Transcript Owned Lit Fiber

An Owned and Lit Fiber
Infrastructure for Research and
Education:
Needs & Feasibility
Jacqueline Brown for Ron Johnson
University of Washington,
Pacific Wave, CENIC,
NATIONAL LIGHTRAIL
[email protected]
APAN meeting Fukuoka, Japan, 24 Jan. 2003
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Owned & Lit Fiber
Main Cost Drivers for owned lit fiber:
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Expertise & Administration
Fiber (long lines and ‘metro’)
Fiber ‘maintenance’
Huts, Racks and Power & CoLo
Optronics incl. maintenance/sparing
NOC(s) & ‘remote hands’
Local Loops/Laterals
MetaPoP capabilities (not unique to fiber)
Not cheap to create but low marginal
costs for more ’ s.
• Cooperation Essential !
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Why Fiber?
• The Capacity we’ll need for R&E &
eScience isn’t otherwise affordable
• The Capabilities our research & net.
communities need are not available!
• It is now Cheaper (in local and
regional loop in the U.S.) than
‘carriers’ offerings
• Business reasons - Owned Fiber
provides:
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– Long Term Negotiating Leverage with ‘carriers’;
– Insurance against new rounds of carrier
Monopoly Behaviors;
– Predictable/Stable Anchor Points & Transit to
catalyze more investment in trans-regional nets.
Owned & Lit Fiber
Why Fiber? We are stuck in the past.
• We need to be able to Innovate. We
are in the research business and
shared IP services with small packets
is not the answer to everything
– "Research can't be held hostage to what industry
thinks the markets want.“
– ”Infrastructure investments of the past are
getting in the way of real innovation.“
– "The situation is reminiscent of the telco
infrastructure situation before ARPANET”.
(Bob Kahn, CRA-Snowbird ‘02)
• We have the Opportunity (albeit
perishable) incl. current willingness of
private sector for lit-fiber partnership.
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We have important drivers and
motivations, e.g., this Aubrey Bush NSF
Slide :-)
RESEARCH = Network research testbeds
EXPERIMENTAL = Experimental network
infrastructure
OPERATIONAL = 24/7 operational high
performance networks
Chicago 5/DEC/01
Grand Challenges in e-Science
Grand Challenges in e-Science
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Plus, we are already doing it for R&E:
• Extended Metro, e.g.:
– Pacific NorthWest Gigapop in greater Seattle
– MaX in D.C.
– Many more in 1st stages or in the pipeline
• Regional
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I-Wire
Indiana
CENIC ONI
Network Virginia
More in the pipeline
• And, increasing fiber from ‘gigapops’
to research oriented campuses,
academic medical centers & labs
• So we have key e2e building blocks
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e.g.
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST GIGAPOP
PN/W-GP Seattle Metro Fiber – in service
U of Alaska
ARSC
Fairbanks
Children’s Hospital
Inst. for
Systems
Biology
UW
UWMC
Cellular
Sciences
Inst.
KEXP
Fred Hutch
& SCCA
Level3 PoP
Westin Bldg
Carrier Hotel
ISP’s, Abilene, BBs,
Pacific Wave (intl.
connects/peerings)
PN/W-GP
& PLR
Portland
WA Dept.
Information
Services
Microsoft
UW Downtown
PN/W-GP
& PLR
Spokane
Harborview Research
Fiber in Service
e.g.
I-WIRE Background
• State Funded Dark Fiber
Optical Infrastructure to
support Networking and
Applications Research
$7.5M Total Funding
From Linda Winkler 8-02
NU / Starlight
UIC
IIT
ANL
ICN
• $4M FY00-01 (in hand)
• $2.5M FY02 (approved 1-June01)
• Additional $0.5M in FY03, FY04
UC
• Application Driven
• Access Grid: Telepresence &
Media
• Computational Grids: Internet
Computing
• Data Grids: Information Analysis
NCSA/UIUC
• New Technologies Proving
Ground
• Optical Switching
• Dense Wave Division
Multiplexing
• Advanced middleware
infrastructure
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For more information see www.iwire.org
CalREN Optical
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Northern California
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Southern California
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Industry Windows of Opportunity:
• Optronics kit manufacturers (some
now with LAN PHY, and enterprise
network mgmt etc).
• Wave Vendors?, but will competition
continue? – recent rising prices and
lessened competition in some markets.
Wave deals have short lifespan, must redo in new market.
• Fiber Owners – but is ‘firesale’ over?
• Critical Mass in R&E community Existing metro, regional (&linked!) &
now interregional/national efforts.
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NATIONAL
LIGHTRAIL
• Connecting the dots of opportunity
and need
• Owned and lit Dark Fiber National
footprint
• Prime Goal = Serve very high-end
Experimental and Research
Applications
• >= 4 x 10GB Wavelengths initially
• Expand to 40 10Gb wavelengths
• Partnership model
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NLR Goals
• Research! (including Network Research)
• Experimentation in networking and in education
• Regional fiber/
sectors
 efforts in edu & research
• Education
• Academic Med. Center driven clinical activities
• Development & implementation of network &
computing technologies not otherwise likely to
be generally available commercially as early as
needed in R&E.
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• Enabling deterministic and other e2e bandwidth/
’s, dark fiber and conduit for Grid, eScience
etc. & for ‘Regionals’ etc.
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Governance
• LLC - Equity Partner model
• Joint Research Council
• Joint Technology Council
• Push envelope wrt Distributed
Network Operations
• Waves/subdivisions governed by
various groups
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NLR ‘Service’ offerings
• Waves!!!
• ‘MetaPoP’ capabilities
• Dedicated OC-192c’s or 10GE’s (No
wave can interfere with others)
– Many potential services/uses done by others
or in partnership with NLR, e.g.
• Shared experimental 10gbs IP
service
– Must be able to tolerate outages
– Supports experimental code/packet size etc
• Subdivided waves for dedicated uses
– Probably delivered as gigabit Ethernet
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National LightRail: cost-effective owned lit R&E fiber fabric
Initial footprint 6/03
Canarie
fabric
Leading-Edge e2e services & experimental
network facilities via MetaPoPs and inter-gigapop
links for research & next gen. tech., arch., grids,
DTF expansion, content, sensors, apparatus …
Up to 40 dedicated 10 gigabit waves with up to
hundreds of dedicated gigabit links system-wide.
SEA
10 gbs
Tycom IEEAF
donation
BOS
CHI
SUN
CLV?
PIT
NY
DC
DEN
10 gbs
Tycom
IEEAF
Donation
Raleigh
LA
ATL
MetaPoPs & Core Nodes
ADM sites
Desired Expansion PoPs/ADM
National LightRail” (NLR)
International Broadband
Metro/WAN owned Fiber ‘Rings' connecting strategic R&E endpoints.
10/14/02
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NLR Footprint and Layer 1 Topology
SEA
POR
SAC
NYC
CHI
OGD
DEN
SVL
CLE
FRE
PIT
KAN
PHO
SDG
WAL
OLG
DAL
18
RAL
NAS
STR
LAX
BOS
ATL
WDC
Lit National NLR Core Fabric Fiber on Level(3) footprint
A. Starting footprint - operational by Jne 2003.
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5,207 miles
B. Multi-Loop core for owned fiber R&E net - June 2004?
B.
11,000 miles
Owned lit fiber on a
L3 footprint core
[Note: overlayed on lighter
colored full L3 fiber
footprint]
Dashed lines for regional not costed
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Lit National NLR Core Fabric Fiber (on a Level(3) fiber core)
Core, L3
Core, Williams
Access, L3
Access, Williams
C. ‘A.’ stepwise evolution with NY & Atlanta segments. D. Double Loop NLR core interim step alternative
C.
E. Triple Loop core w/Williams NY/Bost segment.
E.
D.
9,342 miles
F. Triple Loop core plus sample regional access loops.
F.
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NATIONAL
LIGHTRAIL
For more information, contact:
Ron Johnson
[email protected]
Tom West [email protected]
8-11-02
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