1. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc NLR Update July 26, 2006

2. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Topics Infrastructure Update Uses Hardening Update SC06 Summary

3. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Infrastructure Update

4. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc NLR owned fiber* NLR WaveNet, FrameNet & PacketNet PoP NLR WaveNet & FrameNet PoP NLR WaveNet PoP PoP for primary connection point by a member (“MetaPoP”) PoP needed because of signal regeneration requirements but can also be used for secondary connection by a member PoP established by NLR for members regional needs PoP established at exchange points RATO BATO SAND STAR CHIC SALT HOUS DALL SYRA TULS PENS ELPA KANS PHOE LOSA ALBU PITT WASH BOIS CLEV ATLA PORT RALE NEWY SANA DENV SUNN SEAT JACK OGDE * Fiber on the SAND-LOSA-SUNN path belongs to CENIC NLR Infrastructure Status - June 2006

5. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc WaveNet Summary Adding 21 new circuits by August 1st 77 new layer 1 segments Utilization 24% April 2006 32% expected by August 2006 Segments with 50% utilization or better –SUNN to SEAT - 75%, CHIC to STAR - 59%, KANS to CHIC 50%, CHIC to CLEV 50% NLR Wavenet Weathermap Shows allocation of layer1 infrastructure by segment.

7. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc FrameNet Summary 3 Service Types National Exchange Fabric Dedicated point-to-point or multipoint Non-dedicated point-to-point or multipoint Example uses: Dedicated SOX to 3ROX (Abilene backup) Baton Rouge to Jacksonville - the long way - backup Non-dedicated UltraLight Texas A&M University

8. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc FrameNet Update Interest by research groups Collaborative multi-point projects Non-dedicated service Understand utilization, then migrate to dedicated service. New Services Investigation of on-demand dedicated services Process for implementing - both backbone and RONS

9. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc PacketNet Connection Status 13 out of 15 Members connected 10 of the 12 have 10 GE 8 also have 1 GE secondary connections 3 with GE or multiple GE Peering USGS, StarLight,CA*Net,Ultralight, ESnet, DREN Total routes - ~3500

10. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc NLR PacketNet Goals Meet the needs of the Network Research community and the Gigapop/RON community AUP-free Allow each group to determine what traffic to send Removes the need for some “stupid routing ticks” Full routing tables Add some level of Commodity connectivity Real traffic environment Allows for better testing of new network protocols

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12. NLR Optical Switching Project Calient Switch Three possible objectives Shared control between backbone and RON. Fault Tolerance GMPLS experimentation Engineering Committee Subcommittee to make recommendation on priorities and switch placement by end of June.

13. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc NLR Measurement Infrastructure Infrastructure to support both operation and research measurement needs Provides pre-GENI infrastructure Data collection and dissemination points for NLR services - PacketNet, FrameNet and possibly WaveNet. Process Final review by Engineering committee Submission to NNRC for review, comments and recommendation Postive review by NNRC, recommendation to board for funding.

14. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Projects

15. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Cisco Research Wave Projects UltraLight PI - Harvey Newman, Caltech Collaboration of experimental physicists and network engineers whose purpose is to provide the network advances required to enable petabyte-scale analysis of globally distributed data. Infrastructure - migrating to 10 GE PacketNet and 10 GE FrameNet TransLight PI - John Silverster, Univ. of Southern California Development of a distributed exchange facility on the west coast to allow interconnection of international research and education networks in the US. Infrastructure - WaveNet Circuit

16. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Cisco Research Wave Projects EnLightened PI Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC Developing a dynamic, adaptive, coordinated and optimized use of networks connecting geographically distributed high-end computing resources and scientific instrumentation. Infrastructure - WaveNet circuits

17. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Research Projects CHEETAH PI – Malathi Veeraraghavan, Uva A high-performance, experimental, optical network infrastructure capable of: (a) on-demand provisioning of end-to-end high-speed circuits, (b) stable transport to sustain control and streaming operations, and (c) middleware and application software to support data transfers, visualization, steering and control. Infrastructure - WaveNet circuit VINI PI Larry Petersen/Jennifer Rexford VINI is a virtual network infrastructure that allows network researchers to evaluate their protocols and services in a realistic environment that provides a high degree of control over network conditions. Infrastructure - an overlay testbed using NLR co-location, FrameNet and PacketNet services.

18. nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc Research Projects Cornell AnyCast Case Western Reserve QoS Optiputer Lambda Switching Scheduler NLR Optical Switching Project Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology (CAMERA) Extensible Terascale Facility Pacific Wave UltraScience