Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California

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Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in
California

• Planning for next Optical Network
• Dave Reese, CTO
• 4th CEF Networks Workshop
• Prague - 20-Sep-2007

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CENIC

• Formed in 1996 as a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Public
  Benefit Corporation
• Serving CalTech/JPL, California State University
  System, Stanford University, University of
  California System, University of Southern
  California (USC), California K-12, Nevada System
  of Higher Education, Arizona State University,
  University of Arizona
• 70 million US annual budget
• 9,000 campuses, 10,000,000 users, 35 staff

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CENIC Services Today

• Layer 1 (4,000 route km fiber)
• Cisco 15808 LH DWDM backbone
• OC-48,OC-192,10GE LANPHY
• Cisco 15540 DWDM metro
• 1GE, 10GE LANPHY
• Layer 2
• Limited (custom) services
• Layer 3
• CalREN/DC production/commodity services
• OC-48 backbone
• CalREN/HPR research network
• 10GE LANPHY backbone

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CENIC DWDM Backbone

• Cisco 15808 DWDM Long Haul
• Installed 2003
• End of support Feb 2009
• Fixed add/drop (8 add/drop, 32 express)
• Regen in one long span of backbone
• 15808 transponders are fixed encoding
• OC-48, OC-192 or 10GE LANPHY
• Using 15454 MSTP chassis as front-end with
  15454 transponders due to 15808 end-of-sale

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Upgrade Planning

• Technical Advisory Committees
• Committees composed of CENIC member
  institutions technical staff
• Review needs, requirements and discuss/propose
  designs
• Committee accepts design

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CalREN/DC Design Digital California

• 10GE backbone
• Multi-year bandwidth upgrade plan
• IPV6, jumbo frame are required features
• Cisco CRS-1 and 124xx routers
• Will use some DWDM optics for backbone links as
  cost reduction

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Hub Routers (year 1)
COR
OAK
CSAC
SFO
TRI
SVL
FRG
SOL
FRE
SLO
BAK
LAX
RIV
TUS
10GE
OC-48
GE
3XGE
SDG
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Hub Routers (year 5)
COR
OAK
CSAC
SFO
TRI
SVL
FRG
SOL
FRE
SLO
BAK
LAX
RIV
TUS
10GE
OC-48
GE
3XGE
SDG
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Commodity Internet Overlay Network (year 1)
TBD
OAK
CSAC
Cogent
SFO
TRI
Qwest
L3
SVL
LAX
L3
Qwest
L3
RIV
Cogent
TUS
10GE
OC-48
GE
SDG
3XGE
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Commodity Peering Overlay Network (year 1)
OAK
SFO
PAIX
TRI
SVL
TransitRail
SLO - Charter - possibly not part of peering
separation
LAX
RIV
TransitRail
10GE
OC-48
GE
SDG
3XGE
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Commodity Traffic Volumes

• Paid Commodity Transport

• Commodity Peering
• 80 carried via TransitRail project

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CalREN/HPRHigh Performance Research

• Include hybrid services in addition to IP
  routed services
• Layer 1 will provide switched lambda services for
  one or more 10Gb lambdas
• Layer 2 will be a switched Ethernet providing 1Gb
  and 10Gb connections
• Layer 3 will support one or more 10Gb LANPHY to
  every connected institution
• RFP to be issued soon

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HPR Layer 3 Topology
ucd
ucdmc
ucb
ucop
uccsn
SFO
OAK
ucsf
stan
PAIX
ucsc
ucm
nasa
archive.org
Peerings via PacificWave
FRE
nps
ucsb
ASU
UofA
TUS
SDG
ucr
ucsd
ucla
uci
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HPR Layer 2 Topology
SVL
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Optical Design

• Design requirements in progress
• Anticipated to include
• ROADM/WSS
• Eliminate regen points
• 40G/100G upgrade capability
• 80 channel upgrade capability
• Lambda switching services
• Alien (transponderless) wave support

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Upgrade Issues

• Optical transition planning
• Additional fiber pairs no longer available
• Taking backbone down for a week of migration is
  not acceptable
• Space/power limitations
• Router power requirements are pushing the limits
  of power availability
• Amplifier sites are now being limited too