Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown Principal Investigators, STAR TAP Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Alan Verlo, Caren Litvanyi, Andy Schmidt STAR TAP Engineering Joe Mambretti, Tim Ward StarLight Facilities Development and Operations

STAR TAP and StarLight STAR TAP: 5-year-old operational cross- connect of the world's high-performance Production R&E Networks Mb ATM StarLight: optical evolution of STAR TAP connecting and switching/routing –Production Networks at 1Gb –Experimental Networks at 1Gb, 2.5Gb, and 10Gb –Research Networks at 10Gb Funded by US NSF CISE ANIR, EIA and ACIR infrastructure grants to UIC, UIUC, NU, and IU Enabling and sustaining support by ANL MCS

Who is StarLight? StarLight is jointly managed and engineered by: International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), Northwestern University –Joe Mambretti, David Carr, and Tim Ward Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois at Chicago –Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh, Cliff Nelson, and Andy Schmidt Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS), Argonne National Laboratory –Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, and Caren Litvanyi; Rick Stevens and Charlie Catlett

What/Where is StarLight? 710 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago Abbott Hall, Northwestern University Chicago view from 710 StarLight is an experimental optical infrastructure and proving ground for network services optimized for high-performance applications StarLight Assists $32M (FY2002-3) in experimental networks (I-WIRE, TeraGrid, OMNInet, SURFnet, CA*net4, DataTAG)

StarLight Carriers Currently Present: –Ameritech –AT&T –Qwest –Global Crossing –Teleglobe –And I-WIRE Dark Fiber More are coming…

StarLight Service Description Today StarLight is a Gigabit Ethernet exchange point Policy-free 802.1q VLANs are created between peering partners StarLight benefits connecting networks: –High-speed peering with large MTU –Available collocation space –Planned 10GigE, other switched services –Several US and international networks connected –Multicast support

StarLight is Now Fully Operational StarLight Equipment installed: –Cisco 6509 with lots of GigE ports –Juniper M10 and M5 (with GigE and OC-12 interfaces) –Cisco LS1010 with OC-12 interfaces –ESnets IPv6 Router –Data mining cluster with GigE NICs SURFnets Cisco GSR &15454 Multiple vendors for GigE, 10GigE, and DWDM

ESNet (OC-3c soon OC-12c) Abilene (OC-12c) vBNS (OC-12c) FASTNet (OC-3c) Fermilab (OC-3c) Argonne (OC-12c) CANARIE (OC-3c) MREN (layer2) 6TAP Abilene (2xGE) SURFNet (2xOC-12c, OC-48c) Argonne (2xGE) Northwestern University (GE) AMPATH (GE) vBNS+ (OC12c soon) WKN TRANSPAC (OC-12c) NORDUNET (OC3c) 6TAP MREN (layer2 and 3) NREN (GE soon) ESnet (GE soon) STAR TAP and StarLight Services Description ATM PVC Exchange Service AS IPv4 and IPv6 Transit Service AS IPv4 and IPv6 Transit Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange Service Carrier-Neutral Co-Location Facility Research Circuit/Lambda Switching Research Circuit/Lambda Switching AADS NAP 225 West Randolph 710 North Lake Shore Drive 2*OC12c NPA/NXX 312/503 I-WIRE (dark fiber)

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange Service Carrier-Neutral Co-Location Facility Research Circuit/Lambda Switching Research Circuit/Lambda Switching 710 North Lake Shore Drive 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Service Qwest Co-Location Facility 455 N CityFront Plaza 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Service 1&10 Gigabit Ethernet Transport Service NPA/NXX 312/503 Abilene (2xGE) SURFNet (2xOC-12c, OC-48c) Argonne (2xGE) Northwestern University (GE) AMPATH (GE) vBNS+ (OC12c soon) I-WIRE (dark fiber) TRANSPAC (OC-12c) NORDUNET (OC3c) 6TAP MREN (layer2 and 3) NREN (GE soon) ESnet (GE soon) TeraGrid DTFnet ESNet NREN Extending StarLight Services via Qwest I-WIRE dark fiber

Proposed Lambda/GbE Exchange CERN StarLight CA*net4 AMS Lambdas 2.5G->10G Research GbE Production GbE (from router) C/DWDM Control Plane Management System Needed! Control Plane Management System Needed! UK GbE Switch (Layer 2) GbE Switch (Layer 2)

NSFs Distributed Terascale Facility (DTF) Source: Rick Stevens 12/2001

Expansion Capability: StarLight Model Los Angeles One Wilshire (Carrier Fiber Collocation Facility) Qwest San Diego POP 2200mi 140mi25mi 115mi20mi 455 N. Cityfront Plaza (Qwest Fiber Collocation Facility) CaltechSDSC NCSA ANL Caltech Cluster SDSC Cluster NCSA Cluster ANL Cluster Regional Fiber Aggregation Points Additional Sites And Networks 710 N. Lakeshore (StarLight) Chicago DWDM OC GbE Cienna Corestream DWDM DWDM TBD Cluster Aggregation Switch/Router Site Border Router or Switch/Router Other site resources 1 mi IP Router IP Router (packets) or Lambda Router (circuits) Source: Rick Stevens 12/2001

OMNInet Technology Trial Now Underway A four-site network in Chicago -- the first 10GE service trial! A test bed for all-optical switching and advanced high-speed services Partners: SBC, Nortel, iCAIR at Northwestern, EVL, CANARIE, ANL 2x10GE Northwestern U Optical Switching Platform Passport 8600 Application Cluster Application Cluster Optical Switching Platform Passport x10GE StarLight OPTera Metro 5200 Application Cluster Optical Switching Platform Passport x10GE 8x1GE UIC CA*net3/4--Chicago Optical Switching Platform Passport 8600 Application Cluster 2x10GE 8x1GE

24-26 September 2002 Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre (WTCW) The Netherlands Grid 2 oo (COMING SOON) The International Virtual Laboratory i Maxine Brown STAR TAP/StarLight co-Principal Investigator Associate Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago Coming…..

StarLight Thanks StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from: –National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI , ANI , EIA , EIA , and EIA –NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI to the National Computational Science Alliance –State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing –Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and planning leadership NSF/ANIR, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, and Olivier Martin and Harvey Newman of CERN for global networking leadership; NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid opportunities UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and ITN/GTRN transit; IU for the GlobalNOC CA*net4, CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North American transport

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