INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY HPIIS Performance Review October 25, 2000 Jim Williams

INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY The Global Research Network Operations Center (Global NOC) at Indiana University manages the international network connections from advanced research and education networks in the Asia/Pacific, Europe, Russia and South America to the Science Technology and Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP) and the leading US high performance research and education networks.

INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Global NOC Benefits –Cost efficiencies –Leverage –Project cooperation NOC specifics –NOC Web pages –NOC functions Future plans

INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Cost efficiencies Given the existing 24x7x365 IU and Abilene NOCs… Global NOC operational model is based on: –offering a template of services –assigning an area specialist for each network –cross training for all staff on all shifts Both fixed and marginal costs to add a new network are limited and quantifiable

INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Leverage Leverages NSF investment in HPIIS Program funded connections to provide a single integrated source of NOC support Ability to access the best technical personnel from Indiana University, STAR TAP and Abilene and the partner networks. Efficiencies of common NOC personnel

INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Project Cooperation Common HPIIS external appearance –Coordinated reports –Coordinated Web pages Shared tool development Cooperative engineering interaction

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INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Tour of Global NOC Web pages TransPAC STAR TAP Euro-Link MIRnet AMPATH Abilene

INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Global NOC Functions Problem reporting, monitoring, resolution Report generation, distribution, archiving Web page development, maintenance Tool development, maintenance

INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Illustration of NOC functions Network Performance Network Reporting

INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Global NOC Future Plans Continued Web page development Packaging and deployment of MIRnet traffic analysis tool Deployment of Abilene multicast tools NOC process analysis

INDIANAUNIVERSITYINDIANAUNIVERSITY Global NOC Future Plans (continued) Closer linkage between other NOCs (vBNS, ESNET, Canarie, APAN) to increase tool sharing and process cooperation Closer linkage with national tool and measurement efforts Development of NOC Knowledge Base

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