NYSERNets GigaPoP Implementation

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NYSERNets GigaPoP Implementation

• Jim Grisham
• Network Engineer
• NYSERNet, Inc.
• jgrisham_at_nysernet.org
• www.nysernet.org
• Phone [phone] x366

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Technical Issues

• Vendor selection for Back Bone Equipment
• Newbridge
• Diverse set of vendors for edge devices
• edge issues
• edge solutions
• Local Loop issues
• type of service
• SONET

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Technical Issues continued

• BW issues
• over subscription of OC12 BB,
• OC3 vBNS connection
• More fish problems when connecting to
• Abilene
• vBNS
• Commodity Internet
• How do we do QoS for each University?
• guarantees?

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NYSERNet 2000 Backbone and Transit Sites
Buffalo Node
Rochester Transit Node
Syracuse Transit Node
Albany Transit Node
Utica Transit Node
3 x DS3
OC12
OC12
OC12
OC3
DS3
Poughkeepsie Transit Node
DS3
OC3
OC3
OC3
White Plains Transit Node
OC3
DS3
DS3
DS3
SUNY Binghamton Transit Node
NYC Node
DS3
OC3
9 x OC3
9 x DS3
3 x OC3
Legend
SUNY Stony Brook Transit Node
Bandwidth Legend
Thruway sites
DS3
NYSERNet 2000 PoPs
Denotes Circuits To Be Added
OC3
ATM Switch
Future NYSERNet PoPs
DS-3
OC-3
OC-12
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• Policy Issues
• AUP restricted backbone vs AUP free
• Abilene Policy issues
• vBNS policy issues
• other universities that are neither NSF vBNS
  awardees nor I2 members
• access to Abilene
• access to vBNS
• other research institutes some are associated to
  industrial manufacturing
• Rome Labs,
• Kodak Research,
• IBM Watson Labs,
• Brookhaven National labs
• hightech industrial corporations

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QoS within the NYSERNet Backbone

• PVPs with multiple PVCs and SVCs
• PVCs and SVCs for different QoS requirements
• CBR
• VBR real time, non real time
• ABR
• UBR
• QoS within the GigaPoP
• Where is the edge
• QoS within the Campus
• How far in does it go?

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NYSERNet and differentiated services

• How hard would it be to make NYSERNet diffserv
  enabled?
• Initially easy
• mapping of IP TOS to ATM QOS
• How does NYSERNet plan on implementing diffserv?
• ATM based infrastructure
• Policing of the NYSERNet network
• GigaPoP
• Campus
• Where would NYSERNet drop out-of-profile Assured
  traffic?
• Campus? Backbone?
• NYSERNets plans for mapping ATM service classes?

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NYSERNets Solution

• Work with vendors
• High speed forwarding of IP Packets
• Single hop address resolution
• Policy-based route selection
• Managed as part of the ATM multi-services
  switching fabric
• Standards-based internet working with existing IP
  equipment
• experimenting with emerging technologies (both
  hardware and software)