CA*net3 - International High Performance Connectivity 9th Internet2 Member Meeting Mar 9, Washington, DC tel:

Introduction  international high performance connectivity?  capacity  multicast support  IPv6 support  end-to-end performance  end-to-end support  CA*net4  Star Light

GigaPOP CA*net 3 National Optical Internet Vancouver Calgary Regina Winnipeg Ottawa Montreal Toronto Halifax St. John’s Fredericton Charlottetown ORAN BCnet Netera SRnet MRnet ONet RISQ ACORN Chicago STAR TAP CA*net 3 Primary Route Seattle New York CA*net 3 Diverse Route Consortium Partners: Bell Nexxia Nortel Cisco JDS Uniphase Newbridge

CA*net3 Int'l connectivity  today  Seattle (Westin building) Gigabit Ethernet 1 Gbps  Chicago (Ameritech STAR TAP) OC-3  New York ( e Ave) OC-3  New York (Teleglobe 60 Hudson) up to OC-3  future  Chicago (optical STAR Light) GigE in Q2-01, to be followed by 10GE, and then lambdas  Halifax (360 Networks/DalU) OC-3 in Q2-01  New York (Teleglobe 60 Hudson) up to OC-12

International Peers  North America: 10 networks  Abilene (Internet 2), ANL (Argonne), vBNS (NSF), Esnet (Energy), NISN (NASA), NREN (NASA), MREN (Chicago), STAR TAP, Pacific North West GigaPOP, DREN (DARPA), CUDI (Mexico)  STARTAP in Chicago: 21 national networks  CERN, IUCC (Israel), APAN/ TRANSPAC (Korea, Malaysia, Australia, Philipines, Japan)), RENATER2 (France), GEMnet (Japan),SingAREN (Singapore), SURFnet (Netherlands), NORDUnet (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland), TANet2 (Taiwan), REUNA (Chile), CERNET (China), MIRnet (Russia)  TEN-155 in New York: 16 national networks  ACOnet (Austria), ARNES (Slovenia), BELnet (Belgium), CESNET (Czech Republic), DFN (Germany), GARR (Italy), GRNET (Greece), HEAnet (Ireland), HUNGERNET (Hungary), JANET (U.K.), POL34 (Poland), RCCN (Portugal), RedIRIS (Spain), RENATER2 (France), RESTENA (Luxembourg), SWITCH (Switzerland)  Coming Soon: 3 networks  Australia (AARnet), NTON (DARPA), Supernet (DARPA),

multicast  not all GigaPOPs multicast capable  not all institutions multicast capable  many R&E based collaborative research projects use multicast routing for efficient delivery of data  e.g. int'l collaborative computer science research project SWORD involving researchers at the University of Wisconsin, University of Saskatchewan, and University of WashingtonSWORD

IPv6  not all GigaPOPs IPv6 capable  not all institutions IPv6 capable  many R&E based collaborative research projects may want to use IPv6

TCP throughput  between PNW GigaPOP and C3 NOC  using NLANR iperf tool (  tests performed between 05:00 and 07:30 on March 2, 3, and 6  Bw bottleneck is ARDNOC local loop 50 Mbps ATM  3 different routes tested  symetric routing through Seattle  asymetric routing New York / Seattle  symetric routing through New York

TCP throughput

high performance connectivity and e2e support  throughput, not Bandwidth - I2 e2e perf initiative timely and essential  not just IPv4 unicast  for e2e high performance connectivity (capacity, multicast, IPv6, e2e performance) need e2e support and e2e communication and coordination  need up-to-date lists / tables of state of GigaPOP and institutional high performance connectivity and points of contact  a NOC high performance connectivity BoF at next NLANR/I2 joint techs?