StarLight Implementation

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StarLight Implementation

• June 5, 2001

Andrew Schmidt (schmidt_at_evl.uic.edu) Linda
Winkler (winkler_at_mcs.anl.gov)
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StarLight ColocationNorthwestern - 710 North
Lake Shore Drive

• DataComm facility for University DMS100
• Space for 40 equipment racks plus carriers
• Shared space w/ NOC and Engineering Staff
• Power
• Two, 120 volt, 20 AMP AC circuits
• Battery and Diesel backup
• Fiber
• Dual Entrance
• Multiple carriers Qwest, L3, ATT, SBC, MFN,

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710 N. LSD

• Northwestern
• Close to Carriers
• Close to NAP

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StarLight Colocation Northwestern - 710 North
Lake Shore Drive

• Equipment
• Cisco LS1010
• Cisco 6509
• Juniper M10
• Dual OC12s to NAP
• PVC NAP participants
• Layer 3 policy
• IP Addresses
• Route Server
• IPv4 available
• IPv6

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Chicago NAP

• Peer to StarLight
• Feeder hub for STARTAP and MREN
• Approximately 130 connections
• Peaks to 6Gbps load
• Problems
• port speed capped at OC12c
• No capability to gather statistics at switch
• Location for STARTAP services
• Migration to 710 N. LSD planned

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Connection to legacy STARTAP
International Connections

• NAP

710 N Lake Shore Dr
225 W Randolph
2OC3c
2OC12c
LS1010
LS1010
M5
M10
L3 interconnect
SURFNET
ANL
6509
ABILENE
EVL
ESNET
NCSA
L2 interconnect
NU
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Value Added Services STARTAP?StarLight

• IPV4 routing
• IPV6 routing
• Native Multicast Exchange
• General purpose UNIX machine
• NLANR Caching Project
• NLANR AMP
• Router Proxy
• DiffServ/QoS Experiments

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Test and measurement capabilities

• STARTAP
• NLANR/MOAT OC3MON
• mrtg L3 only
• StarLight
• NLANR/MOAT
• Will implement mrtg
• Netflow capable (? Interest in data)