N-Wave Engineering Update N-Wave Stakeholders Conference - Boulder 22 May 2012 Mark Mutz,

For Official Use Only N-Wave Design Review Designed primarily for high-volume data flows Initially 10G mesh, 100G upgradeable Internet2/NLR DWDM waves for core circuits Core network fully meshed for high availability Waves on various R&E RONs for access to core Ethernet only with MPLS – L2/3VPNs Instrumentation/test servers at node and site

For Official Use Only Update Summary May 2011 Core build out complete Backend Systems complete 4 RDHPCS sites connected via L3VPN CLASS Suitland connected to Boulder via L2VPN NSSL - Norman and Boulder Campus connected May 2012 Seattle Core site complete Asheville – CLASS Layer 3 VRF Silver Spring and Sand Point aggregation routers Miami AOML Hawaii OC3 Matured change management

For Official Use Only May 2011

For Official Use Only Current Network

For Official Use Only DC Metro Expansion

For Official Use Only Seattle Core & Sand Point

For Official Use Only Hawaii - PRC OC3 acquired from UH. Juniper MX series routers for aggregation. Hawaiian Tel. EIPDS service for connectivity across the island.

For Official Use Only Hawaii Connectivity

For Official Use Only MPLS VRF Structure Layer 3 VRF- Virtual Routing and Forwarding – Separate routing tables keeps participant traffic segregated Management – Default VRF Private VRFs – RDHPCS – CLASS and CLASS-DB NOAA (OAR) Wide VRF

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Layer 2 Connections WOC/NCEP– Data replication from Gaithersburg to Boulder SWPC Boulder access to NCEP Supercomputer Fairmont Internet access SOC/Fairmont to Silver Spring NOC

For Official Use Only Layer 2 VPN

For Official Use Only MPLS Expansion Extending MPLS out to the aggregation routers Simpler to configure and maintain More resilient – Single Layer 3 peering at Aggregation sites – Layer 2 redundancy Cisco to Juniper MPLS interoperability

For Official Use Only Uptime Network operational on Jan 1 st 2011 Core Network uptime - 100% For a Participant dual homed to core – 100% Uptime – Fully meshed design

For Official Use Only N-Wave Expansion Aggregation routers – Miami – Norman – Asheville – Suitland NOS and NMFS NWS

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