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National LambdaRail A Fiber-based Research Infrastructure John Silvester NL R light the future Vice-Provost for Scholarly Technology University of Southern California Chair of the CENIC Board NLR Board Member Terena Networking Conference TNC 2004 Rhodes, Greece June 08th, 2004 Two Drivers for NLR I need more bandwidth for research! – High-end science needs Terabits – Predictable quality interconnect – Immersive presence and the “bit rate of reality, 40Gbps” Tom Holman (USC) I need a breakable network for research! – New protocols – New devices – New architectures 2 NLR - Origins CENIC (Corporation for Network Initiatives in California) built out a multi-wavelength network based on leased dark fiber (CalREN – www.cenic.org ) – to support multiple networks (commodity, high performance research, experimental) – to take advantage of depressed market Market opportunity could be extended to National footprint Nationwide interest in availability of a large scale network to allow for support of high end scientific applications, network research and experimentation CISCO interest in a large scale lab for network researchers 3 NLR Infrastructure Not a single network but a set of facilities, capabilities and services to build both experimental and production networks at various layers, allowing members to acquire dedicated (project specific) facilities or shared (community specific) facilities as appropriate. Most of the focus so far has been on the massive production DWDM network build out but that would change soon to focus on building the experimental networks 4 NLR – Basic Structure Dark Fiber National footprint Serves network research and very high-end experimental and research applications 4 - 10GB Wavelengths initially Capable of 40 10Gb wavelengths at build-out 5 NLR – Financial Structure Non-profit corporation Cover costs over a 5 year window Participation requires 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) 6 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) 7 Production DWDM Network 1st pair Fiber Optical packet switching architecture Experimental L1-3 Networks Production Switched Ethernet ETF distributed backplane Production Routed IP Network Production L23 Networks Prod. L3 Networks XCP reference implementation Exp. L3 Networks Experimental L2-3 Networks Deterministic UltraLight access New routing protocols Infrastructure AUP-free Internet service Internet BGP visibility Use Examples NLR - Potential Use Examples Additional Fiber Pairs 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 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 lambdas Lit with Cisco gear Initial deployment is 4 10 Gig wavelengths – – – – One 10 Gig layer three One 81Gig layer two One dedicated to Internet2 HOPI One hot spare 9 NLR – Optical Infrastructure - Phase 1 Seattle Portland Boise Sunnyvale Chicago Ogden Denver Clev Pitts KC Wash DC Raleigh LA San Diego NLR Route Atlanta Jacksonville NLR MetaPOP NLR Regen or OADM 10 Seattle NLR Phase 1 - Installation Schedule Will Complete Aug 2004 Chicago Boise Portland Ogden Cleveland Denver Kansas StarLight Pitts Sunnyvale Wash DC 15808 Terminal Los Angeles 15808 Regen (or Terminal) Raleigh 15808 OADM 15454 Terminal 15808 LH System San Diego 15808 ELH System Atlanta 15454 Metro System CENIC 15808 LH System Jacksonville NLR Phase 2 – the Southern Route Seattle Clev Chicago Denver Sunnyvale Pitts New York KC Wash DC Raleigh LA Phoenix Albuq. Tulsa San Diego Atlanta Dallas AT&T LEVEL 3 QWEST WILTEL Jacksonville El Paso Las Cruces Pensacola San Ant. Houston Baton Rouge 12 NLR- Business Plan What are the services? – Lambdas – GigE channels (1G, 10G) How to price additional lambdas? For members and non-members. How to handle short term usage of resources? What about international collaborations? 13 Current Inquiries For dedicated waves For long term GE services For long tem 10 GE services For short term waves and channels 14 How does NLR fit with Internet2? Internet2 and NLR are at heart the same community, many of the same faces, same core goals Internet2 is an NLR founding member ($10M) Key distinction is that NLR has OWNED infrastructure to enable MULTIPLE networks and national research projects. Hybrid Optical & Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) – Abilene backbone & NLR lambdas 15 NLR - Summary Interesting new R&E owned US National Fiber Infrastructure Parts are now operational at 4 10GE Phase one to be completed by end of summer Distribution to campuses a challenge – but many regional projects are underway May still be a challenge as to how to distribute on campus Most interesting is how the demand will grow – check back next year!! 16 For More Information NLR: www.nlr.net Speaker: [email protected] Acknowledgements NL R light the future Robert J. Aiken Javad Boroumand Steve Corbato Debbie Montano Tom West