1. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Seite 1 Cross Border Fibre for LHC Network Klaus Ullmann, Martin Wilhelm DFN-Verein

2. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Seite 2 General design LCG network in Europe T1-T0 primary connection for „GN2 fibre cloud NRENs“ through Geant2 T1 secondary connection (T1-T1) on separate fibre paths through cross border fibre (cbf) Secondary connections provide additio- nal resilience

3. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Seite 3 LCG T0 – T1 Optical Private Network source: Roberto Sabatino DANTE CERN T0 IN2P3 PIC CNAF RAL GRIDKa Nordugrid TRIUMF ASCC SARA BNL FNAL DK UK NL DE IT ES FR GEANT2

4. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate X-WiN cross-border fibre 06/06 FFO KIE HUB ADH EWE GIE GAR ERL BAY MUE FZJ AAC BIR HAM DES POT TUB FZK GSI DUI BRE HAN BRA MAG BIE FRA HEI STU REG DRE CHE ZIB ILM ROS LEI JEN ESF AWI GOE KAS MAR GRE WUE AUG SAA KEH CBF DFN PoP Dark fibre Wavelength Surfnet PSNC Switch/GARR Renater

5. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Seite 5 Realisation With DE at one end, the following CDF- links are to be provided to LHC: NL - DE FR - DE IT - DE PL - DE (for T2 - T1 connection)

6. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Seite 6 Status of Realisation NL-DE CB-Fibre Enschede / Muenster built SurfNet DWDM (Nortel) in Muenster installed, transponder glitches to be fixed next week, then patched to DFN DFN DWDM (Huawei) in Muenster operational, 10 GE WL to GridKa up

7. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Seite 7 Status of Realisation IT-DE GARR fibre Milano - Manno operational, DWDM equipment operational Path Manno - Basle (provided by SWITCH) up and operational DFN fibre Kehl - Basle operational, DWDM equipment up and operational Currently E2E tests Karlsruhe - Milano / Bologna (looks very promising :-))

8. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Seite 8 Status of Realisation FR-DE RENATER fibres Paris-Nancy-Strasbourg in operation Fibre Strasbourg - Kehl (DE) in place Local fibre loop in Kehl to be built in August RENATER DWDM equipment in Kehl avail. in September DFN DWDM equipment operational Arrangement IN2P3-GridKa open

9. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Seite 9 Status of Realisation PL-DE PSNC fibre Poznan-Slubice operational, DWDM equipment to be installed next week Fibre Frankfurt/O - Slubice in place DFN PoP in Frankfurt/O operational 10 GE WL between Frankfurt/O and Frankfurt/M (to DANTE PoP) avail on 26 June

10. Connect. Communicate. Collaborate Seite 10 Questions ? ? ??? ??