal Agency
and Private Non-Profit MAX Members
MAX Completed a Re-architecture and
Expansion
• Upgraded and consolidated layer 3 routers
• Removed 3 Juniper M160s (EOLed) at edge pops
• Installing 2 Juniper T640s, cutting all customers over.
• Expansion of layer 1 core optical network
• Backhaul with redundancy of switches at pops
• Top-tier customer optical backhaul from any pop
• Integrating second optical dwdm system (Movaz)
• Expansion to new Level 3 pop (NLR)
• New dwdm collaboration USM, NetWork MD, JHU
from D.C. campus to Baltimore
• Next phase FY ‘06 adds 10G links in core & edge
Next-Gen Production Network
BALT
Gige 6509
NGIX
M40e Router
New DWDM optical system
T640
Router
DWDM T640 Router
CLPK
LVL3
DWDM
GigE Switch
Gige Switch
DCGW
DCNE
Qwest
Gige
OC48
OC12
Abilene
OC48c POS
ARLG
NWVa
NSF
NLR
MAX is More than Production IP Networking
MAX
Activities
Research Activities
Production Net Activities
Layer 3 IP
Network
Services
NGIX/East
(FedNet peer
point)
Layer 1
Optical
Services
GIG-EF
DRAGON
(ATDNet-V2)
Experimental
Networking
LTS
Research
Technologies
Related
Strategic
Activities
HOPI
Testbed
Support
Center
AtlanticWave,
NLR, Quilt,
Future
Projects
PMD
Research
Future
Projects
MAX Production Network Services
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IPv4 unicast, IPv4 multicast, and native IPv6 unicast.
Internet2 (Abilene network) regional aggregation
ISP resale (currently Qwest DIA, may add another)
NGIX/East FedNet peer point operation
National Lambda Rail (NLR) aggregation and fan-out
Lambda transport on MAX dwdm optical network
MPLS tunnel transport in MAX IP network
Participant Colocation at UMD, Qwest, & Level3 pops
Network monitoring and uptime/usage reporting
MAX Commodity Internet Service
• Currently Qwest DIA service, resold to any
participant for primary or secondary ISP.
• ISP routes kept separate from I2 routes via
RFC 2547 MPLS vpns (Separate routing
tables, separate peerings)
• 14 participants, 500 mb aggregated and
growing, based on Quilt pricing.
• Adding redundant Qwest peering for backup
summer 05.
Strong Carrier Partnerships
• With 6 MAX pop locations around region,
participants can connect at one or more locations via
dark fiber or lit services via aggressive low-cost
carriers as well as traditional telcos.
• 80% & growing of participant circuits are ethernet.
• Strong partnerships with carriers:
• Allied Telecom, ATT, Fibergate, Level 3, Looking Glass
Networks, MCI, Qwest, Starpower/RCN, Verizon, Yipes.
MAX Operates NGIX/East FedNet Peer Point
• “Meet-me” point (NAP ) for national backbones to
exchange east-coast traffic.
• Converted from ATM to GigE 3 years ago.
• Currently Abilene (10 Gb), vBNS (1 Gb), DREN (1
Gb), NISN (1 Gb), NREN (1 Gb), USGS (1 Gb), NLM
(1 Gb).
• New NGIX peers summer 05: ESnet and GEANT
(first international: 10 Gb)
• NGIX/E will be one of 4 core switches in Atlantic
Wave’s distributed peering fabric (fall ‘05)
Proposed Atlantic Wave Topology
Initial East Coast NLR
10G A-Wave Backbone
Future backbone
Extensions within NA & EU
To
South America
To
Europe &
Canada,
MIA
ATL
Miami, FL
Atlanta, GA
WDC
Washington, DC
NYC
New York City, NY
Sonet services
Ethernet services
Fall 05: Atlantic Wave over NLR lambda
CHI
NYC
LON
STK
SEA
WDC
TOK
LAX
ATL
A-Wave
AMS
CER
MIA
AUS
Sao Paulo (SPB)
East Coast confederation of
Network Exchange points
-Production level IP peering
-Experimental “Light Path”
services
DRAGON Research
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Dynamic Resource Allocation over GMPLS Optical Networks
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NSF funded project under the Experimental Infostructure Networks (EIN) program
Four year $6.5M program, began Sep03
http://dragon.maxgigapop.net
Purpose: Develop dynamic connection oriented network transport
capabilities to support emerging network intensive globally distributed “eScience” applications
Participating Institutions
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MAX, Sobieski (PI)
USC/ISI East Tom Lehman (co-PI)
GMU, Bijan Jabbari (co-PI)
UMD, Don Riley (co-PI)
MIT Haystack Observatory
NASA GSFC
Movaz Networks (commercial partner)
NCSA ACCESS
USNO
DRAGON Objectives
• Deploy an all-optical GMPLS controlled metro-area
network
• Develop open source protocol stacks for the R&E
community
• Develop inter-domain service routing architecture for
light path services
• Application Specific Topologies, e.g., Radio Astronomy
• Work with MIT Haystack, NASA GSFC, USNO, and
others to integrate these features into production
applications
The DRAGON Testbed
University of Maryland College Park
(UMCP)
MAX
Goddard Space Flight Center
(GSFC)
MIT Haystack Observatory
(HAYS)
U. S. Naval Observatory
(USNO)
CLPK
DCNE
(Qwest)
ATDnet
DCGW
ARLG
HOPI / NLR
MCLN
(Level3)
DCNE
National Computational
Science Alliance (NCSA)
Univ of Southern California/
Information Sciences Institute
(ISIE)
MAX – GIG-EF Cooperative Project
(Global Information Grid – Experimental Facility )
• Previously ATDnet (Advanced Technology
Demonstration Network) is a high performance
networking test bed
• Established by DARPA
• Enables collaboration between defense and other federal agencies
• ATDnet comprised of federal research labs
• NRL, DIA, DISA, LTS, NASA, DARPA, MAX
• MAX managing a research test bed network in
collaboration with ADTnet
• Primarily used for optical research activities
GIG-EF Ring Topology
GSFC
LTS
MIT-LL
UMD
~700 km
GWU
All routes are 2 strands fiber
Qwest routes are Lucent Truewave
Fibergate routes are SMF28
ECK
DARPA
WNY
DISA
DIA
NRL
Fiber bundle
Cross-connect
Primary site
Ancillary site
Qwest fiber
Fibergate fiber
Govt supplied fiber
Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure Project
(HOPI)
• Award from Internet2
• MAX is the lead gigapop and partners with NCREN
and Indiana University
• Focused on understanding hybrid networks
comprised of combined packet switched and circuit
switched optical infrastructures
• Understanding dynamic provisioning across a circuit
switched infrastructure
• Investigate and implement new and inventive
techniques in hybrid networking
Internet 2’s Hybrid Optical Packet
Infrastructure Project (HOPI)
Quilt: National Association of GigaPoPs
• MAX is a member of TheQuilt, a national
association of GigaPoPs
• Membership brings value to MAX Participants
• Provides collaboration on projects to benefit
the individual GigaPoPs
• Leverages multi-state buying power
• ISP services with pricing based on aggregated
national bandwidth tiers
• national pricing for commodity ISP services