CANARIE http:www.canarie.ca CAnet 4 Update

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CANARIE http//www.canarie.ca CAnet 4
Update

• CAnet 4 Design and OBGP documentation
• http//www.canet3.net

Bill.St.Arnaud_at_canarie.ca Tel [phone]
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CAnet 4 Update

• CAnet 3 terminates July 31, 2002
• CAnet 4 RFI issued August 2001
• CAnet 4 funding announced Dec 2001 - 110m
• One time grant for 5 years
• Selection of carrier(s) to be announced shortly
• Initial OC192 network on all path with plans to
  upgrade over the next couple of years
• Selection of equipment supplier(s) to be
  announced shortly
• But dramatic reduction in number and size of
  routers
• CAnet 4 scheduled to be turned up July 1st, 2002

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Possible CAnet 4 Topology
January 1, 2002
Edmonton
Prince George
Saskatoon
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Calgary
Regina
Halifax
Thunder Bay
Kamloops
St. John's
Victoria
Quebec City
Charlottetown
Sudbury
Spokane
Seattle
Montreal
Ottawa
Fredericton
Halifax
Minneapolis
Toronto
Kingston
Buffalo
London
CAnet 4 Node Mini-IX
Albany
Hamilton
Windsor
Possible Future Breakout
Chicago
New York
Possible Future link or Option
CAnet 4 OC192
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The CAnet 4 Objective-1 Canadas National
Innovation Infrastructure

• Primary mission of CAnet 4 will be to support
  basic research and education amongst higher ed
  institutions, research centers,schools, etc
• CAnet will be foundation of innovation
  infrastructure by interconnecting regional
  networks, universities, schools, to promote an
  innovation culture through advanced
  applications such as tele-learning, eScience,
  grids, etc
• Examples
• National Bio-informatics grid linking
  bio-informatics research institutes across the
  country
• Cosmic Ray eScience grid interconnecting
  UoAlberta and schools across the country

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The CAnet 4 Objective 2

• There is a growing trend for many schools,
  universities and businesses to control and manage
  their own dark fiber
• Can we extend this concept so that they can also
  own and manage their own wavelengths?
• Customer empowered optical networks are built on
  the paradigm that customer owns and controls the
  wavelengths (Virtual Dark Fiber)
• Customer controls the setup, tear down and
  routing of the wavelength between itself and
  other customers
• Wavelength resource management is done on on peer
  to peer basis rather than by central
  administrative organization
• Network is now an asset, rather than a service
• Will empowering customers to control and manage
  their own networks result in new applications and
  services similar to how the PC empowered users to
  develop new computing applications?

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The CAnet 4 Objective-3 Customer Empowered
Networking

• To partner with industry in development of new
  protocols and technologies required so that
  customers at the edge of the network own and
  control their own wavelengths
• Extension of the classic end-2-end Internet
  principle which has been shown to significantly
  enhance innovation
• CANARIE optical cross connect switches are like
  mini IXs
• CANARIE will physically maintain optical cross
  connect switches but customer who owns wavelength
  controls the associated cross connect remotely
• Customer can re-route or re-terminate wavelength
  any time they so chose
• Object Oriented Networking OON
• Light paths and cross connects are an object
  with attributes and method including inheritance,
  polymorphism, classes, etc

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Wavelength Assignment
Carrier A
12
10
University
Regional Network
3
13
AS 1
2
15
4
AS 5
14
AS 2
5
7
9
1
AS 6
Regional Network
6
8
University
Carrier B
CAnet 4 switch
STAR TAP router
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Wavelength Logical Mapping
12
10
University
Regional Network
3
Carrier A
13
AS 1
15
2
4
AS 5
14
AS 2
5
7
9
Carrier B
AS 6
Regional Network
6
8
University
CAnet 4 switch
STAR TAP

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Mini-IXs are the core of CAnet 4

• Ideal for large data flows used in Grid
  applications
• Networks of mini-IXs can be linked together for
  specific application communities and allow direct
  peering between institutions and researchers
• E.g. High energy physics network of mini-IXs
• Regional networks and universities can connect to
  mini-IXs to off load P2P traffic
• Or network of mini-IXs for residences and student
  dormitories to off load P2P traffic
• The beauty of mini-IX is that architecture is
  recursive like other successful Internet
  protocols e.g. HTTP, DNS, etc
• Most optical protocols are reiterative and
  subject to scaling issues e.g. GMPLS

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CANARIE-GigaPOP collocatedBC, Seattle, New York,
Nova Scotia, Quebec
GbE or STS channel assigned to GigaPOP
GigaPOP Router
GigaPOP
In building Fiber
Optional CAnet 4 Router
All sub-tended interfaces are GbE framed with
effective bandwidth set by STS channel size
GbE
STS OC-192 to GbE/STS Groomer/converter
Mini-IX
Local Loop or In building Fiber Carrier
responsible
CAnet 4 Node
Carrier ADM
OC-192
OC-192
carrier
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Object Oriented Networking

• Combines concepts of Active Networks, Internet 2
  e2e principles and Grids
• Customer owns sets of wavelengths and cross
  connects on an optical switch
• Similar in concept to nested VPNs with customer
  control of Add/Drop
• Network elements or nested VPNs can be treated as
  a set of objects in software applications or
  grids
• Complete with inheritances and classes, etc
• In future researchers will purchase networks just
  like super computers, telescopes or other big
  science equipment
• Networks will be an asset not a service
• Will be able to trade swap and sell wavelengths
  and optical cross connects on commodity markets

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Mini-IX with OON
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Initial Version of Mini-IXExternal Proxy Server
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Possible IP layer
Rimouski
Edmonton
Charlottetown
Saskatoon
Thunder Bay
Vancouver
Calgary
Regina
Winnipeg
Toronto
Ottawa
Montreal
Fredericton
Halifax
Nfld
Abilene Router
Seattle
New York
Chicago
AARnet router
Geant Router
STAR TAP router
Abilene Router
STS Channel reserved for CAnet 4 IP
service Backhaul STS channel to connect GigaPOP
to CAnet 4 router . Note Final configuration
subject to change