1. AARNet Update plus the Taiwan Earthquake
Winter 2007 Joint Techs Minneapolis

2. What’s happened since Jan 06?
Seems a slow news year after the previous few but …
AARNet3 backbone completed
Optical network in place
AARNet3 network running on our own optical network
TEIN2 links complete
Link to Frankfurt (might be up)
Extension to AMS-IX and LINX
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3. Current AARNet3 Footprint
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4. Optical Network
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5. Optical Network Focus on permanent circuits
Connection to the AARNet3 backbone
Inter campus links
NOC out sourced to Cisco/SOUL
Will interconnect to SXTransPORT
Providing light paths from Los Angeles to anywhere on the optical network
Issues to be resolved with configuration management and control
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6. Peering in AARNet AARNet has > 200 peers
66% of AARNet’s international commodity traffic is received via peering
50% of AARNet’s domestic commodity traffic is received via peering
Currently only doing IP peering
Might do VoIP eventually
See entry at <
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7. Taiwan Earthquake December 28, 2006
Major impact on connectivity within the region
At least 7 cable systems severed
China/US
SEA-ME-WE3
Flag/RNAL
EAC
C2C
APCN
APCN2
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8. Why all this traffic in Singapore …
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9. What happened to China Telecom?
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10. Copyright 2007, AARNet FNAL/RNAL Flag SMW3 APCN-2 S6 S7 S4 S3 S2 S8
Philippines B3 B5 B2 B8 B1 B4
B17 B6 B7 B9
APCN
China-US N3 S1 N2 W3 N1 W1 W2 N4 N5 N9 N6 N7 N8 S2 S3 S4 S5
Miyazaki
Shanghai
Okinawa
Tanshui
Pali
Toucheng
Shantou
Fangshan
Macau
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Philippines

11. Lessons Learned
Many cables hit by single event so vendor diversity didn’t help
Sometimes focus on RTT and cost is bad
Need geographic diversity
Working as a “club” can improve diversity if someone buys the “strange” or expensive path
But Internet soon discovered the alternative paths
What you think is a backup path may not be the one used in practice
China to Japan via Chicago!
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12. Further Reading
A couple of presentations from last week’s NANOG in Toronto
Expect more at APRICOT later in the month
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13. Thanks Thanks for some slideware from the APAN meeting in Manila
Francis Lee of SingAREN
Yu-lin Chang of Asnet, Taiwan
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