1. I-WIRE Background State Funded Infrastructure to support Networking and Applications Research $6.5M Total Funding $4M FY00-01 (in hand) $2.5M FY02 (approved 1-June-01) Possible addl $1M in FY03-5 Application Driven Access Grid: Telepresence & Media Computational Grids: Internet Computing Data Grids: Information Analysis New Technologies Proving Ground Optical Switching Dense Wave Division Multiplexing Ultra-High Speed SONET Wireless Advanced middleware infrastructure UIC ANL NCSA/UIUC UC NU / Starlight Star Tap IIT Charlie Catlett – Argonne National Laboratory

2. 1 km I-WIRE Layers 0 & 1 UIUC/NCSA James R. Thompson Ctr Optical Amplifier DWDM equipment Starlight NU @ 710 N. Lake Shore Carrier POP 37 miles 53 miles 52 miles 17 miles 63 miles 58 miles 46 miles 39 miles 33 miles 41 miles 45 miles 27 miles 45 miles 23 miles ANL Existing 4q 2001 3q 2001 37 miles St. Louis GigaPOP 900 N. Walnut Star Tap UIC IIT UC Next Steps: -Have identified fiber to reach Fermi & potentially Northwestern Evanston campus - Several options for fiber to Indianapolis -10 GbE to each I-WIRE campus -4x 10 GbE to ANL and NCSA for proposed Distributed Terascale Facility (partnership with Qwest) Metro Fiber Costs $25 to $90 per foot Cornfield Fiber $700-1800/strand-mile Charlie Catlett – Argonne National Laboratory

3. I-WIRE Layers 2 & 3 455 N.Cityfront McLeodUSA Rantoul McLeodUSA Kankakee 111 N. Canal 151 N. Michigan Starlight NU - 710 N. Lake Shore 6 x 10GbE Ciena CoreStream DTF Hub Switch/Router ANL DTF Border Switch/Router ANL Border Router NCSA DTF Border Switch/Router NCSA Border Router UIC Border Router IIT Border Router UC Border Router Starlight Router Starlight Router Starlight Router Starlight Router OA Proposed DTF Interconnect (4 x 10GbE) ArgonneNCSA/UIUCUCIITUIC Charlie Catlett – Argonne National Laboratory DWDM I-WIRE Hub I-WIRE Hub