CA*net3 International Transit Network (ITN) Service Internet2 International Task Force Meeting Oct 29, Atlanta, Georgia tel:

Background  the richer the connections, the greater the possibilities and for all  collaborative effort between STAR TAP, Abilene, and CA*net3  to facilitate the extension of the benefits of inter- connectivity of the world's National Research and Education Networks (NRNs)

Who  ITN Providers are:  STAR TAP (AS 10764)  Abilene (AS 11537)  CA*net3 (AS 6509)  who can benefit: any international NRN peering with at least one ITN Provider

CA*net3 basic ITN policy  will transit traffic between any two ITN participating international peers  provided there is enough capacity  will not transit to commercial networks  MOU not required

CA*net3 Int'l connectivity  today  Seattle (Westin building) Gigabit Ethernet 1 Gbps  Chicago (Ameritech STAR TAP) OC-3  New York ( e Ave) OC-3  New York (Teleglobe 60 Hudson) up to OC-3  future  Chicago (optical STAR TAP) GigE / 10GigE in Q3-01  Halifax (360 Networks/DalU) OC-3 in Q2-01

CA*net3 ITN service reach

CA*net3 ITN implementation  how to implement with international NRN peers  how to coordinate with other ITN Providers

CA*net3 ITN implementation: NRN peers  CA*net3 offers ITN Service to peers  a "yes" or an absence of response = yes  "no" routes tagged with community 2500  "yes" routes tagged with community 2501  "yes" + MOU w/ Abilene, also tagged 2502

CA*net3 ITN implementation: other ITN Providers  STAR TAP routes tagged 2501 and CA*net routes passed on  CA*net3 NOC verifies if new peer has MOU w/ Abilene. If so routes tagged 2502 and CA*net routes passed on only

BGP tag implementation

CANARIE's 6th Advanced Networks Workshop "The Networked Nation" November 28 and 29, 2000 Palais des Congrès Montreal, Quebec - Canada  "The Networked Nation", will focus on application architectures ("grids") made up of customer owned dark fiber and next generation Internet networks like CA*net 3 that will ultimately lead to the development of the networked nation where eventually every school, home and business will have high bandwidth connection to the Internet.  Three tracks:  Customer owned dark fiber for schools, hospitals, businesses and homes.  Next generation optical Internet architectures that will be a natural and seamless extension of the customer owned dark fiber networks being built for schools, homes and businesses.  "application grids", which are a seamless integration of dark fiber and optical networks to support specific collaborative research and education applications. 