Nlr.net © 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc 1 NLR Update Dave Reese Joint Techs February 2007

nlr.net© 2004 National LambdaRail, Inc

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NLR Update

Dave Reese

Joint Techs

February 2007


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Topics

• SC06 Results• Infrastructure Update• New Services• Research


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SC06


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Overview

• Plan was to focus on FrameNet and PacketNet Service• Did do a few WaveNet circuits

• Atlantic Wave, 2 FrameNet, 2 PacketNet, misc others. • All FrameNet and PacketNet bandwidth was allocated

• 40 Gb total - primary and backup links• Hand scheduled, relied on users to honor the specific day

and time assignments. • Monitoring - NLRview

• Phase 1 measurement infrastructure installed• Measured FrameNet and PacketNet bandwidth in and out of

Tampa.


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SC06 Users - PacketNet and FrameNet

• CalTech (CACR)• CANARIE• Center for Computation and

Technology at LSU• EVL (Calit2/CEOA)• Indiana University• KREONet, KISTI• NASA

• National Center for Data Mining

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

• Purdue University• RENCI• Research Channel• University of Tokyo• Virginia Institute of

Technology


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NLR PacketNet HOUS to ATLA

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• Wednesday 11/15/06• Max 7.34 Gbps

• Week 11/10/15 - 11/16/06


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FrameNet - Houston to Baton Rouge

• Wednesday - 11/15/06• Max of 9.931 Gbps

• Week 11/10/06 - 11/15/06


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FrameNet Traffic Map




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Infrastructure Update

NLR Allocated Waves - January 2007


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WaveNet Allocation

• 98 WaveNet Circuits (was 94 in 12/06)• ~312 out of 1029 segments allocated

• 30% of the backbone• Avg number of segments per circuit ~ 3

• Busiest Segments - Northern Route• CHIC to STAR - 24 waves or 75%• CHIC to CLEV - 19 waves or 48%• CHIC to DENV - 18 waves or 45%

• Expansion• Adding 15454 chassis on Northern route to accommodate

additional waves• Add capacity between CHIC and STAR

• 24 out of 32 Waves allocated• Investigating additional fiber and equipment


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PacketNet Weather Map - Feb 2007


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PacketNet

• Designed to be extremely reliable• Diverse backbone• Redundant route processors, power supplies• Redundant member connections

• 10 GE primary connection• 1 GE backup connection • Backup connection opposite direction and connects to different

router• PacketNet routes

• 7212 distinct routes• Announced (not all distinct)

• Members: 1263• FedNets: 1119• International: 8575


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International Peers

Peer Starlight PacWave MANLAN v4 mcv6 uni v6 mcSURFnet 127 39 1 1CA*Net4 712 82 1 1TWAREN 218 137 10 Starlight router 2723 544 Kreonet 584 CUDI GLORIAD 1119 GEANT 2154 TransPac 441 117 CLARA 493 Ultralight/LHCnet 4 1 Singaren 28 Total 4776 1518 2281 919 13 2


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FrameNet Weather Map - Bandwidth


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FrameNet Services

• VLANs• Dedicated and non-dedicated bandwidth• Point-to-point or multi-point• Bandwidth increments of 100 Mbps

• Up to full link bandwidth• Additional backbone links are added if dedicated

bandwith exceeds 6 Gbps.

• Redundant non-dedicated VLAN available upon request for dedicated VLANS


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FrameNet

• Non-dedicated bandwidth • No cost for bandwidth through 2007• Cost for additional port (if you want them)

• 1 GE or 10 GE available

• Service implementation• Close to on demand when port exists

• Annual contracts• Shorter durations are available upon request.


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New Services


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NLRview - NLR Measurement Infrastructure

• Phase 1 - Installation completed by January 2007• Phase 1: Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Houston• Phase 2 - Installation February/March 2007

• Seattle, Sunnyvale or Jacksonville• Chicago - last node to be installed - pending co-location

space and power.

• Uses so far:• Provided statistics for SC06• 10 GE performance tuning at SC06• Multicast testing and debugging


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NLR Optical Switch

• Locate NLR Switch in Kansas City• Node which connects to 3 segments

• CHIC - KANS

• DENV - KANS

• TULS - KANS

• Scheduled to be installed end of February• Pending co-location space and power in KANS Node.

• Initial Projects• Collaboration with Enlightened project• Service restoration


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NLR Optical Switch Topology


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Research


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Research

• Ongoing interest in using NLR infrastructure to support research projects.

• Proposal support• Quotes for services and infrastructure• Letters of Support

• New Projects• Requests for BGP debug information• Distance Learning Class

• Taught by Thomas Sterling at LSU– Participants - Louisiana Tech University, University

of Arkansas, MCND, and Masaryk University in the Czech Republic


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ESS

• ESS Engineer to be assigned to • Every project• Every major user

– To track and anticipate additional needs• Inquiry to Installation

• ESS will track and support the entire process• Improved customer service

• Single point of contact until service placed into production• Support for NNRC and NSRC

• Review of network and science research abstract• Documentation

• Revise Research support documents• Release NLR Research Program

Documents

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