International Connectivity and Atlantic Wave Overview

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International Connectivity andAtlantic Wave
Overview

• NTNG Northern Tier Nitting Group
• June 24, 2005
• Don Riley

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New SURA IT Strategy Highest Priorities

• Foundation-Building
• Connectivity
• Regional (USA Waves, Crossroads)
• National (National Lambda Rail, Internet2)
• International Opportunities
• High Performance Computing
• Grids
• Data storage
• Middleware
• Program Development
• SCOOP
• Bio-Informatics/ Medical Research

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Program PlanRegional and National Connectivity

• Goals
• Secure new resources/tools to facilitate
  infrastructure improvements
• New partnerships
• Secure federal and other sources of funding
• Build the Regional Infrastructure SURA
  Crossroads
• Evolving new role for MAX as key resource
• ATT Collaboration Fiber First Waves next (?)
• Support and leverage SURA region NLR nodes
• Facilitate other regional partnership and efforts
• Establish National and International
  Connectivity and Visibility
• Leverage ATT Collaboration Agreement
• USAWaves and National Buyers Consortium
• Help complete/enhance NLR backbone to advantage
  of SURA region
• Impact digital divide issues
• Drive down cost while improving physical
  connectivity

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Program PlanInternational Connectivity

• Program Elements
• Identify and engage with strategic international
  networking forums and projects
• National and Regional Networking groups
• Internet2, NLR, CENIC, etc.
• CANARIE, GEANT/DANTE, SURFNet, UKERNA, CERN,
  NORDUNet, etc.
• APAN, TRANSPAC, AMPATH, ALICE/CLARA, etc.
• International Networking Initiatives
• TransLight, EuroLink, SurfLight, UKLight,
  NorthernLight. Etc.
• GLIF - Global Lambda Integrated Facility
• HOPI (UCAID)
• Support and partner with international research
  collaborations
• HENP, GOOS/IOS, BioGrid, eVLBI, etc.
• Partnership with IEEAF
• New international fiber and lambda donations
• Link and leverage with SURA/USAWaves and NLR

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NSF International Research Network Connections
(IRNC)(Kick-off March 11, 2005)
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NSF Planning Grant for Africa Link
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Map of International GLIF InitiativeGlobal
Lambda Integrated Facility
www.glif.is
Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson, NCSA.
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Thailand Regional Initiative Next Generation
Internet Announced by H.E.Dr. Surapong
Suebwonglee, Minister of ICT, ThailandJanuary
26, 2005
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International Connectivity for Collaboration

• Lots of point-to-point OC-xs
• Now increasing waves 2.5G ?s, 10G ?s
• NSF IRNC solicitation is generating more
• GLIF - Global Lambda Integrated Facility (light
  paths)
• Multiple POPs, connection points, owners
• Numerous exchange agreements, AUPs, barriers to
  transparent communications
• Increasing focus on neutral, open exchanges,
  distributed peering infrastructure

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Another view of NSF IRNC
GLORIAD Global Ring to China and Russia
To Japan, HongKong, Singapore
To Europe
P-Wave
To Hawaii, Australia
To Australia
To Latin America
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U.S. International Peering Fabric
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Atlantic Wave A New Paradigm for International
Peering (and more) on the East Coast

• Removing Geographic Barriers
• Concept an extensible, geographically dispersed
  peering fabric -- with open, neutral
  exchange/peering points
• Result you connect at any one location on the
  fabric and have the option to peer with any other
  participant, regardless of where they are
  connected

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SURA and FIU/AMPATH Now WHREN (Western
Hemisphere Research and Education Network)

• SURA and FIU committed to interconnect AMPATH and
  NYC/MANLAN
• Initially with 1Ge that SURA has under its
  agreement with NLR
• Then with 10G
• Important to include connectivity to MAX/NGIX-E
  and federal connections in DC area leverage SURA
  investment in MAX
• Leverage SURA investment in SoX, role of SoX/SLR
  as southeast exchange point

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Important East Coast International Peerings

• FIU/AMPATH, Miami - Latin America
• NYC/MANLAN - multiple
• MAX - Feds GEANT

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MANLAN, MAX AMPATH
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The Strategic Picture
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SURA Atlantic Wave Proposal

• ITSG (IT Steering Group) recommended and SURA
  Executive Committee approved
• That SURA acquire a 10Gbps wavelength on the NLR
  backbone from Jacksonville to NYC and a switch to
  be placed in NYC, in support of the Atlantic Wave
  initiative (background and details follow).
• The estimated one-time expenditure of 481,472 be
  funded from the I.T. Fund.

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Atlantic Wave Matching Commitments

• Significant matching funds are being committed by
  the various partners in Atlantic Wave (based on
  initial estimate)
• a. AMPATH (FIU) recurring costs of 10G wave from
  JAX to NYC - 35,823 per yr
• b. FLR and FIU/AMPATH 10G wave from JAX to Miami
  cost not yet known
• c. AMPATH switch in Miami - estimated 150K
• d. FLR switch in Jacksonville - estimated 150K
• e. ATL/SoX switch SoX/SLR - estimated 150K
• f. MAX switch in DC/MAX - estimated 150K

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AtlanticWave

• AtlanticWave is an International Peering Fabric
  along the East Coast
• US, Canada, Europe, South America Plus.
• Distributed IP peering points
• NYC, WDC, ATL, MIA, SPB
• Described as an integral component of the
  WHREN-LILA proposal to extend LILA on the
  Atlantic side to MANLAN in NYC
• Establishes 10Gb wave from Miami to MAX/NGIX-E in
  DC and MANLAN/NYC over FLR and NLR with
  interconnects in Jacksonville and Atlanta
• Interconnects the Atlantic with international
  peering exchanges in TransLight/Chicago and the
  Pacific through CAnet4 and Pacific Wave (P-Wave)
• SURA, FIU-AMPATH-CHEPREO, the IEEAF, MAX,
  SoX/SLR, MANLAN, and in partnership with the
  Academic Network of Sao Paulo (ANSP) are
  combining efforts to establish AtlanticWave
• Complements the PacificWave distributed peering
  facility on the west coast

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AtlanticWave Topology

• A-Wave will provide multi-layer/multi-protocol
  services between participating networks
• Layer 3 peering services over ethernet
• GLIF light path services
• Others TBD
• A-Wave will provide a Layer 3 distributed
  exchange capability
• Ethernet based
• Best effort packet exchange
• Linear topology unprotected (NLR based)
• 1 GE, 10GE LAN, 10GE WAN client access
• Jumbo frame support

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A-Wave Layered Services
GLIF Light Path Services Dynamically Allocated
IP Peering Services Statically Provisioned
IP
IP
IP
User defined sonet payload framing
Inter-switch VLAN 1

Inter-switch VLAN 2
IP
VLAN(s)
Ethernet
IP (POS)
Ethernet
STS-(x)c Light Path 1
STS-(?)c Light Path 2
STS-(?)c Light Path 3
STS-(?)c Light Path n

VCAT/LCAS
A-Wave backbone OC192c Sonet wave over NLR
VCAT Virtual Concatenation LCAS Link Capacity
Adjustment Scheme
Prepared by Jerry Sobieski
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AtlanticWave Design
Prepared by Jerry Sobieski
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Deployment Plans Timeline

• Phase 1 Deploy backbone OC192c Sept 05
• Between MIA-ATL, ATL-WDC, WDC-NYC
• 10Gbs WAN PHY ethernet over NLR wave initially.
• Migration of existing exchange switches/networks
• Regional backhaul
• Reconfiguration of existing exchange services and
  networks
• Phase 2 Sonet switch deployment Dec 05
• Map IP/Ethernet Peering Fabric across
  appropriate sized VCG (GFP-F VCAT)
• Engineer and deploy GLIF Common Services in
  conjunction with other GLIF domains
• Phase 3 Deploy dynamic light path services Mar
  06
• Phase 4 Expansion Aug 06 -gt
• Integrate links between A-Wave, P-Wave, Northern
  Tier, etc

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