1. Manhattan Landing Update
Paul Love
Chair, Topology WG
8 April 2003

2. Manhattan Landing – Recap
Interconnection facility in NYC for international & domestic R&E network
Following the lead of STAR TAP/StarLight, Pacific Wave, AMPATH it’s a carrier neutral, layer 2 exchange point
Partnership involving Internet2, NYSERNet & Indiana University’s Global NOC
Independent of Abilene infrastructure; direct bilateral peerings between connected R&E nets
Abilene’s T640 NYC core router will connect with 10GE at MAN LAN’s 1st light
8 April 2003

3. MAN LAN - Equipment Initial equipment: Cisco 6513
Frame only; mesh of vLANs
GigE & 10GE (LAN PHY) connections only
16x1GigE installed
SX, LX/LH or ZX
10GE blades added as needed
LR or ER
8 April 2003

4. MAN LAN - Administrative Info
Location
24th fl, 32 Avenue of the Americas
NYSERNet’s collocation space within the building’s FMMR
Availability
This month, April 2003 
Abilene Connections
Preferred means of connecting in NYC
Operation
Global Indiana University
Paperwork (draft connection agreement, etc)
See
8 April 2003

5. MAN LAN – Admin Info (cont)
Partnership
Global NOC of Indiana University, Interent2 & NYSERNet
NYSERNet
Contact
Ben Chi; Director, Network Technologies
x24
Collocation space available
Commodity ISPs expected in the NYSERNet space
Only NYSERNet can provide final prices and T&Cs
8 April 2003

6. MAN LAN – Fees Set for 2003, reviewed annually
Based on partial cost sharing
8 April 2003

7. Participants Committed Potential Abilene 10GE CA*net4 2xGigE
GÉANT 2xGigE
HEAnet GigE
NYSERNet 10GE
Potential
ESnet
SInet
8 April 2003

8. MAN LAN – Contacts For international R&E networks:
Heather Boyles
land
cell
For US R&E networks:
Paul Love
land
cell
8 April 2003

9. NYC R&E Network Interconnections: ~6/03
8 April 2003

10. The End
8 April 2003