1. Commercial Networking Solutions
Udo Schaefer September 20th 2012

2. Network Connectivity Interfacing from and to scientific e-infrastructure
Science Main Site
Cloud Centers
Service Provider A
Service Provider A
WAN Network
Cloud Computing
Service Providers offer
integrated ICT services IT
P2P Cloud Connectivity:
Pre-provisioned & shared use on demand
Integrated into cloud offer for WAN & IT
End-Use: Cloud Computing services
SLA based on performance (no packet loss)
VM UC
Cloud
Service Provider B
Service Provider B
WAN Network
VM xx
Service Provider C
Service Provider C
WAN Network
IP Router
Service Provider D
Service Provider D
WAN Network
Science Sites
NREN
Access
NREN
Network
NREN
Network
Geant
P2P Fixed Connectivity:
Long provisioning & contract time
On demand built
End-Use: IP Connectivity
SLA based on availability (<100%)

3. Network Connectivity Application: Move of Virtual Machines
Science Main Site
Science Remote Site
Cloud WAN Connect
Intra Datacenter VM VM VM
Inter Datacenter

4. Reference

5. Initial Phase 100GbE 100GbE 100GBit/s Lambda 60/500km Dark Fiber
Autor / Thema der Präsentation
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100GbE
100GbE
100GBit/s Lambda
60/500km Dark Fiber
17*10GbE
17*10GbE
16*8 Gbit/s FC
16*8 Gbit/s FC
5*40 Gbit/s QDR IB
16*20 Gbit/s DDR IB

6. Next Phase 160km Optical Protection 60km 2 x 10GbE 2 x 10GbE 2x100GbE
Autor / Thema der Präsentation
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2 x 10GbE
160km
2 x 10GbE
2x100GbE
Optical Protection
2x 100GbE 2x
10GbE 2x
10GbE
100GBit/s Lambdas
16x 10GbE
+ 4x 40GbE
40GBit/s Lambdas
16x 10GbE
+ 4x 40GbE
60km
N x 8G FC
N x 8G FC
IB QDR / /FDR
IB QDR / /FDR IB IB IB IB IB IB

7. The Cloud & IT Low latency is key
Latenzzeit: 0.09 ms
Latenzzeit: 0.36 ms

8. The Cloud & IT Lustre Filesystem Tests
Parallel Filesystem in use at >50% of the WW Top100 HPC-Systems
Access to multiple storage servers (OSS) & Metadataservers (MDS)
Tests carried out using IOR (Lawrence Livermore development)
Press Release by Indiana University Pervasive Insitute 11/2010

9. Helix-Nebula Use Cases for Pilot Phase & beyond
Major
WAN
Impact

10. Managed Capacity 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet
Helix-Nebula Pilot Phase proposal (Sites and WAN connectivity t.b.c.)
ATOS Stuttgart
T-Systems Munich
CloudSigma Zurich
Dark Fiber ~120km
Dark Fiber ~220km
Dark Fiber ~210km
Managed Capacity 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet

11. Helix-Nebula Pilot Phase ALU implementation
1830 PSS
5620 SAM
7750 SR
Dark Fiber ~120km
Nx10Gbit/s
7750 SR
1830 PSS
Dark Fiber ~220km
Nx10Gbit/s
1830 PSS
7750 SR
Dark Fiber ~210km
Nx10Gbit/s
1830 PSS
7750 SR
WAN Equipment Alcatel-Lucent
1830 PSS - Optical Networking (Nx8/10Gbit/s) with optional line rate encryption and optical switching
7750 SR - Service Routing with full service aware L2/L3 switching & routing
5620 SAM - E2E Management System with northbound integration via XML
Managed Capacity 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet
7750 SR
Managed Capacity 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet
7750 SR

12. Summary 1. | Integrated Cloud Offers from multiple Service Providers
2. | Move of Big Data in / out of the Cloud
3. | Commercial Use requires Cloud ready WAN networks
4. | Terabytes do not fit into shared Megabits
5. | New WAN services and integrated ICT architectures