MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester SuperJANET Development Network Testbed – Cisco GSR SuperJANET4 C-PoP – Cisco GSR Gbit/s 2.5 Gbit/s SuperJANET4 Warrington C-PoPLeeds C-PoP London C-PoP Reading C-PoP Testbed to production link Gigabit Ethernet RAL Man Network links D-PoP to Sites UCL
MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Test PC Load PC Test PC Load PC Equipment for the External / Edge Domains MPLS Edge Router OSR Need to collapse ? 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade QoS Marking Gigabit Ethernet 2.5 Gbit POS 10 Gbit POS 3 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade 2.5 Gbit POS SJDN Core MPLS Backbone Router Gbit POS 2.5 Gbit POS Out of Band Access Serial / 100Mbit Local site Ethernet Classify packets QoS Difserv QoS – WRED MPLS Generate MPLS frames MPLS Multi-loop
MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Test PC Load PC Test PC Load PC Equipment for the External / Edge Domains Difserve router OR MPLS Edge Router ?? OSR Need to collapse ? 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade QoS Marking Gigabit Ethernet 2.5 Gbit POS 10 Gbit POS 3 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade 2.5 Gbit POS SJDN Core MPLS Backbone Router Gbit POS 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade QoS Marking ?? 2.5 Gbit POS MPLS Backbone Router OSR 100 Mbit ?? IP
MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Hardware & Software Tools High Bandwidth High Throughput Protocol Investigations (mainly) Optical splitter or opto-electrical tap opto-electrical tap constructed for logic analyser Software use of : tcpdump tcptrace Web100 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade QoS Marking Test PC 2.5 Gbit POS Monitor PC NIC
MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Some Costings (1) uPC –SuperMicro 370DLE630 –64 bit 67 MHz ServerWorks Chipset –1 GHz PIII 256M RAM 20 GB HDD –Alteon / Netgear Gigabit NIC220 –SysKonnect Gigabit NIC500 ? uKit at PoP2050 –Keyboard mouse monitor + switch540 –Servertech serial access + power1500 –GigE cable link to C-PoP10 u3PC + Kit at PoP5350 uKit at Site640 –Keyboard mouse monitor + switch540 –Ethernet switch to local ethernet100 u4PC + Kit at Site5040 uProtocol Test Kit (1 site)1920 –Optical splitter600 –PC630 –Two Netgear NICs440 –Logic analyser Tap250 uTotal33,170
MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Some Costings (2) uCisco OSR based on 6500 ~Jul 01 List Prices ex VAT uMan and UCL will use Cisco, RAL have Nortel - ?
MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Some Costings (2 Excel) uCisco OSR based on 6500 ~Jul 01 List Prices ex VAT
MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Latency Tests with 64-bit PCI uAlteon Gigabit NIC uSuperMicro 370DLE –ServerWorks III LE Chipset –64 bit 33 MHz uRequest – Response uTransfer rates: observe expect us/B bit > 108Mbyte/s bit bit byte Request 1400 byte Response
MB MPLS MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Throughput Tests with 64-bit PCI uRAW Stream uNot using IP stack uVary time between packets u1.6 factor improvement over bit transfers