Delivering Advanced Connectivity to Ireland’s IoTs

Owen Byrne 09/11/06

• Project Background • Current Status – Connectivity – Service delivery • Implementation – Network build – Design – Technologies used • Pilot phase oriented

Outline

Some Background:

• Initial ITnet Services Scoping task • Decision to commence as a “pilot” project • 3 pilot sites chosen: – Waterford IT – Limerick IT – Blanchardstown IT • 3 primary services chosen: – General IP transit – Connectivity to An Cheim – Commodity IP transit

Integration Project Team

Implementation Team Project Manager Martin McCarrick Brian Boyle Owen Byrne John Boland Steering Committee HEA DES Council of Directors IUA (CHIU) DIT Mary Kerr Ian McKenna Brendan Murphy, Tim Creedon Michael Nowlan, Brendan Tolan David Scott

Current Status (Connectivity)

• Dark fibre connections to WIT, LIT, ITB currently in production • Dark fibre connections to LYIT, Sligo IT, DKIT GMIT, Cork IT and An Cheim now complete • Circuit rollout for remaining sites currently underway (RFT process) • Backbone regional PoP installed in WIT • Backbone regional PoP scheduled for install in DKIT next week • Further dark fibre quotations to eGov are being evaluated (Commodity IP)

Current Status (Services)

• General IP transit for ITB, WIT, LIT has been migrated (each at 260Mbps) • Technical solution for An Cheim fully tested; now awaiting approval for cutover – Now a total of 3 service providers – Failover scenarios simulated in lab • Some outstanding negotiations still required regarding Commodity IP transit link

Implementation

• Use of regional Government MANs reached via NBE (dark fibre) • Network design in access network (last mile) • Use of CWDM for multiple wavelengths • New Points of Presence • Equipment used on NBE & regional network

Access Network (Government MANs)

• Previously, regional dark fibre was a scarcity

Limerick Core Ring

Limerick Access Ring

Network Design (Limerick)

Templates · · · Limerick Regional λ Planning 1470nm is used to provide a 1 Gbit/s resilient link between Site LIT and UL 1490nm is used to provide a 1 Gbit/s (TBC) resilient link between UL and Outreach Centre 10G resilient link between UL and ESB Telecoms aggregating n * 1Gbit/s from Access Ring (n<=8) mux/demux 1470nm 1470nm 1490nm 1510nm 1510nm 1530nm 1530nm 1550nm 1550nm 1570nm 1570nm 1590nm 1590nm 1610nm 1610nm mux/demux MAN Ring (n * 1Gbit/s) Outreach Centre (LEDP, Roxboro): Fibres 1&2 ---> UL Fibres 3&4 ---> LIT UL (Block A, Comms Room) Fibres 3A&4A ---> LIT Fibres 3B&4B ---> Outreach Centre LIT (Primary Comms Room) Fibres 5&6 --->Outreach Centre Fibres 1&2 --->UL Regional E-net ODF 3,4 A to LIT 3,4 B to Outreach mux/demux mux/demux 1Gig TX 3750 Stack 10G Cisco 7606 University of Limerick Core Ring (10G) E-net ODF 5,6 to Outreach 1,2 to UL 1470nm 3750 Switch Limerick Institute of Technology E-net ODF 3,4 to LIT 1,2 to UL 1490nm 3750 Switch UL Outreach Centre (LEDP) Adva FSP National ESBT PoP National Backbone (10G)

Wavelength Division

Multiplexing lambdas

Multiplexing

Different light frequencies (colours) over a single fibre path Separating lambdas Ethernet transmitters Ethernet receivers • CWDM in access network (1470nm – 1610nm. 8 x channels, modulated at 1Gbit/s) • DWDM in backbone. Each channel capable of 10Gbit/s (1 channel initially)

Access Layer transmission

Backhaul Transmission (Adva)

TX/RX EDFA DCF OSC

Points of Presence

• Regional Layer 2 & Layer 3 PoP located in room A0-060 Main Building University of Limerick • Disaster recovery PoP located in Library comms room (@ intersection of access & core ring) • CPE located in LIT comms room 1A.05

– Patched through adjacent room 1A.06

• Backbone transmission PoPs located in ESBT substations, at Killonan and Drumline

Network Design (Waterford IT)

Templates Waterford Regional λ Planning It is planned to eventually provide a resilient connection to both Carriganore & College St. by forming a MAN ring. In the interim, coloured wavelengths will be used on both point-to-points in anticipation of this future work. mux/demux 1470nm 1470nm 1490nm 1490nm 1510nm 1510nm 1530nm 1530nm 1550nm 1550nm 1570nm 1570nm 1590nm 1590nm 1610nm 1610nm mux/demux Carriganore 3750 Switch 1470nm College St.

3750 Switch 1490nm Regional National 3750 Stack 10G Cisco 7606 Waterford PoP 1Gig SX Core Ring (10G) Adva FSP ESBT PoP National Backbone (10G)

New Waterford Points of Presence

• Layer 2 HEAnet PoP in Walton building (diverse entry points) • Disaster Recovery PoP at ABT building within nearby IDA park • Layer 1 backbone transmission PoP in ESBT Killoteran

Fibre Topology Waterford IT

Client Site List 1. WIT Cork Rd.

2. WIT Carriganore 3. WIT College St.

4. WIT Narco Building College St.

Carriganore (TSSG) ESBT PoP ABT Building (IDA) Walton Building

Orange is the E-Net provisioned SMF. Brown (dashed) is the new ESBT PoP to HEAnet PoP core ring.

Blue are other E-Net installed fibre links.

Waterford Core Ring

Blanchardstown IT

• Dark fibre point-to-point circuit to DCU PoP – Complimented by existing 10Mbps circuit • Substantial civil works complete at DCU after lengthy delays • General IP connectivity finally migrated on 26/10/06

Services Implementation

• Initial services migration: – Connectivity to An Cheim – General Internet connectivity – Commodity IP transit

Pilot Services (L2/L3 Design)

HEAnet & Itnet Integration Pilot Phase

obyrne_v3 (last modified 31/10/06) An Cheim Vlan Commodity IP Vlan IP transit Vlan Regional L2/L3 PoP Access Router

HEAnet IP Network

Head-end

HEAnet EoMPLS network

E-Gov Interconnect Packet Exchange

Internet

3750 Regional HEAnet PoP LSPs, “pseudowires” Citywest HEAnet PoP An Cheim Head-end CWDM Access ring 3750 Institute of Technology 3750 dot1q trunk hsrp 7206 Eircom hsrp Smart Head-end

Eircom SMART Telecom

An-cheim-7200 hsrp Eircom hsrp SMART 3560 3560

Internal An Cheim Lan

3560 3560

Internal IoT LAN

E-Gov Services/Commodity IP Transit

• Progress to date has been slow • Requires circuit to the e-Gov interconnect at 40-50 Citywest • Negotiations with eGov regarding most suitable interconnect point are ongoing – One possibility is INEX at DEG, and/or Telecity • Not just required for commodity IP, but also for rollout of e-Gov services

An Cheim

• Resilient dark fibre ring between HP hosting centre and HEAnet’s Citywest PoP is complete • Colocation contract signed with HP for 1 cabinet • Equipment and cabinet are installed • Cross connect to An Cheim row is in place • Layer 1,2,3 design & testing phase complete • Implementation restricted to11pm on Friday nights!

• Hope to shortly begin actual cutovers

General IP Migration (LIT)

• On 19/07/06 LIT’s IP connectivity was migrated to transit HEAnet directly

General IP Migration (WIT)

• On 27/07/06 WIT’s IP connectivity migrated to transit HEAnet network directly:

Improvement in Delay Variation

• Before: • After:

Circuit Delivery Timescale

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