1. Maxine Brown, Tom DeFanti, Joe Mambretti
StarLight
Located in Abbott Hall, Northwestern University’s Chicago Campus
Operational since summer 2001, StarLight is a 1GigE and 10GigE switch/router facility for high-performance access to participating networks
StarLight is equipped for optical and electronic switching of wavelengths and lightpaths
40 racks; no cross connect fees
Maxine Brown, Tom DeFanti, Joe Mambretti

2. NTT/EVL/IML Presentation
StarLight is
StarLight is a Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet exchange for R&E Production Networks (Force 10)
And a GigE lambda exchange for US, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America for Experimental Networks
And 1&10Gb MEMS-switched Research Network hub
And the Chicago host to the NSF DTFnet, a 4x10Gb Network for the TeraGrid and DTF/ETF links to Abilene; NLR, USAWaves, others coming.
A colo space: 40 racks for networking and computing, data management and visualization support equipment
Using fiber and circuits from SBC, Qwest, AT&T, Global Crossing, T-Systems, Looking Glass, RCN, and I-WIRE
StarLight implementation followed the successful strategy of bilateral layer2 peering that made STAR TAP work. StarLight, like STAR TAP, is an exchange point, not a network. Hence we can make major upgrades and deal with special needs, hard to do if a whole national-scale network needs to be involved. We also have layer3 services (and above, like Grid middleware experiments) for willing partners. StarLight is focused on the needs of e-science and supporting experimental networks.
University of Illinois at Chicago, June 12, 1998

3. StarLight US and International Networks as of October 2003
Abilene 20Gb
ESnet (DOE)
DREN (DOD)
NREN (NASA)
AMPATH (South America)
CA*net4 (Canada)
SURFnet (Netherlands)
CERN/DataTAG
TransPAC/APAN (Asia)
NaukaNET (Russia)
ASnet (Taiwan)
HARnet (Hong Kong)
GEMnet (Japan)
Others via STAR TAP OC-12 and Abilene transit

4. NTT/EVL/IML Presentation
What is TransLight?
TransLight is a global-scale networking initiative to support prototypes of the most aggressive e-science applications.
TransLight consists of dozens of schedulable provisioned Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) circuits among North America, Europe and Asia via StarLight in Chicago, NetherLight in Amsterdam.
Some 10Gb circuits are also available and schedulable.
TransLight is the infrastructure part of GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility
StarLight implementation followed the successful strategy of bilateral layer2 peering that made STAR TAP work. StarLight, like STAR TAP, is an exchange point, not a network. Hence we can make major upgrades and deal with special needs, hard to do if a whole national-scale network needs to be involved. We also have layer3 services (and above, like Grid middleware experiments) for willing partners. StarLight is focused on the needs of e-science and supporting experimental networks.
University of Illinois at Chicago, June 12, 1998

5. NTT/EVL/IML Presentation
TransLight Goals
TransLight enables grid researchers to
experiment with deterministic provisioning of dedicated circuits,
compare results with standard and experimental aggregated Internet traffic.
TransLight tests include:
moving large amounts of data,
supporting real-time collaboration and visualization,
enabling globally distributed lambda grid computing.
StarLight implementation followed the successful strategy of bilateral layer2 peering that made STAR TAP work. StarLight, like STAR TAP, is an exchange point, not a network. Hence we can make major upgrades and deal with special needs, hard to do if a whole national-scale network needs to be involved. We also have layer3 services (and above, like Grid middleware experiments) for willing partners. StarLight is focused on the needs of e-science and supporting experimental networks.
University of Illinois at Chicago, June 12, 1998

6. TransLight Lambdas European lambdas to US –8 GigEs Amsterdam—Chicago
–8 GigEs London—Chicago
Canadian lambdas to US
–8 GigEs Chicago-Canada-NYC
–8 GigEs Chicago-Canada-Seattle
US lambdas to Europe
–4 GigEs Chicago—Amsterdam
–3 GigEs Chicago—CERN
European lambdas
–8 GigEs Amsterdam—CERN
–2 GigEs Prague—Amsterdam
–2 GigEs Stockholm—Amsterdam
–8 GigEs London—Amsterdam
TransPAC lambda (yellow)
–1 GigE Chicago—Tokyo
IEEAF lambdas (blue)
–8 GigEs NYC—Amsterdam
–8 GigEs Seattle—Tokyo

7. Calient DiamondWave Switches at StarLight and NetherLight
NTT/EVL/IML Presentation
Calient DiamondWave Switches at StarLight and NetherLight
3D MEMS structure
Bulk MEMS – High Density Chips
Electrostatic actuation
1% the cost of routing
$700/port at any speed
University of Illinois at Chicago, June 12, 1998

8. T H E G L O B A L L A M B D A I N T E G R A T E D F A C I L I T Y
Announcing… i
Grid 2oo5
T H E G L O B A L L A M B D A I N T E G R A T E D F A C I L I T Y
September 2005
University of California, San Diego
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2]
United States

9. Bring Us Your Lambdas! Please bring Linda your lambdas
Build a hub like StarLight
Propose an application or network experiment
See and

10. Thank You!
StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from:
National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI , ANI , EIA , EIA , ANI , and EIA
NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI to NCSA
State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing
Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management
NSF/CISE/ANIR and DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and design
NSF/CISE/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid/ETF opportunities
UCAID/Abilene for Internet2; IU for the GlobalNOC
CA*net4 for North American transport
Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, Olivier Martin of CERN and Harvey Newman of CalTech for networking leadership
Larry Smarr of Cal-(IT)2 for I-WIRE and OptIPuter leadership