TransLight/StarLight

Tom DeFanti (Principal Investigator)

Maxine Brown (Co-Principal Investigator)

IRNC Award SCI-0441094

• In cooperation with US and European national research and education networks, TransLight/StarLight will implement a strategy to best serve established production science

• TransLight/StarLight will support usage by those scientists, engineers and educators who have persistent large-flow, real-time, and/or other advanced application requirements 

Scope of Work

• Procure and maintain (minimally) one OC-192 circuit that connects UCAID’s Abilene network in New York City (NYC) to TERENA’s GÉANT L3 network in Amsterdam.

• Evaluate feasibility of a second OC-192 for L1/L2 production services for high-flow data/collaboration-intensive applications.

• Ensure that appropriate traffic monitoring, measurement and analysis are accomplished through NSF-designated partners.

• Provide related management, documentation, engineering support and education and outreach efforts, and attend relevant networking and/or discipline science meetings and conferences.

• Promote and support availability to the advanced science, engineering and education communities who require ongoing transatlantic production services.

TransLight/StarLight IRNC

HPIIS Euro-Link OC-192 connection in place until June 30, 2005

Tender out for new link(s); responses due first week in April

New link(s) to be live on July 1, 2005

Details of Interconnectivity

• OC-192(s) between US and Europe– From MAN LAN in NYC to NetherLight in Amsterdam– HDXc ports to be generously provided by Abilene and SURFnet

• 1st OC-192: Abilene and Abilene ITN L3 connectivity– OC-192 between HDXc in NYC/MAN LAN and HDXc in NetherLight– NOC services to be provided by Abilene and DANTE

• 2nd OC-192 (possible): L1/L2 connectivity– To Europe via Netherlight, GEANT2 and other circuits– Throughout North America via NLR, AtlanticWave, HOPI, CA*net4 – To Asia via JGN-II and TransLight/Pacific Wave– NOC services to be provided by Argonne/CENIC/PNWGP

• NSF encourages use by transatlantic Fednet applications• All IRNCs connect via Abilene at L3

MAN LAN Connection

Diagram

US TransLight/StarLight (black)10-20Gb NYC—Amsterdam

US GLORIAD IRNC (Dark Blue)–~1-10 Gb Chicago—Amsterdam

GEANT/Internet2 (red) –30Gb London, etc.—NYC/DC?

UKLight to US (magenta)–10Gb London—Chicago

SURFnet to US (Green)–10Gb Amsterdam—NYC–10Gb Amsterdam—Chicago

CERN to US (cyan)–10Gb CERN—Chicago

IEEAF (blue)–10Gb NYC—Amsterdam

Canadian CA*net4 to US (white)–40Gb Chicago-Canada-NYC–10Gb NYC—Amsterdam

European (not GEANT) (yellow)–20Gb Amsterdam—CERN –10Gb Prague—Amsterdam–10Gb Stockholm—Amsterdam–10Gb London—Amsterdam

Leveraging ~12xOC-192s Trans-Atlantic

Northern Light

CERN

UKLight

Manhattan Landing

Monitoring Plans and Problem Resolution Framework

• L3 NOC services to be provided by Abilene and GÉANT• L1/L2 NOC services to be provided by PNWGP, CENIC, Argonne and SURFnet• L1/L2 NOC services typically include:

– Pre-installation design, engineering and post-installation top-level engineering support– Assistance with international circuit provisioning, including with domestic and international local loops– International and domestic circuit delivery– Coordination of circuit, lambda, fiber connection and/or other cross-connect provisioning between providers

and network organizations– Cross-connections for physical fiber, including options for specialized equipment provisioning and cross-

connections for experiments, testing, and demonstrations– Service installation coordination (circuits, peering, addressing requests, equipment, wavelengths etc.)– Consulting on networking equipment selection and configuration for international and domestic circuits

including fiber and wavelength interconnections– Assistance with, and provisioning of, out-of-band circuit provisioning for management and control– Hands-on services, e.g. changes to equipment, including installation of equipment in cabinets, replacing

hardware boards, and verifying equipment state, changing cross-connects, etc.)– Continuous maintenance and outage notification– Proactive device, wavelength, fiber continuity and circuit monitoring– Problem analysis and escalation (incorporating full trouble-ticketing)– Direct engineering service contact interfaces for all technical service problems and after-installation services – Full service information database including: point of contact information for all services, providers, customers

and equipment; all circuit wave and/or fiber information with contacts; including circuit ids and customer escalation lists), all open activities, etc.

– Assistance with equipment shipping including international shipping and customs processing– Reporting on wave and fiber availability and performance. – Maintain and test, on a continuing basis, out-of-band access to all optical equipment.– Custom monitoring, analysis, and reporting for services and equipment.

Relevant Opportunities for Coordination with other IRNC Award Activities

• Measure with Matt & Matt • Discuss security incidents and relevant security issues • Assist transatlantic GLORIAD, African efforts• Trade tools among TransLight, GLORIAD, UvA, I2, etc.• Promote MAN LAN as an Open Exchange• Serve together on the IRNC Program Management Group• Come together at iGrid2005 Workshop Sept. 26-30

TransLight Science and Engineering Pledged Collaborators

• Gabrielle Allen (LSU); Paul Avery (U Florida); Joe Bannister (USC/ISI); Chaitan Baru (UCSD); Micah Beck (U Tennessee); Fran Berman (UCSD/SDSC); Alan Chave (WHOI); Peter Clarke (UCL); Les Cottrell (SLAC); Donna Cox (UIUC/NCSA); Brian Davis (USGS EDC); Cees de Laat (UvA); John Delaney (U Washington); Rich DeMillo (Georgia Tech); Jack Dongarra (U Tennessee); Mark Ellisman (UCSD); Ian Foster (U Chicago and ANL); Robert Franza (U Washington); Eric Frost (SDSU); Jim Gray (Microsoft); Bob Grossman (UIC); Laurin Herr (PII); Ron Hutchins (Georgia Tech); Gwen Jacobs (Montana State); Lennart Johnsson (U Houston); Jim Kennedy (GEMINI); Rolf-Peter Kudritzki (U Hawaii); Jysoo Lee (KISTI); Jason Leigh (UIC); Shawn McKee (U Michigan); Harvey Newman (Caltech); Mike Norman (UCSD); John O’Callaghan (APAC); John Orcutt (UCSD/SIO); Steve Parsley (JIVE); Ed Seidel (LSU); Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST); John Shalf (LBL); Rick Stevens (U Chicago/ANL); Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins); Valerie Taylor (TAMU); Frank Vernon (UCSD/SIO); Alan Whitney (MIT Haystack); Bob Wilhelmson (NCSA/UIUC); John Wooley (UCSD); Charlie Zender (UCI)

Partners

• Heidi Alvarez (FIU/WHREN); Tomonori Aoyama (Tokyo/JGN-II); Ruzena Bajcsy (UCB); Alan Blatecky (UNC); Jacqueline Brown (U Washington); Natasha Bulashova (UIUC/GLORIAD); Aubrey Bush (Georgia Tech); Charlie Catlett (U Chicago and ANL); Greg Cole (UIUC/GLORIAD); Bill Collins (NCAR); Chip Cox (FIU/WHREN); Jerry Draayer (SURA); Louis Fox (U Washington); Tom Greene (MIT); Jan Gruntorad (CESNET); Julio Ibarra (FIU/WHREN); Ann Marie Kimball (APEC); David Lassner (U Hawaii); Ed Lazowska (U Washington); Xing Li (CERNET); Joe Mambretti (NU); George McLaughlin (AARNet); Jun Murai (Keio/WIDE); Kees Neggers (SURFnet); Dan Reed (UNC); Don Riley (U Maryland/IEEAF); Larry Smarr (Cal-(IT)2); Bill St. Arnaud (CANARIE); Peter Villemoes (NORDUnet); Frank Williams (U Alaska/ARSC); Steve Wolff (Cisco); Eugene Yeh (NCHC/TWAREN)

• Erik-Jan Bos (SURFnet); René Hatem (CANARIE); Wendy Huntoon (PSC); Caren Litvanyi (IU); Marla Meehl (NCAR); Peter O’Neill (NCAR); Jim Pepin (USC); Dave Reese (CENIC); Victor Reijs (HEAnet); David Richardson (PNWGP/NLR); Vijay Samalam (SDSC/UCSD); Jerry Sobieski (MAX); Alan Verlo (UIC/StarLight); Linda Winkler (ANL/I-WIRE/TeraGrid/StarLight)

iGrid 2005 Organizing Institutions• AARNet (Australia’s Research and Education Network), Australia• APAN/TransPAC2, Asia Pacific/USA• Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, USA• Calit2 (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology), University of California San Diego and University of

California Irvine, USA• California Institute of Technology, USA• CANARIE, Canada• CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California), USA• CESNET, Czech Republic • Chinese Academy of Science, Computer Network Information Center, China• DANTE/GÉANT2, Europe• ESnet, Department of Energy, USA• European Commission, DG Information Society, Research Infrastructure, Europe• Florida International University, Center for Internet Augmented Research & Assessment (CIARA)/WHREN, USA• HEAnet, Ireland• IEEAF (Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation), USA• Indiana University, USA• Internet2, USA• Japanese Gigabit Network II (JGN-II), Japan• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)/UKERNA/UKLight, United Kingdom• KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), Korea• National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC), Taiwan• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)/ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign• National LambdaRail (NLR), USA• NetherLight, The Netherlands• NORDUnet/NorthernLight, Nordic Countries (Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway)• Northwestern University, International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), USA• Pacific Interface, Inc., USA• PRAGMA (Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly), 23 institutions around the Pacific Rim• StarLight, USA• SURA (Southeastern Universities Research Association), USA• SURFnet, The Netherlands • TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association), Europe• The Quilt, USA• University of Amsterdam, Advanced Internet Research Group (AIR), The Netherlands• University of Illinois at Chicago, Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), USA• University of Southern California, USA• University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory/GLORIAD, USA• University of Washington/Pacific Northwest GigaPoP/Pacific Wave/Research Channel, USA

Challenges

• Political– L3 bandwidth increases ~4X: balance?– Impedence matching with DANTE– L1/L2 allocation and measurement/reporting– New IRNC AUP definition and enforcement

• Technical– L1/L2 bandwidth doubles: control?– L1/L2 allocation and measurement/reporting– New IRNC AUP implementation– Security

Time for Q&A and Discussion

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