Jacqueline Brown

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Jacqueline Brown University of Washington Pacific
Northwest Gigapop Internet2 Spring
Meeting Arlington, VA USA April 8, 2003
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Pacific Wave International Peering

• Participants at the Pacific Wave peering
  exchange can
• Peer directly with major RE networks worldwide
• Reduce costs associated with IP traffic that
  would otherwise transit commercial carrier
  circuits
• Increase efficiency by directing traffic as
  quickly as possible to the target
  network/organization
• Transfer IP traffic inclusive of multicast, IPv4,
  IPv6
• Access the NOC 24 x 7 x 365.
• Pacific Wave is also a recommended exchange
  point for peering with the Abilene/Internet2
  network.

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is a service of the
Located in SEATTLE, WASHINGTON The Pacific
Northwest Gigapop is the Internet2 Point of
Presence in the U.S. Pacific Northwest for the
Abilene Network.
Courtesy S. Corbato and Internet2
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Pacific Wave Facility

• Located in a state-of-the-art facility in
  incumbent telecommunications carrier grade hotel
  in downtown Seattle
• Many colocation options within the hotel
• Easy-access fiber-meet-me-room used for Pacific
  Wave connections
• Fully redundant environmentals (DC power, HVAC,
  battery backup, fire suppression)
• 24x7 secure building and facility access

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Pacific Wave Architecture
Abilene
Big Iron Foundry Switch
PNWGP Juniper Router
CAnet3
PNWGP Juniper Router
. . .
Big Iron Foundry Switch
AARNet
An ATM free zone! Redundant Gigabit Ethernet
switch architecture provides two subnets and
128Gbps throughput. Multicast enabled with PIM-SM
snooping.
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Flexibility is the Design Key

• Self-selected peeringsyou peer with who you
  want.
• Self-configured peeringsyou control the BGP
  routes for your peering.
• Any IP traffic accepted.
• Significantly cheaper than Commodity Internet.
• No AUP.
• Support available 24 x 7 x 365.
• Select either dual FE or dual GbE.

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Optional Commodity Internet Transit

• Available to all Pacific Wave Participants
• Your ISP is the Pacific Northwest Gigapop
• Service is multi-homed with the following
  vendors
• Cable Wireless
• Level3
• NTT/Verio
• 3Gbps total throughput structured over 3
  independent, fully burstable Gigabit circuits
• 7x24 NOC services
• Use-based pricing with high-volume (50Mbps/mo)
  pricing available

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Targeted Constituencies

• Research and Education Organizations
• Networks Universities Colleges
• K-12 (pre-university schools) and more
• Research Consortia
• Sciences Social Sciences Policy Groups
• Humanities Arts and more
• RD Organizations
• Biotech Medical Aerospace
• Software Hardware and more
• Public Service Organizations
• Libraries Museums HealthCare
• Emergency Response Groups and more

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Targeted Programmatic Areas

• Infectious Disease Database Management
• High-Energy Physics
• Deep-Space Astronomy
• Deep-Sea Geophysics
• High Definition TV Broadcasting over IP
• Atmospheric Sciences Weather Forecasting
• Scholarly Research on Rare Writings
• And more

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RE Networks
Research Education Networks at Pacific Wave
April 2003

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Countries via Abilene ITN at Pacific Wave Jan.
2003
Europe-Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Americas
Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech
Republic Cyprus Denmark Estonia Finland France Ger
many Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel
Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norw
ay Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain
Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom CERN
Australia China Hong Kong Japan Korea Singapore Ta
iwan Thailand
Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Mexico United
States Coming up Costa Rica Panama Venezuela
More information about reachable networks at
www.internet2.edu/abilene/peernetworks.html Slid
e Courtesy of Internet2
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Federal Corporate Participants at Pacific Wave
Jan. 2003

• DREN U.S. Defense Research and Engineering
  Network
• ESNet U.S. Energy Sciences Network
• ATT Broadband Cable Internet
• Microsoft Corporation
• Boeing Research
• Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services
  Corporation (Pointshare)
• and more

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Peer with PNWGP to reach these PNWGP Participants

• Microsoft Research
• NOAA
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
• Plus Major Research Universities of
• Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Portland
  Research Education Network

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PNWGP Partnerships, Memberships, Affiliations

• Asia Pacific Advanced Networks (APAN)
• IEEAF/GEO/Tyco Telecommunications
• Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC)
• The Quilt
• PAIX Seattle Peering Interconnects
• Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX)
• Northwest Access Exchange (NWAX)
• ResearchChannel
• KEXP Radio
• DigitalWell

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Peering Initiatives

• The Quilt
• a project of UCAID
• Participants are non-profit advanced regional
  network organizations dedicated to advancing
  research and education in the United States
• The Quilt Peering Initiative
• Identifying and establishing regional, national,
  and international peering arrangements

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National Lambda Rail

• National Lambda Rail (NLR) is an initiative that
  will offer fiber services in support of advanced
  research and educational activities. NLR is
  spearheaded through a cooperative partnership
  between the
• Corporation for Network Initiatives in California
  (CENIC)
• Pacific Northwest Gigapop University of
  Washington
• U.S. Supercomputing Centers and
• Other major U.S. research and education based
  networking organizations.

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Futures

• In Process upgrade of Pacific Wave to support
  10GbE connections
• NLR will offer new opportunities
• Infrastructure for creation of new Pacific Wave
  nodes
• Backhaul alternatives
• 2003 IEEAF/GEO/Tyco Telecommunications 10-Gbps ?
  from Japan to Seattle
• Continued support of advanced applications (e.g.,
  streaming media, HDTV applications)

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Implementation Operations Partners
In cooperation with IEEAF and Tyco, service
design and implementation planning for a
significant trans-Pacific circuit donation are
underway today between these research and
education groups
More Information will be provided as available.
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For More Information

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