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How the Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) serves UCAR and the NWSC
John HernandezNetwork Engineer IV
NCAR/CISLNetwork Engineering & Telecommunications Section
Overview
• Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) Partnership
• UCAR’s footprint on BiSON
• What BiSON does for us
• Work in Progress
• My other projects at NCAR
• Questions?
BiSON Partnership• Current partners are NCAR, NOAA-Boulder, CU-
Boulder, University of Wyoming and Colorado State University
• Original fiber network connected Boulder, Denver, Laramie, Fort Collins and Longmont in a ring.
• Cheyenne build incorporated the NWSC in 2011
• Adva is our vendor for Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) equipment
• Capacity of 80 x 10G channels in 2010, support for 100G circuits
UCAR’s BiSON Footprint
•60 Gb/s - Boulder campuses
•50Gb/s - NWSC
•50 Gb/s - Denver
•40 Gb/s - Front Range GigaPoP
•10 Gb/s - XSEDE
BiSON facilitates…
• Movement of large data sets between Boulder and NWSC
• Scientific collaboration within the CO-WY area
• Dissemination of data to peer institutions, nationwide and abroad
• Access to National Research and Education Networks and shared, XSEDE, high capacity, commodity Internet connections
Work in Progress…
• Linear expansion Denver to Golden for Colorado School of Mines
• Technology refresh
• Some components end-of-support in 2015
• Additional circuits for partners
• Leasing new / replacement fiber paths
• Relocation of existing path between Ft Collins and Laramie
What else I do at NCAR
• Security & engineering services for UCAR-Net
• Engineering services for the GigaPoP network in Denver
• Wireless point-to-point links in the Front Range
• Maintain network statistics
• Operate a Nagios monitoring environment for our networks