Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown

Principal Investigators, STAR TAP

Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Alan Verlo, Caren Litvanyi, Andy Schmidt

STAR TAP Engineering

Joe Mambretti, Tim Ward

StarLight Facilities Development and Operations

John Jamison

Sympathizer and Confidant

STAR TAP and StarLight

• STAR TAP: 5-year-old operational cross-connect of the world's high-performance Production R&E Networks 45-622Mb ATM       

• StarLight: optical evolution of STAR TAP connecting and switching/routing – Production Networks at 1Gb – Experimental Networks at 1Gb, 2.5Gb, and 10Gb – Research Networks at 10Gb

• Funded by US NSF CISE ANIR, EIA and ACIR infrastructure grants to UIC, UIUC, NU, and IU

• Enabling and sustaining support by ANL MCS

What is StarLight?

Abbott Hall, Northwestern University

StarLight is an experimental optical infrastructure andproving ground for network services optimized forhigh-performance applicationsStarLight Assists $32M (FY2002-3) in experimental networks (I-WIRE, TeraGrid, OMNInet, SURFnet, CA*net4, DataTAG)

StarLight Service Description Today

• StarLight is a Gigabit Ethernet exchange point• Policy-free 802.1q VLANs are created between

peering partners• StarLight benefits connecting networks:

– High-speed peering with large MTU– Available collocation space – Planned 10GigE, other switched services– Several US and international networks connected– Multicast support

• StarLight is focused on the needs of e-Science and supporting Experimental Networks

StarLight is Now Fully Operational

• StarLight Equipment installed: – Cisco 6509 with lots of GigE ports– Juniper M10 and M5 (with GigE and OC-12

interfaces)– ESnet’s IPv6 Router– Data mining clusters

• SURFnet’s Cisco 12000 GSR &15454• Multiple vendors for GigE, 10GigE, and DWDM

StarLight Network Operations

• All of the StarLight equipment (except IPv6 routers & AADS NAP) is monitored 24x7x365 by IU's GlobalNOC

• GlobalNOC provides a 24x7x365 point of contact when trouble arises– noc@startap.net– 1.317.278.6630

Commercial Providers @ StarLight

SBC/Ameritech Qwest/Teleglobe

Global Crossing AT&T and AT&T Broadband

I-WIRE @ StarLight

Rack is prepped and waiting for equipment

StarLight/NetherLight

Cees de Laat, U Amsterdam@ StarLight, USA

Tom DeFanti, UIC and de Laat @ NetherLight, The Netherlands

CERN’s Coming to StarLight

Caltech/CERN packing slip for cartons.

Olivier Martin (CERN), Tim Ward (NU),Richard Hughes-Jones (U Manchester)

US Networks:ESNet (OC-3c soon OC-12c)Abilene (OC-12c)vBNS (OC-12c)Fermilab (OC-3c)Argonne (OC-12c)CANARIE (OC-3c)MREN (layer2)6TAP

Abilene (2xGE)SURFNet (2xOC-12c, OC-48c)Argonne (2xGE)Northwestern University (GE)AMPATH (GE)vBNS+ (soon)CERN (OC-12c/48c soon)CA*net4 (2xOC-192 soon)

I-WIRE DWDMTRANSPAC (OC-12c)NORDUNET (OC3c)6TAPMREN (layer2 and 3) NREN (GE)ESnet (GE)TeraGrid DTFnet (soon)

STAR TAP and StarLight Services Description

ATM PVC Exchange Service

ATM PVC Exchange Service

AS 10764IPv4 and IPv6Transit Service

AS 10764IPv4 and IPv6Transit Service

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet

Exchange Service

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet

Exchange Service

Carrier-NeutralCo-Location

Facility

Carrier-NeutralCo-Location

Facility

ResearchCircuit/Lambda

Switching

ResearchCircuit/Lambda

Switching

STAR TAP (AADS NAP)

StarLight

OC12c

NPA/NXX 312/503

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet

Exchange Service

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet

Exchange Service

Carrier-NeutralCo-Location

Facility

Carrier-NeutralCo-Location

Facility

ResearchCircuit/Lambda

Switching

ResearchCircuit/Lambda

Switching

StarLight

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet TransportService

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet TransportService

QwestCo-Location

Facility

QwestCo-Location

Facility

Qwest

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet TransportService

1&10 Gigabit Ethernet TransportService

NPA/NXX 312/503

TeraGrid DTFnetESNetNRENAbilene

Extending StarLight Services via Qwest

I-WIRE dark fiber:

36 strands

Abilene (2xGE)SURFNet (2xOC-12c, OC-48c)Argonne (2xGE)Northwestern University (GE)AMPATH (GE)vBNS+ (soon)CERN (OC-12c/48c soon)CA*net4 (2xOC-192 soon)

I-WIRE DWDMTRANSPAC (OC-12c)NORDUNET (OC3c)6TAPMREN (layer2 and 3) NREN (GE)ESnet (GE)TeraGrid DTFnet (soon)

24-26 September 2002Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre (WTCW)

The Netherlands

Grid 2oo2www.startap.net/igrid2002www.igrid2002.org (COMING SOON)

The International Virtual Laboratory

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Maxine BrownSTAR TAP/StarLight co-Principal Investigator

Associate Director, Electronic Visualization LaboratoryUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

Coming…..

StarLight Thanks

• StarLight planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from: – National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-

9802090, EIA-9871058, and EIA-0115809

– NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to the National Computational Science Alliance

– State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing

– Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management

• Argonne National Laboratory for StarLight and I-WIRE network engineering and planning leadership

• NSF/ANIR, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, and Olivier Martin and Harvey Newman of CERN for global networking leadership;

• NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/TeraGrid opportunities

• UCAID/Abilene for Internet2 and ITN/GTRN transit; IU for the GlobalNOC

• CA*net4, CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North American transport

StarLight“Bring Us Your Lambdas”