1. HiSeasNet Focus Group Meeting Steve Foley Scripps Institution of Oceanography Steve Foley Scripps Institution of Oceanography November 17, 2009 Seattle, WA

2. This Morning  Quick intro and Highlights run-down  Open format  Open, informal discussion  I have some suggested topics  Toss out your own  Open discussion?  Show-and-tell  Tech-to-tech chatter of stuff that works or doesn’t  Open forum  Q&A with me or each other?  Demos of web/other stuff?  Small group/break-out discussion?  Adjourn to somewhere even less formal?  Quick intro and Highlights run-down  Open format  Open, informal discussion  I have some suggested topics  Toss out your own  Open discussion?  Show-and-tell  Tech-to-tech chatter of stuff that works or doesn’t  Open forum  Q&A with me or each other?  Demos of web/other stuff?  Small group/break-out discussion?  Adjourn to somewhere even less formal?

3. 2009 Changes & Highlights  Fewer AOR slots, more POR slots…for now  POR has 6 slots with 256kbps, 5 slots in 2010  AOR has 3 slots with 128kbps, 4 slots in 2010?  Wiki up and running still well  FAQs, frequencies, calendar, resources, maintenance reports, etc.  More community input would be better  Come get an account if you want one  Training class run at SIO in August  Do we need another?  Accelerators tested on 2 ships in 2009, fleet purchase made for 2009/2010 install  Atlantic Explorer online with iSCPC connection  Fewer AOR slots, more POR slots…for now  POR has 6 slots with 256kbps, 5 slots in 2010  AOR has 3 slots with 128kbps, 4 slots in 2010?  Wiki up and running still well  FAQs, frequencies, calendar, resources, maintenance reports, etc.  More community input would be better  Come get an account if you want one  Training class run at SIO in August  Do we need another?  Accelerators tested on 2 ships in 2009, fleet purchase made for 2009/2010 install  Atlantic Explorer online with iSCPC connection

4. Accelerators  Features include:  Protocol tuning for long-fat pipes  Compression and caching of packets (TCP & UDP)  Better bandwidth control at higher layers (min/max/etc)  Auto fragmentation (better VoIP?)  Why bother?  More ongoing effective bandwidth for 1-time cost  ~20% shore-to-ship, 65%+ ship-to-shore  Great for streaming uncompressed data to shore (Real-time!)  Expand 4830 and 4930 units in use  4830s have no disk, are for C-band ships  4930s have disk for web proxy, are for Ku-band ships  Shipped to home institution, install info on the wiki  Rolling install…plug it in, Steve will light it up at some point  Configuration maintained on shore  Tuning process is a bit touchy  Requires feedback from the ship  Get out what you put in  No acceleration on compressed or encrypted data  Features include:  Protocol tuning for long-fat pipes  Compression and caching of packets (TCP & UDP)  Better bandwidth control at higher layers (min/max/etc)  Auto fragmentation (better VoIP?)  Why bother?  More ongoing effective bandwidth for 1-time cost  ~20% shore-to-ship, 65%+ ship-to-shore  Great for streaming uncompressed data to shore (Real-time!)  Expand 4830 and 4930 units in use  4830s have no disk, are for C-band ships  4930s have disk for web proxy, are for Ku-band ships  Shipped to home institution, install info on the wiki  Rolling install…plug it in, Steve will light it up at some point  Configuration maintained on shore  Tuning process is a bit touchy  Requires feedback from the ship  Get out what you put in  No acceleration on compressed or encrypted data

5. Connecting without tunnels  Pros:  No tunnel equipment on shore required  No extra hop or failure point on shore  No need to get Campus IT involved during setup or troubleshooting  May present like other connection types  Flexibility for MobileIP, VPN to campus, non-HSN footprint migration  Cons:  Performance overhead of tunnel/VPN across satellite  Not part of campus network  Pros:  No tunnel equipment on shore required  No extra hop or failure point on shore  No need to get Campus IT involved during setup or troubleshooting  May present like other connection types  Flexibility for MobileIP, VPN to campus, non-HSN footprint migration  Cons:  Performance overhead of tunnel/VPN across satellite  Not part of campus network

6. More Potential Topics  Accelerators  Installation, use, policies, tuning process, etc.  Wider coverage areas  GE-23, Med, IOR, Alaska, split Ku into AOR/POR?  Wiki demo/discussion  Tracking issues and DAC/Comtech cable  HSN-wide parent web proxy  Elective, could provide shared caching, antivirus/ad filtering, blacklisting, ToS tagging for various URLs/TLDs  Security/firewalls/DoS – Need support from HiSeasNet?  Routing  Tunnel alternatives?  MobileIP, VPNs, etc.  Bandwidth  Upgrades, shared vs. separate  Training  Feedback…did it work in the long term? Do we need more?  Policies  What are they? How to enforce them? Should they be the same?  Services offered on ships (IM, web, mail, Skype, streamed data, etc)  Who is running what? How does it work? What does Science expect now?  Random feedback / discussion / experiences  Accelerators  Installation, use, policies, tuning process, etc.  Wider coverage areas  GE-23, Med, IOR, Alaska, split Ku into AOR/POR?  Wiki demo/discussion  Tracking issues and DAC/Comtech cable  HSN-wide parent web proxy  Elective, could provide shared caching, antivirus/ad filtering, blacklisting, ToS tagging for various URLs/TLDs  Security/firewalls/DoS – Need support from HiSeasNet?  Routing  Tunnel alternatives?  MobileIP, VPNs, etc.  Bandwidth  Upgrades, shared vs. separate  Training  Feedback…did it work in the long term? Do we need more?  Policies  What are they? How to enforce them? Should they be the same?  Services offered on ships (IM, web, mail, Skype, streamed data, etc)  Who is running what? How does it work? What does Science expect now?  Random feedback / discussion / experiences

7. GE-23 Satellite  Wider beam is weaker and requires larger 1.5m antenna  No earth station capabilities right now  Strange satellite, needs some hardware changes to shipboard antennas ($2k?)  Availability may be reduced now due to KVH use of satellite  Low look angle in port and coastal waters

8. Galaxy-18 Satellite  Used quite successfully on Pt Sur (1m dish) in Gulf of Alaska in 2009  No HiSeasNet earth station capabilities right now, would need additional Ku antenna at earth station

9. Telstar 11N  No HSN earth station capabilities  Sketchy in port and near shore  No HSN earth station capabilities  Sketchy in port and near shore

10. AMC 6  Availability unknown  Would require another antenna on shore  Look angle gets sketchy at the edge  Availability unknown  Would require another antenna on shore  Look angle gets sketchy at the edge

11. DAC/Modem Cable  Starting some testing with this, but havent been able to get it to work as advertised  Schematic in manuals and on wiki

12. HiSeasNet Fleet  C-Band (2.4m dish, Global coverage)  Atlantis  Kilo Moana  Knorr  Melville  Revelle  Seward Johnson  Thompson  Langseth  C-Band (2.4m dish, Global coverage)  Atlantis  Kilo Moana  Knorr  Melville  Revelle  Seward Johnson  Thompson  Langseth  Ku-Band (North America coastal coverage)  Endeavor (1.2m)  New Horizon (1.2m)  Oceanus (1.5m)  Pelican (1m)  Point Sur (1m)  Walton Smith (1m)  Wecoma (1.5m)  Ku-band iSCPC  Atlantic Explorer (1.5m)

13. Pacific C-band Coverage

14. Atlantic/Eastern Pacific C-band

15. Indian Ocean C-band

16. Ku-Band Coverage (SatMex5)  Beam 1  R/V New Horizon  R/V Point Sur  R/V Wecoma  Beam 1  R/V New Horizon  R/V Point Sur  R/V Wecoma  Beam 2  R/V Endeavor  R/V Oceanus  R/V Pelican  R/V Walton Smith  Beam 2  R/V Endeavor  R/V Oceanus  R/V Pelican  R/V Walton Smith

17. DAC Remote Panel  SeaTel has released DacRemotePanel  Runs under Windows across a serial or IP connection to an antenna controller  Provides extra diagnostic plots, debug data dumps, and visibility into the pedestal control unit.  Officially unsupported, but seems to work well  An upgrade to PCDAC (but it doesn’t have the antenna/ship diagram)  SeaTel has released DacRemotePanel  Runs under Windows across a serial or IP connection to an antenna controller  Provides extra diagnostic plots, debug data dumps, and visibility into the pedestal control unit.  Officially unsupported, but seems to work well  An upgrade to PCDAC (but it doesn’t have the antenna/ship diagram)

18. Typical Ship Network Setup

19. High Level Network View