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International Interconnect Options in the USA

International Interconnect Options in the USA. John Silvester silvester@usc.edu Vice-Provost for Scholarly Technology, USC Chair, CENIC Board Member, NLR. Canada. Europe. Asia. Australia. Mexico. S. America. International R&E Networks connecting to US.

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International Interconnect Options in the USA

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  1. International Interconnect Options in the USA John Silvester silvester@usc.edu Vice-Provost for Scholarly Technology, USC Chair, CENIC Board Member, NLR

  2. Canada Europe Asia Australia Mexico S. America International R&E Networks connecting to US

  3. International Links to US – some issues • Fairly Complex picture! • How to link up with US networks? • How interconnect between other networks in N/S America? • Current interest in dedicated waves and reconfigurable waves (GLIF, Lambdagrid, etc) – how to participate? • NationalLambda Rail project provides new options

  4. NLR – Financial Structure • Non-profit corporation • Cover costs over a 5 year window • Owned by R&E community - participation based on a commitment of $5M (US) over 5 years • Initial build is a sparse network with 4 wavelengths lit • Ability to add wavelengths (up to 40) at incremental cost • NLR supports Production and Experimental (breakable) infrastructures at each layer (1,2, and 3)

  5. Current NLR Participants • Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) • Pacific Northwest GigaPOP (PNWGP) • Carnegie Mellon-Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center • Duke (representing a coalition of North Carolina universities) • Mid-Atlantic Terascale Partnership • Cisco Systems • Internet2 • Florida LambdaRail • Georgia Institute of Technology • Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) • Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Lone Star Education and Research Network (LEARN) - Texas • Cornell University – New York • Louisiana Board of Regents • University of New Mexico • ONENet (Oklahoma) • Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)

  6. NLR - Potential Use Examples Adapted from: Network and computing research infrastructure: back to the future, Robert J. Aiken, Javad Boroumand, Stephen Wolff, Communications of the ACM,Volume 47, Number 1 (2004), Pages 93-98

  7. Architecture and Initial Configuration • Obtained fiber (initial build from Level 3, second stage includes other providers) – 20 year IRU’s • Base NLR lambdas operated at 10 Gbps -- up to 40/32 lambdas • Lit with Cisco gear • Initial deployment is 4 10 Gig wavelengths • One 10 Gig layer three • One 81 Gig layer two • One dedicated to Internet2 HOPI • One hot spare

  8. Seattle Portland Boise Chicago Clev Pitts Denver KC Ogden Wash DC Raleigh LA San Diego Atlanta NLR Route Jacksonville NLR MetaPOP NLR Regen or OADM NLR – Optical Infrastructure - Phase 1 Sunnyvale

  9. Seattle NLR Phase 1 - Installation Schedule Will Complete Aug 2004 Chicago Boise Complete August Portland Ogden Cleveland June May Denver StarLight Kansas Pitts Complete Sunnyvale Wash DC 15808 Terminal 15808 Regen (or Terminal) May Raleigh Los Angeles 15808 OADM Complete 15454 Terminal 15808 LH System Atlanta San Diego 15808 ELH System 15454 Metro System July CENIC 15808 LH System Jacksonville

  10. Seattle Clev Chicago New York Pitts Denver Sunnyvale KC Wash DC Raleigh Tulsa LA Albuq. Phoenix San Diego Atlanta Dallas Jacksonville El Paso - Las Cruces Pensacola Baton Rouge Houston San Ant. NLR Phase 2 – the Southern Route DRAFT

  11. ‘Abilene’ backbone

  12. Abilene / NLR Overlay

  13. Features • Abilene • 10G IP Backbone • “Production” high performance advanced network • NLR • Dedicated Waves • 10 x 1GE channels • (10G IP Backbone – details of use not yet determined) • HOPI – Hybrid Optical Packet (Internet2) • Focus on Experimental and Research Use • AUP free

  14. Possibilities to consider • US shares land borders with CANDA and MEXICO • Rest of connections are submarine (or satellite) • Important to look at landing points for fiber (east and west coasts). • Typically expensive to backhaul from coasts to Chicago (say) using commercial providers – NLR provides another low cost alternative • Build exchange POPS close to landing points – or provide a shared fiber backhaul to an exchange

  15. Related Developments - Pacific Wave • Takes advantage of NLR to connect the two exchanges point in Seattle and Los Angeles • Link (10G) is now up • Exchange to come into operation later this summer • Extension to Sunnyvale (and into other US research nets) soon. • Link to Chicago also likely soon to allow additional inter-exchange options. • CENIC is considering developing an exchange POP in San Luis Obispo (near Los Osos cable landing) with a CalREN link to LA exchange point.

  16. Related Developments - IEEAF • The links donated by TYCO to IEEAF and made available to the R&E community have similar use model to NLR waves. • Both trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific links are now operational. (recent event at Interop in Japan)

  17. Final Comments • New exchange and interconnect options taking advantage of NLR facilities • GLIF, Lightpaths, Lambdagrids are providing new opportunities in support of data and compute intensive science. • Availability of reconfigurable waves allows this to move forward. Contact Points National LambdaRail – www.nlr.net Tom West (CEO) – twest@nlr.net John Silvester – silvester@usc.edu

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