ORIENTplus: The super highway for R&E collaboration between Europe and China Erik-Jan Bos...

ORIENTplus: The super highway for R&E collaboration between Europe and China

Erik-Jan Bos (NORDUnet)TNC2013 – Maastricht, The Netherlands – June 5, 2013

Contents

History

ORIENTplus Project

Updated status

Use case examples

Future plans

History

ORIENT: 2007 – 2010

IP routed link between Copenhagen and Beijing

Speed: 2.5 Gbit/s

ORIENTplus, an Introduction

Time period: 2011 – 2014Partners:– China: CERNET and CSTNET– Europe: European NRENs and DANTE (coord)

Budget: 4 million euroSponsored by the European Commission, Chinese

Government and the partner European NRENsAims:– To continue a direct link between China and

Europe for R&E, and increase its speed– To stimulate further development of services– To promote the use of the services

Partner list of ORIENT/ORIENTplusORIENT ORIENTplus

CERNET, CN CERNET, CN

CSTNET, CN

DANTE (coordinator) DANTE (coordinator)

CESNET, CZECH Repbulic CESNET

DFN VEREIN, GERMANY DFN

GARR, ITALY GARR

GRNET, GREECE GRNET

JANET, UK Janet

RENATER, FRANCE RENATER

NORDUnet

PIONIER/PSNC

E-ARENA

UIIP NASB

ORIENTplus Link Planning

Timeline for the Link:

– 2011: Copenhagen-Beijing at 2.5G (CERNET, supplied by TeliaSonera)

– 2012: London-Beijing at 2.5G (CSTNET, supplied by China Unicom as result of tender)

– 2013&2014: London-Beijing at 10G (EU partners, supplied by China Unicom as result of tender)

ORIENTplus, start

ORIENTplus started as a continuation from the ORIENT project

ORIENTplus, the move to 10G

10 Gbit/s milestone reached on January 2nd, 2013A 10G lambda between London and Beijing

CERNET: biggest NREN in China

• Fibre network backbone 100G(40λ) DWDM

• Core IP network backbone 100G

• 31 provinces and over 200 cities

• 38 PoPs• Over 2000

universities and institutes

• 30M users

CSTNET: S&T Network in China

• Backbone 10G• 12 sub centers• Over 20 provinces• Over 100 research

institutes • Over 1M end users

CNGI-CERNET2 IPv6 Backbone

• Backbone 10G to 40G/100G

• 25 PoPs in 20 cities

• Over 260 IPv6 access networks, most of them /48 IPv6 addresses• 2M end users

ORIENTplus, a more technical view

Schematic of the 10 Gbit/s link engineering

Moving to the new link

New 10G link delivered in December 2012 as planned, by China Unicom

Traffic cut over from old 2.5G link to new 10G link happened on January 2, 2013 as planned

MRTG view on the link on January 2, 2013

CNGI-6IX schematic in Beijing, China

CNGI-6IX in Beijing

London OLE, part of GÉANT Open

London OLE schematic in London, UKPart of GEANT Open

Back-up for ORIENTplus

Distance London – Beijing: 8250 km (ATCF)

IP backup for ORIENTplus link through:– 10G Internet2/NSF link Beijing – Los Angeles– Internet2's routed IP network– ACE Project's multi-10G North Atlantic lambdas

ORIENTplus is also backup for Beijing-Los Angeles, as a mutual backup

Thus, creating a multi-G IP routed infrastructure for R&E across the Northern Hemishpere

Link Usage (1)

Over 25 substantial scientific and educational collaborative projects and programmes are using the ORIENT/ORIENTplus route: CERN Collaboration: LHC project (IHEP-

IN2P3), South East University with CERN Shanghai Astronomical Observatory – JIVE INFN-ARGO YBJ EMBnet EUChinaGrid GEONETCast- EUMETSAT 1000 Genomes Project

INWA-GRID CEOP-AEGIS and DRAGON2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University – University of

Essex Bridge-Grid ITER - the global fusion energy programme Global atmospheric research, remote robotic

experiments, etc.

Link Usage (2)

Future Plans

Further develop shared operations of the link between CNGI-6IX NOC and GEANT NOC

Deployment of tools and services for R&E such as:– PerfSONAR– eduroam– Dynamic point to point links, using the Open

Grid Forum's NSI Architecture

Stimulating the use of the link

High-speed Routed IP and Point-to-Point links between Europe and China available for Research and Education

You can...– Help us promote the usage of the link in your PR

material– Inform the users you talk to about ORIENTplus– Feedback any opportunity for ORIENTplus back

to the Project partners

ORIENTplus: An opportunity for your users

Thank you! Questions?

More information on ORIENTplus:

http://www.orientplus.eu

Speaker's contact details:

Erik-Jan Bos

mailto:bos@nordu.net

Acknowledgements:European CommissionChinese GovernmentCERNET: Jennifer An and Zhonghui LiCSTNET: Jiangning and Yongzheng MaVarious European NREN staffDANTE and GEANT NOC