PWave

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David R. Richardson, Mgr. Network
Engineering University of Washington Pacific
Rim Networking Meeting Honolulu, Hawaii February
21-22, 2002
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Pacific Northwest Gigapop

• The Pacific Northwest Gigapop is the PNWs access
  point to Internet2, high performance U.S. Federal
  Networks, and high speed commodity Internet
• RD testbed inviting national and international
  experimentation with advanced Internet-based
  applications
• Located in Seattle,
• Washington USA

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Pacific Northwest Gigapop System
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Support of Advanced Applications

• Microsoft Land Speed Record
• UW Internet HDTV
• Measurement projects (GigaTCP, AMP, Surveyor)
• ISIe/Tektronix Uncompressed HDTV
• ResearchChannel

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Pacific Wave

• Pacific Wave is a service of the Pacific
  Northwest Gigapop.
• High speed peering point for regional and
  international networks
• Complement of Abilene and CAnet3 International
  Transit Network services
• Open peering point for participant-managed
  bilateral peerings

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Pacific Wave Architecture
Abilene
Switch
PNW Router
CAnet3
. . .
Switch
PNW Router
AARNet

• An ATM free zone! Based on a pair of Gigabit
  Ethernet switches providing two subnets

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Peering at Pacific Wave

• Peer with the Pacific Northwest Gigapop
• Peer with Abilene, CAnet3 and receive their ITN
  service to reach other networks
• Peer with other Pacific Wave participants

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Advantages of Pacific Wave

• Close to major Pacific cable landing sites
• Located in incumbent telecommunications carrier
  grade hotel
• easy access to co-lo services
• easy access to fiber-meet-me-room
• easy access to full West Coast fiber grid
• Gigabit Ethernet is high speed, low cost, low
  maintenance
• No PNWGP staff involvement required to setup your
  peerings no ATM PVCs or mandated routing policy
• Switches implement PIM-SM snooping for increased
  multicast efficiency

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Advantages of Pacific Wave (cont.)

• 24 x 7 Network Operations Center
• Redundant environmentals (DC, HVAC)
• PNWGP Commodity Internet Services
• Engineered and delivered via four diverse
  tier-one vendors
• Vendors chosen after exhaustive review of
  capacity, support, peering, etc.
• Diverse geographic connectivity for commodity
  services
• 1.45Gbps throughput (under expansion)

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Networks at Pacific Wave Feb. 2002

• AARNet Australian Academic Research Network
• Abilene Network/Internet2
• ATT Broadband Internet
• CAnet3/CANARIE
• DREN Defense Research and Engineering Network
• ESNet Energy Sciences Network
• Microsoft Corporation
• Pacific Northwest Gigapop
• Siemens Medical Pointshare
• TANET2 Taiwan Research Network
• TransPAC Asia Pacific Academic Networks (APAN)

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• Microsoft Research NOAA Boeing Research
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
• Plus many major research groups such as
• Universities of Washington, Alaska, Idaho, and
  Montana, and Portland Research Education Network

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Futures

• 2002 Fiber facility expansion along U.S. Pacific
  CoastPacific LightRail
• 2002 Support 10GbE connections
• Additional Peering Partners
• PacRim research education groups
• U.S. Federal agencies
• major corporate entities (technology, healthcare,
  biotechnology)
• 2002/2003 Expansion of Commodity Internet
  Services to combined 4Gbps

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For More Information

• Email gigapop-info_at_pnw-gigapop.net
• Web http//www.pacificwave.net
• Phone [phone]