Gigabit or Bust Reaching all users Dave Reese

“Gigabit or Bust” Reaching all users Dave Reese CTO, CENIC 17 September 2002

CENIC • • • A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation founded by California Institute of Technology, California State University, Stanford University, University of California, and University of Southern California Mission is to facilitate and coordinate the deployment, development, and operation of a set of seamless and robust advanced network services. Provides both Internet and Internet 2 (Abilene) access to Associates (and other research networks) Serves all 100+ Community Colleges (2 yr colleges) Digital California Project connects K-12 schools in all 58 counties of California with over 70 nodes/access points 2

CENIC - Dark Fiber Network 1. Current Status of CENIC Fiber Backbone a) b) c) d) e) 2. Signed contracts for over 1, 000 miles (1600 km) of dark fiber in California Companies: Level(3), Williams IRU for 1 mile of conduit to join w/campus entrance fiber (UCSD) Hardware selection in final stages (Cisco 15808 DWDM) Additional 540 miles (870 km) under consideration Fiber from University to backbone a) b) c) d) e) All University of California campuses Stanford University USC (University of Southern California) Cal. Tech Phase 2 to include California State University campuses 3

Cal. REN Networks 4

Cal. REN - Serving Research & Commodity 1. CENIC will build two distinct Cal. REN networks a) Using fiber and DWDM as common layer b) Cal. REN/DC = Digital California (production commodity, five-9’s) • OC-48 c backbone, T-1, DS-3, OC-12, Gig. E connections • 3. 8 Gbps of Internet-1 connectivity • Commodity peering in Los Angeles and Palo Alto c) Cal. REN/HPR = High Performance Research (Abilene-like) • 10 Gig. E LANPHY backbone, Gig. E, 10 Gig. E connections • 10 Gig. E to Abilene in Los Angeles d) Cal. REN/XD = Experimental Development/Research • Providing 3 OC-192 c connections Los Angeles-San Diego for DTF/SDSC • Capability to provide 10 G wavelengths between researchers • Access to dark fiber for specific research needs 2. CENIC and PNWGP leveraging project towards a National Light Rail (NLR) dark fiber resource 5

POP Architecture DWDM 10 Gig E Experimental 10 Gig E Cal. REN/DC /HPR NLR Connection Options: Dark Fiber (C or D WDM), Managed Wavelength Services (Gig. E and up), Traditional Circuits (T 1 to OC-12 c) 6

National Light Rail - What it is 1. (in general) Public/Private Sector research based partnership on a national, 20 yr. IRU’d, fiber footprint to primarily support research, experimental and education networking with e 2 e bandwidth a) b) c) Start by provisioning a linear transcontinental system with 4 shared ‘s (plus some private waves). Positioned for geographical and wave expansion. Seek full national ring(s) in near future. ‘Shared ’s’ 4 lit to start. One for initial shared ip service + One subdivided wave(s) etc. Other 2 under discussion. Could be lots more. ‘Private ’s for NLR Partners individually or collectively 2. Also a separate fiber pair (and possible conduit access/use) in a smaller geography for physical level optical network research 3. Coordinated ‘Meta. Po. P’ services, capabilities and facilities to help research and researchers, including academic support staff, rack space, instrumentation, measurement points and tools for research, operational. edu and commodity internet traffic. This will be done mostly by NLR Partners but structured in a way to achieve coordination with and interoperability among one another. 7

Goals to Support: 1. Research! (including Network Research: ) 2. Experimentation in networking and in education 3. Regional fiber/ efforts in. edu & research sectors 4. Education 5. Academic Med. Center driven Clinical activities 6. Development & implementation of network & computing technologies not otherwise likely to be generally available commercially as early as needed in R&E. 7. Enabling deterministic and other e 2 e bandwidth/ ’s, dark fiber and conduit for Grid, e. Science etc. & for ‘Regionals’ etc. 8

e 2 e ! 1. A root goal of NLR is establishing end-to-end connectivity between campus and lab desktop, server, apparatus and sensor, etc. endpoints. A major part of the NLR effort is to establish and interconnect the fiber/wave and broadband wireless based local loop and campus & lab based infrastructure required for the needed e 2 e connectivity and performance. 2. e 2 e goal requires a) Fiber/waves between Po. P’s to Campus/Lab b) Intra-campus c) Inter-pop national & regional backbone 9

AUP & Co. U ‘free’ 1. Physical Layer NLR = No AUP other than ‘legal and non-interfering’ 2. NLR Shared IP services = No AUP other than ‘legal and non-interfering’. 3. Private or Shared Waves = No AUP other than ‘legal and non-interfering’. 4. But, Research & Experimental bandwidth ‘subdivisions’ may (each) have AUP/Co. U as determined by the project, program, sponsor, users 10

Allocation of Waves, Dark Fiber & Conduit 1. Initial allocations are for R&E uses and users 2. In general wrt waves where there are 4 or less remaining ’s in segments priority will be given to educational, research and clinical uses and users 3. Dark fiber and conduit allocation approach TBD via research community 4. NLR managing directors ultimately determine allocations not driven by specific contracts/agreements. 11

Lit National NLR Core Fabric Fiber A. Starting footprint - operational 3/2003 -7/2003. A. 5, 207 miles B. Multi-Loop core for owned fiber R&E net? - June 2004? B. 11, 000 miles Dashed lines for regional not costed 7 -28 -02 ronj 12

National Light. Rail: cost-effective owned lit R&E fiber fabric 7/03 footprint Canarie fabric Leading-Edge e 2 e services & experimental network facilities via Meta. Po. Ps and inter-gigapop links for research & next gen. tech. , arch. , grids, DTF expansion, content, sensors, apparatus … Up to 40 dedicated 10 gigabit waves with up to hundreds of dedicated gigabit links system-wide. SEA 10 gbs IEEAF donation BOS CHI SUN Detroit or CLV? PIT NY 10 gbs IEEAF Donation DC DEN Raleigh LA ATL 8/14/02 Meta. Po. Ps & Core Nodes ADM sites Desired Expansion Po. Ps/ADM National Light. Rail” (NLR) NLR Under Consideration International Broadband Metro/WAN owned Fiber ‘Rings’ connecting strategic R&E endpoints. 13

For more information on NATIONAL LIGHTRAIL please contact any of: Tom West <twest@cenic. org> Ron Johnson <ronj@cac. washington. edu> Charlie Catlett <catlett@mcs. anl. gov>