1. Kees Neggers Managing Director SURFnet GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility TERENA Networking Conference 6-9 June 2005, Poznan, Poland

2. Linking the World with Light – the GLIF Challenge

3. 3 GLIF vision Linking the World with Light It is no longer sufficient to connect researchers to the internet, they have to be connected to each other. GLIF community shares a common vision of building a new grid-computing paradigm, in which the central architectural element is optical networks, not computers, to support this decade’s most demanding e-science applications.

4. 4 History of the SURFnet infrastructure 10 kbit/s 100 kbit/s 1 Mbit/s 10 Mbit/s 100 Mbit/s 1 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s 100 Gbit/s SURFnet1 9,6 kbit/s SURFnet2 64 kbit/s SURFnet3 2 Mbit/s SURFnet4 34 Mbit/s SURFnet4 155 Mbit/s SURFnet5 20 Gbit/s 1986 1989 1992199519972001

5. 5 VLBI at JIVE in Dwingeloo, NL

6. 6 Lambdas as part of research instruments www.lofar.org Many data collection points collecting ~ 20 Tbit/s Processing in Groningen Large data sets distributed to many destinations in The Netherlands and abroad

7. 7 The Square Kilometre Array $2Bn investment in infrastructure Real-time data analysis at Petabits per second Storage >40 years Building the world’s largest computational & data facility in one of the world’s most isolated locations http://www.atnf.csiro.au/projects/ska/

8. 8 Paradigm shift SURFnet4 projectGigaPort DWDM Lambdas POS 1995 GigaPort Next Generation 20031999 SURFnet4 network SURFnet5 network ATM 2008 SURFnet6 network Next generation is not a simple extrapolation of current networks

9. 9 Routed L3 traffic growth 1600 Tbyte/month ≈ 5 Gbits/second

10. 10 Photo section

11. 11 A word on networking costs Costs of optical port is 10% of switching port is 10% of router port with same characteristics 10G routerblade -> 100+ k$, 10G switch port >10k$, MEMS port -> 1 k$ Give each packet in the network the service it needs, but no more Courtesy Cees de Laat

12. 12 Paradigm shift Hybrid networking IP + lambdas Packet switched internet for regular many-to-many usage Light Paths for new high speed few-to-few usage

13. 13 Light Path Provisioning Lambdas: enable layer 1 and 2 end-to-end Light Paths Light paths: provide excellent quality on point-to-point connections at very high speed (1-10G) are not constrained by traditional framing, routing, and transport protocols are becoming integral part of scientific instruments enable creation of Optical Private Networks (OPN)

14. 14 Spring 2001 Start of lambda networking Spring 2001 Start of lambda networking 2.5Gbit/s lambda ordered by SURFnet between StarLight, Chicago, USA and NetherLight, Amsterdam, NL Lambda terminated on Cisco ONS15454 muxes, WAN side: SONET framed: OC48c LAN side: GbE interfaces to computer clusters StarLight NetherLight 2.5G lambda GbE

15. 15 History of Lambda Workshops Brainstorming in Antalya, TR at TERENA Networking Conference in 2001 Lambda workshops so far were by invitation only but always attached to an open event related to lambda networking: September 2001: first Lambda Workshop in Amsterdam followed by open Lambda Workshop organized by TERENA

16. 16 GLIF History Second Lambda Workshop in 2002 in Amsterdam was attached to iGrid2002, hosted by Science Park Amsterdam

17. 17 NetherLight Network 2002 The iGrid2002 event brought many lambdas to Amsterdam

18. 18GLIFGLIF August 2003: third Lambda Workshop in Reykjavik hosted by NORDUnet and attached to the NORDUnet 2003 Conference In Reykjavik with 33 participants from Europe, Asia and North America it was agreed to continue under the name: GLIF: Global Lambda Integrated Facility

19. 19 GLIF Founding Members

20. 20 GLIF after Reykjavik GLIF is a collaborative initiative among worldwide NRENs, consortia and institutions with lambdas; as such GLIF is clearly positioned on the demand side of the market GLIF is a world-scale Lambda-based Laboratory to facilitate application and middleware development GLIF will be managed as a cooperative activity WWW.GLIF.IS will be the home for all interested in the GLIF activities

21. 21 GLIF Working Groups Governance and Growth Kees Neggers - kees.neggers@surfnet.nl - chair. Goal: To identify future goals in terms of lambdas, connections and applications support, and to decide what cross-domain policies need to be put in place Research and Applications Peter Clarke - clarke@hep.ucl.ac.uk - chair Goal: To identify applications that can benefit from LambdaGrids, and to define the services that the user communities need Technical Issues Erik-Jan Bos - erik-jan.bos @ surfnet.nl – co-chair Rene Hatem - rene.hatem@canarie.ca - co-chair. Goal: To design and implement an international LambdaGrid infrastructure, identifying equipment, connection requirements, and engineering functions and services Control Plane and Grid Integration Middleware Gigi Karmous-Edwards - gigi@mcnc.org - chair Goal: To agree on the interfaces and protocols that talk to each other on the control planes of the contributed Lambda resources

22. 22 GLIF 4 th Annual Workshop The GLIF 4th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop was held in Nottingham, United Kingdom on September 2 and 3, 2004 attached to the UK All Hands eScience Meeting Organized by Cees de Laat of University of Amsterdam and Maxine Brown of University of Illinois at Chicago.

23. 23 GLIF Nottingham Participants

24. 24 GLIF after Nottingham GLIF is an open community GLIF has participants, not members GLIF “glues” together the networks and resources of its participants TERENA to serve as the GLIF Secretariat Appropriate to their mission and the spirit of community cooperation, GLIF participants implemented a “lightweight” governance structure.

25. 25 GLIF World Map – December 2004 Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA.

26. 26 Open GLIF Optical Exchanges GLIF infrastructure will be Multi-domain Like the Internet lambda networking will move from research to commercial networks Open GLIF Optical Exchanges will be key to facilitate the further evolution and scaling of the emerging GLIF infrastructure. the interworking with the commercial domain the smooth migration from the research area to the market

27. 27 NetherLight: Open GLIF Optical Exchange Open Optical Exchange in Amsterdam Operational since January 2002 Established in Science Park Amsterdam Built and operated by SURFnet Nortel Networks HDXc at the centre with full duplex 640G non-blocking cross-connect capability Nortel OME6500 and Cisco15454 at the edge

28. 28 SURFnet 6 NetherLight 3Q2005 DWDM SURFnet 20 Gbit/s SURFnet 10 Gbit/s Prague CzechLight Prague CzechLight NORDUnet 2.5 Gbit/s IRNC 10 Gbit/s London UKLight London UKLight Stockholm NorthernLight Stockholm NorthernLight CESNET 10 Gbit/s UKERNA 10 Gbit/s Geneva CERN Geneva CERN Science Park Amsterdam Chicago IEEAF10 Gbit/s SURFnet10 Gbit/s New York MANLAN IRNC 10Gbit/s

29. 29 GLIF Optical Exchanges NetherLight-Amsterdam CzechLight-Prague UKLight-London NorthernLight-Stockholm Barcelona StarLight-Chicago MAN LAN-New York PNWGP-Seattle Pacific Wave-Los Angeles Atlantic Wave- NY/WashingtonDC/Atlanta/ Miami/Sao Paulo TLEX- Tokyo HKLight-Hong Kong DragonLight-HK/Beijing Sydney BLEX-Bangkok Singapore

30. 30 GLIF Next Steps Best Current practice documents: Interoperability and interconnectivity Definition of open optical exchange Register of GLIF Resources Next Global LambdaGrid Workshops: 2005 at UCSD, hosted by Cal-(IT)2 in conjunction with iGrid2005 2006 in Japan, hosted by the WIDE Project (Jun Murai) and JGN-II (Tomonori Aoyama)

31. 31 GLIF’s major challenge Generic ICT-application services Science and Industry ICT-applications ResearchPilotsMarket Network infrastructure GLIF Infrastructure Innovation cycle How to create an effective ‘shift register’ for innovative ICT-applications, using the new infrastructure ? Function

32. 32 Connectivity challenge Reaching out to the users So far most researchers have to come to the emerging GLIF infrastructure Challenge is to bring GLIF to the desk top of the researchers and to their scientific instruments This means bringing dark fiber to remote instruments and hybrid networking functionality into the LANs at the campuses

33. 33 Middleware challenge How do we glue things together? Users need ubiquitous end to end lightpaths connectivity over a multi-domain infrastructure Harmonize use of existing protocols Invent new protocols Create user friendly AAA features Paving the way to a ubiquitous and scalable Services Grid

34. 34 Application Challenge In the end its all about applications Stimulate the development of applications that explore the new hybrid functionality Work closely with the GLIF users on best practices to overcome the connectivity and middleware challenges Explain the opportunities to other researchers Application Challenge

35. 35 September 26-30, 2005 University of California, San Diego California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT) 2 ] United States i Grid 2 oo 5 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 The GLIF 5 th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop will be held in September 2005 in conjunction with iGrid 2005 meeting in the new UCSD Cal-(IT)² building in San Diego, California, USA, GLIF 5 th Annual Workshop