Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc National LambdaRail Tutorial 7/18/2004 Debbie Montano NLR Director, Development & Operations

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Today’s Speakers Debbie Montano – NLR Dev & Ops Dave Reese – CENIC –NLR Eng Committee Chair & CENIC CTO Luke Fowler – Indiana University –NLR NOC, Monitoring & Database Dev. Grover Browning – Indiana University –NLR NOC Service Desk/Engineering Short time for Questions after each speaker Plus, time for Questions at the end

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc My Topics What’s NLR What’s great about NLR Who has joined NLR Who’s doing what: aka organization Implementation progress How to get capacity from NLR

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc What’s NLR NLR is a major initiative of U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies to provide a national scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking technologies and applications. NLR aims to catalyze innovative research and development into next generation network technologies, protocols, services and applications. NLR puts the control, the power and the promise of experimental network infrastructure in the hands of our nation’s scientists and researchers.

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc What the heck does that mean? NLR has purchased our own fiber across US & are lighting ourselves with Cisco optronics Infrastructure to support multiple networks –to support different types of research & experimentation – application level & networking level Gbps lambdas, supporting (to start): –Nationwide NLR IP network –Nationwide NLR Switched GigE network –Internet2 Hybrid Packet Optical Infrastructure –Plus needs of members and R&E community Lambda = λ –(greek letter) symbol for wavelength (color) –On NLR each wavelength of light carries 10 Gbps

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NLR is Continuing to Grow Six New NLR Members Announced June 2, 2004 Cornell University –representing New York and New England; Louisiana Board of Regents; Oklahoma State Board of Regents; Texas Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN); University of New Mexico; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) /Front Range GigaPOP (FRGP)) –representing Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. Members commit $5 million each over 5 years NLR is an $80-$100 million project

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Who has joined NLR? Current NLR Members CENIC Pacific Northwest GigaPOP Pittsburgh Supercomp. Center Duke (coalition of NC univers.) Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership Cisco Systems Internet2 Florida LambdaRail Georgia Institute of Technology Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Texas / LEARN Cornell Louisiana Board of Regents University of New Mexico Oklahoma State Regents UCAR/FRGP Plus agreements with: SURA (AT&T fiber donation) Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Who is doing what in NLR? Organization NLR, inc – 501(c)3 not-for-profit corp. Board of directors made up of representatives from the NLR members Tom West – NLR CEO Dave Farber – NLR Chief Scientist Debbie Montano – Dir. Dev & Operations

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Research Dave Farber – NLR Chief Scientist NLR Network Research Committee NLR Science Research Committee 50% of lambdas committed to network research Research driven by members/researchers Cisco has great interest in and vision on the research agenda

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Engineering, Implementation & Operations Debbie Montano – Director Development & Operations NLR Engineering Committee - Dave Reese, Chair –participants from all NLR members –Provides Technical guidance and leadership for NLR engineering planning, architecture and design –Weekly calls, plus period meetings NLR Implementation - Steve Cotter, Implementation Manager –Current implementation by Cisco Professional Services NLR Technical Support Services –NLR Network Operations Center (NOC) Service Desk – run by Indiana University –NLR Layer 1 NOC – run by CENIC –NLR Layer 2/3 Service Center – planned to be Indiana University –NLR Experiments Support Center – task force chaired by MCNC. 866-nlr-wave,

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Denver Seattle LA San Diego Chicago Pitts Wash DC Raleigh Jacksonville Atlanta KC Portland Clev Boise Ogden/ Salt Lake NLR Layer 1 POP NLR Route Implementation Status NLR – Optical Infrastructure - Phase 1

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Seattle Denver Los Angeles Cleveland Pitts Raleigh Wash DC Kansas Ogden Portland StarLight Chicago Atlanta Boise LH System ELH System Metro System Jacksonville Sunnyvale San Diego Terminal Regen (or Terminal) OADM Terminal CENIC LH System NLR Phase 1 - Installation Schedule Will Complete Aug 2004 Complete In Place August Complete July

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Have 10 Gig lambdas in use already 3 OC-192s from Pittsburgh to Chicago/Starlight supporting PSCs connection to Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF / Teragrid). 10GE from Seattle to Los Angeles – extending the Pacific Wave Peering point to Los Angeles. Coming up very soon: 10GE from Atlanta-Chicago for Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) /ETF connection

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc How to get capacity from NLR? Work with the NLR member in your state or region –National scale? – come to NLR directly Lambdas: 10 GigE LAN PHY (or OC192) –Point-to-point dedicated 10 Gig bandwidth, unprotected –“Production” (non-breakable) service –Pricing model is based first on “incremental” cost, to provide low cost lambdas for research & education. Switched GigE – 1 GigE dedicated capacity Experimental IP backbone –NLR members each get 10 Gig port –Experiments/Research via NLR research committees/allocation groups. Do come to NLR with your needs and ideas – we are building this infrastructure to support R&E

Copyright 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Thank You! Debbie Montano Director, Development & Operations