G-WiN A Gigabit-Infrastructure for the German Scientific Community Martin Wilhelm, DFN 30 October 2000 mailto:

Contents DFN Association G-WiN Technology G-WiN Services Procurement G-WiN Characteristics International Connectivity Topology

DFN Association: Targets Higher Education and Research (universities, research institutes) Institutions with close relationship to the research and education com- munity Research departments of industry Government agencies

DFN Association: Objectives Provision of national and inter- national connectivity Bundling the requirements of the community to achieve better com- mercial conditions on the market Testbeds for next generation communication technologies Promotion of new applications Organisation of international collaboration

DFN Association: Finance Non-profit organisation Subsidies from federal government only for development projects and for start-up phase Operational cost (capacity, equip- ment, personnel, services...) must be fully covered by income:  charges for services

G-WiN Technology (1) WDM/SDH platform for IP traffic Point-to-Point service (flexible capacity provision) ATM service (flexible capacity and QoS provision)

G-WiN Technology (2) Within backbone flexible provision of capacity according to changing user demands, lead time 1 hour up to 60 * E3 point-to-point connections switchable at any time provision of larger capacities within six weeks

G-WiN Technology (3) Customer Router Backbone Router (28) G-WiN Backbone

G-WiN Services (1) Available services -Access to backbone from E1 up to OC-48 -Point-to-Point at E1, E3 -ATM at E1, E3 CoS / QoS: under way -urgently needed for many appli- cations -required: service definition and organisational concepts

G-WiN Services (2) DFNInternet:nat‘l connectivity and global transit DFNConnect:point-to-point service DFN-ATM:ATM-service at additional charge Add. Services:at additional charge (QoS,...)

Procurement European Tendering for lotawarded to -backboneDeutsche Telekom -access linesvarious companies -routersCisco -transatlanticDeutsche Telekom connectivity

G-WiN Characteristics Suitable platform for future traffic growth and for high performance applications Implementation of latest available field proven technology, now SDH/WDM, later WDM end-to-end Reasonable cost/bandwidth relation Availability of „protected“ connec- tions for specific applications and experiments (point-to-point service)

International Connectivity Capacity to US now 2 * OC-12 (into Telehouse, NYC) Capacity to TEN-155 upgraded to OC-12 Access to Abilene in NYC at 100 Mbps, together with DANTE Access to Canarie in NYC at 15 Mbps, together with DANTE Access to STARTAP via Abilene‘s Internat‘l Transit Network Service