1. Internet2 Update Rick Summerhill Chief Technology Officer, Internet2
TIP 2008
21 January 2008
Honolulu, HI
Hisao Uose (his-ow whoa-say) - long time supporter of world-wide advanced networking
Shigeo Urushidani (she-gay-oh ew-roo-shi-daw-ni) - he's the 'professor' at NII
And we’ll all miss Jun Matsukata, long time friend.

2. Contents Technologies The Internet2 Network Services Future Challenges
Middleware
Security
Network Research Support
Performance
Dynamic Circuit Services
The Internet2 Network
Services
Future Challenges

3. Middleware Shibboleth 2.0 should be out within a month
Completes the Shib/SAML Integration
InCommon continues to grow
New investigations on federation peering - now international federations
COManage work continues
Leverages federated identity and the attribute ecosystem
Shib-enabled; uses Grouper to manage groups, Signet to manage privileges, Eddy for diagnostics
Open and proprietary applications can be plumbed to work with it
See some of the detailed talks on Middleware

4. Security Much of the activity will be moving toward the campus level
Support for and collaboration with the REN-ISAC
Incident handling
SALSA working groups
Disaster Recovery
CSI-2 (Interoperable security incident reporting)
Federated wireless access
Grants to investigate security efforts
Integration of identity management and security efforts (CAMP in next few weeks - full)

5. Network Research Support
Observatory data usage continues to grow
Investigating data needs at lower layers
Continue work on grants like Ultralight, DoE, and 100x100
Deploying a small experimental network using netFPGA cards for the 100x100 project
Investigating use of new (old?) ideas like Phoebus
Investigating international connections and how to measure
Support for recent GENI solicitation

6. Performance End-to-End performance monitoring
Primary component under development is PerfSONAR
What is perfSONAR?
A set of protocols and schemas for implementing a service-oriented architecture for sharing and controlling network performance tools
A community of users and developers (Internet2, ESnet, GEANT2, and RNP)
A set of software (the sample implementation)
Java release v2.1 available
perfSONAR-PS beta released this week
Encourage deployment at all levels - campus, regional, national, and international

7. Dynamic Circuit Network
Designed using the work done through the HOPI (Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure) project (more on that later).
Currently uses the Ciena infrastructure
To be extended to the full infrastructure as more is developed.
The DCN software suite now available - current version 0.2
Developed by Internet2, ESnet, and DANTE through the DICE collaboration
Encourage participation of a wider group of developers - contact Internet2 if there is interest

8. The Internet2 Network Designed with the following in mind:
The R&E community runs applications with very demanding needs, from high bandwidth to quality of service
Demand for control at lower layers of the the network stack
Interest in Hybrid Networking - using networks at different layers in innovative ways
How can one augment layer3 networks with layer1 capabilities

9. The HOPI Testbed
Understanding these capabilities lead to the HOPI project
HOPI is now being decommissioned, although several segments continue to exist
Successful project that lead to DCN
Many thanks to the HOPI partners, including
Force10, Glimmerglass, and HP
The TSC (testbed support center) including IU, NCREN, and MAX
Some support for DCN continues from these groups
Special thanks to the NSF and the DRAGON project

10. Internet2 IDEA Awards www.internet2.edu/idea
For advanced applications with:
Positive impact
Technical merit
Potential for further adoption
IP and (new) static wave categories
Winners receive recognition and (for static wave category) 10 Gbps circuit on Internet2 Network
Submit by 28 January 2008
Additional information available at the information table 10 10

11. The Internet2 Network Design Goals
Multiple layers…Multiple domains…One infrastructure, flexibility at all layers
IP services
Static Wave services
Dynamic Wave services
Commercial Peering services
Carrier-class reliability / Massively scalable / Flexible
Enable both production services and also experimental services
Continue technical innovation & vision in the global Research and Education community

12. The Internet2 Network Architecture Summary
Initially provisioned with ten 10-Gbps wavelengths (100 Gbps) with all 10 dropping at each core optical node
Unlimited capacity: Can grow beyond 40 wavelengths on additional fibers with linear costs
Community Controlled: Complete access to the entire system - IU NOC now controls all layers in the network
Reliable: Level(3) provided service level agreements on waves
Scalability: Potential for 40 & 100 Gbps support
SC 06 and SC 07 demos of 40 and 100 Gbps
Rapid/Flexible: Reprovisioned (10GE to OC-192) and tested 10 λ’s between NYC-DC-Chicago (~1000 miles) in 31 minutes!

13. Internet2 Infrastructure
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15. Wave Infrastructure - ESnet and Internet2
The Internet2 Hybrid Network
The Internet2 IP network
The Internet2 circuit infrastructure, dynamic in nature
The ESnet Hybrid Network
The ESnet IP network
The ESnet SDN circuit (dynamic) network
The wave infrastructure can support multiple networks
Internet2 has complete control of the wave infrastructure
It can support both highly experimental and production quality
The Internet2 Network as follows:

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17. Internet2 Network Partners17

18. Services Hybrid Network Waveco Fiberco IP Network
Research Traffic similar to the past
Commodity Peering Services
Dynamic Circuit (DC) Network
Waveco
Static Waves (SONET or Ethernet) on the Infinera Platform
Static Circuits (SONET or Ethernet) on the Ciena Platform
Fiberco
Dark fiber (and ancillary services); professional services

19. Static Circuit Services
Physical Connections:
1 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet
OC-192 SONET
Circuit Service Types:
Point-to-Point Ethernet Circuit, tagged or untagged
Point-to-Point SONET Circuit
Bandwidth provisioning available in 50 Mbps increments

20. Static Circuit Services
Provide for user specific network paths:
Guaranteed bandwidth
Deterministic behavior in terms of bounds on jitter, latency, and packet loss rates
Can be provisioned in multiple ways:
Over Infinera backbone
Over the Ciena CoreDirectors
Even via MPLS over IP network

21. Commercial Peering Service
Potential to position R&E community as the leader with respect to IPv6 connectivity
Working with commodity providers to enable new IP multicast applications
Insure net neutral paths between R&E community and commodity-hosted content, services, and users.

22. Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN)
Similarities to IP Network
One-arm connection
Protocol-based connection
Connect to anyone else also connected to the network
Dynamic Circuit characteristics
Flexible bandwidth up to 10 Gbps
Set up circuits in seconds
Circuits lasts for hours or days
Operates on the Ciena Platform currently 23

23. Internet2 DCN Roll-out Support
Persistent for 2008
No additional fee to IP connectors for 2008
Support
Documentation
Workshops
User group
Challenge is innovative use of the Technology 24

24. Phoebus - TCP data flows
File transfers over long distance segments not requiring congestion control
Lead by Martin Swany at the University of Delaware

25. Challenges These are great times in the networking world
New and innovative ideas for networking abound!
A Challenge to you:
Given the technologies being developed by the community, from middleware to perfSONAR to DCN, what are innovative ways to use those technologies?
Given new technologies coming in Ethernet and G.709, what networking directions should our community take over the next few years?
The new Internet2 governance puts the direction in the hands of the community!

26. Questions?
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