UKLight Update ESLEA Engineers Meeting

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UKLight UpdateESLEA Engineers Meeting

• John Graham
• UKERNA

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What is UKLight ?

• Facility to provide national and international
  bandwidth channels for use by research and
  e-Science projects
• Deploy transmission equipment to provide our own
  point-to-point circuits from project use
• Separate from JANET production network
• Projects can undertake potentially disruptive
  work without impact on the production IP service
• Applications with large data-rates (eg 1Gb/s and
  above)
• Work with new equipment, protocols etc
• NB not an IP network!
• Links to peer facilities in Europe and US

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Principles transmission infrastructure

• Operating our own transmission equipment
• Use SDH switches/multiplexers to provide circuits
  across the network
• e.g. 10Gb/s ? 4 x 2.5Gb/s (or 64 x 155Mb/s)
• Projects will run ethernet / VLANs / IP etc. over
  their circuits
• Links to concepts for SuperJANET5

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Funding

• Funding SRIF - 6.5M total
• From HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for
  England)
• Via JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)
• Sub-committee for Support of Research (JCSR)
• International Point of Access
• Circuits, equipment, housing, NMS, staff
• UK Access and photonics infrastructure
• Equipment, housing

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Model for Extension of the SuperJANET Development
Network
UHI Network
Northern Ireland
AbMAN
Clydenet
FaTMAN
EaStMAN
CNL MAN
NNW
C
C
NorMAN
North Wales MAN
Glasgow
Edinburgh
YHMAN
C
C
Warrington
Leeds
EMMAN
MidMAN
Reading
EastNet
London
Kentish MAN
C
C
TVN
Bristol
Portsmouth
LMN
C
C
Key for components. C-PoP C Extension to
2.5G BAR S Extension to 10G BAR T
South Wales MAN
LeNSE
SWERN
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Ciena Core Director

• CDci (the small one)
• Backbone / high density device
• Current Interface Options
• STM-64 (10Gb/s) (16 max)
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Switch matrix with VC3 granularity (50Mb/s)

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Ciena Metro Director

• Used as an edge device
• Interface options
• STM-64 (10Gb/s) (max 2)
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 10/100 Ethernet
• Local ethernet switch
• 802.1q VLANs
• Lower order SDH (below 155Mb/s)
• Switch matrix with VC3 granularity (50Mb/s)

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Local Research Equipment
UK Researchers
International Point-of-Access
Extended JANETDevelopment Network
Existing connections
Proposedconnections
CAnet
UKLightLondon
StarLightChicago
10Gb/s
10Gb/s
10Gb/s
Abilene
CERN
10Gb/s
10Gb/s
NorthernLight
10Gb/s
NetherLightAmsterdam
CzechLight
GEANT
UKLight showing connections to selected
International peer facilities
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UKLight International and Phase 1
ULCC - LAB
WarringtonC-PoP
NNWManchester
Leased Bandwidth
EastNet Cambridge
St Pancras
10G
10G
10G
10G
ULCC
Amsterdam
Chicago
10G
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UKLight Phases 1 2Showing Network capacity
available to projects
CNLMANLancaster
CLRC-DL
Leeds C-PoP
YHMANLeeds
10G
WarringtonC-PoP
5G
NNWManchester
7.5G
10G
10G
EastNet Cambridge
ReadingC-PoP
CLRC-RAL
7.5G
10G
10G
St Pancras
10G
10G
10G
10G
10G
ULCC
Amsterdam
10G
Chicago
UCL (Dark Fibre)
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EastMANEdinburgh
ClydeNETGlasgow
UKLight Phases 1 2, including Phase 3 EOIs
GlasgowC-PoP
NIMANBelfast
Edinburgh C-PoP
ULCC - LAB
CNLMANLancaster
Leeds C-PoP
CLRC-DL
WarringtonC-PoP
YHMANLeeds
NNWManchester
MidMANBirmingham
ReadingC-PoP
Leased Bandwidth
EastNet Cambridge
CLRC-RAL
St Pancras
10G
10G
10G
10G
ULCC
Amsterdam
Chicago
10G
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Futures

• Phase 3 purchase deployment April-June 2005
• Sustainability through 2006
• JISC committees have agreed in principle
• Funding arrangements are being made
• Beyond this leads into SuperJANET5 !
• Incorporate these concepts from ground up
• Flexible transmission platform
• Fibre / wavelength service based
• Case being made for continued funding through
  lifetime of SJ5 support (and develop) the
  switched infrastructure