A Short TransPAC Update Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf Director, International Networking Indiana University August 11, 2014 Supported by the National Science Foundation 1

Introduction IU currently has two international networking projects – Funded by the US National Science Foundation – Part of the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) Program America Connects to Europe (ACE) TransPAC, focuses on Asia 2

TransPAC Today 15+ year history Cooperative partnership among Indiana University, APAN, TEIN*CC, NICT-Japan, NII-Japan, CERNET, and others 30Gbps deployed between US and Asia – 10Gbps LA-Tokyo funded by NSF – 10Gbps Tokyo-LA funded by NICT – 10Gbps LA-Beijing funded by CERNET+NSF 3

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Current TransPAC Projects Deployment of measurement tools Deployment of dynamic circuit services Development of SDN (OpenFlow) services Support for application end-users In Year 5 of 5 year award – Runs through May

We have applied for TransPAC4: Pragmatic Application-Driven International Networking To run Jan 2015-Dec 2019 New project requests $1.2M/year for 5 years Includes funding for circuits, exchange points, application support, research 6

System Design Built-in redundancy and alternative paths Easy transition from the current TransPAC3 circuits Complementary paths and approaches to our partners’ sister circuits Full support of production traffic, through reliable technology choices and capacity matching current and growing needs Ongoing support for experimental traffic Fiscally responsible approaches 7

TransPac4 Phase 1 ( ) 8

TransPAC4 Phase 2 ( ) 9

Why not 100G in Year 1 (2015)? Price tag: $2-3M per year, just for the circuit A year of the ANA-100G link has shown that the technology may not be fully stable yet Current Asian inter-country connectivity not yet 100G in many cases Few applications require more than 10G flows right now Few exchange points are ready for this now 10

Details Transport: Support for Layer 3 peering as well as multiple mechanisms for dynamic Layer 2 circuits Experimental work with SDN, FlowVisor, InterDomain Controllers, Path Hinting, WAN acceleration 11

End User Engagement Directly engage with user communities Focusing on end-to-end performance Application Advocacy Specialists will work closely with end users with network needs – including US branch campuses in Asia Potential to be transformational to international science 12

IRNC Other Solicitation – Indiana University submitted 2 other proposals to the IRNC program – NetSage: Measurement of international links IU, U Hawaii, UC Davis/ESNet – International Network Operations Waiting on notification – hopefully this fall 13

Introducing Joe Lappa 14

Some meetings to think about PRAGMA 27 – October 15-17, 2014, Indiana Univ. Bloomington – GENI Engineering Conference 21 – October 20-23, 2014, Indiana Univ. Bloomington – I2/ESnet Tech Exchange – October 26–30, 2014, Indianapolis, IN – events/events/technology-exchange/ events/events/technology-exchange/ 15

Questions/Comments? Group Website: Me: Jennifer Schopf – Are you trying to transfer data to the US? – Please let us know! – We have resources to help you 16