Global Lambda Integrated Facility

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Global Lambda Integrated Facility

• Kees Neggers
• Managing Director SURFnet
• Indianapolis, 13 October 2003

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History of Lambda Workshops

• Lambda workshops are by invitation only but
  always attached to an open event related to
  lambda networking
• September 2001 first Lambda Workshop in
  Amsterdam followed by open Lambda Workshop
  organized by TERENA
• September 2002 second Lambda Workshop in
  Amsterdam attached to iGRID 2002
• August 2003 third Lambda Workshop in Reykjavik
  attached to NORDUnet 2003

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NetherLight network 2001

• 2.5Gbit/s lambda between StarLight, Chicago, USA
  and NetherLight, Amsterdam, NL
• Lambda terminated on Cisco ONS15454 muxes,
• WAN side SONET framed OC48c
• LAN side GbE interfaces to computer clusters

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NetherLight Network 2002

• The iGrid2002 event brought many lambdas to
  Amsterdam

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NetherLight network 2003
Stockholm Northern Light
New York MANLAN
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
Amsterdam NetherLight
Dwingeloo ASTRON/JIVE
Chicago StarLight
Tokyo WIDE
CAnet4
DWDM SURFnet
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
Geneva CERN
Prague CzechLight
London UKLight
Expected 2H03
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TransLight
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Lambda Workshop Reykjavik

• Lambda planning and coordination activity
  attended by 33 participants from Europe, Asia and
  North America
• LambdaGRID name was questioned and it was agreed
  to continue under the name
• GLIF Global Lambda Integrated Facility
• GLIF will be managed as a cooperative activity
• GLIF.IS will be launched soon as home for all
  interested in the GLIF activities

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Next steps

• Preparation of demos at SC2003
• Reaching out to the application developers
• Adding more equipment, services and lambdas to
  GLIF, national and international
• Setting up the GLIF.IS portal
• Next Lambda Workshop will be attached to the UK
  e-Science Conference in September 2004

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• Kees Neggers_at_surfnet.nl
• www.surfnet.nl
• www.gigaport.nl