SURA IT Committee July 29,2005 Tony Conto MAX Update

High Growth in Production IP Network Currently 37 Participants Near-Term Connectors Summer ’05 Inter-American Development Bank Johns Hopkins APL campus U.S. Food & Drug Administration Max will likely have 40 connectors by end of 2005 Doubled network size in 2-3 years Forecast is for continued growth!!

Participant Consortium of Higher Education, Federal Labs and Private Non-Profit Institutions (37 Participants and Networks Directly Connected) Higher Education (18) Baltimore Education & Research Network (BERnet) Catholic University Georgetown University George Washington University Johns Hopkins University Montgomery College National Consortium for Supercomputing Applications / ACCESS Network Virginia (aggregating the State of Virginia) Smithsonian Institution Southern Universities Research Association (SURA) University of California, D.C. campus University Consortium for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID / Internet2) University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, Baltimore University of Maryland, Baltimore Co. Univ. System of Maryland Network (aggregating 11 campuses) University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute / East Washington Research Library Consortium rev. 10/27 Federal Labs and Agencies (14) Library of Congress NASA / GSFC National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) National Science Foundation (NSF) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Standards and Technology National Library of Medicine (NLM) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Naval Research Lab & ATDnet U.S. Census U.S.D.A, Beltsville Agr. Research Ctr. U.S. Department of State (through GWU) U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Private Non-Profit (5) Howard Hughes Med. Institute Fujitsu Labs of America The Institute for Genomic Research Windber Professional Services, Inc World Bank

Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Abilene Network Virginia ISP National/International Peering Networks Regional Network Participants ATDnet NASA NGIX-East DREN NISNNREN ESNet MAX Regional Infrastructure BoSSNET 37 Higher Education, Federal Agency and Private Non-Profit MAX Members Univ System Md DRAGON

MAX Completed a Re-architecture and Expansion Upgraded and consolidated layer 3 routers Removed 3 Juniper M160s (EOLed) at edge pops Installing 2 Juniper T640s, cutting all customers over. Expansion of layer 1 core optical network Backhaul with redundancy of switches at pops Top-tier customer optical backhaul from any pop Integrating second optical dwdm system (Movaz) Expansion to new Level 3 pop (NLR) New dwdm collaboration USM, NetWork MD, JHU from D.C. campus to Baltimore Next phase FY ‘06 adds 10G links in core & edge

DWDM Next-Gen Production Network BALT New DWDM optical system OC48c POS OC48 Abilene Gige Switch GigE Switch T640 Router M40e Router DCGW CLPK NGIX Gige 6509 Qwest NWVa Gige ARLG DCNE NSF LVL3 T640 Router OC12 NLR DWDM

MAX Activities Production Net Activities GIG-EF ( ATDNet-V2) Research Technologies Future Projects LTS PMD Research HOPI Testbed Support Center MAX is More than Production IP Networking NGIX/East (FedNet peer point) DRAGON Experimental Networking Research Activities Layer 3 IP Network Services Layer 1 Optical Services Future Projects Related Strategic Activities AtlanticWave, NLR, Quilt,

MAX Production Network Services IPv4 unicast, IPv4 multicast, and native IPv6 unicast. Internet2 (Abilene network) regional aggregation ISP resale (currently Qwest DIA, may add another) NGIX/East FedNet peer point operation National Lambda Rail (NLR) aggregation and fan-out Lambda transport on MAX dwdm optical network MPLS tunnel transport in MAX IP network Participant Colocation at UMD, Qwest, & Level3 pops Network monitoring and uptime/usage reporting

MAX Commodity Internet Service Currently Qwest DIA service, resold to any participant for primary or secondary ISP. ISP routes kept separate from I2 routes via RFC 2547 MPLS vpns (Separate routing tables, separate peerings) 14 participants, 500 mb aggregated and growing, based on Quilt pricing. Adding redundant Qwest peering for backup summer 05.

Strong Carrier Partnerships With 6 MAX pop locations around region, participants can connect at one or more locations via dark fiber or lit services via aggressive low-cost carriers as well as traditional telcos. 80% & growing of participant circuits are ethernet. Strong partnerships with carriers: Allied Telecom, ATT, Fibergate, Level 3, Looking Glass Networks, MCI, Qwest, Starpower/RCN, Verizon, Yipes.

MAX Operates NGIX/East FedNet Peer Point “Meet-me” point (NAP ) for national backbones to exchange east-coast traffic. Converted from ATM to GigE 3 years ago. Currently Abilene (10 Gb), vBNS (1 Gb), DREN (1 Gb), NISN (1 Gb), NREN (1 Gb), USGS (1 Gb), NLM (1 Gb). New NGIX peers summer 05: ESnet and GEANT (first international: 10 Gb) NGIX/E will be one of 4 core switches in Atlantic Wave’s distributed peering fabric (fall ‘05)

Proposed Atlantic Wave Topology MIA Miami, FL NYCWDCATL Atlanta, GAWashington, DCNew York City, NY To South America To Europe & Canada, Initial East Coast NLR 10G A-Wave Backbone Future backbone Extensions within NA & EU Ethernet services Sonet services

Fall 05: Atlantic Wave over NLR lambda Sao Paulo (SPB) LONNYC WDC ATL MIA AMS STK CER SEA CHI AUS LAX TOK A-Wave East Coast confederation of Network Exchange points -Production level IP peering -Experimental “Light Path” services

DRAGON Research Dynamic Resource Allocation over GMPLS Optical Networks NSF funded project under the Experimental Infostructure Networks (EIN) program Four year $6.5M program, began Sep03 Purpose: Develop dynamic connection oriented network transport capabilities to support emerging network intensive globally distributed “e- Science” applications Participating Institutions MAX, Sobieski (PI) USC/ISI East Tom Lehman (co-PI) GMU, Bijan Jabbari (co-PI) UMD, Don Riley (co-PI) MIT Haystack Observatory NASA GSFC Movaz Networks (commercial partner) NCSA ACCESS USNO

DRAGON Objectives Deploy an all-optical GMPLS controlled metro-area network Develop open source protocol stacks for the R&E community Develop inter-domain service routing architecture for light path services Application Specific Topologies, e.g., Radio Astronomy Work with MIT Haystack, NASA GSFC, USNO, and others to integrate these features into production applications

The DRAGON Testbed HOPI / NLR CLPK ARLG DCGW MCLN (Level3) MIT Haystack Observatory (HAYS) U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO) University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) Univ of Southern California/ Information Sciences Institute (ISIE) DCNE (Qwest) MAX ATDnet

MAX – GIG-EF Cooperative Project (Global Information Grid – Experimental Facility ) Previously ATDnet (Advanced Technology Demonstration Network) is a high performance networking test bed Established by DARPA Enables collaboration between defense and other federal agencies ATDnet comprised of federal research labs NRL, DIA, DISA, LTS, NASA, DARPA, MAX MAX managing a research test bed network in collaboration with ADTnet Primarily used for optical research activities

GIG-EF Ring Topology ECK DARPA GWU WNY DIA UMD NRL GSFC DISA LTS Govt supplied fiber Cross-connect Fiber bundle Primary site Ancillary site Qwest fiber Fibergate fiber All routes are 2 strands fiber Qwest routes are Lucent Truewave Fibergate routes are SMF28 MIT-LL ~700 km

Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure Project (HOPI) Award from Internet2 MAX is the lead gigapop and partners with NCREN and Indiana University Focused on understanding hybrid networks comprised of combined packet switched and circuit switched optical infrastructures Understanding dynamic provisioning across a circuit switched infrastructure Investigate and implement new and inventive techniques in hybrid networking

Internet 2’s Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure Project (HOPI)

Quilt: National Association of GigaPoPs MAX is a member of TheQuilt, a national association of GigaPoPs Membership brings value to MAX Participants Provides collaboration on projects to benefit the individual GigaPoPs Leverages multi-state buying power ISP services with pricing based on aggregated national bandwidth tiers national pricing for commodity ISP services