UKLight

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UKLight
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• UKLIGHT IS
• The UK taking a prominent position in the Global
  Optical Networking Testbed Infrastructure (see
  pictures)
• 10 Gbit/s connections to STARLIGHT (Chicago) and
  NETHERLIGHT( NL)
• Onward connections to anywhere in world (e.g.
  CERN, DWINGELOO, TeraGrid,.)
• The UK constructing its first internal advanced
  RD network infrastructure to connect to this

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• At higher level UKLIGHT is also
• VISION to SUCESS
• The UK was missing from the global optical
  network stage
• The UK needed to be there and now it is
• SCIENCE AND NETWORKING ENABLEMENT
• Driven by a cross disciplinary scientific case
• Applications HEP, Radio Astronomy, HPC,
  TeleMedicine
• Network RD to find new paradigms for the next
  generation network
• INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTED BY KEY BODIES
• Core e-Science Programme
• JISC-JCSR and JISC-JCN
• Funded through HEFC SRIF
• EXPLOITATION to come through RC projects other
  sources
• Several projects in pipeline

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UK links commissioned by end April
European lambdas to US 10Gb AmsterdamChicago
10Gb LondonChicago 10Gb CERN
Chicago Canadian lambdas to US 10Gb
Chicago-Canada-NYC 10Gb Chicago-Canada-Seattle U
S lambda to Europe 5Gb ChicagoAmsterdam US/Jap
an lambda 2.5Gb ChicagoTokyo European
lambdas 10Gb AmsterdamCERN 2.5Gb
PragueAmsterdam 2.5Gb StockholmAmsterdam 10Gb
LondonAmsterdam IEEAF lambdas 10Gb
NYCAmsterdam 10Gb SeattleTokyo
Lambda Wavelength
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In more detail.
Stockholm NorthernLight
New York MANLAN
10 Gbit/s
IEEAF 10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
SURFnet 10 Gbit/s
CAnet4
Amsterdam NetherLight
Dwingeloo ASTRON/JIVE
Tokyo WIDE
Chicago StarLight
IEEAF 10 Gbit/s
DWDM SURFnet
10 Gbit/s
NSF 10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
SURFnet 10 Gbit/s
Tokyo APAN
2.5 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
Prague CzechLight
Geneva CERN
London UKLight
Source Kees Neggers, SURFnet
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How other sites in UK can connect To UKLIGHT
Local Research Equipment
International Point-of-Access
Extended JANETDevelopment Network (see next
slide)
Existing connections
CAnet
UKLightLondon
StarLightChicago
10Gb/s
FERMILAB
10Gb/s
2.5Gb/s
Abilene
CERN
10Gb/s
10Gb/s
10Gb/s
NetherLightAmsterdam
CzechLight
GEANT
UKLight showing connections to selected
International peer facilities
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Note that as a result of the initiative, UKERNA
have pushed through a complementary initiative to
provide a nationwide domestic RD network in
parallel with SupetJANET
Potentially any institute can connect to the RD
network, and to access UKLIGHT through it
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• CURRENT STATUS
• Applications gearing up to use UKLIGHT from Day-1
• International collaborations in place
• Radio Astronomy
• will transport data from Jodrell to the Dwingeloo
  correlator
• Enable a new way of working pseudo real time
  correlation at gt Gbit/s
• Particle physics (GridPP)
• pilot wavelength services to FNAL and CERN
• Develop Grid based services for building of
  end-to-end ightpaths across domains.
• Compare and contrast to production network and
  provide feedback to UKERNA
• Medical
• Remote breast screening requires federation of
  diverse data sources
• Required on demand high bandwidth 1 Gbit/s
• Requires on-tap computation to analyse images

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• RD for new ways of networking
• How to provision light-paths end-to-end
  across multiple domains
• How to schedule and access light-paths from
  Grid Middleware
• Creating Wide area backplanes for federating
  compute facilities
• Performance monitoring at very high rates