USLIC meeting 71201

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US Line Consortium (USLIC) meeting (7/12/2001)

• Operational Report
• CERN USA PoP status plans
• New Firewall architecture
• Market Survey Call for Tender
• STAR LIGHT DataTAG
• USLIC budget expenditures
• GEANT project Update
• A.O.B.
• Appendix
• A - USLIC history
• B - USLIC connectivity update

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Operational Report

• Apart from August 8/9 (24 hour outage with
  partial backup), no major problems to report
• Direct peering with Abilene to be established
  soon at the Qwest PoP in Chicago.
• Second (unprotected) STM-1 circuit about to be
  delivered.

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1) KPNQwest co-location plan (Chicago)
Qwest PoP (Chicago)
Qwest-IP
21 Mbps / T3
KPN- Qwest
CERN (Geneva)
CERN-USA
ESnet
STM-1

STM-1
CERNH9
STM-1
STM-1

STAR LIGHT
STM-1
STM-1
LS1010
STM-1
T3
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CERNs new firewall technology and topology
Gbit Ethernet
CERNH2 (Cisco OSR 7603)
Gbit Ethernet
Fast Ethernet
FastEthernet
DxmonFE and FDDIbridge
CiscoPIX
Cisco RSP7000
FastEthernet
100/1000 Ethernet
FastEthernet
Cabletron SSR
Securitymonitor
Gbit Ethernet
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2) KPNQwest co-location plan (Chicago)(dual
unprotected STM-1 circuits)
Qwest PoP (Chicago)
Qwest-IP
Abilene
CERN (Geneva)
21 Mbps/T3
AR1-USA
CERNH9
ESnet
STM-1
STM-1

STM-1
STM-1

STAR TAP
AR2-USA
STM-1
LS1010

T3
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3) KPNQwest co-location plan (Chicago)(dual
unprotected STM-1 circuits)
Qwest PoP (Chicago)
Qwest-IP
Abilene
CERN (Geneva)
GBE
21 Mbps/T3
AR1-USA
AR1-CERN
ESnet
STM-1
STM-1

STM-1
STM-1

STAR TAP
AR2-USA
AR2-CERN
STM-1
LS1010

T3
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Main Internet connections at CERN
Swiss National Research Network
IN2P3
Mission Oriented World Health Org.
2.5Gbps
SWITCH
155Mbps
WHO
45Mbps
1Gbps
GEANT (1.25/2500Mbps)
Europe
General purpose Internet connections (Europe/USA/
World)
CERN
2155Mbps
USA
1Gbps
CIXP
Commercial
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CERNs Distributed Internet Exchange Point
(CIXP)

• Telecom Operators dark fibre providers
• Cablecom, COLT, diAx, France Telecom, Global
  Crossing, GTS/EBONE, KPNQwest, LDCom(), Deutsche
  Telekom/Multilink, MCI/Worldcom, SIG, Sunrise,
  Swisscom (Switzerland), Swisscom (France), SWITCH
  (), Thermelec, VTX/Smartphone.
• Internet Service Providers include
• 3GMobile (), Infonet, ATT Global Network
  Services (formerly IBM), Cablecom, Callahan,
  Carrier1, Colt, DFI, Deckpoint, Deutsche Telekom,
  diAx (dplanet), Easynet, Ebone/GTS,
  Eunet/KPNQwest, France Telecom/OpenTransit,
  Global-One, Globix, INSnet/Wisper InterNeXt, IS
  Internet Services (ISION), IS-Productions,
  Nexlink, Net Work Communications (NWC), PSI
  Networks (IProlink), MCI/Worldcom, Petrel,
  Renater, Sita/Equant(), Sunrise, Swisscom
  IP-Plus, SWITCH, GEANT, VTX, UUnet.

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CERN firewall
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Cern Internal Network
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Market Survey/Invitation to Tender 2983-IT

• The existing 2 years contract with KPNQwest
  expires on 31/3/02 and cannot be extended beyond
  that date.
• So, the market survey/invitation to tender
  exercise needed to be done again.
• Market survey 2983/IT was launched in April
• 29 Telecom Providers consulted in 10 countries
  (including Dante)
• 19 replies received
• 9 companies did not reply
• 1 company declined
• Invitation to Tender issued in early September
• 17 companies invited
• 13 responses received
• Short list include 4 providers. Final choice will
  be made on December 12 by the CERN Finance
  Committee

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Invitation to Tender 2983-IT CERNUSA access
requirements (2002)
Abilene

Japan
vBNS
STAR TAP
Commodity Internet
Canada
2OC-12
ESnet
CIXP
T3
MREN
Star Light
E3
Production
622 Mbps
CERN
CERN PoP (USA)
ANL
FNAL
2.5 Gbps
StarLight Co-location facility (NWU)
DataTAG
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DataTAG project

• The project has now been approved
• Total budget 3.9 MEuros
• Duration 2 years
• Starting date 1/1/2002
• European Partners
• PPARC (UK)
• University of Amsterdam (NL)
• INFN (IT)
• CERN (Coordinating Partner)
• One Technical manager, two engineers and one full
  time administrative assistant will be recruited
• INRIA (FR) will join during 1Q02 ESA expressed
  strong interest
• USA Partners
• NSF
• DoE through Caltech
• Main goals
• Ensure maximum interoperability between USA and
  EU Grid projects
• Transatlantic test bed for Grid related network
  research
• Provisioning shall be made through the USLIC, if
  acceptable to the EU,
• Otherwise through GEANT/Dante, Surfnet,

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DataTAG STAR LIGHT interconnection
Abilene

DataGrid Tier1 sites
Japan
STAR TAP
vBNS
Italy
UK
ESnet
2.5Gbps lambda
STAR LIGHT
Canada
Netherlands

GEANT
CERN PoP (Chicago)
MREN
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2.5Gbps lambda (research)
CERN

ANL
FNAL
1 direct connection to the STARLIGHT 2 indirect
connection 3 622Mbps/Gigabit Ethernet over dark
fiber, etc) N.B. The CERN PoP may be co-located
at the STARLIGHT
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The GEANT project

• Core 10Gbps circuits from Colt, DT, Telia
• Access mostly via 2.5 Gbps circuits
• Routers Juniper
• CERN
• CERN SWITCH will share a 2.5 Gbps access
• CERN purchased 50 of the total capacity (i.e.
  1.25 Gbps).
• It is also expected that the access bandwith to
  GEANT will double every 12-18 months.
• The Swiss PoP of GEANT is located at the Geneva
  airport (Ldcom_at_Halle de Fret)

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CERN-SWITCH Logical set-up
SWITCH routerAS559
AS559559-513
CAR
STM-16
GEANTrouter
GEANT backbone
2.5 aggregate
CAR
STM-16
CERN routerAS513
AS513513-559