Transcript 20050920-gigapop

How High Performance
Ethernet Plays in RONs,
GigaPOPs & Grids
Internet2 Member Meeting
Sept 20, 2005
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www.force10networks.com
Speakers Today
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Brian Savory
– Southern Light Rail (SLR) - Exec. Director
– Southern Crossroads (SOX) GigaPOP
– Georgia Tech
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Matt Davy
– Indiana GigaPOP - Chief Network Eng.
– I-Light Optical Fiber Initiative
– Indiana University & The Global NOC
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Debbie Montano
– Force10 Networks, Dir. of Research &
Education Alliances
– [email protected]
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Ethernet has an Essential Role
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Even with optical networking & new network designs on the rise,
Ethernet - GigE / 10 GigE - has an essential role to play in
network architectures of:
– Regional Optical Networks (RONs)
– GigaPOPs (state/regional education advanced networks)
– Grids/Clusters.
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High Performance Ethernet plays into new network designs and
service definitions and offerings for RONs, GigaPOPs and Grids
– will be discussed today.
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Ethernet is continuing to grow and take over!
– LANs and campuses
– Metro Ethernet
– Ethernet on the Wide Area Networks (WAN), both for traditional
carriers and R&E networks!
– Grids / Clusters / Supercomputers
– New support for: WAN PHY, High Densities (90-port card), etc.
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Grid example: TeraGrid
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TeraGrid: Impressive National Resource
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2/3rds (+) of TeraGrid computing facilities using
high performance ethernet -- Force10 E-series
switch/routers -- for interconnect to users/WAN.
Grids / Clusters
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System Interconnects
– CPU-to-CPU: Inter-processor
Communication (IPC)
– Management Network
– I/O to users, outside world
(campus, LAN, WAN)
– Storage, servers & storage
subsystems
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IPC Interconnect Technology –
GigE now #1
– Top 500 Supercomputers
– Ethernet Rapid Growth
– Favored in Clusters
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Other System Interconnection
– Major reliance on Ethernet
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Type
2004
2005
Ethernet
35.2%
42.4%
Myrinet
38.6%
28.2%
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SP Switch
9.2%
9.0%
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NUM Alink
3.4%
4.2%
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Crossbar
4.6%
4.2%

3.4%
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Proprietary
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Infiniband
2.2%
3.2%
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Quadrics
4.0%
2.6%
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Other
2.8%
2.8%
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CERN Deploys Force10
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Announced yesterday – 9/19/2005
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CERN will deploy the TeraScale E-Series family of
switch/routers as the foundation of its new 2.4
Terabit per second (Tbps) high performance grid
computing farm
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The TeraScale E-Series will connect more than
8,000 processors and storage devices
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Also provides the first intercontinental 10 Gigabit
Ethernet WAN links in a production network
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Force10 TeraScale E-Series also will provide 10
Gigabit Ethernet connections to CERN's multiple
campus-based experiments, which are similar to
individual computing clusters
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CERN was looking for a partner that could provide
and support a very high performance networking
solution – selected Force10.
RONs, GigaPOPs & Ethernet
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Regional Optical Networks (RONs) growing
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Ethernet – 1 GigE / 10 GigE
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Using existing fiber or laying fiber
More ownership of fiber
More dedicated lambdas deployed
But that’s not the end of the story…
Layer 2 service
Sub-divide and share those hefty lambdas
Access to multiple networks & projects on 1 lambda
Dynamic control of paths and interconnects
GigaPOPs embracing more Ethernet / Layer 2 services
New Architectures: HOPI
NLR 10 GigE
Lambda
NLR Optical
Terminal
NLR Optical
Terminal
OPTICAL
Force10 E600
Switch/Router
Regional
Optical
Network (RON)
Optical
Cross
Connect
Control
Measurement
Support
OOB
HOPI Node
PACKET
10 GigE Backbone
Abilene
Network
Abilene
Network
Abilene core router
GigaPOP
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GigaPOP
Force10 Participation
Internet2 HOPI Project
Internet2 Corporate Partner &
HOPI project partner
Five E600 switch/routers at
HOPI nodes in Los Angeles,
DC, Chicago, Seattle & New
York
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HOPI - Hybrid Optical
Packet Infrastructure
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Examining a hybrid of
shared IP packet switching
and dynamically
provisioned optical lambdas
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Modeling scaleable nextgeneration networks
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Force10 Ethernet switch, 10
GigE ports
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Dynamic Control of
Ethernet VLANs to allocate
and configure network
paths
Force10 Networks, Inc
Leaders in 10 GbE Switching & Routing
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Founded in 1999, Privately Held
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First to ship line-rate 10 GbE switching &
routing
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Pioneered new switch/router architecture
providing best-in-class resiliency and
density, simplifying network topologies
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Customer base spans academic/research,
data center, enterprise and service provider
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Fastest growing 10 GbE vendor, 92% in 1H04
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April 2005: TeraScale E300 switch/router
named winner of the Networking
Infrastructure category for eWEEK's Fifth
Annual Excellence Awards program.
TeraScale E-Series
A New Generation of 10 Gigabit Ethernet
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Industry’s best density per chassis
– 672 LINE-RATE GbE ports
– 56 LINE-RATE 10 GbE ports
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Driving down price/port!
– First LINE-RATE 48-port GbE line card
& LINE-RATE 4-port 10 GbE line card
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Industry’s best performance
– First true Terabit/second switch/router
processing
E1200
1 billion packets per second
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Industry’s most scalable resiliency
– ZERO packet loss hitless failover at
Terabit data rates
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Industry’s most scalable security
– No performance degradation with
1 million ACLs
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Investment protection for 100 GbE
E600
E300
Force10 Firsts…
First
Line-Rate
10 GbE
Mid-Size
System
Shipped
E600
First
Line-Rate
10 GbE
System
Shipped
E1200
First
Line-Rate
10 GbE
CompactSize
First
Public Zero System
Packet Loss Shipped
E300
Hitless
Failover
Demo
First
Line-Rate
336 GbE
Ports
Demo
Jan
12 2002
Apr
2002
Oct
2002
Nov
2003
Nov
2003
First
Line-Rate
672 GbE /
56 – 10
GbE Ports
First
48 GbE x
10 GbE
Purpose
Built
Data Center
Switch
April
2005
March
2005
Sept
2004
First
>1200 GbE
Ports
Per Chassis
Thank You
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