1. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Regional Networking Australia and the Pacific Region George McLaughlin Director, International Developments

2. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Work in Progress AARNet is currently designing a new network for Australian and International deployment in January 2004 Design largely complete Commercial negotiations still in progress Deployment yet to come

3. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd AARNet 3 Basic Design 1 Robust Production Quality Dual unprotected links from Brisbane to Perth (2 x 2.5Gbps) Dual unprotected links from Sydney to US West Coast (via Hawaii) – 2 x 622Mbps and 2 x 10Gbps Dual Points of Presence in each Australian capital city along path Dual R&E PoPs in US as well as Hawaii, Dual International commodity PoPs in US Initially a commodity link from Perth (Western Australia) to Singapore Next phase to consider commodity and R&E links from Sydney to Tokyo and possibly a dedicated link to Singapore Option to include New Zealand Future possibilities for Fiji, Indonesia and Guam

4. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd © AARNet Pty Ltd 2003 Australia’s Research and Education Networks AARNet3 GrangeNet CeNTIE AARNet/Powerlink North Queensland Network AARNet/TrandGrid NSW Network

5. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd AARNet 3 Basic Design 2 Using MPLS Fast Failover for “protection” Burst capacity 2x “protected” link capacity Supports IPv4 and IPv6 (unicast & multicast) Supports QoS (diffserv) Uses MPLS-TE to minimise latency for Voice/Video over IP (and potentially other real time applications) Customers connect via Gigabit Ethernet

6. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Services Basic transport of IP packets Customers use precedence tagging on a packet to change QoS, both premium (up) and scavenger (down) Premium service used primarily for Voice/Video over IP applications, e.g. VoIP & video conferencing Voice implemented like an extended PABX AARNet provides MCU(s) to support of Video over IP Rapid growth in deployment of Access Grids nodes

7. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Grid Services Advanced Communications Services Specialised, Regional and International Networks User Communities Backbone Network Health Bio- informatics Earth and Environmental Sciences etc Feeder Networks etc Education Internet2 Canarie APAN Feeder Networks Next Generation Network/GRID Structures User Communities of Interest

8. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd AARNET’s current and planned Pacific Rim links Fiji Mauna Kea

9. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Au-Hawaii-US West Coast 10Gbps wavelength – north path AARNet Sydney PoP1 to Alexandria (Sydney) Alexandria to Kahe Point (Oahu) - SCCN circuit 1 –backhaul to University of Hawaii (Manoa) –possible drop at Fiji Kahe Point to Hillsboro (Oregon) - SCCN circuit 2 –interconnect to Pacific Lambda Rail at Portland then to Pacific Wave (north) and Sunnyvale or LALALAN (south) from Pacific Wave and LALALAN to west coast national and international peers, Abilene and CANet4 from Abilene and CANet4 to other international and regional networks

10. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Au-Hawaii-US West Coast 10Gbps wavelength – south path Sunnyvale or LALALAN to San Louis Obispo (SLO) SLO to Alexandria (Sydney) - SCCN circuit 3 – possible drop at Hawaii’s big Island (telescopes) – possible drop at New Zealand Alexandria to AARNet’s Sydney PoP2 From either of AARNet’s Sydney PoPs to AARNet3, GrangeNet, CeNTIE Later from AARNet’s Sydney PoPs to Tokyo (APAN NE Cluster) and form AARNet’s Perth PoPs to Singapore (APAN SE Cluster)

11. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd AARNET’s international connections Fiji Mauna Kea

12. © Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd www.aarnet.edu.au