Transcript NSF International Research Network Connections (IRNC) Program Kevin Thompson NSF CISE/SCI

NSF International Research Network
Connections (IRNC) Program
I2 Joint Techs Meetings
Kevin Thompson
NSF CISE/SCI
February 15, 2005
IRNC Solicitation
• 2004 Solicitation (NSF 04-560, see www.nsf.gov)
• “NSF expects to make a small number of awards to
provide network connections linking U.S. Research
networks with peer networks in other parts of the
world”
• “The availability of limited resources means that
preference will be given to solutions which provide
the best economy of scale and demonstrate the
ability to link the largest communities of interest
with the broadest services”
• Follow-on to “High-Performance International
Internet Services” (HPIIS) 1997
IRNC cont’d
• Program Funding - $5M per year
• Cooperative agreements for up to 5 years
• New themes applied to program
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In support of Production r&e traffic
Cohesive organization and architecture
“geographic sensibility”
“pay for what we need”
Measurement
Security
2005 IRNC Awards
• Pacific Rim
– #0441102 – “US-Russia-China GLORIAD…”
– #0441096 – “TransPAC2”
– #04XXXX – [one Award Not Yet Official ]
• Europe
– #0441094 “TransLight/StarLight”
• Latin America
– #0441095 “WHREN: Increasing the Rate of
Discovery and Enhancing Education across the
Americas”
Awards - Asia
• #0441102 – “US-Russia-China
GLORIAD: Global Ring Network for
Advanced Applications Development”
– PI Greg Cole (Univ. of Tennessee)
– Funds connectivity to U.S. from Russia,
China, and Korea
• Leverages donated Tyco circuits in 1st year
– To/from Moscow 1 Gig-E
– To/from Beijing STM-16 (2.5 G) with likely additional
STM-16 to Pusan
• Funded at $4.2M over 5 years
GLORIAD Topology – Current, Plans for Years 1-5
Moscow
Amsterdam
Seattle
Chicago
Novosibirsk
Khabarovsk
Beijing
NYC
Pusan
Hong Kong
Segment
Current
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
1 - TransAsia
155 Mbps
2.5 Gbps (USChina),10 Gbps
(US-Korea-China)
2 x 10 Gbps
US-China;
US-Korea
-China
2 x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
2 - TransChina
2.5 Gbps (155
Mbps, BeijingKhabarovsk)
2.5 Gbps
1 x 10 Gbps
2 x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
3 - TransRussia
155 Mbps
622 Mbps
2.5 Gbps
1 x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
4 - TransEurope
622 Mbps
622 Mbps
622 Mbps
2 x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
5 - TransAtlantic
622 Mbps
1 Gbps
1 x 10 Gbps
2 x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
6 - TransNorth
America
155 Mbps (AsiaChicago), GbE
NYC-Chicago
(via CANARIE)
10 Gbps, SeattleChicago-NYC
10 Gbps,
SeattleChicago-NYC
2 x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
N x 10
Gbps
Asian Portion of GLORIAD (Segment 1)
(illustrating HK-SEA link and HK-Pusan-SEA link)
Awards - Asia
• #0441096 – “TransPAC2”
– PI Jim Williams (Indiana)
– Funds TransPAC2 U.S. connectivity with
Japan
• 10G connection between Los Angeles
(PacificWave) and Tokyo
• Additional opportunities (see last talk)
• Funded at $5M over 5 years
TransPAC2 Architecture
Awards - Europe
• #0441094 “TransLight/StarLight”
– PI Tom DeFanti (Univ. of Illinois at
Chicago)
– Provides 2x10 Gbps between U.S. and
Europe
• From MAN LAN in NYC
• First circuit to be homed to GEANT in
Amsterdam
• Can also be used for ESnet (DOE) traffic
• Funded at $5M over 5 years
Awards – Latin America
• #0441095 “WHREN: Increasing the
Rate of Discovery and Enhancing
Education across the Americas”
– PI Julio Ibarra (FIU)
– Funds U.S. connectivity to RedCLARA
• 1.2 Gbps connection Miami – Sao Paulo
(evolving to 2.5Gbps)
• 1.0 Gbps connection San Diego – Tijuana
(easily upgradeable, dark fiber access)
• Funded at $5M over 5 years
SCI/IRNC: WHREN
Inter-regional Links
• WHREN-LILA
links
interconnecting
with RedCLARA
in Tijuana, Mexico
and Sao Paulo,
Brazil
Awards - Other
• Africa: #0451384 SGER – “Extending High
Bandwidth Academic and Research Networking to
Africa”
– PI George Sadowsky (Internews Network) 9/1/04 start,
100k
– Develop plan to extend connectivity to African countries
(Ghana, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar,
Senegal, possibly others)
• IRNC Measurement
– #0457404 SGER - “Network Measurement for International
Connections”, PI Matt Zekauskas (UCAID, Internet2)
– #0XXXXX SGER – [2nd SGER Award in this area not officially
made yet ]
– Investigate approaches and help develop guidelines for common
measurement capabilities and metrics across IRNC connections
Other Plans
• IRNC Kickoff meeting at NSF on March 11
• Methodical technology insertion
– Insertion of layer2 and “hybrid” services as
needed
– Granular traffic reporting – NSF will have
detailed visibility into usage
– Eventual resource for research on network
traffic
– BRO Platforms, OCxMONs?
• Expansion into new regions?