STAR TAP Technical Advisory Committee IU NOC

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STAR TAP Technical Advisory CommitteeIU NOC

• San Jose
• 22 June 1999
• Michael McRobbie ltmcrobbie_at_ovpit.ucs.indiana.edugt
• Doug Pearson ltdodpears_at_indiana.edugt
• http//www.transpac.org

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NOCs

• Current
• TransPAC operations/engineering
• Abilene operations/engineering
• IU networks operations/engineering
• Developing
• STAR TAP operations
• Eurolink operations

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Standard Operations Procedures

• 24x7 operation
• network monitoring
• routing maintenance and problem isolation
• problem reporting and referral
• escalation
• testing
• notification
• emergency communications
• service level measurement and reporting
• record keeping
• change management
• security management
• ongoing training

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Tools - Current

• standards, e.g. ping, traceroute, ...
• MRTG
• accounts on far-end hosts
• mping
• pathchar
• OC3mon (NLANR system)
• Surveyor at APAN exchange points

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Tools - Development

• management station to be installed at STAR TAP
• http//www.accumatics.com
• dual boot
• Accumatics OC3mon via LS1010 VC snoop
• custom performance/measurements environment
• mping, ttcp, pathchar, traceroute server, treno,
  netperf...
• Linux 5.2, kernel 2.2.9

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Tools - Development

• TACACS access control to routers and switches
• rights controls for NOC, local and peer network
  engineers
• logs configuration changes

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Tools - Development

• configuration management tools
• archiving of router/switch configurations
• automated differences report of router/switch
  configurations

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Tools - Development

• command proxy for routers and switches
• web-based mechanism to submit a query to a router
  or switch and view the query results
• length of request string limited
• number of queries per device per unit time
  limited
• limited to only certain commands
• the mechanism logs into the target device using a
  non-enabled username/password, sets term length
  to zero, executes the command and displays the
  result

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Tools - Development

• network traffic/errors map
• collect SNMP-based stats of utilization and
  interface errors
• display in gracphical map
• colors according to utilization
• errors as a logarithmic scale hash mark, with
  dampened decay
• time-based playback of graphs

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• BGP reporting tool
• multicast monitoring

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TransPAC Management Committee

• APAN
• Australia
• Robin Stanton
• Markus Buchhorn
• Japan
• Shigeki Goto (Co-Chair)
• Kazunori Konishi
• Korea
• Yong-Jin Park
• Kyungpyo Hong
• Singapore
• Francis Lee
• Tham Chen Khong
• APAN Chair
• Kilnam Chon
• Tokyo XP
• Akira Kato
• Management Liaison
• Hiromasa Kaneko

• United States
• Indiana University
• Michael McRobbie (Co-Chair)
• Doug Pearson
• Steve Wallace
• Jim Williams
• Rick McMullen
• Dennis Gannon
• Karen Adams
• replacement for Allen Robel
• ATT
• To be determined
• STAR TAP
• Linda Winkler
• Management Liaison
• Steve Goldstein

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Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)

• An international consortium established in June
  1997 to promote advanced research in networking
  technologies and the development of
  high-performance broadband applications and
  infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Four primary members Australia, Japan, Korea and
  Singapore.
• Associate and other members Malaysia, Hong Kong,
  Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines.

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TransPAC Network

• IPv4, native IPv6 and ATM services based on a
  73Mbps VBR-nrt ATM connection from the APAN Tokyo
  exchange point to the STAR TAP in Chicago.
• The original 35Mbps service was upgraded to
  73Mbps in March of 1999.
• Multicast is supported (although some problems)
• The underlying ATM service is provided by ATT
  and Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd.

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TransPAC Utilization
GREEN Input Transmission Rate BLUE
Output Transmission Rate DARK
GREEN Maximal 5 Minute Incoming
Traffic MAGENTA Maximal 5 Minute Outgoing
Traffic
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Peering

• APAN
• vBNS
• NREN
• ESnet
• Abilene

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NOC

• integration of activities with Abilene NOC
• will be assuming role of STAR TAP NOC
• will be assuming role of Eurolink NOC

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Applications

• Telemicroscopy
• Research Center for Ultra High Voltage Electron
  Microscopy (UHVEM), Osaka University and,
• University of California, San Diego National
  Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
• NPACI articles
• Volume 2, Issue 14 Japanese and U.S. Scientists
  Succeed in Trans-Pacific Operation of Ultra High
  Voltage Electron Microscope
• http//www.npaci.edu/online/cgi-bin/display.cgi/on
  line/v2.14/telemicroscopy.html
• Volume 3, Issue 10 Seeing Submicron Structures
  from 10,000 Kilometers Trans-Pacific Microscopy
  Enabled by International Advanced Networks
• http//www.npaci.edu/online/cgi-bin/display.cgi/on
  line/v3.10/telemicroscopy.html

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Activities

• iGrid - SuperComputing98, Orlando, Florida, Nov
  7-13, 1998
• An international collaborative project to
  demonstrate next-generation network-based
  research and education applications that depend
  on emerging services such as resource control and
  reservation, new protocols, and high bandwidth
  global grids.
• http//www.transpac.org/documents/981111_igridapps
  .pdf
• http//www.transpac.org/documents/980217_igrid.pdf
  

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Activities

• GOIN99
• Demonstrations of earth observation applications
  for the Global Observation Information Network
  (GOIN) 1999 Plenary and Workshops in Honolulu
  during the week of March 22-26, 1999.

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Activities

• I2 QBone http//www.internet2.edu/qos/qbone
• an interdomain testbed for differentiated
  services (DiffServ) that seeks to provide the
  higher-education community with end-to-end
  services in support of emerging advanced
  networked applications.
• lead and follow IETF DiffServ standards work
• 13 QBone projects
• 4 international, 3 US backbone, 6 GigaPoP and 10
  campus
• APAN / TransPAC are members of a Joint Project
  organized by the International Center for
  Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR)
  http//www.transpac.org/documents/QBone-proposal.p
  df

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Activities

• I2 QBone - iCAIR Joint Proposal Participants
• APAN - Asia Pacific Advanced Network
• CTIT - Centre for Telematics and Information
  Tech., U of Twente
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University
  of Illinois, Chicago
• IBM Thomas Watson Research Center
• iCAIR/Northwestern University
• Indiana University
• KDD - Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co. Ltd.
• Korea Telecom
• MREN - Metropolitan Research and Education
  Network
• Nanyang Technological University
• National University of Singapore
• SingAREN
• STARTAP
• SURFnet
• TransPAC

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Activities

• iCAIR Joint Proposal based on
• streaming digital video - I2 DVN
• persistent infrastructure to provide high-quality
  digital video services in the Internet2 community
• live and stored content
• IBM VideoCharger technology
• multicast
• MPEG1 and MPEG2 at data rates up to 8 Mbps
• directory services
• large file systems
• caching and replication
• requirement for QoS
• teleImmersion
• based on prior STAR TAP TeleImmersion Experiments
  between EVL and National University of Singapore

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Activities

• I2 Digital Video Network
• organized by iCAIR
• establish a national, higher education video
  network service to provide capabilities to
  support scalable and easy-to-use applications to
  deliver live or stored streaming and interactive
  high-quality digital video
• initial application is multicast streamed MPEG1/2
  using Videocharger technology
• KDD and Indiana University to install video
  servers
• http//www.i2dvn.org

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User Services

• Contacts
• JP Hiroyuki Okano lthokano_at_tokyo.jst.go.jpgt
• AU Markus Buchhorn ltmarkus_at_acsys.anu.edu.augt
• KR Prof Yong-Jin Park ltpark_at_hyuee.hanyang.ac.krgt
  
• SG Dr. Francis Lee ltebslee_at_ntu.edu.sggt
• US Dr. Donald F. McMullen ltmcmullen_at_indiana.edu
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Testbeds

• Cache
• Hyunchul Kim of KAIST testing data transfer
  performance as first step of Large Object
  Caching/Replication project
• Multicast / MBone
• finalize configurations for multicast during
  IWS99
• IPv6
• WIDE / vBNS and WIDE / ESnet peering up via
  distinct TransPAC ATM PVC

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Whats Coming Up?

• IU HPNAP program
• QoS testbed
• International participation in I2 DSI
• IU DLI2 proposal... Waseda Univ. as satellite
  site