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National Light Rail
Dark Fiber National footprint– Building from California via Denver to Atlanta initially and
completing national footprint in a ring back to California as funds and partners available
Serves very high-end experimental and research applications
4 - 10Gb Wavelengths initially
Capable of 40 10Gbps wavelengths at build-out
Partnership model
NLR Footprint and Layer 1 Topology
15808 Terminal, Regen or OADM site (OpAmp sites not shown)Fiber route
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Goal of NLR
“The fundamental and overriding goal of NLR is to provide an enabling experimental infrastructure for new forms and methods of science and engineering.” – Peter O’Neil
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Elements of NLR
Enable science that cannot be done today• Distributed Terascale Facility/Extended Terascaled
Facility (DTF/ETF) access• Grid/Distributed computing• Distributed Storage Area Networks (SANs)• Real-time, high-speed data access and service• Distributed coupled modeling
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Elements of NLR
There are three broad areas of research activity that the proposed NLR infrastructure would facilitate:– Experimental Computational Science and Engineering
• Application Research grid computing, load migration, latency tolerant algorithms, resource aware algorithm selection and scheduling, distributed and multidisciplinary efforts involving multiple length and time scales in the simulations and multiple science and engineering disciplines, very tightly-coupled simulation codes and algorithms, data sensing and collection elements, data repositories, visualization environments, etc.
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Elements of NLR
High Performance Networking Research• conduct network layer or link-layer research on some
wavelengths, while maintaining a stable link layer and network layer on other wavelengths to conduct research at the transport layer or higher layers
• build the next generation of network protocols using a protocol development environment (PDE)
• conduct research activities in the optronics space itself
Research andDevelopment
Commercialization
Partnerships
Privatization
Today’s Internet
‘NGI’ efforts
Source: Ivan Moura Campos
Research Nets
Evolution of Networking ‘Spiral’
And, Long Term
Common Denominator, Advanced Services Research & Education Network
Bleeding-edge e2e services & facilities for key experiments, programs, projects, researchers & for next gen. tech., architectures, Grids, content, apparatus, etc. ‘Things that haven’t been done before; with, to, on or over networks’.
Leading-Edge ip Services for demanding apps . & middleware
Advanced Services for R&E users
Business,.Gov.& General PublicCommodity Internet
I2-Abilene, GigaPoPs; Fed. ‘NGI’ Nets. Internet-2,GigaPoPs I2-K20
ISP’s, hosting.com’s etc.
Operational High Performance Research Support Networks
CS, Comp. Science & ‘Grid’ researchers,+ major experiments (eg DTF) & net. experimenters + leading edge labs and centers, optics sys.& net. Industry R&D groups + I-WIREPACIFIC LIGHTRAIL +Internet-2 wave projects;
Research
’s,P2p fiber,
& >=10g ip …
Experimental &Developmental
Networks
LEADERS NETWORK TYPE CAPABILITIES/USERS
R&E Network Tiers NETWORK DISCONTINUITIES
12/05/01
Computer Science & Net. Researchers Academic Research, papers, lab. Experiments, spools of fiber In labs & sparse testbeds
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Drivers and Motivations
“NSF must be prepared to assume a great S&E infrastructure role for the benefit of the Nation.”
An increasing number of researcher and educators, working as individuals and in groups, need to be connected to sophisticated array of facilities, instruments, and data bases.”
Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the 21st Century Report
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Drivers and Motivations
“Develop and deploy an advanced cyberinfrastructure to enable new Science & Engineering in the 21st century”
“Expand education and training opportunities at new and existing research facilities.”
“Develop interagency plans and strategies to provide high-end high performance computing and networking infrastructure.”
Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the 21st Century Report
Rationale for NLR:
Current market demonstrates willingness of private sector setting stage for strong partnership of academia, corporations and government
Research community in USA and worldwide working on large scale research and development applications calling for increasing bandwidth as evidenced by the Grid and Terascale projects
Unified approach best investment for biggest payoff for the most users
Federal program funding support focused on research and experimental applications needing significant network capacity
Leadership worldwide in research and education increasingly dependent upon large-scale collaborative research activities
Meet the future needs of the research and community most economically
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Why Fiber?
Capacity needed is not otherwise affordable
Capabilities needed are not available
Cheaper in the long range
Leverage with “carriers”
Insurance against monopoly behavior
Stable and predictable anchor points
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NLR Service Offerings
Waves!!!!Dark Fiber‘MetaPoP’ capabilitiesDedicated OC-192c or 10GE waves– No wave can interfere with others
Shared IP service– Must be able to tolerate outages– Supports experimental code
Shared Layer 2 serverAccess to 2 unused wavesSubdivided waves for dedicated uses– Delivered as gigabit Ethernet
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NLR Governance
LLC - Equity Partners
Joint Research Council
Joint Technology Council
Distributed Network Engineering/ Operations
Waves governed/managed by various groups
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Potential Participants
Carnegie Mellon/PSC
Virginia Tech
Duke
Georgia Tech
Florida Group (FSU lead)
Texas Group (UT Austin lead)
CENIC
NOTE: There are many sites behind each of these lead sites
PNWGP
UCAR
UCAID
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Westnet LightRail (WLR) Costs
$4.6 Million over 5 yearsWestnet LightRail is a consortium of the FRGP Abilene members and the InterMountain GigaPop (IMG)– University of Utah, Utah State, Utah Education
Network
Share geography and research goalsIMG would become members of the FRGP to help off-set total costs
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Costs to UCAR/UCAR
Share commodity Internet, engineer, equipment, Abilene, and NLR costs
$100-$200K new dollars per year for UCAR for five years depending on WLR financial commitments
Without WLR consortium the cost to UCAR would be $920K per year for five years
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UCAR Benefits/RisksBenefits
Enables advanced scientific researchLeast expensive way to obtain DTF/ETF waves to LA or ChicagoPositions participation in NSF solicitations e.g. Experimental Infrastructure Network and Networking Research TestbedsProvides experimental lambda to PSC for jointly funded workFurther aggregation of Abilene and commodity links to reduce future costsFounding partner least cost/ potential profit position
RisksAs founding partner, UCAR provider of services for WLR members - bears more financial & liability risksFRGP and IMG may take different time frames to gather fundsWLR members can’t join corporations of any kindPuts 5 year liability w/o offset asset on our booksSome risk, but still most prudent and cost effective way for UCAR to proceedLiability and financial risks are being further evaluated by legal and finance