Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP TransitRail: Nationwide Commodity Peering Program February 12, 2007 Minneapolis, MN Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP Premise Successful large-scale commodity Peering can... Decrease commodity costs and result in overall savings Reduce reliance on commercial vendors Increase routing efficiency and flexibility Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP TransitRail Is... NATIONWIDE Multiple exchange locations around the US; COMMODITY packet-agnostic Connections at commercial peering exchange points; PEERING Direct network-to-network bilateral IP Packet exchange Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP TransitRail Goals Build a robust and reliable network focused on serving the commodity demands of research and education networks; Reduce the overall cost and reliance on traditional Internet transit services; Operate on a cost-recovery, sustainable basis. Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP What to Expect TransitRail participants are likely to experience anywhere from a 25% to 60+% reduction in the overall traffic that normally goes over their commodity ISP circuits. Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

CENIC Experience Commodity only - no R&E Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP Who CENIC and Pacific Northwest Gigapop are jointly developing, and implementing the TransitRail facility; These groups have significant individual and joint experience with peering facilities and prospective peering partners; Working with NLR who is providing the underlying network infrastructure. Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP Trial Phase Success Phase 0 (trial) success No cost to participants CENIC, PNWGP shared subset of peers Helped FRGP defer/avoid adding additional transit capacity, noticeably improved latency Helped OneNet relieve severe congestion on transit links, estimated ~200Mbps, actual ~500Mbps Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP Current Status West Coast peering transition complete Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Seattle on-line 12 Gbps of peering capacity Washington DC connected 14 Gbps of additional peering capacity in provisioning Chicago - Signing IRU contract Equipment received and waiting Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

TransitRail Participants Seven participants connected CENIC Front Range GigaPOP (UCAR) LEARN (North Texas GigaPOP and Univ of Texas) OneNet Pacific Northwest GigaPOP Pittsburgh Super Computer Three participants in progress ENA, MERIT, NCREN Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP TransitRail Growth FRGP is adding 2nd GE to TransitRail Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP Infrastructure Equipment (CISCO 7600s) Maintenance - 4 hr on site 10GE WaveNet between routers Redundant loops to exchange facilities FrameNet backup links between routers New autonomous system (11164) Restrictive peering policy to maximize return Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP Seattle (Westin Bldg) Equinix DC Chicago Equinix Ashburn Sunnyvale PAIX TransitRail - Phase 1 Los Angeles (Equinix LAP) Equinix LAX 1 Wilshire Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP Routing Policies What TransitRail requires of its peers 3-5 locations throughout US Large amount of traffic exchanged per peer Reliable Operations Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP Routing Policies What TransitRail requires of its peering participants Structured local preference Maintained IRR object Willingness to tune announcements to L3/Wiltel/C&W (to attain highest amount of usage) Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP Business Side Cost recovery model NOC support through PNWGP & CENIC Future upgrades, additional peering locations, will be decided with participants Per port pricing model Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

TransitRail Support Model Operational Engineering Customer Support Tools Peer Relationships: • Level1 support to peers • Maintenance Events • Interconnect Outages DoS Response • Peer contacts Call Center: • Customer contacts • Trouble Ticket System Detailed Problem Description Abuse Handling Customer Facing: • PacificWave Speedometer • Backbone Interface Trends Ping and Traceroute Looking Glass Internal: • Inventory/Asset Tracking • TACACS, RANCID • Syslog, Swatch, Cricket TR Planning Tools Troubleshooting: • Level2 to Customer Support Testing and Data collection Problem Mitigation • TR Access Links Network Outage Monitoring: • Customer connections Customer Maintenance Events • NLR FrameNet Links • TR Backbone Links Customer Reporting: • Netflow capture • Data processing • Report generation Configuration/Design: • Address assignment • Router configuration • Change control TR Access Changes Network Architecture Management Sr. Technical Staff Technical Escalation Point Capacity Planning Architecture Long term: Routing Changes Customer and Peer Relations • Collocation contracts • Peer contracts • Customer contracts • Customer billing • Accts Payable/Receivables Copyright 2007 CENIC and PNWGP

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