john p. streck john h. moore nc-itec update-fall 2000

John P. Streck John H. Moore

NC-ITEC

Update-Fall 2000


Mission Statement

• Provide technology evaluation and testing services to the Internet 2 community. The two main constituencies are:

The Abilene NOC – the lab responds to issues raised by the NOC involving code and functions currently deployed in Abilene.

Internet 2 Engineering – the lab provides an environment for testing new code and features before they are deployed in Abilene.


NC-ITEC Structure

• Present locations– Cisco lab in RTP– Expansion space in MCNC lab

• Future additional locations 2Q01– NC State Centennial Campus in Spirent

Communications lab


NC-ITEC Structure –cont.

• Connectivity– Cisco lab to NCNI

• Presently OC-12 over dark fiber

• In progress DWDM over dark fiber

• Staff support– NCNI

– Cisco

– Spirent


ITEC Lab setup

• Multiple GSR 12000’s

• Access routers and switches

• Test equipment (traffic generator/analyzers)

• Remote test access (virtual lab setup)

• Video/audio application traffic source

• Test result and configuration archives


Recent & Current Work Items

• Staging for SC 2000 QoS demo• EFT lab test for MPLS-GB• Regression test of IOS FR code problem• CAR performance testing• MDRR functional assessment• Unicast RPF function & performance test• “Smoke test” of debug IOS image


Upcoming Plans

• Increase size of test bed to develop parallel testing capabilities

• Improve the lab infrastructure to provide a more efficient environment for both local & remote testing

• Increase the size of the lab staff to better service requests from the Abilene NOC and I2 Engineering


NC-ITEC Support Staff

• John Moore (NCNI) -associate technical director

• Lee Graham (NCNI) -test engineer (p/t)

• Jitendra Lal (NCNI) -test engineer (p/t)

• Katie Cantrell (Cisco) -test engineer (p/t)

• Tsegereda Beyene (Cisco) -networking consultant

• Michael Lynge (Spirent) -test tool support manager

• Bill Cerveny (AN&S.) -test engineer (remote)

john p. streck john h. moore nc-itec update-fall 2000

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