GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight1 UKLight GNEW 2004 – CERN – 15/16 March David Salmon UKERNA

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight2 Overview Background What is UKLight Architecture UK National Access Governance Status

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight3 Background International activities StarLight – evolved from Startap International exchange point Joined by NetherLight “Lambda” workshops Sept 2001, 2002, 2003, (2004 – UK) Terena Initiative attempted with Flag Telecom during 2002 UK activities have evolved from these over last 2 years or so Internal meetings and papers during 2002 UKLight bid to JCSR – Nov 2002 Funding approved March /April 2003

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight4 What is UKLight ? 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

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight5 Potential early adopters Particle Physics high performance data transfer Radio Astronomy very long baseline interferometry (near-real-time data transfer) Distributed HPC & visualization Remote oncology diagnosis federated databases & visualization

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight6 Network Engineering Hybrid network: development & integration packet-over-channel with dynamic channel access and configuration: GMPLS or bespoke agent/broker end-to-end access to channels for R&D and specialised hard-real-time applications High throughput transport development in a high bandwidth  delay environment ESLEA partners – Peter Clarke

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight7 Funding Funding – SRIF - £6.5M total From HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) Via JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) International Point of Access Circuits, equipment, housing, NMS, staff… UK Access and photonics infrastructure Equipment, housing…

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight8 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

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight9 UKLight components International Point of Access in London Wavelength services to StarLight (Chicago) NetherLight (Amsterdam) Internal UK access via extended JANET development Network Dark-Fibre facility for photonics community

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight10 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

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GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight14 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

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight15 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…

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight16 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 May be relevant for future incarnations of JANET

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight17 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

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight18 SDH Mux Reading WarringtonManchester Cambridge ULCC London St Pancras UKLight PoA SDH Mux Extended development network: Phase 1 Production GSR SDH Multiplexer StarLightNetherLight

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight19 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 ?

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight20 UKLight Status

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight21 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 and up to mid-April

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight22 Ciena Core Director CDci (the small one) Backbone / high density device Up to 16 STM-64

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight23 Ciena Metro Director Used as an edge device (so far) 2 STM-64 G Ethernet 10/100 Ethernet

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight24 Commissioning Status Last Week London – Amsterdam 10G circuit Amsterdam equipment NMS (London) Any day now London – Chicago Next 3 weeks Chicago Warrington & Manchester London C-PoP & Cambridge

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight25 UKLight – International & Phase 1

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight26 Governance and use by Projects Governance Steering Committee – JISC established covers policy and funding issues Hugh Pilcher-Clayton (EPSRC) will chair International representatives –Bill St Arnaud and David Williams Technical Advisory group – UKERNA established operations and project-feasibility assessment David Hutchison (Lancaster University) will chair Project use Projects funded by Research Council & other programmes Central funding covers equipment interface at backbone edge

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight27 Future Expansion Build to meet requirements of approved projects Phase 2 likely candidates CLRC – RAL (& DL) (and backbone site at Reading) Lancaster Leeds - White Rose Grid (and backbone site at Leeds) Phase 3 – still very speculative Remaining budget would allow equipping access to about half of the Regional Networks) Commit funds during 2004 Use budget to give projects working time during 2005 Beyond this we’re into SuperJANET5 ! Incorporate these concepts from ground up Flexible transmission platform Fibre / wavelength service based

GNEW - 15th March David SalmonUKLight28 Questions ?