National LightRail: Towards a National Optical Research Network

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National LightRail Towards a National Optical
Research Network

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Drivers and Motivations

• RESEARCH Network research tools
• EXPERIMENTAL Exp. infrastructure
• OPERATIONAL 24/7 high performance
• Aubrey Bush
• NSF

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Drivers and Motivations

• NSF must be prepared to assume a great SE
  infrastructure role for the benefit of the
  Nation.
• An increasing number of researcher and educators,
  working as individuals and in groups, need to be
  connected to sophisticated array of facilities,
  instruments, and data bases.
• Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the
  21st Century Report

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Drivers and Motivations

• Develop and deploy an advanced
  cyberinfrastructure to enable new SE in the 21st
  century
• Expand education and training opportunities at
  new and existing research facilities.
• Develop interagency plans and strategies to
  provide high-end high performance computing and
  networking infrastructure.
• Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the
  21st Century Report

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RE Network Tiers
NETWORK DISCONTINUITIES
LEADERS NETWORK TYPE
CAPABILITIES/USERS
Research
Academic Research, papers, lab. Experiments,
spools of fiber In labs sparse testbeds
Computer Science Net. Researchers
Bleeding-edge e2e services facilities
for key experiments, programs,
projects, researchers for next gen.
tech., architectures, Grids,
content, apparatus, etc.
Things that havent
been done before with,
to, on or over networks.
CS, Comp. Science Grid researchers, major
experiments (eg DTF) net. experimenters
leading edge labs and centers, optics sys.
net. Industry RD groups I-WIRE PACIFIC
LIGHTRAIL Internet-2 wave projects
?s, P2p fiber, gt10g ip Experimental
Developmental Networks
I2-Abilene, GigaPoPs Fed. NGI Nets.
Leading-Edge ip Services for demanding
apps . middleware
Operational High Performance Research Support
Networks
Internet-2, GigaPoPs I2-K20
Common Denominator, Advanced Services Research
Education Network
Advanced Services for RE users
Business,.Gov. General Public
ISPs, hosting .coms etc.
Commodity Internet
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Drivers and Motivations

• Cost
• Control
• Flexibility
• Responsiveness
• Innovation
• End-to-End networking

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National Light Rail

• Dark Fiber National footprint
• Serves very high-end Experimental and Research
  Applications
• 4 - 10GB Wavelengths initially
• Capable of 40 10Gb wavelengths at buildout
• Partnership model

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Goals and Uses

• Research! (including Network Research)
• Experimentation in networking and in education
• Regional fiber/ ? efforts in edu research
  sectors
• Education
• Academic Med. Center driven Clinical activities
• Development implementation of network
  computing technologies not otherwise likely to be
  generally available commercially as early as
  needed in RE.
• Enabling deterministic and other e2e bandwidth/
  ?s, dark fiber and conduit for Grid, eScience
  etc. for Regionals etc.

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NLR Service Offerings

• Waves!!!!
• Dark Fiber
• MetaPoP capabilities
• Dedicated OC-192c or 10GE waves
• No wave can interfere with others
• Shared IP service
• Must be able to tolerate outages
• Supports experimental code
• Subdivided waves for dedicated uses
• Delivered as gigabit Ethernet

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NLR Governance

• LLC - Equity Partners
• Joint Research Council
• Joint Technology Council
• Distributed Network Engineering/ Operations
• Waves governed/managed by various groups

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Equity Participants

• CENIC
• PNWGP

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Potential Participants

• Carnegie Mellon/PSC
• Virginia Tech
• Duke
• Georgia Tech
• Florida Group (FSU lead)
• Texas Group (UT Austin lead)

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Potential Participants

• NCAR
• UCAID
• CIC-CIO Group

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Technology Partners

• Cisco Systems
• Level 3

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National Light Rail Lambda Route Map
REGEN
TERMINAL
OADM
Metro 10 Gig E
4
Seattle
Chicago
Denver
Cleveland
Kansas
Ogden
Boise
4
2
4
4
6
2
6
4
Salt Lake City
Portland
StarLight
2
Boston
5
Pittsburgh
Sacramento
2
Sunnyvale
15808 LH System
15808 ELH System
2
4
4
Fresno
15540 Metro System
4
10 Gig E
4
New York City
Washington DC
OC192
4
Los Angeles
2
4
4
2
Stratford
4
San Diego
4
4
Walnut
Nashville
Dallas
Raleigh
Olga
Pheonix
Atlanta
4
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NLR POP Architecture
Long Haul OC48/OC192/10GigE DWDM
NLR
DWDM
10 Gig E or OC192
Gig E
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Calren/DC/HPR/NLR POP Architecture
CalRen DC
HPR
NLR
Long Haul OC48/OC192/10GigE DWDM
DWDM
10 Gig E or OC192
Gig E
CalREN/DC
HPR
NLR
15500
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Questions?