HPIIS Performance Review

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• HPIIS Performance Review
• October 25, 2000
• Jim Williams

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The Global Research Network Operations Center
(Global NOC) at Indiana University manages the
international network connections from advanced
research and education networks in the
Asia/Pacific, Europe, Russia and South America to
the Science Technology and Research Transit
Access Point (STAR TAP) and the leading US high
performance research and education networks.
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Global NOC

• Benefits
• Cost efficiencies
• Leverage
• Project cooperation
• NOC specifics
• NOC Web pages
• NOC functions
• Future plans

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Cost efficiencies

• Given the existing 24x7x365 IU and Abilene NOCs
• Global NOC operational model is based on
• offering a template of services
• assigning an area specialist for each network
• cross training for all staff on all shifts
• Both fixed and marginal costs to add a new
  network are limited and quantifiable

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Leverage

• Leverages NSF investment in HPIIS Program funded
  connections to provide a single integrated source
  of NOC support
• Ability to access the best technical personnel
  from Indiana University, STAR TAP and Abilene and
  the partner networks.
• Efficiencies of common NOC personnel

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Project Cooperation

• Common HPIIS external appearance
• Coordinated reports
• Coordinated Web pages
• Shared tool development
• Cooperative engineering interaction

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Tour of Global NOC Web pages

• TransPAC http//noc.transpac.org/
• STAR TAP http//noc.startap.net/
• Euro-Link http//noc.euro-link.org/
• MIRnet http//noc.mirnet.org/
• AMPATH http//noc.ampath.net/
• Abilene http//www.abilene.iu.edu/

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Global NOC Functions

• Problem reporting, monitoring, resolution
• Report generation, distribution, archiving
• Web page development, maintenance
• Tool development, maintenance

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Illustration of NOC functions

• Network Performance
• http//globalnoc.iu.edu
• Network Reporting
• http//globalnoc.iu.edu

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Global NOC Future Plans

• Continued Web page development
• Packaging and deployment of MIRnet traffic
  analysis tool
• Deployment of Abilene multicast tools
• NOC process analysis

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Global NOC Future Plans(continued)

• Closer linkage between other NOCs (vBNS, ESNET,
  Canarie, APAN) to increase tool sharing and
  process cooperation
• Closer linkage with national tool and measurement
  efforts
• Development of NOC Knowledge Base

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• http//globalnoc.iu.edu/
• williams_at_iu.edu