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National LambdaRail Update July 17, Dave Reese Chair, NLR Engineering Committee
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15808 Upgrades
15454 Shelves
Sunnyvale to Pittsburgh installed
Jacksonville week of July 18
Atlanta scheduled week of August 1
Washington DC scheduled week of August 8
New transponders require software upgrade
Software upgrade requires CTM upgrade
Upgrades to all system “in progress”
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Phase 2 Status
Ogden-Salt Lake City - pending metro fiber work
Installed segments (w/expected turnover dates)
Kansas City to Dallas Aug 11
Houston to San Antonio Aug 25
Active Installations (w/expected turnover dates)
Dallas to Houston Aug 11
San Antonio to El Paso Aug 25
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5. Phase 2 Status (continued)
Houston to Baton Rouge Sep 2
New York City to Washington DC Sep 13
New York City to Syracuse Sep 24
Syracuse to Cleveland Sep 24
El Paso to Albequerque Oct 6
Albueuerque to Denver Oct 6
Baton Route to Pensacola Oct 15
Pensacola to Jacsonville Oct 15
El Paso to Phoenix Oct 25
Phoenix to Los Angeles Oct 25
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6. iGrid05 and SC05 (NLR, CENIC and Cisco)
Building additional wavelengths
66 transponders (so far)
6 10G waves, San Diego to Los Angeles
5 10G waves, Los Angeles to Sunnyvale
6 10G waves, Sunnyvale to Seattle
12 10G waves, metro Seattle
More yet to come…
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7. NLR Engineering Committee
Preliminary investigation into optical switching
Strengthen robustness and support or production environment
Support just-in-time delivery of waves
Use for both production and research objectives
Product research and setting design objectives
Have developed strawman design for discussion
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8. NLR PoP with Optical Switch
Terminal
Terminal
To West
To East
Router … 
To Customer
Ethernet …
This is an unprotected system. There is one client connected to one transponder at each end. The transponder is connected only over one trunk. If the trunk is cut, or if the transponder fails, or if a client interface fails, there is no backup mechanism.
To South
Terminal
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9. Strawman NLR Optical Testbed
SEA
POR
BOI
SYR
STA
NYC
OGD
DEN
PIT
SVL
SLC
KAN
CHI
CLE
WDC
RAL
LAX
PHO
ALB
TUL
ATL
DAL
ELP
PEN
JAC
SAA
BAT
HOU
NLR owned fiber
Managed waves
PoP for primary connection point by a member (“MetaPoP”)
PoP needed because of signal regeneration requirements
but can also be used for secondary connection by a member
PoP established by NLR for members regional needs
PoP established at exchange points
NLR WaveNet, FrameNet & PacketNet PoP
NLR WaveNet & FrameNet PoP
NLR WaveNet PoP
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Thank You! Dave Reese Chair, NLR Engineering Committee
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