Abilene Engineering Guy Almes Internet2 Project San Francisco 28 September 1998

Overview  Abilene Engineering and Goals  1998 Schedule  Launch Network Expectations  Early 1999 Expectations  Planning a Connection

Seattle Kansas City Denver Cleveland New York Atlanta Houston Pittsburgh Minneapolis Columbus Washington Phoenix Raleigh Trent on Salt Lake City Wilmington Dallas New Orleans Lincoln New Haven Detroit Miami Westfield Nashville Philadelp hia Indianapolis Newar k Abilene Albuquerque Oklahoma City Abilene Demo Network: September 1999 Access NodeRouter NodeStar Tap Abilene Network Sacramento Oakland Eugene Los Angeles Anaheim

Seattle Kansas City Denver Cleveland New York Atlanta Houston Pittsburgh Minneapolis Columbus Washington Phoenix Raleigh Trent on Salt Lake City Wilmington Dallas New Orleans Lincoln New Haven Detroit Miami Westfield Nashville Philadelp hia Indianapolis Newar k Abilene Albuquerque Oklahoma City Launch: Directly Connected Participants 28 Total Access Nodes 17 Directly Connected Participants Directly Connected ParticipantAccess NodeRouter Node Sacramento Oakland Eugene Los Angeles Anaheim

Abilene Engineering and Goals  Very High Speed Connectivity Among Internet2 GigaPoPs, including vBNS Other federal ‘NGI’ networks Non-US advanced networks  Qualities Stressed: Reliability Low latency Effective NOC and Engineering teamwork

Abilene Architecture: Core  Router Nodes located at Qwest PoPs Cisco GSR ICS Unix PC: IPPM and Network Mgmt Cisco 3640 Remote Access for NOC 100BaseT LAN and ‘console port’ access Remote 48v DC Power Controllers  Initially, ten Router Nodes: Sacramento, Kansas City, Indianapolis Seattle, Los Angeles Denver, Houston, Cleveland Atlanta, New York City

Seattle Kansas City Denver Cleveland New York Atlanta Houston Indianapolis Abilene Launch: Core Architecture Router Node Sacramento Los Angeles

Abilene Architecture: Access  Access Nodes Located at Qwest PoPs Sonet: Connects Local to Long-distance  Initially, about 120 Access Nodes: This list grows as the Qwest Sonet plant grows

Seattle Kansas City Denver Cleveland New York Atlanta Houston Pittsburgh Minneapolis Columbus Washington Phoenix Raleigh Trent on Salt Lake City Wilmington Dallas New Orleans Lincoln New Haven Detroit Miami Westfield Nashville Philadelp hia Indianapolis Newar k Abilene Albuquerque Oklahoma City Launch: With Access Nodes Access NodeRouter Node Sacramento Oakland Eugene Los Angeles Anaheim Boston Chicago

Abilene NOC  Located at Indiana University  Excellent Operations and Engineering Skills  Commitment evidenced in Abilene Rollout

Schedule  Design work: Mar-98 and ongoing  Rack design: May-98 to Jul-98  Initial assembly / testing: Jul-98 to Aug-98  Router Nodes / Interior Lines: Jul-98  Demo network installed: Sep-98  Remainder installed: Oct-98  Beta Period: 1-Nov-98  Production begins: 1-Jan-99

Launch Network Expectations  Some Sonet Rings not completed  Mix of OC-12 and OC-48 Interior Lines  NOC fully operational  Measurements of Delay, Loss, Utilization  Some Access Lines not completed  Multicast support  Connections at two NGIXes

Early 1999 Expectations  Gradual increase in OC-48 Interior Lines  Gradual completion of Sonet Rings  Gradual smoothing of NOC procedures  Gradual improvement of access to measurements and other engineering data  Participation in QBone  Connection to remaining NGIX  Gigabit Ethernet?

Access Line Process  Qwest personnel dedicated  Issues: Access Node OC-3 vs OC-12 IP/ATM vs IP/Sonet Choice of Local Carrier Sonet ring vs Dark fiber vs ATM cloud

Thanks:  (ATT/TCG) Sam Yuen, Phil Lordo, Michael Rabin, (Qwest) Debbie Montano, Kelly Kermode, (PacBell) Greg Wong, Hal Bray, (Nortel) Costa Fitopolous, Jean Noel, Brian McFadden, Steve Mariano, The IU Abilene NOC, (MCI/vBNS) Kevin Thompson, The vBNS Engineering Team, (Cisco) Roy Brooks, John Cavanaugh, Samir Parikh, Jeff Barret, David Meyer, Chris Buja, Michael Turzanski, (3com) Matt Mauss, Matt Rockwell, Harley Reed, (Advanced Network & Services) David Sutherland, Bill Cervany, Matt Zekauskas, (Indiana Univ) Brent Sweeny, Rick Wood (Univ California) Kyung Huang, Russ Hobby, John Hess, Ken Lindahl, David Wasley, (Hyatt Embarcadero) Arnel Cruz, (California State Univ) Brian Court