Lambda Testbed proposal Optical Networking Lambda Testbed proposal TF-NGN Meeting Geneva, 10-11 January 2002 Valentino Cavalli TERENA <cavalli@terena.nl>

Lambda Testbed proposal FLAG Telecom http://www.flagtelecom.com/ Approved by the GA as TERENA associated member in October 2001 transcontinental optical links from Europe to Middle East, Asia and the US European Network serves London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Brussels Extensions to Geneva and Milano planned

Lambda Testbed proposal Brainstorming meeting, London 6 December 2001 Representatives from FLAG Telecom, Victor Reijs and John Dyer attended the meeting goals of TF-NGN Optical Networking activity information exchange, optical trans-boarder networking

Lambda Testbed proposal Discussion of test goals Interworking optical and IP layer Equipment interworking: IP and optical ‘User’ managed bandwidth Bartering of virtual paths, New commercial ideas Lambda’s or lambda’s (virtual paths)? Routing methods: GMPLS, OBGP, etc. SLA/SLS definition Application testing: (access)GRID’s Relation with AAA work

Lambda Testbed proposal Experience on European scale National NREN projects: many Peering points: StarLight, Netherlight EC projects: IST projects Competition: FARLAND, a European experiment being led by BT Ignite

Lambda Testbed proposal Further steps Defining in more details the goals of the tests Defining how to handle PoP locations FLAG and NREN’s Define principles to handle costs to connect Define how to integrate equipment manufacturers Meeting in Amsterdam 12 February 2002 Mailing list lambda-testbed@terena.nl