Abilene Network Current Infrastructure
Internet2 Network
Steve Cotter Director, Network Services scotter@internet2.edu Abilene Network Current Infrastructure
Carrier provisioned backbone on Qwest footprint 0 A highly reliable 10-Gbps ‘best effort’, over-provisioned IP network 0 Dual stack IPv4/IPv6, native multicast, MPLS LSPs
Abilene is widely used – it has the vast majority of the R&E community’s traffic, the applications, the users, the peerings, and the experiments. 35 direct connections (OC-3c → 10 Gbps)
246 Primary Participants – research universities and labs 0 150+ Sponsored Participants - Individual institutions, K-12 schools, museums, libraries, research institutes
Federal Peers: ESnet, DREN, NISN, NREN, USGS See: http://abilene.internet2.edu/ 80+ Networks Reachable via International Peerings
Europe-Middle East Asia-Pacific Americas Austria (ACOnet) Malta (Univ. Malta) Australia (AARNET) Argentina (RETINA) Belgium (BELNET) Netherlands (SURFnet) China (CERNET, CSTNET, Brazil (RNP2/ANSP) Croatia (CARNet) Norway (UNINETT) NSFCNET) Canada (CA*net) Czech Rep. (CESNET) Palestinian Territories Fiji (USP-SUVA) Chile (REUNA) Cyprus (CYNET) (Gov’t Computing Center) Hong Kong (HARNET) Costa Rica (CR2Net) Denmark Poland (POL34) Indonesia (INHERENT) Mexico (Red-CUDI) (Forskningsnettet) Portugal (RCTS2) Japan (SINET, WIDE, JGN2) United States (Abilene) Estonia (EENet) Qatar (Qatar FN) Korea (KOREN, KREONET2) Panama (RedCyT) Finland (Funet) Romania (RoEduNet) New Zealand (NGI-NZ) Peru (RAAP) France (Renater) Russia (RBnet) Philippines (PREGINET) Uruguay (RAU2) Germany (G-WIN) Slovakia (SANET) Singapore (SingAREN) Venezuela (REACCIUN2) Greece (GRNET) Slovenia (ARNES) Taiwan (TANet2, ASNet) Hungary Spain (RedIRIS) Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN) (HUNGARNET) Sweden (SUNET) Vietnam (Vinaren) Iceland (RHnet) Switzerland (SWITCH) Ireland (HEAnet) Syria (HIAST) Israel (IUCC) United Kingdom Italy (GARR) (JANET) Central Asia Africa Jordan (JUNET) Turkey (ULAKBYM) Armenia (ARENA) Algeria (CERIST) Latvia (LATNET) *CERN Georgia (GRENA) Egypt (EUN/ENSTIN) Lithuania (LITNET) Kazakhstan (KAZRENA) Morocco (CNRST) Luxembourg (RESTENA) Tajikistan (TARENA) Tunisia (RFR) Uzbekistan (UZSCI) South Africa (TENET) http://abilene.internet2.edu/peernetworks/international.html The New Internet2 Network Fundamental Changes in Researchers’ Needs
In the community there is: 0 Great interest in hybrid networks 0 Greater availability of circuit-based capabilities 0 Greater interest worldwide to bring circuit-based services closer to the edge 0 Most regional optical networks have these capabilities Researchers now require a wide ranging set of attributes on a single network 0 Type: Shared (IP) to dedicated (wavelength) 0 Temporal: Dynamic to static 0 Robustness: Experimental (breakable) to production quality The New Internet2 Network Researched Community Requirements
Examined a wide variety of projects with different types of capabilities 0 DRAGON and CHEETAH - NSF funded projects examining dynamic provisioning 0 ESnet’s OSCARS 0 Science related projects such as UltraLight and eVLBI 0 OptIPuter and TeraGrid 0 Internet2’s HOPI (Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure) Testbed Input from the international community 0 GEANT2 already providing hybrid types of capabilities 0 GLIF and lightpath capabilities for scientific work The New Internet2 Network Network Services
Same highly reliable IP network built on top of optical system 0 Professional NOC and experience running near 5 9’s IP network 0 Commodity and content peering service offering
“On-net” Waves: point-2-point full wavelength or sub-λ circuits 0 Free short-term, dynamically provisioned, deterministic STS-1 (50Mbps) granularity circuits with framing either SONET or GFP mapped Ethernet – subject to blocking. 0 Guaranteed medium to long-term circuits – price determined by distance, speed, duration 0 Long-term waves for a minimum of 1 year with guaranteed SLAs 0 Can provide ultra-high availability waves (protected) utilizing Infinera protection capabilities
“Off-net” Waves: OC-x or DS-x provisioned services on the Level(3) footprint beyond Internet2 Network backbone The Internet2 Network Seattle 1000 Denny Way Detailed Layer 1 Topology Pacific Northwest GP Level 3 2001 6th Ave Westin Bldg
Albany Portland Rieth Cleveland Oregon GP TFN 316 N Pearl Cambridge NOX 707 SW Washington Portland Chicago 4000 Chester Syracuse Level 3 Qwest 1335 NW Northrop Level 3 300 Bent St CIC/MREN Rochester Level 3 Level 3 MERIT BOREAS Buffalo Boise Internet2 Hartford 710 N New York th New York Lakeshore 111 8 Tionesta Detroit Level 3 NYSERNET Starlight 32 Ave of the Chicago Americas Ogden Rawlins Omaha 600 W Chicago Philadelphia Eureka Level 3 MC via 1075 Triangle Ct Reno Pittsburgh MAGPI Edison Sacramento 35mi Pittsburgh 401 N Broad overlap GP Level 3 Oakland via 1005 N B St Indianapolis 143 S 25th Washington Salt Lake 1902 S East CincinnatiLevel 3 San Francisco Inter-Mountain GP Denver St MAX 572 S DeLong Front Range GP 1755 Old Meadow Level 3 Level 3 Sunnyvale Level 3 1850 Pearl Kansas City Louisville Level 3 St. Louis CENIC GPN 848 S 8th St 1380 Kifer Tulsa 1100 Walnut Level 3 Raleigh San Luis Obispo Level 3 Level 3 OneNet Nashville Charlotte NCREN 18 W Archer 5301 Departure Level 3 Tennessee GP Raton 2990 Sidco Dr Dr Los Angeles Albuquerque Level 3 Santa Barbara th Level 3 Atlanta 818 W 7 New Mexico GP SLR Level 3 104 Gold Ave SE 345 Los Angeles Level 3 Courtland Atlanta CENIC 180 Peachtree St 600 W 7th Phoenix NW San Diego Rancho De La Fe Equinix Tucson (tentative) Level 3 MC Birmingham Jacksonville Dallas FLR El Paso Mobile 4814 Phillips Hwy Network Deployment Schedule 501 W Overland Valentine Level 3 Level 3 Tallahassee Nov 17, 2006 Regen DTN Sanderson Austin New Orleans Mar 1, 2007 Core Node Orlando Baton Rouge Mar 2, 2007 Drop DTN San Antonio LONI Tampa Apr 19, 2007 Other Level 3 Houston 9987 Burbank Apr 27, 2007 LEARN Level 3 1201 N I-45 May 24, 2007 Level 3 Miami Jun 12, 2007 South Florida GP 45 NW 5th Level 3 Node Architecture
•Advanced optical DWDM equipment – Infinera DTN •Grooming capabilities in Ciena CoreDirector to provide sub channels •Simplified and standardized interface to connectors, exchange points, and other global research and education networks - 2 x 10 Gbps interfaces •Greatly enhanced support for the Observatory enabling the collection of network data at nodes The New Internet2 Network Example Projects on the New Network Dynamic services 0 Creating lightpaths across multiple administrative domains in seconds 0 Development of “Domain Controllers” 0 Support for applications - setup of “Application Specific Topologies” Dynamic inclusion of optical paths into IP networks for backup or expansion Phoebus Project - TCP data transfers over long segments not requiring congestion control Network research projects deploying programmable Ethernet capable chipsets at each optical node using “NetFPGA” cards from Stanford Service trial with GEANT2 on dynamic provisioning of 1 GigE circuits across Internet2 and GEANT2 The New Internet2 Network Network Research Support
The Internet2 Network is an ideal platform for network research - the ability to support both highly experimental projects along with production-based services is a key objective The Abilene Observatory will be expanded to include the new capabilities of the network 0 Data collection at all layers of the network, with datasets made available to network researchers 0 Support for collocation of equipment in optical nodes Flexibility is key feature of the new network 0 Smaller projects at lower bandwidths can be supported on variable footprints 0 Projects can also be supported for variable lengths of time NSF projects like VINI and GENI can be supported by the new network