Peter ONeil

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MAX Fall Member Meeting

• Peter ONeil
• Executive Director
• poneil_at_maxgigapop.net
• November 29, 2007

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Update Outline

• MAX Member Relations
• Participant changes, TAC, Newsletters
• Optical Refresh
• Layer 1, 2, 3 service offerings now available
• IWT installed at McLean
• Research Funding Status
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Non-Merger
• VRF options

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Member Relations

• MAX staff
• Several participants upgrading their bandwidth
• Strong interest in joining from 2 schools and 2
  federal agencies
• Lost US Census Bureau
• Requests for more ala carte service menu
• Technical Advisory Council
• Monthly newsletter
• Baltimore College Park Research Centers
• Petascale Clinical Translation solicitations
• New Service Initiatives (particulars later today)

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Fujitsu Optical Refresh
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FLASHWAVE 7500 Advantages

• High survivability
• Clear separating of Left/Right DWDM
• Physical separation between shelves (up to100m)
• Redundant shelf processor
• Non-banded, self tuning network
• Robust rapid response system
• Architecture for triple play service
• Voice, Data, Video
• Rich service delivery options
• End-to-end service protection
• Performance monitoring (PM) for all levels
• Advance operation features
• Full compliment Operation Support (OS) Systems
• Fujitsu craft tool, EMS, and network planning
  design tool

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Baltimore pops
660 RW
1. Original Zhone dwdm over Qwest fiber
6 St Paul
2. Fujitsu dwdm over State Md fiber
Prod Ring 4
New Res fiber
3. 10G on HHMI dwdm over Abovenet fiber
4. 10G on Univ Sys Md, MRV dwdm
10G lambda
Level3 pop, Mclean VA
CLPK
NGIX
Ring 2
CLPK
MCLN
T640
T640
UMD pop, College Park MD
10G backbone
CLPK
MCLN
10G lambda
Ring 1
Ring 3
DCGW
DCNE
ASHB
ARLG
Equinix pop, Ashburn VA
GWU Qwest DC pops, ISI/E Arlington VA pop
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Multi-Layer Services

• MAX now can provide Layer 1 and Layer 3 services
• L1waves L2 VLANs enable dedicated experimental
  research services
• Supplements to L3 common bearer routed IP service
• Allows for redundancy and diversity options
• Evolution of DRAGON service as Production
  service
• Meeting with Fujitsu next week to explore control
  plane enhancements

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Internet Wind Tunnel
PacificWave 1000 Denny Way (Westin Bldg.) Seattle
StarLight Northwestern Univ Chicago
Level3 1360 Kifer Rd. Sunnyvale
MAX GigaPoP U of Maryland Washington DC
Equinix 818 W. 7th St. Los Angeles
CalIT(2) San Diego
IWT core PoP 10GE wave on NLR, and CENIC
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Atlantic Wave
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Research Funding Status

• Research staff funded through MAX core and
• DRAGON no-cost extension until August
• HOPI TSC until June 30th but uncertain now
• ATDnet/NRL letter of intent to renew January
• LTS through June 30th, perhaps longer
• NSF funding crucial up through this point
• Shift towards fiber and optical infrastructure to
  be self supporting

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Disaster Recovery Planning

• DRP written and submitted to University of
  Maryland for further review and comment
• State of Maryland auditors expected in January so
  need for MAX to be compliant with State
  guidelines and requirements
• Useful process (but certainly not fun) thinking
  through business, architecture, and service
  impacts
• Our mission is to enable and ensure you meet your
  missions
• In discussions with MIT that has fiber at Level 3
  in Baltimore for backup wave to NYSERnet for NLR,
  I2, and MANLAN

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External Activities

• Quilt - Officially independent Jan. 1st as
  501c(3)
• Continuing to hold workshops on optical
  networking ops
• Role of RONs and Quilt growing in importance
• Key to strengthening regional technical,
  scientific, and economic development
• RFP for fiber and wave pricing from carriers
• SeRON - Southeast RONs - coordination calls
  meetings
• RONs pursing gateway agreements with backbone
  providers
• Atlantic Wave coordination and engineering
  support
• NGIX engineering support and services
• NSF GENI Initiative

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Global Environment for Networked Innovation
(GENI) http//www.geni.net/

• Focus is on project risks and how prototyping
  efforts will (need to) drive down risks in
  building and operating GENI
• Technical Risks
• Getting arms around beast
• Keeping up with technology and research
• Funding Risks
• Congressional funding of NSF
• Impact on other areas
• Getting the Scope Right
• Narrow vs broad participation
• What communities of researchers to be served

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GENI Approach

• Aiming for clear achievable starting point and
  envisioned long term goal
• Begin prototyping trials
• Gain experience and increment wish-lists and
  requirements, adding new features and complexity
  over time
• Repeatedly assess current risk level, usefulness
  of efforts towards goals and adjust
• Spiral development process of planning, design,
  build out and integration
• Working groups substrate, narrow waist,
  experimenter workflow services, end-user
  opt-in, OMIS (ops, mgmt, integration security)

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GENI Solicitation Process

• Academic, non-profit, for-profit or individual
• Academic industry teams strongly encouraged
• Subcontracts NOT research grants
• Concrete, near-term results
• 3 to 24 month awards 30K to 750K
• Tech merit, management realism, practical problem
  understanding
• Specific deliverables with monthly milestones
• Funding cut if progress not sustained
• Solicitation issued mid December, due mid
  February, award decisions mid May
• Analyses papers, prototypes, integration efforts

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MAX Involvement in GENI

• Jerry I attended the 1st GENI Engineering
  Conference at the University of Minnesota
• Followed this up with a visit to BBN to meet with
  GPO staff on DRAGON work in general and
  Application Specific Topologies in particular
• Meeting with Fujitsu next week to explore
  alliance
• Expecting to submit two proposals

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No I2/NLR Merger

• Maintain existing agreements
• Status quo for now
• Grateful for our relationship with MATP for NLR
  access
• Question is how much longer RE community can
  afford to pay for two backbones?
• While they may look the same they are not
• one owned and one leased
• profound differences in cultures and ways of
  working with RONs
• Concerns if I2s GNC represents REAL change
• Are we waiting for Godot (who never arrives)
• MAX will participate in I2s free 2008 DCS
  offering
• MAX BoD meeting with Doug Ana this past Tuesday
  

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Virtual Routing Forwarding
MAX Infrastructure
Cogent VRF
I2 NLR Blended VRF
Qwest VRF
NLR VRF
I2 VRF
Participant vLANs
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Fiber Based RON facilities
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Expected Outcomes

• Convey to all of you a sense of where we are
• Highlight short term proposed directions and hear
  your feedback on their usefulness value
• Enlist your participation in a series of
  discussions to firm up our long term business and
  technical directions to better serve your needs
  and missions

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Questions?
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RONs and Backbone Providers

• Current Abilene agreement outdated
• Flat fee for gateway port - no additional fees
  for SEGP, Rural Health, universities, research
  labs to have routes accepted
• I2s projects, working groups, activities
  unbundled from network connectivity fees
• RON members can pay I2 for participation in those
  projects activities they value - stand on own
  bottom or sunset those that dont pay their way
• RONs are primary connector in their
  geographical area
• Commitment to network research, AUP free, and
  pass all traffic without any additional charges