Pacific Wave and Its Role in Research and Education Networks Jan Eveleth Managing Director, Pacific Northwest Gigapop Quilt Peering Workshop St. Louis, Missouri USAOctober 12, 2006

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave2 NSF International Research Network Connections (IRNC) Projects GLORIAD – Global Ring: Canada, China, Korea, Netherlands, Russia, US TransLight/Pacific Wave – Pacific Wave exchange, AARnet links, Hawaii connectivity TransLight/StarLight – Europe TransPAC2 – US-Japan and beyond WHREN/LILA – South America GLORIAD, AARnet, and TransPAC2 all use Pacific Wave, as will WHREN; as of June 2006, Pacific Wave has 10G interconnect to StarLight in Chicago

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave3 TransLight/PacificWave NSF/SCI/IRNC Award #  PI John Silvester (USC) and Co-PI Ron Johnson (UW) Objectives  Build out Pacific Wave exchange capabilities to facilitate international R&E connections on US Pacific Coast  Assist in the termination of AARnet SXTransport links to SEA and LAX  Assist in buildout of Hawaii connectivity  Assist in operation of IEEAF link Tokyo-Seattle  Provide ongoing engineering and technical support to international networks landing at Pacific Wave nodes  Develop and operate advanced capabilities to support optical interconnect and exchange needs of R&E networks

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave4 TransLight / Pacific Wave

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave5 TransLight/Pacific Wave – TransLight/StarLight June 2006 Translight/Pacific Wave and TransLight/StarLight connected by 10G lambda donated by Cisco systems and delivered on NLR infrastructure in support of the IRNC effort. Opens new opportunities for establishing lambdas in support of e-Science. First effort was interconnect of TLEX-WIDE (Tokyo) and SURFNet (Amsterdam)

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave6 STARLIGHT

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave7 Seattle GOLE and Pacific Wave Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) GLIF Open Lightpath Exchange (GOLE) Seattle GOLE is jointly operated by PNWGP and CANARIE and in coordination with CENIC, StarLight, and WIDE Pacific Wave Cisco 7609 Nortel HDXc Pacific Wave Cisco ONS GE GbE IEEAF OC192 to Tokyo Multiple locations in North America and Pacific Rim GLORIAD-CSTNet Planned Multiple locations in North America and Pacific Rim GLIF Cisco ONS OC192 GLORIAD-KREONet2 StarLight Pacific Wave Los Angeles OC192 10GE

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave8

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave9 Pacific Wave Lambda/Lightpath Services: In Design Optical Switching Pacific Wave Ethernet Services SONET/GFP Services Transport providers: NLR, CANARIE CENIC, PNWGP, Regional Optical Networks Users, Researchers Other networks…

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave10 Layer2: Pacific Wave Today Nodes in Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Los Angeles, interconnected by a 10GbE circuit provisioned over CalREN and National LambdaRail (2,241 kilometers) Allows participants to connect to one-location and access participants at all Pacific Wave nodes Allows participants to self-select their peering Based on Layer 2, Ethernet connections (for layer 3 peering) AUP free Supports IPv4 and IPv6; multicast enabled Provides 24x7 NOC support Priced consistently from node to node Supports advanced applications Welcomes all research and development networks

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave11 Current Trans-Pacific Participants

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave12 Pacific Wave - Seattle Seattle Westin Cisco 7609 NLR lambda to Los Angeles PWave (via Sunnyvale) Abilene/Internet2 AARNet CA*NET4 GEMnet2/NTT Research National University of Singapore Comcast DREN GLORIAD/KREONet2 ESnet Microsoft Corporation PNWGP TransLight: Lambda to Chicago StarLight IEEAF Lambda to Tokyo TLEX-WIDE TLEX-WIDE National LambdaRail 10GbE 1GbE 10GbE 1GbE KAREN/REANNZ

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave13 Pacific Wave - Sunnyvale NLR lambda to Seattle PWave Level3 Cisco 6509 CENIC/CalREN (HPR) NLR Lambda to Los Angeles PWave ESNet 10GbE 1GbE PAIX Cisco 6509 NASA Research & Education Network (NREN)

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave14 Pacific Wave - Los Angeles 1 Wilshire Cisco W 7th Cisco W 7th Cisco 6509 CENIC/CalREN (HPR) NLR Lambda to Seattle PWave (via Sunnyvale) Abilene/Internet2 TWAREN TransPAC2 Los Nettos Qatar Foundation NII/SINET AARNet (pending) SingAREN MIMOS Berhad 10GbE 1GbE UltraLight CUDI CLARA

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave15 Pacific Wave Historical Traffic Historic Total Pacific Wave Traffic Total Pacific Wave Traffic

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave16 R&E Projects Supported by Pacific Wave Among R&E activities supported by Pacific Wave in : GEMnet2/NTT Labs Remote Astronomy & Mining—Chile to Tokyo Huygens Probe Data Transfer—Australia to JIVE in Netherlands Data Reservoir Project OptIPuter Neptune and LOOKING Projects IGRID2005 SuperComputing 2005 (SC2005) Remote Telemicroscopy & Telemedicine N-Way HD Video conferencing ResearchChannel streaming educational video content

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave17 September 2005: IGRID 2005 Pacific Wave Aggregate Traffic Profile

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave18 September 2005: Visions ‘05 Live HD Video to points around the world from 2,200m below the ocean surface, 320km from the Oregon Coast, in volcanically heated water of up to 360C Photos courtesy of Visions ’05

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave19 November 2005: SC2005 Pacific Wave and Pacific Northwest Gigapop brought 47 10Gigabit lamdas (plus some 40s) into the SC05 exhibition hall in Seattle, Washington ½ Terabit per second

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave20 SC05: ½ Terabit per second

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave21 December 2005: NTT Expo GEMnet2/NTT Labs researchers remotely manipulated mining equipment and an astronomical telescope in Chile from Tokyo Tokyo to Chile: 17,100km network path

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave22 April 2006: Internet2 Land Speed Record Team led by Prof. Kei Hiraki of University of Tokyo IPv4 data transferred at 8.80Gbps over 32,372 kilometer path

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave23 Tokyo Chicago Amsterdam Seattle IEEAF CANARIE SURFnet JGN2 WIDE Routing point A L1 or L2 switch Source and destination network path map Courtesy Prof. Kei Hiraki, Univ. of Tokyo

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave24 What is Pacific Wave? Pacific Wave is a state-of-the-art international peering and lambda integrated facility designed to serve advanced research, education, development, and high-tech networks throughout the Pacific Rim and the world.

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave25 Pacific Wave Goals Enhance networking capabilities by  increasing network efficiency,  reducing latency,  increasing throughput,  reducing costs Provision persistent and dynamic point-to- point lambda services in support of advanced applications and network implementations

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave26 Pacific Wave Operators A joint project of CENIC and Pacific Northwest Gigapop In collaboration with the University of Southern California and the University of Washington

October 12, 2006Copyright (c) 2006 Pacific Wave27 A Joint Project of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) In collaboration with the University of Washington (UW) and the University of Southern California (USC) Web: PAC WAVE ( ) PAC WAVE ( ) Canada & US Thank You! Pacific Wave Information