1. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) GÉANT2 Otto Kreiter Network Engineering & Planning, DANTE

2. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) GÉANT Today Connecting 33 European countries and 29 NRENs Backbone capacities from 10Gb/s to 34Mb/s Backbone based on Juniper M-series routers

3. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) GÉANT Services Best Effort IPv4/IPv6 Multicast IPv4/IPv6 Premium IP Less than Best Effort IP MPLS L2-VPN Martini L2-circuits, Juniper CCC

4. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) GÉANT2 Service Aspirations Versatility to better facilitate E2E services Continue to provide quality IP transit services Tune existing IP service platform –Optimise platform –Enhance resilience Offer “Enhanced MBS” [or “lightpath” service] –“Wavelength” services for big users –Sub-wavelength services as well –Develop automated (“on demand”) provisioning and advance scheduling –Up to 10G Endeavour to be prepared to implement 40G services

5. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) GÉANT2 BIG Users CERN LHC 11 Tier1 sites »7 in Europe »4 outside Europe (US, Canada and Taiwan) EVN ( European VLBI Network) 15 sites »5 already connected MUPBET DEISA

6. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) GÉANT2 10G 2.5G NREN ANREN C primary backup primary backup DF DWDM OXC and/or L2 switch Nx10G NREN B NREN D LHC - CERN

7. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) Trans-Atlantic connectivity GÉANT 10G AMS – CHI (NSF) 2.5G LON - NYC 2.5G VIE – NYC 2.5G FRA – WASH GÉANT2 10G AMS – NYC (NSF) 10G LON – NYC (I2) Nx10G EU – US (GN2)

8. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) GÉANT 2 Connectivity and Equipment Procurement Connectivity: –a mix of DF and leased capacity, with a strong preference for DF where possible. Equipment: –a mix of DWDM and switching technology Both close to be concluded.

9. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) Service Scenarios Considered three P2P user services: –Full [or partial] rate GEth –Full [or partial] rate 10GEth –STM-n Considered three approaches for GÉANT2- NREN interconnection: –Physical GEth [+ VLANs] –Physical 10GEth [+ VLANs] –STM-16 or STM-64 [+ GFP/VCG]

10. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) Scenario 1: P2P GEth GÉANT Border GÉANT Border Interconnects: N x physical GEth GÉANT2 Physical GEth GEth (NREN transport) GEth (GÉANT2 transport) (GÉANT borders: physical GEth – physical GEth) NREN A NREN B

11. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) Scenario 2: P2P GEth GÉANT Border GÉANT Border Interconnect: N x physical GEth GÉANT2 (GÉANT borders: physical GEth – STM-16 or 64) Interconnect: N x STM-16 or 64 Eth/GFP/SDH Physical GEth GEth (NREN transport) GEth (GÉANT2 transport) NREN A NREN B

12. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) Scenario 3: P2P GEth GÉANT Border GÉANT Border Interconnect: N x physical GEth GÉANT2 (GÉANT borders: physical GEth – physical 10GEth) Interconnect: N x 10GEth VLAN/10GEth Physical GEth GEth (NREN transport) GEth (GÉANT2 transport) NREN A NREN B

13. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) Scenario 4: P2P GEth GÉANT Border GÉANT Border GÉANT2 (GÉANT borders: physical 10GEth – STM-16 or 64) Interconnect: N x 10GEth Interconnect: N x STM-16 or 64 VLAN/10GEth GEth (NREN transport) GEth (GÉANT2 transport) Eth/GFP/SDH NREN A NREN B

14. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) Scenario 5: P2P 10GEth GÉANT Border GÉANT Border GÉANT2 (GÉANT borders: physical 10GEth – physical 10GEth) Interconnects: N x 10GEth Physical 10GEth (LAN or WAN) 10GEth (NREN transport) 10GEth (GÉANT2 transport) NREN A NREN B

15. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) Scenario 6: P2P STM-n GÉANT Border GÉANT Border GÉANT2 SDH (GÉANT borders: STM-16/64 – STM-16/64) Interconnects: N x STM-16 or 64 NREN A NREN B

16. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) Conclusion -GÉANT2 is designed to meet the demands of emerging high BW applications. -It aims to support e2e, multi-domain MBS [“lightpath”] signalling and setup. -It is, in GLIF terms, a Distributed Open Optical Exchange and one of the most important contributors to GLIF.

17. 2005 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Tech Workshop, 15 th February 2005, Salt Lake City – Otto Kreiter (otto.kreiter@dante.org.uk) www.geant2.net Thank you !