© Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Regional Networking Australia and the Pacific Region George McLaughlin Director, International Developments

©Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd

Regional Networking

Australia and the Pacific Region

George McLaughlin

Director, International Developments


Work in Progress

• AARNet is currently designing a new network for Australian and International deployment in January 2004

• Design largely complete• Commercial negotiations still in progress• Deployment yet to come


AARNet 3 Basic Design 1 Robust Production Quality

• Dual unprotected links from Brisbane to Perth (2 x 2.5Gbps)• Dual unprotected links from Sydney to US West Coast (via

Hawaii) – 2 x 622Mbps and 2 x 10Gbps• Dual Points of Presence in each Australian capital city along

path• Dual R&E PoPs in US as well as Hawaii, Dual International

commodity PoPs in US• Initially a commodity link from Perth (Western Australia) to

Singapore• Next phase to consider commodity and R&E links from

Sydney to Tokyo and possibly a dedicated link to Singapore• Option to include New Zealand• Future possibilities for Fiji, Indonesia and Guam

©Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd © AARNet Pty Ltd 2003

Australia’s Research and Education Networks

AARNet3GrangeNetCeNTIEAARNet/Powerlink North Queensland NetworkAARNet/TrandGrid NSW Network


AARNet 3 Basic Design 2

• Using MPLS Fast Failover for “protection”• Burst capacity 2x “protected” link capacity• Supports IPv4 and IPv6 (unicast & multicast)• Supports QoS (diffserv)• Uses MPLS-TE to minimise latency for Voice/Video

over IP (and potentially other real time applications)• Customers connect via Gigabit Ethernet


Services

• Basic transport of IP packets• Customers use precedence tagging on a packet to

change QoS, both premium (up) and scavenger (down)• Premium service used primarily for Voice/Video over IP

applications, e.g. VoIP & video conferencing• Voice implemented like an extended PABX• AARNet provides MCU(s) to support of Video over IP• Rapid growth in deployment of Access Grids nodes


Grid Services

Advanced Communications Services

Specialised, Regional and International Networks

User Communities

Backbone Network

HealthBio-

informatics

Earth and Environmental

Sciences etc

Feeder Networks

etc

Education

Internet2CanarieAPAN

Feeder Networks

Feeder Networks

Next Generation Network/GRID Structures

User Communities of Interest


AARNET’s current and planned Pacific Rim links

Fiji

Mauna Kea


Au-Hawaii-US West Coast 10Gbps wavelength – north path

• AARNet Sydney PoP1 to Alexandria (Sydney)• Alexandria to Kahe Point (Oahu) - SCCN circuit 1

–backhaul to University of Hawaii (Manoa)–possible drop at Fiji

• Kahe Point to Hillsboro (Oregon) - SCCN circuit 2–interconnect to Pacific Lambda Rail at Portland

• then to Pacific Wave (north)• and Sunnyvale or LALALAN (south)

• from Pacific Wave and LALALAN to west coast national and international peers, Abilene and CANet4

• from Abilene and CANet4 to other international and regional networks


Au-Hawaii-US West Coast 10Gbps wavelength – south path

• Sunnyvale or LALALAN to San Louis Obispo (SLO)• SLO to Alexandria (Sydney) - SCCN circuit 3

– possible drop at Hawaii’s big Island (telescopes)– possible drop at New Zealand

• Alexandria to AARNet’s Sydney PoP2• From either of AARNet’s Sydney PoPs to AARNet3,

GrangeNet, CeNTIE • Later from AARNet’s Sydney PoPs to Tokyo (APAN NE

Cluster) and form AARNet’s Perth PoPs to Singapore (APAN SE Cluster)


AARNET’s international connections

Fiji

Mauna Kea


www.aarnet.edu.au

Documents

© Copyright AARNet Pty Ltd Regional Networking Australia and the Pacific Region George McLaughlin Director, International Developments