1. STAR TAP, Euro-Link, and StarLight Tom DeFanti April 8, 2003

2. STAR TAP, Euro-Link and StarLight STAR TAP supports the connections to the SBC/Ameritech NAP, including the OC-12 to StarLight. NSF funding started on May 1, 1997 and ends on April 30, 2004. Euro-Link supported the co-payments of circuits to Europe and Israel starting 1999; CERN added in 2000. Israel dropped 2002. NSF funding continues one more year with a new supplement to establish a StarLight to GÉANT link. StarLight supports the connections and infrastructure research activities focused at 710 North Lake Shore Drive. It is an NSF STI grant, funded until October 31, 2005.

3. A Brief History of STAR TAP STAR TAP started in 1997 at the Ameritech NAP –Canada, Singapore and Taiwan first DS-3s (1997) –vBNS, vBNS+, Abilene, DREN, NREN, ESnet, MREN –HPIIS awards (1998/99-2003/4) TransPAC/APAN Euro-Link: Netherlands, Nordic, France, Israel, CERN MIRnet/Russia (now NaukaNet) –Korea, Ireland, GEMnet (Japan), China, Hong Kong –Many others via Abilene international Transit Network –Several networks have now moved to StarLight –OC-12 provided between STAR TAP and StarLight NSF support will end in one year (April 2004) but services may be continued by NU and SBC www.startap.net/NETWORKS/

4. A Brief History of HPIIS/Euro-Link Euro-Link in 1999 co-funded DS-3s from STAR TAP to France, Israel, Netherlands and Nordic countries, CERN added in 2000 –Netherlands now at OC-192+ GÉANT –CERN/DataTAG at OC-48+OC-12 –Nordic at OC-3+ GÉANT –France at OC-3+ GÉANT –Israel now uses only GÉANT 4 years of constant NSF funding helped bandwidth to increased from 4-200x 1-year supplement will fund 5Gb link to GÉANT and co-fund 10Gb DataTAG link to CERN

5. StarLight: A 1GigE and 10GigE Exchange Abbott Hall, Northwestern University’s Chicago downtown campus Operational since summer 2001, StarLight is a 1GigE and 10GigE switch/router facility for high- performance access to participating networks. StarLight is becoming a true optical switching facility for wavelengths. www.startap.net/starlight/NETWORKS/

6. StarLight is Working to be Everyone’s Other End International, National, Midwest Regional, Chicago Metro As a Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet exchange for R&E Production Networks As a GigE lambda exchange for the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America for Experimental Networks Supporting 10Gb MEMS-switched Research Networks As the Chicago host to the NSF DTFnet, a 4x10Gb Network for the TeraGrid and DTF/ETF links to Abilene and others to be added. As a colo space: 66 racks for networking and computing, data management and visualization support equipment Using fiber and circuits installed by SBC, Qwest, AT&T, Global Crossing, T-Systems, Looking Glass, and I-WIRE

7. StarLight National and International Networks as of April 1, 2003 Abilene 10Gb ESnet and 6TAP (DOE) DREN (DOD)-installation in progress NREN (NASA) AMPATH (South America) CA*net4 (Canada) SURFnet (Netherlands) NORDUnet (Nordic) CERN/DataTAG TransPAC/APAN (Asia) NaukaNET (Russia) ASnet (Taiwan) Others via STAR TAP OC-12 and Abilene transit See http://loadrunner.uits.iu.edu/mrtg-monitors/starlight/ for statistics on usagehttp://loadrunner.uits.iu.edu/mrtg-monitors/starlight/

8. Thanks! Euro-Link/StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from: –National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-9802090, EIA-9871058, ANI-0225642, and EIA-0115809 –NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to NCSA –NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) cooperative agreement (ANI-0225642) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for "The OptIPuter" –State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing –Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management NSF/CISE/ANIR and DoE/Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and planning leadership NSF/CISE/ACIR and NCSA/ANL/Caltech/SDSC/PSC for DTF/TeraGrid/ETF opportunities UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and ITN transit; IU for the GlobalNOC CA*net4, CENIC/Pacific Light Wave/NLR for planned North American transport Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers and Cees de Laat of SURFnet, Olivier Martin of CERN, and Harvey Newman of CalTech for networking leadership