Infrastructure Update Rick Summerhill Associate Director, Backbone Network Infrastructure, Internet2 Joint Techs, HENP Working Group Honolulu, Hawaii 25 January 2004 This is a general overview presentation about Internet2. Internet2 is a consortium, led by US universities, which is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today’s Internet in its infancy.

Outline Infrastructure Projects Abilene NLR FiberCo MANLAN RONs HOPI Project – The Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure HOPI is only one of many of the ongoing projects from the International community. Expect to collaborate with other groups working within this arena. 5/1/2019

Abilene - Upgrade Completed! 5/1/2019

Abilene Upgrade – Completed! September - November Atlanta - Washington Houston – Atlanta Los Angeles – Houston For Detail, See http://loadrunner.uits.iu.edu/upgrade/milestones.shtml Mid-December Split out of Sunnyvale to Kansas City Upgrade went very smoothly – Kudos to the NOC, Qwest, and Juniper Recent performance experiments and demos During October member meeting, 5.4 Gbps flows from CalTech to CERN Peak rates at SC2003 of 8.7 Gbps in and 9.5 Gbps out Kudos to Caltech/CERN/SLAC/TeraGrid/Manchester Team 5/1/2019

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Abilene Peering Peering at Exchange Points Direct Peering 10 GigE PacWave, Starlight (2 Connections, one supporting experimental projects), MANLAN LaLaLan, NGIX-East Soon 1 GigE NGIX-West Soon Direct Peering ESnet-Abilene Peering Upgrade – minimal peering of OC-48 Sunnyvale, Chicago – OC-48c in place Three additional peering points at OC-48c, minimally MANLAN Partnership with NYSERNET for collocation and support Supports peering with Abilene, but also between other networks Will support an experimental component related to the HOPI project Currently 26 International Peers and 8 Federal Research Peers 5/1/2019

NLR Summary Disclaimer – I’ve not been directly involved in NLR activities. This is a summary after talking with NLR participants. Largest higher-ed owned/managed optical networking & research facility in the world ~10,000 route-miles of dark fiber Four 10-Gbps ’s provisioned at outset One allocated to Internet2 One an experimental IP network One a national scale Ethernet One a spare Connectivity between the experimental IP network and Abilene will be on a limited basis – much like the TeraGrid and Darpa experimental connections. First & foremost, an experimental platform for research Research committee integral in NLR governance Advance reservation of  capacity for research Experimental support center 5/1/2019

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NLR Current Members and Associates CENIC Pacific Northwest Gigapop Pittsburgh SC Duke Univ./NCLR MATP/Va. Tech Cisco Systems Internet2 Florida LambdaRail Georgia Tech CIC Texas University Consortium 5/1/2019

FiberCo Designed to support optical initiatives Regional National Not an operational entity – supporting project Will not light any fiber Fiber options Holding company for any future initiatives Assignment vehicle Regional initiatives National initiatives (e.g., NLR) Internet2 took responsibility for LLC formation Idea was spin-off from NLR formation discussions National R&E Fiber Company incorporated in Delaware First acquisition of dark fiber for FiberCo through Level 3 Communication – 3/21/2003 5/1/2019

Available fiber topology 5/1/2019

Leading & Emerging Regional Optical Initiatives California (CALREN) Colorado (FRGP/BRAN) Connecticut (Connecticut Education Network) Florida (Florida LambdaRail) Indiana (I-LIGHT) Illinois (I-WIRE) Maryland, D.C. & northern Virginia (MAX) Michigan Minnesota New York + New England region (NEREN) North Carolina (NC LambdaRail) Ohio (Third Frontier Network) Oregon Rhode Island (OSHEAN) SURA Crossroads (southeastern U.S.) Texas Utah Wisconsin 5/1/2019

MANLAN Experimental Facility MANLAN Proper is an Ethernet Exchange Point for R&E Networks Addition of Cisco 15454 to support projects such as the Global Lambda Integration Facility (GLIF) Current IEEAF/Tyco Circuit between Surfnet and Abilene will be used for international experimentation Expected connections CA*net Abilene Surfnet There are many other experimental facilities – StarLight (including Starlight-CERN OC192 link with Layer 2 and 3 services), NetherLight, etc. 5/1/2019

HOPI Project Examine new infrastructures for the future Immediate Goal Examining a Hybrid of shared IP packet switching and dynamically provisioned optical lambdas The eventual hybrid will require a rich set of wide-area lambdas and the appropriate switching mechanisms to support high capacity and dynamic provisioning. Immediate Goal Create a plan for a test-bed within the next 3 months Implement test-bed within the next year Coordinate and experiment with other similar projects 5/1/2019

HOPI Project Resources The Abilene network – MPLS tunnels Wave on the full NLR footprint MANLAN Experimental Component to support international and federal connections Regional Optical Networks (RONs) Look toward future architectures as we go forward Examine Backbone, RON, Campus hierarchy – understand interface options Network operations Measurement activities 5/1/2019

HOPI Project Assembled a Design Team Experimental MANLAN Component Linda Winkler and myself as Co-chairs A variety of people from the community Experimental MANLAN Component Installing Cisco 15454 – Expected within two weeks Connection to MANLAN Switch and Abilene to support experiments IEEAF/TYCO Circuit between Surfnet and Abilene (in collaboration with GEANT) an important experimental facility International Connections – Important collaborations with Canarie and GEANT/DANTE Full NLR Wave expected by 3Q2004 MPLS Experiments on Abilene Currently have MPLS tunnel between NC ITEC and the NOC Other experiments planned – TeraGrid and International 5/1/2019

Support Support More Information Our goal at Internet2 is to support the bandwidth needs of the community as networking infrastructures evolve in the future through shared, high-performance infrastructures and dedicated capabilities as required. More Information http://abilene.internet2.edu http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory http://www.nationallambdarail.org http://www.fiberco.org A HOPI site to be announced in the near future abilene@internet2.edu 5/1/2019

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