UKLight and SuperJANET5

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UKLight and SuperJANET5
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SuperJANET 4 UKlight

• Managed leased lambdas
• 10Gbps core
• 2.5Gbps / 1GE regional network access
• Uklight
• 10Gbps lease lambdas
• UKERNA SDH kit
• 1 CEF link ?
• RAL-Reading
• Ciena WDM

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UKLight status

• Procurement announced Mid-July 2003
• 4 Modules
• Wavelength Service London Chicago
• Wavelength Service London Amsterdam
• SDH Multiplexing/Switching Equipment
• Gigabit Ethernet Switching Equipment
• Reconsider 10GE switching requirement
• Wavelength services awarded to Level3 Dec.
  2003
• SDH equipment awarded to Pinacl/Ciena Jan.
  2004
• Commissioning now complete - US NL links
  operational
• Manchester Cambridge July to September 2004

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UKLight International and Phase 1
ULCC - LAB
WarringtonC-PoP
NNWManchester
EastNet Cambridge
Leased Bandwidth
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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UKLight Projects

• ESLEA (Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for
  eScience Applications) is a project backed by the
  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and
  funded via HEFCE. It will enable, through the
  UKLight project, the UK research community to
  participate to the global initiative of an
  international experimental testbed to pilot new
  paradigms in optical networking.The two main
  tasks of this project follow.
• Exploitation by e-Science applications - the
  application areas chosen are listed below
• High Energy Physics (HEP) Particle Physics (PP)
  Data transfer - experiments involved are ECDF,
  D0, BaBar, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE
• VLBI Radio Astronomy Very Long Baseline
  Interferometry (VLBI) Data transfer
• HPC Computational steering and Visualisation
  using High Performance Computing facilities
  within the RealityGrid project
• MASTS (Measurement at All Scales in Time and
  Space) is an experimental eScience project
  focusing on the measurement and analysis of the
  evolution of very high capacity network services.
  
• 46 PaQ IPv4 IPv6 Performance and QoS) observes
  and analyses the behaviour of QoS mechanisms and
  services, congestion control mechanisms, and new
  transport protocols when working together. Also,
  the way in which applications make use of the new
  services and the differences in behaviour in the
  use of these mechanisms from IPv4 and IPv6 are
  studied.

UK Light contact David Salmon D.Salmon_at_ukerna.ac.
uk
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SuperJANET 5 Requirements
Requirements to be served
Commodity
e-Science
Teaching Learning
Network RD
Service Dev.
IP production network
Test bed(s)
Test bed(s)
Special purpose bandwidth
Flexible transmission platform
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SuperJANET 5 Backbone

• Integrate IP service and Uklight onto single CEF
  network
• Dedicated fibres and optical equipment
• Initially 10Gbps
• Network procured to be 40Gbps ready
• Backbone PoS not GE/10GE
• Expecting to contract out operation of optical
  layer down to third party (telco)
• Close co-operation expect to self-operate
  SuperJANET 6

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SJ5 Regional Access

• Each of 19 regional networks will have
  distributed dual access to SJ5 core
• Some new fibre digs required
• UKERNA will not own fibre
• Most leased dark fibre, some problem areas leased
  lambdas (or even leased circuits ?)) in order
  of difficulty
• N Ireland (not much fibre under the Irish Sea)
• N Scotland (limited fibre deployment)
• SE England (surprising however, very rural so
  little fibre deployment)

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Regional Coverage

• Difficult areas
• NIRAN
• AbMAN
• FaTMAN
• UHI
• KentishMAN

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SJ5 Regional Networks

• Regional networks independent of backbone
• Different procurement times
• Some use dark fibre and WDM
• Delivery of full CEF network to end sites will
  take time
• Campus networks need to be capable too

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Evolution to SuperJANET 5
Northern Ireland
Mid to Northern Scotland
SE England
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SJ5 CEF Regional Networks

• UKERNA operated
• Thames Valley Network (TVN)
• Leased fibre, UKERNA owned optical kit managed
  and operated by JANET NOC _at_ULCC
• Major sites connected RAL, Oxford Uni
• Equipment currently under procurement
• East of England Network (EastNet)
• Starting re-procurement
• Likely to be CEF network
• Includes Cambridge Uni

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Uklight and SuperJANET 5

• Uklight gt SJ5 Bandwidth Channel Service
• Initially replace current leased lambdas with
  self-provided lambdas on SJ5
• Each regional network will have access (currently
  Uklight coverage is limited)
• Keep Uklight SDH kit
• PtP lambdas over SJ5 available if project can
  provide funding
• Possibility of UCLP experimentation in separate
  ITU band
• Expect to replace UK-NL Uklight link with
  connection to GN2

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Thank you. www.ja.net/SJ5 www.uklight.ac.uk
Contacts Steve Williams Technical Specialist
Measurement and Monitoring Advanced Technologies
Group UKERNA S.Williams_at_ukerna.ac.uk David
Salmon Research Support Coordinator Advanced
Technologies Group UKERNA D.Salmon_at_ukerna.ac.uk