1. Abilene Update Rick Summerhill
Director, Network Research, Architecture, and Technologies
Joint-Techs Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT
30 July 2019

2. Welcome Welcome to Abilene, Steve Cotter Network Services Director
FiberCo
MAN LAN
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3. Abilene Partnerships Indiana University Juniper Networks
Nortel Networks
Qwest Communications
ITECs
Internet2
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4. Abilene Backbone
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5. Abilene Participants February 2005
IP-over-DWDM (OC-192c)
42 (44) direct connections (OC-3c  10 GigE)
3 (2) 10 GigE connections
6 (6) OC-48c (2 more in the near future)
3 (2) GigE connection
25 (23) connections at OC-12c (13) or higher
Cost recovery model reduced to encourage upgrades
233 (228) participants – research universities & labs
All 50 states, District of Columbia, & Puerto Rico
U.S. Census Bureau and World Bank most recent additions; Library of Congress coming soon!
Expanded access
119 (106) sponsored participants
34 (33) state education networks
(#): status at last Joint-Techs (Columbus, 07/2004)
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6. Abilene Participation - Upgrades
Current status
Connectors recently completed
University of Oregon
North Texas GigaPoP
Intermountain GigaPoP (here at Utah)
SoX
Near future upgrades
New Mexico GigaPoP (OC-48)
MAGP (OC-48)
Upgrade web page
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7. Abilene International Peering
Last updated: January 2005
Abilene International Peering
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8. Abilene Federal/Research Peering
Last updated: January 2005
Abilene Federal/Research Peering

9. Abilene Peering Connectivity to Exchange Points Peering with ESnet
MANLAN – 10 GigE
PacWave - Seattle – 10 GigE
PacWave - LA – 10 GigE
Starlight – 2 x 10 GigE
NGIX East – 10 GigE
NGIX West – 1 GigE
PAIX in Palo Alto - IPv6 and Multicast Peerings
Peering with ESnet
Sunnyvale, Chicago, Atlanta – OC-48
New York - 10 GigE (through MAN LAN)
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10. Abilene Focus Areas – 2005 IPv6 and Multicast
Roughly 2/3 of the connectors are IPv6 enabled
Roughly 1/2 of the peers are IPv6 enabled
Support for high-throughput flows (multi-Gbps)
Collaboration with End-to-End Performance Initiative
Ensuring that large flows are the standard across the Internet2 infrastructure
Security
Collaboration with REN-ISAC
Expanded efforts in security
Abilene Observatory – Supporting Network Research and an Open Measurement Platform
Provisioning dedicated capabilities (with the HOPI project)
Providing experimental services on top of production network
Recent NSF Proposals for network research
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11. Abilene Performance Performance 7.2 Gbps flows across Abilene
Recent tests from Caltech to CERN
Le Tour de Abilene
Worst Ten Lists – Typical day
966.1 Mbps IPv4 TCP
964.5 Mbps IPv6 TCP
MPLS L2VPN experiments with prioritized service have shown excellent performance on tunnels and with little effect on normal traffic
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12. Dedicated Capabilities
MPLS L2VPNs across Abilene
Experiments – Internet2, CANARIE, GEANT, StarLight, SurfNet – 1 GigE path across variety of different infrastructures
ITECs – dedicated MPLS L2VPN
HOPI
Packet and Circuit Switched architecture testbed
More about HOPI tomorrow
Support for Computer Science Research Community
Recent NSF proposals to enhance PlanetLab Connectivity
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13. Next Generation Time-line
By January of define architecture
By April Selection of transport
By July Selection of equipment
By October Completion
Current MoU with Qwest ends 10/2007
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14. More information http://abilene.internet2.edu
Additional pointers off this page
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