International fibre landscape

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International fibre landscape

• Victor Reijs
• SEEFIRE, June 14th, 2005, Sofia
• victor.reijs_at_heanet.ie

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Outline

• NREN environment
• Possible NREN services/capabilities
• Examples of (inter)national networks
• Experience with fibre
• Conditions

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NREN environment

• Different type of provider than telco/ISP
• Generally one user group and one AUP
• Highly demanding and progressive users
• Have opportunities for testing new ideas
• Studying new technologies within its environment
• NRENs are early adopters
• Experience from earlier technologies
• KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
• Market development and stimulation

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Why possible now?

• Flexible/cheap services are emerging on the
  market
• NRENs can utilize dark-fibre and thus define
  network services in its own pace
• Electricity/gas/transport/oil/etc. companies
  could provide fibre
• If no fibre available, services of telcos can be
  incorporated
• A real demand is emerging from clients (e.g. LAN
  interconnect) and end-users (e.g. Grid projects)
• Ethernet framing is emerging as a LAN-MAN-RAN-WAN
  technology

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Outline

• NREN environment
• Possible NREN services/capabilities
• Examples of (inter)national networks
• Experience with fibre
• Conditions

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Possible NREN services

• Speed 10/100, 1000 Mbit/s (ethernet framing)
• IP transit connectivity (IPv4/IPv6,
  uni/multicast, commodity)
• Intra-site point to point connections (e.g. LAN
  interconnect)
• Inter-site point to point connections (e.g. IP
  transit, projects)
• Coloured p2p connections
• CWDM (MAN/RAN) unframed
• DWDM (WAN) GFP framed
• Dark fibre connections (MAN)
• Cross border services
• Physical diversity (if feasible)

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Networked service layers
Application
Layer E (3)
Client
Layer E (3)
NREN
Telco
Layer D (2-2.5)
Ether net
SDH/PDH
Layer C (1)
Telcos
e2e
Layer B (0)
p2p
Layer A (0)
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Possible NREN capabilities

• Testing new technologies in local, national and
  European scale
• Getting multi domain experience for user
  empowered service provisioning
• Procedural issues around such new capabilities
• Close relation with other (comparable) projects
• Close relation with carrier service providers and
  manufacturers (IP and optical USA and EU based)

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Naming of services

• CLnet4 lightpath deterministic like SDH/GFP
• Point to point connection ethernet framing
• Lambda services
• most of the time SDH/GFP framing
• sometimes a real lambda (no framing)
• Optical network

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Outline

• NREN environment
• Possible NREN services/capabilities
• Examples of (inter)national networks
• Experience with fibre
• Conditions

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Conceptual design of HEAnet
Institutes
Regional Network
DWDM National Backbone
Dublin MAN
Institutes
Dublin Core Ring
Regional Network
Dublin MAN
Institutes
Regional Network
Institutes
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Dublin regional fibres (HEAnet)
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Dark fibres in SURFnet 6 (SURFnet)
From R. Nuijts, SURFnet, May 2005
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CLnet4 (CANARIE)
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CLnet4 utilization trend (CANARIE)
From Bill StArnaud, CANARIE, June 2005
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The GÉANT2 network (DANTE)
From R. Sabatino, DANTE, June 2005
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NLR infrastructure (NLR)
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HOPI topology (Internet2)
From R. Summerhill, Internet2, June 2005
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HOPI node (Internet2)
From R. Summerhill, Internet2, June 2005
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GLIF
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GLORIAD
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Outline

• NREN environment
• Possible NREN services/capabilities
• Examples of (inter)national networks
• Experience with fibre
• Conditions

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Experience with fibre

• Always get an OTDR trace from between each site.
  Saves time and money!!!
• dB budget essential for calculations
• Permits/permission to carry out civil work can
  take very long periods of time to get. Up to 6
  months. Permission can also be denied
• Contract negotiations can take 12 months from
  start to finish
• Plan well in advance

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Outline

• NREN environment
• Possible NREN services/capabilities
• Examples of (inter)national networks
• Experience with fibre
• Conditions

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Conditions (1/2)

• A proper established NREN organizational
  structure must be realized
• For interconnecting these NREN services it is
  essential to have good collaboration
• Well defined boundaries between piloting,
  pre-operations and operations of network
  services.
• Network must be able to cater for present and
  future services.
• So flexibility in capabilities/services is
  essential

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Conditions (2/2)

• Close cooperation with government to be part of
  their long term plans
• Try to get strategic/research/education reserve
  into governmental projects
• How to do measurements?
• Routing and firewall/security issues have to be
  studied
• User empowered networking is important step
  (CLnet4)

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URLs

• NLR http//www.nlr.net/
• HOPI http//networks.internet2.edu/hopi/
• GÉANT2 http//www.geant2.net/
• CLnet4 http//www.canarie.ca/canet4/
• GLIF http//www.glif.is/
• GLORIAD http//www.gloriad.org/
• SURFnet6 http//www.gigaport.nl/
• HEAnet http//www.hea.net/
• Scoping the future multi-service advanced network
  infrastructure for US higher education
  http//www.nlr.net/docs/GroupAReport2005.pdf

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Abbreviations

• AUP Acceptable Use Policy
• CWDM Course Wavelength Division Multiplexing
• DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
• GFP Generic Framing Procedure
• GLIF Global Lambda Integrated Facility
• GLORIAD GLObal Ring for advanced Application
  development
• HOPI Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure
  project
• LAN Local Area Network
• MAN Metropolitan Area Network
• NREN National Research and Education Network
• OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
• p2p point to point
• RAN Regional Area Network
• WAN Wide Area Network