StarLight, TransLight

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• StarLight, TransLight
• And the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF)
• Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin, Maxine Brown, Jason
  Leigh, Alan Verlo,
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University
• Linda Winkler, Caren Litvanyi, Argonne National
  Laboratory
• Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE (Canada)
• Kees Neggers, SURFnet (Netherlands)
• Cees de Laat, UvAmsterdam

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StarLight Chicago Infrastructure
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Lights

• Lights are bandwidth concentrators and
  exchanges (StarLight, NetherLight, UKLight,
  NorthernLight, Pacific Wave, NEOLight)
• Lights also deliver Grid cyberinfrastructure
  services such as computing, storage and
  visualization support
• Lights disrupt old pricing structures from the
  traditional telcos, which kept the prices high
• Lights will deal with big data streams and map
  them economically to the least expensive services
  they need

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StarLight, the Facility

• A flexible facility for scientists by
  scientists
• The worlds largest GE and 10 GE exchange for RE
  Production Networks
• A MEMS-switched Optical Research Network Exchange
• A specialized colocation space for new
  implementations and integrations of
  infrastructure
• 40 racks for networking and computing, data
  management and visualization support equipment
• Home to fiber and circuits from SBC, Qwest, ATT,
  Global Crossing, Level3, T-Systems, Looking
  Glass, RCN, and I-WIRE, custom integrators, like
  MCI for DREN
• Advanced engineering and resource coordinators

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StarLight Facility-ConnectedUS and International
Networks

• US National
• NLR
• ESnet (DOE)
• UltraNet(DOE soon)
• DREN (DOD)
• NREN (NASA)
• NISN (NASA)
• DTF/ETF
• Abilene
• US Metro/Regional
• OMNInet
• MREN (Midwest)
• I-WIRE/DWDM
• I-Light (coming)

• AMPATH (South America)
• ASnet (Taiwan)
• BELnet (Belgium)
• CAnet4 (Canada)
• CERN/DataTAG
• CERNET (China)
• GÉANT/Euro-Link (Europe)
• GEMnet (Japan)
• HARNET (Hong Kong)

• HEAnet (Ireland)
• KOREN/KREONet2 (Korea)
• NaukaNET/GLORIAD (Russia)
• RENATER2 (France)
• SURFnet (Netherlands)
• TWAREN (Taiwan)
• TANet2 (Taiwan)
• TransPAC/NiCT (Asia)
• UKLight (UK)

Plus Abilene and CAnet4 International Transit
Networks Plus European transport via
SURFnet/NetherLight
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What has Changed Since 2001?

• Waves became available at drastically reduced
  prices
• NYC to AMS OC-192 0.50/minute current pricing
• 1GE and 10GE switching/routing became possible
  and desirable
• StarLight constructed as to serve international,
  national and regional electronic and optical
  peering needs
• StarLight/Euro-Link partners formed GLIF
• C-scientists and E-scientists are creating new
  tools together so that future applications will
  be empowered to use self-collected information
  and make grid-compatible requests for resources

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Thank You!

• StarLight and Euro-Link planning, research,
  collaborations, and outreach efforts are made
  possible, in major part, by funding from
• National Science Foundation (NSF) awards
  ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-9802090,
  EIA-9871058, ANI-0225642, and EIA-0115809
• State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC
  cost sharing
• Northwestern University for providing space,
  engineering and management
• NSF/CISE/ANIR and DoE/Argonne National Laboratory
  for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and
  design
• Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers of
  SURFnet, Olivier Martin of CERN and Harvey Newman
  of CalTech for networking leadership
• Larry Smarr of Cal-(IT)2 for I-WIRE and
  OptIPuter leadership.