Bram Peeters

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• Bram Peeters
• SURFnet

Forskingsnet konference 2005 Middelfart -
Danmark November 2, 2005
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Overview

• SURFnet a hybrid network
• Lightpath networking
• Global networking (GLIF/GOLEs)
• NetherLight
• Automation on SURFnet
• Key themes review

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SURFnet

• The National Research Network in the Netherlands
• 170 connected organizations, 750.000 users
• Infrastructure services
• innovation paid for by government
• cost effective exploitation for higher education
  and research gt SURFnet6

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SURFnet6

• Based on SURFnet-owned managed dark fiber - all
  the way to the customers premises
• Native IPv4, IPv6 and Light Path Provisioning -
  over a single transmission infrastructure
• IP Network nodes reduced from 20 routed locations
  to 2 routed locations
• A hybrid optical and packet switching
  infrastructure

Paving the way to a ubiquitous and scalable
Services Grid
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SURFnet6 - DWDM on dark fiber
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SURFnet6 IP network implementation
SURFnet6 Core Routers
Avici SSR
External IP connectivity
Avici SSR
Avici SSR
Avici SSR
10 GE
Nortel OM 5000
10 GE
Nortel OME 6500
Nortel OM 5000
Nortel OME 6500
SURFnet6 Common Photonic Layer
Nortel OM 5000
Nortel Passport 8600
10 Gigabit Ethernet Customer
Nortel OME 6500
1 GE
1 Gigabit Ethernet Customer
CPE
10 GE
SURFnet infrastructure
Non-SURFnet
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SURFnet6 Lightpath service

• Lightpaths
• End-to-end transmission path - with fixed
  characteristics
• L0/1 connections
• Virtual lambda!
• Divert high-bandwidth streams from routed core
• Enable creation of Optical Private Networks (OPN)
  
• Turn the network into an integral part of
  scientific instruments
• Service
• Reliable
• User provisioning - on a managed network
• Automation
• Rely on control plane technology for the
  mechanics
• Add extra intelligence at the service layer

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e-VLBI
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Application specific OPNs
University dept
High Energy Physics Network
CERN
Healthcare OPN
Research Network
University
University
Bio-informatics Network
eVLBI Network
Telescope site
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LHC high-level network architecture
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GEANT2 European lightpaths
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Global Lambda Integrated FacilityWorld Map
August 2005
Visualization courtesy of Bob Patterson,
NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. D
ata compilation by Maxine Brown, University of
Illinois at Chicago. Earth texture from NASA.
www.glif.is
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SURFnet6 Light Path Implementation
GLORIAD
AMS2
AMS1
Nortel HDXc
European Light Paths
Nortel transport box
Nortel transport box
Intercontinental Light Paths
..
SURFnet6 Common Photonic Layer
Nortel transport box
Nortel transport box
Customer equipment
Customer equipment
End user
End-to-End Light Path
SURFnet infrastructure
End user
Non-SURFnet
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What is GLIF

• Global Lambda Integrated Facility
• Virtual international organization promoting
  paradigm of lambda networking
• Collaborative initiative among worldwide NRENs,
  consortia and institutions
• World-scale Lambda based Laboratory to facilitate
  application and middleware development

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GLIF organisation

• Open community
• Participants, not members
• GLIF glues together the networks and resources
  of its participants
• Jointly make lambdas available for use by
  scientists and projects
• Work together to develop, test and implement new
  lambda networking technologies, middleware and
  applications
• Exchange information to learn from each other's
  experiences
• Bring together leading networking engineers and
  users worldwide

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GOLE Glif Open Lightpath Exchange

• GLIF Lambdas and GOLEs
• GOLE GLIF Open Lightpath Exchange
• Peering point for lightpaths
• Global model MANLAN, NetherLight, UKLight,
  Starlight, NORDUnet, HK-light,
• Open? anyone can bring lambdas
• Lambda owner controls port
• GOLE owner makes cross connects happen
• Limitations only in technology
• Looking for automation
• Reduces effort, speeds up global service delivery
• Enables new applications

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NetherLight Lightpath connections to the
Netherlands
3rd quarter 2005
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NetherLight technical

• Centered around Nortels Optical Cross Connect
  HDXc
• Up to 640 Gbit/s cross connect capability - i.e.
  up to 64 x 10G lambdas!
• Generic Framing Procedure (GFP-F)
• Partitionable on port basis for management
  (operator vs. control plane)
• Currently still manual

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Automation of Lightpaths - using DRAC (Nortels
Dynamic Resource Allocation Controller)
UNI - Simple interface
DRAC
Control plane
SURFnet6
Nortel OME 6500
Nortel OME 6500
User
Nortel OME 6500
CPE
Nortel OME 6500
1 GE
resource
Customer equipment
CPE
1 GE
Customer equipment
Service End-to-End Light Path
SURFnet infrastructure
Non-SURFnet
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DRAC Basic Architecture

• Interfaces
• DRAC UNI (web-service/XML)
• DRAC Provisioning Client (GUI)
• DRAC Administration Center
• configuration, provisioning, monitoring
• AAA external (SURFnets A-Select)
• DRAC Server Components
• DRAC Network Resource Broker
• Bandwidth management
• Routing intelligence (intra/inter domain)
• DRAC Nodal Resource Manager
• Network element abstraction and mediation
  services

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Interacting with the service

• Querying DRAC - before a service is established
• Usable client ports
• Indication of available bandwidth - calendar with
  extra functions!
• Scheduling a connection
• Query ? availability of specific connection
• cost and other parameters returned
• Reserve ? confirmation reference, and guarantee
  of parameters
• Establish ? service is provisioned when establish
  time has come
• Verifying a service
• Status request of a reservation (existing,
  parameters)
• Status request of an existing connection (up,
  down)
• Performance monitoring
• Ethernet level for edge-edge connection
• STS level for interdomain connection

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Managing the service

• Access management
• Groups
• Policy (resource access limitations for groups)
• Connections
• Schedule, change, cancel connection
• Monitoring
• State of DRAC-controlled network
• DRAC service only gt filtering
• not a replacement for the network management
  system!!
• Planning view
• Per link (internal gt network dimensioning)
• Per port, connections
• Accounting

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Key Themes

• SURFnet6 as a hybrid network
• Lightpath as a global service
• From the campus around the world
• GOLEs as peering points enabling GLIF
• Lightpath automation
• Static today (OPNs) rapidly automating on
  SURFnet
• Work with Grid community on dynamic and
  inter-domain aspects, and see how far we can go

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