SURA IT Committee

July 29,2005

Tony Conto

MAX Update

High Growth in Production IP Network

• Currently 37 Participants

• Near-Term Connectors Summer ’05• Inter-American Development Bank• Johns Hopkins APL campus• U.S. Food & Drug Administration

• Max will likely have 40 connectors by end of 2005

• Doubled network size in 2-3 years

• Forecast is for continued growth!!

Participant Consortiumof Higher Education, Federal Labs and Private

Non-Profit Institutions (37 Participants and Networks Directly Connected)

• Higher Education (18)• Baltimore Education & Research Network (BERnet)• Catholic University• Georgetown University• George Washington University• Johns Hopkins University• Montgomery College• National Consortium for Supercomputing

Applications / ACCESS• Network Virginia (aggregating the State of Virginia)• Smithsonian Institution• Southern Universities Research Association

(SURA)• University of California, D.C. campus• University Consortium for Advanced Internet

Development (UCAID / Internet2)• University of Maryland, College Park• University of Maryland, Baltimore• University of Maryland, Baltimore Co.• Univ. System of Maryland Network (aggregating 11

campuses)• University of Southern California, Information

Sciences Institute / East• Washington Research Library Consortium

rev. 10/27

• Federal Labs and Agencies (14)• Library of Congress• NASA / GSFC• National Archives and Records

Administration (NARA)• National Science Foundation (NSF)• National Institutes of Health (NIH)• National Institute of Standards and

Technology• National Library of Medicine (NLM)• National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA)• Naval Research Lab & ATDnet• U.S. Census• U.S.D.A, Beltsville Agr. Research Ctr.• U.S. Department of State (through GWU)• U.S. Geological Survey• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

• Private Non-Profit (5)• Howard Hughes Med. Institute• Fujitsu Labs of America• The Institute for Genomic Research• Windber Professional Services, Inc• World Bank

Mid-Atlantic Crossroads

Abilene

Network Virginia

ISP

National/InternationalPeering Networks

Regional NetworkParticipants ATDnet

NASA

NGIX-East

DREN

NISN

NRENESNet

MAXMAXRegional

Infrastructure

BoSSNET

37 Higher Education, Federal Agency and Private Non-Profit MAX Members

Univ System Md

DRAGON

MAX Completed a Re-architecture and Expansion

• Upgraded and consolidated layer 3 routers• Removed 3 Juniper M160s (EOLed) at edge pops• Installing 2 Juniper T640s, cutting all customers over.

• Expansion of layer 1 core optical network• Backhaul with redundancy of switches at pops• Top-tier customer optical backhaul from any pop• Integrating second optical dwdm system (Movaz)

• Expansion to new Level 3 pop (NLR) • New dwdm collaboration USM, NetWork MD, JHU

from D.C. campus to Baltimore• Next phase FY ‘06 adds 10G links in core & edge

DWDM

Next-Gen Production Network

BALT

New DWDM optical system

OC48c POS OC48

Abilene

Gige SwitchGigE Switch

T640Router

M40e Router

DCGW

CLPK

NGIXGige 6509

Qwest

NWVa

Gige

ARLG

DCNE

NSF

LVL3

T640 Router

OC12

NLR

DWDM

MAXActivities

Production Net Activities

GIG-EF(ATDNet-V2)

Research Technologies

Future Projects

LTS PMD

ResearchHOPI Testbed Support Center

MAX is More than Production IP Networking

NGIX/East(FedNet peer

point)

DRAGONExperimental Networking

Research Activities

Layer 3 IP NetworkServices

Layer 1 Optical Services

Future Projects

Related StrategicActivities

AtlanticWave,NLR, Quilt,

MAX Production Network Services

• IPv4 unicast, IPv4 multicast, and native IPv6 unicast.

• Internet2 (Abilene network) regional aggregation

• ISP resale (currently Qwest DIA, may add another)

• NGIX/East FedNet peer point operation

• National Lambda Rail (NLR) aggregation and fan-out

• Lambda transport on MAX dwdm optical network

• MPLS tunnel transport in MAX IP network

• Participant Colocation at UMD, Qwest, & Level3 pops

• Network monitoring and uptime/usage reporting

MAX Commodity Internet Service

• Currently Qwest DIA service, resold to any participant for primary or secondary ISP.

• ISP routes kept separate from I2 routes via RFC 2547 MPLS vpns (Separate routing tables, separate peerings)

• 14 participants, 500 mb aggregated and growing, based on Quilt pricing.

• Adding redundant Qwest peering for backup summer 05.

Strong Carrier Partnerships

• With 6 MAX pop locations around region, participants can connect at one or more locations via dark fiber or lit services via aggressive low-cost carriers as well as traditional telcos.

• 80% & growing of participant circuits are ethernet.

• Strong partnerships with carriers:• Allied Telecom, ATT, Fibergate, Level 3, Looking Glass

Networks, MCI, Qwest, Starpower/RCN, Verizon, Yipes.

MAX Operates NGIX/East FedNet Peer Point

• “Meet-me” point (NAP ) for national backbones to exchange east-coast traffic.

• Converted from ATM to GigE 3 years ago.

• Currently Abilene (10 Gb), vBNS (1 Gb), DREN (1 Gb), NISN (1 Gb), NREN (1 Gb), USGS (1 Gb), NLM (1 Gb).

• New NGIX peers summer 05: ESnet and GEANT (first international: 10 Gb)

• NGIX/E will be one of 4 core switches in Atlantic Wave’s distributed peering fabric (fall ‘05)

Proposed Atlantic Wave Topology

MIA

Miami, FL

NYCWDCATL

Atlanta, GA Washington, DC New York City, NY

ToSouth America

ToEurope &Canada,

Initial East Coast NLR 10G A-Wave Backbone

Future backbone Extensions within NA & EU

Ethernet services

Sonet services

Fall 05: Atlantic Wave over NLR lambda

Sao Paulo (SPB)

LONNYC

WDC

ATL

MIA

AMS

STK

CER

SEA

CHI

AUS

LAXTOK

A-Wave

East Coast confederation of Network Exchange points-Production level IP peering-Experimental “Light Path” services

DRAGON Research

• Dynamic Resource Allocation over GMPLS Optical Networks• NSF funded project under the Experimental Infostructure Networks (EIN) program• Four year $6.5M program, began Sep03• http://dragon.maxgigapop.net

• Purpose: Develop dynamic connection oriented network transport capabilities to support emerging network intensive globally distributed “e-Science” applications

• Participating Institutions• MAX, Sobieski (PI)• USC/ISI East Tom Lehman (co-PI) • GMU, Bijan Jabbari (co-PI)• UMD, Don Riley (co-PI)• MIT Haystack Observatory• NASA GSFC• Movaz Networks (commercial partner)• NCSA ACCESS• USNO

DRAGON Objectives

• Deploy an all-optical GMPLS controlled metro-area network

• Develop open source protocol stacks for the R&E community

• Develop inter-domain service routing architecture for light path services

• Application Specific Topologies, e.g., Radio Astronomy• Work with MIT Haystack, NASA GSFC, USNO, and

others to integrate these features into production applications

The DRAGON Testbed

HOPI / NLR

CLPK

ARLG

DCGW

MCLN(Level3)

MIT Haystack Observatory(HAYS)

U. S. Naval Observatory(USNO)

University of Maryland College Park(UMCP)

Goddard Space Flight Center(GSFC)

National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA)

Univ of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute

(ISIE)

DCNE

DCNE(Qwest)

MAX

ATDnet

MAX – GIG-EF Cooperative Project(Global Information Grid – Experimental Facility )

• Previously ATDnet (Advanced Technology Demonstration Network) is a high performance networking test bed• Established by DARPA

• Enables collaboration between defense and other federal agencies

• ATDnet comprised of federal research labs• NRL, DIA, DISA, LTS, NASA, DARPA, MAX

• MAX managing a research test bed network in collaboration with ADTnet

• Primarily used for optical research activities

GIG-EF Ring Topology

ECK

DARPA

GWU

WNY

DIA

UMD

NRL

GSFC

DISA

LTS

Govt supplied fiber

Cross-connectFiber bundle

Primary siteAncillary siteQwest fiberFibergate fiber

All routes are 2 strands fiberQwest routes are Lucent TruewaveFibergate routes are SMF28

MIT-LL

~700 km

Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure Project (HOPI)

• Award from Internet2

• MAX is the lead gigapop and partners with NCREN and Indiana University

• Focused on understanding hybrid networks comprised of combined packet switched and circuit switched optical infrastructures

• Understanding dynamic provisioning across a circuit switched infrastructure

• Investigate and implement new and inventive techniques in hybrid networking

Internet 2’s Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure Project (HOPI)

Quilt: National Association of GigaPoPs

• MAX is a member of TheQuilt, a national association of GigaPoPs

• Membership brings value to MAX Participants

• Provides collaboration on projects to benefit the individual GigaPoPs• Leverages multi-state buying power• ISP services with pricing based on aggregated

national bandwidth tiers• national pricing for commodity ISP services