1. How the Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) serves UCAR and the NWSC John Hernandez Network Engineer IV NCAR/CISL Network Engineering & Telecommunications Section

2. Overview Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) Partnership UCAR’s footprint on BiSON What BiSON does for us Work in Progress My other projects at NCAR Questions?

3. BiSON Partnership Current partners are NCAR, NOAA-Boulder, CU- Boulder, University of Wyoming and Colorado State University Original fiber network connected Boulder, Denver, Laramie, Fort Collins and Longmont in a ring. Cheyenne build incorporated the NWSC in 2011 Adva is our vendor for Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) equipment Capacity of 80 x 10G channels in 2010, support for 100G circuits

5. UCAR’s BiSON Footprint 60 Gb/s - Boulder campuses 50Gb/s - NWSC 50 Gb/s - Denver 40 Gb/s - Front Range GigaPoP 10 Gb/s - XSEDE

6. BiSON facilitates… Movement of large data sets between Boulder and NWSC Scientific collaboration within the CO-WY area Dissemination of data to peer institutions, nationwide and abroad Access to National Research and Education Networks and shared, XSEDE, high capacity, commodity Internet connections

7. Work in Progress… Linear expansion Denver to Golden for Colorado School of Mines Technology refresh Some components end-of-support in 2015 Additional circuits for partners Leasing new / replacement fiber paths Relocation of existing path between Ft Collins and Laramie

8. What else I do at NCAR Security & engineering services for UCAR-Net Engineering services for the GigaPoP network in Denver Wireless point-to-point links in the Front Range Maintain network statistics Operate a Nagios monitoring environment for our networks

9. Thanks and Q & A Thank you Questions?