1. UKLight Jeremy Sharp, UKERNA Advanced Technologies Manager John Graham UKLight Engineer www.uklight.ac.uk

2. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting Themes What is UKLight UKLight Governance UKLight – International UK National Access to UKLight Project facilities at ULCC

3. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting The lure of the lambda e-science: huge end-to-end data flows Will this be possible with IP networks? UKLight project: End-to-end Gbps bandwidth Ultimate goal: application-controlled switching of WDM wavelengths First steps: electrical multiplexing applications proof-of-concept Early adoptors Particle Physics - high performance data transfer Radio Astronomy - very long baseline interferometry (near-real-time data transfer) Distributed HPC & visualization

4. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting The birth of UKLight International activities StarLight – evolved from Startap Joined by NetherLight ‘Lambda’ workshops – Sept 01, 02, 03, 04-UK TERENA Initiative attempted with Flag Telecom during 2002 Interest within Grid Network team – UK e-Science programme UK activities have evolved from these over last 2 + years Internal meetings and papers during 2002 UKLight bid to JCSR – Nov 2002 Funding approved March / April 2003 Mid 2004, first bandwidth channels established

5. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting What is UKLight Facility to provide national & international ‘bandwidth channels’ for use by research & e- Science projects Cross-discipline initiative JANET community Network research E-Science applications Optical (photonic) communications research UKERNA – manage and develop JANET Supporting the community Advanced service-network development

6. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting UK Access Network NetherLight Amsterdam 10Gb StarLight Chicargo 10Gb UKLight London Lancaster University GlasgowEdinburgh Leeds Manchester LondonReading PortsmouthBristol Cambridge University 2.5Gb Manchester University London UKLight Leeds University RAL UKLight point-of-access and international facilities UKLight components UK national R&D network infrastructure

7. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting UKLight Components A UK national photonics facility/infrastructure - TBC Essex Cambridge UCL Aston Southampton International UKLight DF Wavelength routed test-bed Optical packet core router and edge interfaces 160 Gb/sec OTDM facility 4x160 Gb/sec OTDM test-bed Recirculating loop Raman amplifiers BT Labs CIP (Centre of Integrated Photonics) Agile WDM channel generation (< 10 ns) Optical regenerators (10 & 40 Gb/s) DWDM Wavelength Routers WDM test beds for 10, 40, 160 Gb/s Optical regeneration OCDMA test bed Ultrafast links and switches for OTDM routing Low cost links for 40 Gb/s Quantum dot based switches, amplifiers and routers for ultrabroadband WDM operation

8. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting Funding Source Funding – SRIF - £6.5M total From HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) Via JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Sub-committee for Support of research (JCSR)

9. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting What does the funding provide? International Point of Access Circuits, equipment, housing, NMS, staff UK Access and photonics infrastructure Equipment, housing…

10. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting UKLight Governance Steering Committee (SC) – JISC established covers policy and funding issues Hugh Pilcher-Clayton (EPSRC) will chair International representatives Bill St Arnaud (Canarie) and David Williams (CERN/TERENA) Community representation Peter Clarke (UCL), Dave Deroure (Southampton), Brian Gilmour (Edinburgh), David Hutchison (Lancaster), Guy Rickett (PPARC), David Salmon (UKERNA), Lesley Thompson (EPSRC) Plus JISC & UKERNA attendees

11. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting UKLight Governance Technical Advisory Group (TAG) – UKERNA established operations and project-feasibility assessment David Hutchison (Lancaster University) will chair Community representation Tim Chown (Southampton), Lionel Sacks UCL), Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex), Ian White (Cambridge) John Graham (ULCC) – UKLight engineer David Salmon (UKERNA)

12. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting Use by projects Projects expected to be funded by Research Council or other programmes Central funding covers equipment interface at backbone edge Projects discuss options with UKLight project manager & submit written connection proposal UKLight TAG will assess feasibility & provide a report Use as part of research proposal Existing projects can also make a case to connect Will need endorsement by original funding programme In some cases may need to consult the UKLight steering committee

13. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting Future Expansion Build to meet requirements of approved projects Phase 3 – still speculative Remaining budget would allow equipping access to about half of the Regional Networks) JISC/Research Council call for expressions of interest to connect to UKLight issued Steering Committee will prioritise responses Commit funds during 2004 Use budget to give projects working time during 2005 Beyond this leads into SuperJANET5 ! Incorporate these concepts from ground up Flexible transmission platform Fibre / wavelength service based

14. 9 th September 2004UKLight Town Meeting Overview of SuperJANET5 architecture requirements Flexible transmission platform IP production network Special purpose bandwidth Test – bed(s) Commoditye-Science Network R&D Service Dev. Test – bed(s) Requirements to be served Teaching & Learning

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