RNO UKERNA SuperJANET5 Planning Meeting General Update

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RNO / UKERNA SuperJANET5 Planning
MeetingGeneral Update
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Agenda
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Transmission Infrastructure

• 52 year contract signed with Verizon in mid
  December
• Rollout project team and structures established
• Key delivery dates
• Core infrastructure by end April 2006
• Infrastructure to all RNs by end June 2006
• UKERNA / RNOs transition to SJ5 July to November
  2006
• SuperJANET4 ceases
• RNEP site surveys to take place in Feb / March
• RNEP preparation information issued earlier this
  week

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Dublin connection

• An option to provide a breakout in Dublin is
  available
• Discussions with HeaNET to
• Replace the existing connection to JANET with a
  SuperJANET5 connection over the collector arc to
  the Warrington and Glasgow PoPs
• Other bandwidth channels possible for research
  collaborations

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Dublin connection
Glasgow
To NIRAN RNEP 1
To NIRAN RNEP 2
1GE wavelengths
Dublin to HeaNET PoP
Warrington
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IP Router procurement update

• Lucent Technologies selected as the supplier of
  Juniper T-640 series routers
• A hardware supply framework agreement for the
  T-Series only is being established
• Publicly funded bodies connected to JANET can use
  this
• 51 OFF list price
• Routers RFS from 31st May 2006

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JANET IP

• Implementation of the JANET IP service test
  regime (of dual links) explained at the Nov 05
  meeting
• Overview document will be produced and issued
• Cisco 6509 router interfaces purchasing on behalf
  of RNOs (for those that asked) underway
• UKERNA IP equipment will be kept at some RNEPs to
  support schools and ACL connections

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Bandwidth Channels (UKLight)

• UKLight infrastructure will be migrated to
  SuperJANET5
• For RNOs connected to UKLight the connection to
  SuperJANET5 will be via the 10Gbit/s bandwidth
  channel wavelength
• For those RNOs that dont have a UKLight
  connection UKERNA will work with them to
  determine how best to make use of the 10Gbit/s
  bandwidth channel wavelength

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Practical Optical Networking Event

• 16th March 2006, RUSI London

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Questions?