Multi-Service Networking- 8th July UKLight Multi-Service Networking Coseners House - 8 th July 2004 David Salmon UKERNA

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Overview Background What is UKLight ? Architecture UK National Access Governance Status Projects Futures

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Background Towards optical networking International activities StarLight – evolved from Startap International exchange point – “bring your lambdas” Joined by NetherLight “Lambda” workshops Sept 2001, 2002, 2003, (2004 – UK) TERENA Initiative attempted with Flag Telecom during 2002 Interest within Grid Network Team – UK e-Science programme UK activities have evolved from these over last 2+ years Internal meetings and papers during 2002 UKLight bid to JCSR – Nov 2002 Funding approved March /April months & we are here…

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July What is UKLight ? Facility to provide national and international “bandwidth channels” for use by research and e-Science projects Cross-discipline initiative JANET community Network research e-Science applications optical (photonic) communications research UKERNA – manage and develop JANET supporting the community advanced service-network development Components: UK point-of-access and links to international facilities UK national photonics facility/infrastructure UK national R&D network infrastructure extending access within JANET

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Funding Funding – SRIF - £6.5M total From HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) Via JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Sub-committee for Support of Research (JCSR) International Point of Access Circuits, equipment, housing, NMS, staff… UK Access and photonics infrastructure Equipment, housing…

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July What is UKLight ? – Infrastructure perspective Infrastructure to support the UK part of an International facility (GLIF – Global Lambda Integrated Facility) for Network and Advanced applications R&D Eg international Gigabit ethernet ‘channels’ UKLight will apply to join Translight and contribute “lambdas” Implemented with: Telco Wavelength services Transmission equipment providing Multiplexed channels (SDH) to carry Gigabit ethernet Ethernet switch/es

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July GEANT UKLight London StarLight Chicago NetherLight Amsterdam CERN CzechLight UK Researchers Extended JANET Development Network Local Research Equipment International Point-of-Access CA*net Abilene UKLight – showing connections to selected International peer facilities 10Gb/s Existing connections Proposed connections NorthernLight

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July UK National access to UKLight

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Development Network Extension Model Uncommitted backbone bandwidth in MCI contract for SuperJANET4 10G for current production backbone Additional 10G available but uncommitted Parallel to existing core Upgrades to Regional Network access points also included Presented as SDH not dark fibre …  But it still opens up interesting options…

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Principles Use SDH multiplexers to partition this bandwidth on a link by link basis e.g. 10Gb/s  4 x 2.5Gb/s Configure end-to-end paths using the partitioned links - channels Projects will run VLANS / IP etc. over their channels Operating transmission equipment, will bring telco style provisioning issues Links to concepts for SuperJANET5

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Core Point of Presence C-PoP Backbone Access Router R-PoP North Wales MAN LeNSESWERN Kentish MAN NorMAN YHMAN EMMAN EastNet LMN South Wales MAN TVN MidMAN Northern Ireland NNW C&NL MAN GlasgowEdinburgh WarringtonLeeds Reading London BristolPortsmouth EaStMAN UHI Network Clydenet AbMAN FaTMAN C C C C C C C C S T T T T TT T S S S T T Key for components. C-PoP C Extension to 2.5G BAR S Extension to 10G BAR T Model for Extension of the SuperJANET Development Network

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Cambridge UKLight International Point of Access London - ULCC Warrington London Figure 1: Extended Development Network – Stage 1 Core Point of Presence C-PoP Backbone Access Router R-PoP Manchester

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July SDH Mux Reading WarringtonManchester Cambridge ULCC London St Pancras UKLight PoA SDH Mux Extended development network: Phase 1 Production GSR SDH Multiplexer StarLightNetherLight

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July JANET production UKLight PoA - ULCC Co-Lo “Local” External Sites – eg UCL Extended Development Network SDH Mux ‘X’Light US NL AccessGE/FE Sw/Router UK Dark Fibre ?

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Project facilities at ULCC Equipment Co-location Up to 4 racks total UKLight projects office 3 desks - telephones JANET access LAN access to co-located project equipment Bring your laptops…

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July UKLight projects’ office

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July UKLight Status

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July UKLight Procurement status Procurement announced Mid-July Modules Wavelength Service London – Chicago Wavelength Service London – Amsterdam SDH Multiplexing/Switching Equipment Gigabit Ethernet Switching Equipment Reconsider – 10GE switching requirement Wavelength services – awarded to Level3 – Dec SDH equipment – awarded to Pinacl/Ciena – Jan Commissioning now complete - US & NL links operational Manchester & Cambridge – July to September

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Ciena Core Director CDci (the small one) Backbone / high density device Up to 16 STM-64 Switch matrix with STM1 granularity

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Ciena Metro Director Used as an edge device (so far) 2 STM-64 (10Gb/s) G Ethernet 10/100 Ethernet Switch matrix with STM1 granularity

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Rina Samani & Jonathan Couzens with the UKLight equipment at ULCC

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Core Director

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Metro Director

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July NNW Manchester St Pancras EastNet Cambridge EastNet Cambridge Warrington C-PoP ULCC - LAB 10G Leased Bandwidth ULCC Amsterdam 10G Chicago 10G UKLight International and Phase 1

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July NNW Manchester St Pancras EastNet Cambridge EastNet Cambridge Warrington C-PoP ULCC - LAB 10G Leased Bandwidth ULCC Amsterdam 10G Chicago 10G C&NLMAN Lancaster Leeds C-PoP Leeds C-PoP YHMAN Leeds UKLight International and Phases 1 & 2 CLRC-RAL Reading C-PoP

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July UKLight Governance Steering Committee (SC) – JISC established covers policy and funding issues Hugh Pilcher-Clayton (EPSRC) will chair International representatives Bill St Arnaud (Canarie) and David Williams (CERN/TERENA) Community representation Peter Clarke (UCL), Dave Deroure (Southampton), Brian Gilmour (Edinburgh), David Hutchison (Lancaster), Guy Rickett (PPARC), David Salmon (UKERNA), Lesley Thompson (EPSRC) Plus JISC & UKERNA attendees Technical Advisory Group (TAG) – UKERNA established operations and project-feasibility assessment David Hutchison (Lancaster University) will chair Community representation Tim Chown (Southampton), Lionel Sacks UCL), Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex), Ian White (Cambridge) John Graham (ULCC) – UKLight engineer David Salmon (UKERNA)

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Use by projects Projects expected to be funded by Research Council or other programmes Central funding covers equipment interface at backbone edge Projects discuss options with UKLight project manager & submit written connection proposal UKLight TAG will assess feasibility & provide a report Use as part of research proposal Existing projects can also make a case to connect Will need endorsement by original funding programme In some cases may need to consult the UKLight steering committee

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Future Expansion Build to meet requirements of approved projects Phase 3 – still speculative Remaining budget would allow equipping access to about half of the Regional Networks) JISC/Research Council will call for expressions of interest to connect to UKLight Steering Committee will prioritise responses Commit funds during 2004 Use budget to give projects working time during 2005 Beyond this leads into SuperJANET5 ! Incorporate these concepts from ground up Flexible transmission platform Fibre / wavelength service based

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Overview of SuperJANET5 architecture requirements Flexible transmission platform IP production network Special purpose bandwidth Test – bed(s) Commoditye-Science Network R&D Service Dev. Test – bed(s) Requirements to be served Teaching & Learning

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Flexible Transmission Platform Design characteristics Transmission channels configured and managed at our control Scalable to higher bandwidth at controllable cost A range of options exist telco. provides bandwidth services telco. provides “wavelength” services telco. manages fibre and the light only UKERNA leases fibre and also lights it UKERNA owns, manages and lights fibre

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Projects

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July ESLEA partners Peter Clarke co-ordinated ULMAS **– measurement at many scales Lionel Sacks & colleagues 46PaQ ** Others are interested… (NB ** there will be posts with these projects) Projects approved

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July ESLEA Many project partners Capabilities Network resource allocation High througput transport protocols Prorocols for hybrid networks Particle Physics high performance data transfer

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July ESLEA - ii Radio Astronomy very long baseline interferometry (near-real-time data transfer) Distributed HPC & visualization E-health Remote cancer diagnosis federated databases & visualization

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July MASTS Measurement and Analysis at all time scales UCL – E&EEng & CS Loughborough – E&Eng & CS Cambridge – Computer Lab

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July MASTS - ii Instrument UKLight to: Record data-flows and topologies Time-scales: sub-second to years Large data-repository Develop monitoring and analysis algorithms Interfaces for community access to data (web- services &…) Data-acquisition Cambridge GridProbe passive optical taps on STM-64 links (10Gb/s SDH)

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July PaQ IPv4 + IPv6 Performance and QoS UCL Peter Kirstein, Saleem Bhatti Cambridge Andrew Moore, Ian Pratt Not originally proposed for UKLight, but interested in exploring a connection

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July PaQ - ii Examine behaviour of QoS mechanisms diffserv, ECN, decentralised reservation working together in high-capacity v4 & v6 environments How applications use QoS mechanisms in a real network environment (not a lab) Network instrumentation for performance and operational data for both operators and users APIs & monitoring equipment (GridProbe)

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July First path configured UCL to FermiLab PP Data Transfer Looking forward to more !

Multi-Service Networking- 8th July Further Information UKLight Projects – will be linked from web-site Town Meeting – NeSC – 9 th September SuperJANET5