Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP TransitRail: National Commodity Peering Program May 16, 2006 Quilt Minneapolis
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Premise Successful large-scale commodity Peering can... –Decrease commodity costs and result in overall savings –Reduce reliance on commercial vendors –Increase routing efficiency and flexibility
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP TransitRail Is/Will Be... –NATIONAL Multiple exchange locations around the US; –COMMODITY packet-agnostic Connections at commercial peering exchange points; –PEERING Direct network-to-network bilateral IP Packet exchange
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP TransitRail Goal Goal: create a network presence and infrastructure that will attract and retain TierOne type peering to the benefit of the R&E community
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP What to Expect TransitRail participants are likely to experience anywhere from a 25% to 60+% reduction in the overall traffic that normally goes over their commodity ISP circuits.
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP CENIC Experience Commodity only - no R&E
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP TransitRail is NOT… R&E network peering Regional/local peering Many-to-many peering facility An alternative for 100% of all your commodity transit needs Pacific Wave
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Who CENIC and Pacific Northwest Gigapop are jointly proposing, developing, and implementing the TransitRail facility. These groups have significant individual and joint experience with peering facilities and prospective peering partners Partnering with NLR who will provide the underlying network infrastructure as well as the relationship with the participants.
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Chronology Phase 0 underway (Traffic loading test: “Peer Sharing”) –No cost to participants –CENIC, PNWGP sharing subset of peers Phase 1 (initial five-location buildout) –No cost to participants –CENIC, PNWGP funding startup costs, providing staff Phase 2 (adding participants and locations) –Cost model to participants (developed in Phase 1)
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Phase 0 Connectivity * Abovenet * Accretive Networks * Adelphia Cable * AllStream * Akamai * AsiaNetCom * BBC * Blackoak * Bungi * CableCom * China Telecom * Cogent * Cox Cable * DaCom * DSLnet * Earthlink * EBay * Electric Lightwave * Electronics Arts * Epoch * FLAG Telecom * Global Naps * Globix * Google * GT Telecom/360 Networks * Hanaro Telecom * HopOne * Hurricane Electric * IIJ * Inet Main Street * Internet Software Consortium * Japan Telecom * Jupiter Hosting * KDDI * Korea Telecom * Limelight * Maxim * Microsoft Corporation * MySpace * Mzima * nLayer * Nokia * Packet Clearing House * Peer1 Networks * PoweredCom * Primus Telecom * RCN * Reach Networks * ServePath * Shaw Communications * SingTel * Sony Entertainment * Speakeasy * SunRise Telecom * Swisscom-IP+ * TDS Telecom * Time Warner Telecom * Telecom Malaysia * TTNet * UltraDNS * ViaNet * WV Fiber * XMission * XO Communications * Yahoo! * Zocalo
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Phase 0: Front Range Gigapop & CalREN
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Phase 0: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center & CalREN
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Phase 0: PNWGP
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Phase 0: Aggregate at CENIC
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Phase 1: What’s Next Peering node builds: LA, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Chicago, Washington DC. Location selection criteria: –a) reasonable proximity, and access, to an NLR POP; –b) dispersed east-west locations; –c) highest peering potential based on fiscal investment for that location. Initial participants: PSC, FRGP, MATP, CENIC, PNWGP Interest expressed: LEARN, SOX
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Infrastructure Equipment (CISCO 7600s) Links (NLR Framenet), loops to exchange points New autonomous system Restrictive peering policy to maximize return
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Seattle (Westin Bldg) Sunnyvale Los Angeles (Equinix LAP) DC Chicago PAIX 1 Wilshire Equinix LAX Equinix Ashburn Equinix Phase1 Trial NLR FrameNet Backbone
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP We Need Numbers From (potentially) interested participants we need data: –Aggregate peak transit usage and trends –# routes (IRR object(s)) –Current transit providers –Current peers and peak peering volume
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Getting Connected Phase 0 was proof of concept only, no further participation Some additional participation in Phase 1 may be possible –Current traffic estimates show us approaching 6Gbps –We think it would be nice if we didn't break NLR Additional participation in Phase 2 actively being sought
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Phase “Infinity and Beyond” Add NYC, Atlanta, Dallas,…other? Facilitate a standard connection & delivery system
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Seattle (Westin Bldg) Sunnyvale Los Angeles (Equinix LAP) Dallas Atlanta IX/PAIX DC New York Chicago PAIX 1 Wilshire Equinix LAX Equinix SJ (future?) Equinix Ashburn 25 B'way Equinix Atlanta 111 8th Phase 2 Conceptual Diagram
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Cost Model Cost Model: cost to end organizations should be less than Quilt-based CIS pricing Many cost model questions –Fixed cost per connection (1GE, 10GE)? –Measured service?
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Routing Policies What TransitRail requires of its peers –3-5 locations throughout US –Large amount of traffic exchanged per peer –Reliable Operations
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Routing Policies What TransitRail requires of its peering participants –Structured local preference –Maintained IRR object –Willingness to tune announcements to L3/Wiltel/C&W (to attain highest amount of usage)
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Business Side Peering solicitations, agreements NOC support Infrastructure upgrades
Copyright 2006 CENIC and PNWGP Q&A