Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc National LambdaRail Update July 17, 2005 Dave Reese Chair, NLR Engineering Committee dave@cenic.org Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc

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Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc 15808 Upgrades 15454 Shelves Sunnyvale to Pittsburgh installed Jacksonville week of July 18 Atlanta scheduled week of August 1 Washington DC scheduled week of August 8 New 15454 transponders require software upgrade Software upgrade requires CTM upgrade Upgrades to all system “in progress” Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc

Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc Phase 2 Status Ogden-Salt Lake City - pending metro fiber work Installed segments (w/expected turnover dates) Kansas City to Dallas Aug 11 Houston to San Antonio Aug 25 Active Installations (w/expected turnover dates) Dallas to Houston Aug 11 San Antonio to El Paso Aug 25 Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc

Phase 2 Status (continued) Houston to Baton Rouge Sep 2 New York City to Washington DC Sep 13 New York City to Syracuse Sep 24 Syracuse to Cleveland Sep 24 El Paso to Albequerque Oct 6 Albueuerque to Denver Oct 6 Baton Route to Pensacola Oct 15 Pensacola to Jacsonville Oct 15 El Paso to Phoenix Oct 25 Phoenix to Los Angeles Oct 25 Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc

iGrid05 and SC05 (NLR, CENIC and Cisco) Building additional wavelengths 66 transponders (so far) 6 10G waves, San Diego to Los Angeles 5 10G waves, Los Angeles to Sunnyvale 6 10G waves, Sunnyvale to Seattle 12 10G waves, metro Seattle More yet to come… Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc

NLR Engineering Committee Preliminary investigation into optical switching Strengthen robustness and support or production environment Support just-in-time delivery of waves Use for both production and research objectives Product research and setting design objectives Have developed strawman design for discussion Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc

NLR PoP with Optical Switch Terminal Terminal To West To East Router …  To Customer Ethernet … This is an unprotected system. There is one client connected to one transponder at each end. The transponder is connected only over one trunk. If the trunk is cut, or if the transponder fails, or if a client interface fails, there is no backup mechanism. To South Terminal Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc

Strawman NLR Optical Testbed SEA POR BOI SYR STA NYC OGD DEN PIT SVL SLC KAN CHI CLE WDC RAL LAX PHO ALB TUL ATL DAL ELP PEN JAC SAA BAT HOU NLR owned fiber Managed waves PoP for primary connection point by a member (“MetaPoP”) PoP needed because of signal regeneration requirements but can also be used for secondary connection by a member PoP established by NLR for members regional needs PoP established at exchange points NLR WaveNet, FrameNet & PacketNet PoP NLR WaveNet & FrameNet PoP NLR WaveNet PoP Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc

Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc Thank You! Dave Reese Chair, NLR Engineering Committee dave@cenic.org http://www.nlr.net Copyright 2005 National LambdaRail, Inc