TransLightStarLight

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• TransLight/StarLight
• Tom DeFanti (Principal Investigator)
• Maxine Brown (Co-Principal Investigator)
• Joe Mambretti (Investigator)

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TransLight/StarLight IRNC Award SCI-0441094

• In cooperation with US and European national
  research and education networks,
  TransLight/StarLight will implement a strategy to
  best serve established production science
• TransLight/StarLight will support usage by those
  scientists, engineers and educators who have
  persistent large-flow, real-time, and/or other
  advanced application requirements 

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Scope of Work

• Procure and maintain (minimally) one OC-192
  circuit that connects HDXcs in MAN LAN in New
  York City (NYC) and NetherLight in Amsterdam.
• Evaluate feasibility of a second OC-192 for L1/L2
  production services for high-flow data and
  collaboration-intensive applications.
• Ensure that appropriate traffic monitoring,
  measurement and analysis are accomplished through
  NSF-designated partners.
• Promote and support availability to the advanced
  science, engineering and education communities
  who require ongoing transatlantic production
  services.

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Opportunities for Broader Access

• NSF encourages Fednet use of these circuits
• To partner with transatlantic Fednet applications
  development
• To assist in providing transatlantic Fednet
  resiliency
• New circuits are evolving quickly
• IRNC siblings in 2006, Ref other presentations
• IRNC 20 Gbps is a subset of many more, at least
  100 transatlantic Gbps

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Details of IRNC Transatlantic Interconnectivity
Anticipated July 1, 2005

• 1st OC-192 AbileneltgtGEANT L3 connectivity
• OC-192 between HDXc in MAN LAN and HDXc in
  NetherLight
• HDXc ports to be generously provided by UCAID and
  SURFnet
• NOC services to be provided by UCAID and DANTE
• 2nd OC-192 L1/L2 connectivity to US
  Cyberinfrastructure
• Continue existing lightpath connections via
  NetherLight to CERN, UKLight, NorthernLight,
  CzechLight
• Connect to others in Europe as GEANT2 provides
  more lambdas in 2006
• Partner with TransLight/Pacific Wave, NLR and
  CAnet4 to build lightpaths to Asia
• NOC services to be provided by Argonne/CENIC/PNWGP
  

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Coordination with IRNC Siblings

• Measure together
• Share security incidents and issues
• Assist other related projects
• Trade tools and best practices
• Promote MAN LAN as an Open Exchange
• Serve together on the IRNC Program Management
  Group
• Work together at iGrid2005 Workshop and 5th GLIF
  Meeting Sept. 26-30, 2005 in San Diego