NLR Update

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List of Nominations List of Nominations

NLR Update

Peter O’Neil

Westnet Meeting

January 14, 2004

Tempe, AZ




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Topical Outline

• Current Members• Build Out Schedule• NOC/Engineering Selection• Director Project Management• Contracts and Funds Flow• IRS Application for 501c3• Network Research Aspects• SURA Initiative




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Members

• CENIC, PNWGP, Duke, Georgia Tech, Florida, PSC/CMU, Virginia Tech, CIC, Internet2, Texas, Cisco

• Prospective Members:– CMU joining PSC to move to full member status rather than

service member as originally signed

– Oak Ridge National Lab

– Cornell in conjunction with NYSERnet and NOX

– FRGP & Utah (WRL)




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Board Organization

• Tracey Futhey, Chair (Duke)

• Tom West, CEO (CENIC)

• Steve Corbato, Secretary (I2)

• Election of Executive Committee of Board postponed until additional members join




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Project Management• Search started for Director of Engineering• Sense was that David Richardson, Dave Reese, Steve

Corbato, and Cisco contributing lots of technical effort. • Feeling was that the project program management

concerns more important right now.• About 10-12 people interviewed and 2-3 on short list as

position changed from engineering to project management

• Debbie Montano accepted position starting January 1st

– Director Development & Operations




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Contracts & Funds Flow

• Agreements signed with Level 3 for fiber, collocation, and “remote hands” support

• Agreements signed with Cisco for optical equipment, install, and maintenance services

• Member payments sent so NLR cash positive going forward




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IRS Ruling

• NLR, Inc, as a not-for-profit, applied for IRS ruling to be considered a tax-exempt 501c3 organization

• Original “expedited” ruling turned down• Appeal for expedited ruling approved, with

determination expected late February• Most NLR members who had tax

exemption “out-clause” rescinded it.




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NOC Selection

• Competitive proposal process• CENIC awarded responsibility for Layer 1 and

Indiana for Layer 2/3• MCNC (and Cisco) awarded responsibility for

Experimental Research aspects• Each party is developing SoW’s and budgets that

are still to be negotiated since initial input process underway with use communities to define requirements better




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Build Schedule

• PSC to Chicago path up and passing packets• Cisco optics ordered for all paths• Manufacturing and Install issues resolved• Test & Turn-up Crew now bottleneck• Seattle to Denver path underway

– Equipment delivery late Feb 04– Install by late March 04– Test and Turn-up July 04

• Denver to Chicago path– Equipment delivery March– Install by late April– Test and Turn-up late August




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Network Research Focus

• Remember, 20 of the 40 optical waves, reserved for “experimental” use• Cisco appointed 2 faculty to the NLR Board

– Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin– Dan Blumenthal, UC Santa Barbara– Leading effort to write paper on Network Research Council

• Focus now on naming a senior, publicly recognized, Chief Scientist• Performing “outreach” to researchers as to NLR’s capabilities

– Planning an NLR Research Workshop to solicit input

• Will follow "researcher model" as on federal grant proposals with set of categories for use of NLR infrastructure at different networking layers.

• Based on notion of NSF 1 year "exploratory" grant funds to better specify piece of work to be done. Help leverage additional grant requests from other agencies.




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SURA Initiative

• December 16th, AT&T and SURA announced agreement – terms very sketchy even to SURA technical committee– Claim is 10 year IRU for 6K miles of fiber “at no cost”

• SURA wants AT&T fiber to be used (at least) for Atlanta to Florida, Florida to Dallas, Dallas to San Diego

• NLR Committee formed to do “due diligence” on language in agreement and routes– IRU time lengths have “revenue targets” so problematic– Fiber paths have “breaks” that need fixing– Desired SURA PoP and NLR PoP locations are different– Layer 2/layer 3 equipment, interconnect, and remote hands costs

yet to be factored in to get from AT&T to Level 3 facilities




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I2 HOPI Design Team




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HOPI

• Native American insensitivity for:• Hybrid Optical-Packet Infrastructure• How to make use of 10Gb/s λ over full NLR footprint

– Abilene High Performance IP network

– Meet point for Int’l collaboration (MAN LAN, IEEF, StarLight)




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HOPI Design Team

• Rick Summerhill Co-Chair, outside Co-Chair TBD

• Internet2 Community – Peter O'Neil, Bill Owens, Mark Johnson, Tom Lehman, David

Richardson, Chris Robb, Jerry Sobieski, Steven Wallace, Linda Winkler • Int’l Community

– Cees de Laat, Rene Hatem

• Internet2 Staff– Guy Almes, Heather Boyles, Steve Corbato, Chris Heermann (Facilitator),

Rick Summerhill (Co-Chair), Christian Todorov (Scribe), Matt Zekauskas




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Team Charter

• Provide a technical plan for integrating the HOPI raw materials into a test-bed facility that can provide dedicated bandwidth and an experimental platform for testing future architectures. The initial plan to be written during 1Q04 (probably unrealistic).




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Abilene-NLR Topology




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Web100

• Kernel support through Linux 2.4.24• Pre-built (binary) Web100 kernels (new) • ACM Computer Communications Review Article• Functionality going into Linux 2.6.x

www.web100.org

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