STAR TAP EuroLink and Star Light Tom De

STAR TAP, Euro-Link, and Star. Light Tom De. Fanti April 8, 2003

STAR TAP, Euro-Link and Star. Light • STAR TAP supports the connections to the SBC/Ameritech NAP, including the OC-12 to Star. Light. NSF funding started on May 1, 1997 and ends on April 30, 2004. • Euro-Link supported the co-payments of circuits to Europe and Israel starting 1999; CERN added in 2000. Israel dropped 2002. NSF funding continues one more year with a new supplement to establish a Star. Light to GÉANT link. • Star. Light supports the connections and infrastructure research activities focused at 710 North Lake Shore Drive. It is an NSF STI grant, funded until October 31, 2005.

A Brief History of STAR TAP • STAR TAP started in 1997 at the Ameritech NAP – Canada, Singapore and Taiwan first DS-3 s (1997) – v. BNS, v. BNS+, Abilene, DREN, NREN, ESnet, MREN – HPIIS awards (1998/99 -2003/4) • Trans. PAC/APAN • Euro-Link: Netherlands, Nordic, France, Israel, CERN • MIRnet/Russia (now Nauka. Net) – – Korea, Ireland, GEMnet (Japan), China, Hong Kong Many others via Abilene international Transit Network Several networks have now moved to Star. Light OC-12 provided between STAR TAP and Star. Light • NSF support will end in one year (April 2004) but services may be continued by NU and SBC www. startap. net/NETWORKS/

A Brief History of HPIIS/Euro-Link • Euro-Link in 1999 co-funded DS-3 s from STAR TAP to France, Israel, Netherlands and Nordic countries, CERN added in 2000 – – – Netherlands now at OC-192+ GÉANT CERN/Data. TAG at OC-48+OC-12 Nordic at OC-3+ GÉANT France at OC-3+ GÉANT Israel now uses only GÉANT • 4 years of constant NSF funding helped bandwidth to increased from 4 -200 x • 1 -year supplement will fund 5 Gb link to GÉANT and co-fund 10 Gb Data. TAG link to CERN

Star. Light: A 1 Gig. E and 10 Gig. E Exchange Operational since summer 2001, Star. Light is a 1 Gig. E and 10 Gig. E switch/router facility for highperformance access to participating networks. Star. Light is becoming a true optical switching facility for wavelengths. www. startap. net/starlight/NETWORKS/ Abbott Hall, Northwestern University’s Chicago downtown campus

Star. Light is Working to be Everyone’s Other End • International, National, Midwest Regional, Chicago Metro • As a Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet exchange for R&E Production Networks • As a Gig. E lambda exchange for the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America for Experimental Networks • Supporting 10 Gb MEMS-switched Research Networks • As the Chicago host to the NSF DTFnet, a 4 x 10 Gb Network for the Tera. Grid and DTF/ETF links to Abilene and others to be added. • As a colo space: 66 racks for networking and computing, data management and visualization support equipment • Using fiber and circuits installed by SBC, Qwest, AT&T, Global Crossing, T-Systems, Looking Glass, and I-WIRE

Star. Light National and International Networks as of April 1, 2003 • • • • Abilene 10 Gb ESnet and 6 TAP (DOE) DREN (DOD)-installation in progress NREN (NASA) AMPATH (South America) CA*net 4 (Canada) SURFnet (Netherlands) NORDUnet (Nordic) CERN/Data. TAG Trans. PAC/APAN (Asia) Nauka. NET (Russia) ASnet (Taiwan) Others via STAR TAP OC-12 and Abilene transit See http: //loadrunner. uits. iu. edu/mrtg-monitors/starlight/ for statistics on usage

Thanks! • • • Euro-Link/Star. Light planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts are made possible, in major part, by funding from: – National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA-9802090, EIA-9871058, ANI-0225642, and EIA-0115809 – NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to NCSA – NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) cooperative agreement (ANI-0225642) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for "The Opt. IPuter" – State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and major UIC cost sharing – Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management NSF/CISE/ANIR and Do. E/Argonne National Laboratory for Star. Light and I-WIRE network engineering and planning leadership NSF/CISE/ACIR and NCSA/ANL/Caltech/SDSC/PSC for DTF/Tera. Grid/ETF opportunities UCAID/Abilene for Internet 2 and ITN transit; IU for the Global. NOC CA*net 4, CENIC/Pacific Light Wave/NLR for planned North American transport Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Kees Neggers and Cees de Laat of SURFnet, Olivier Martin of CERN, and Harvey Newman of Cal. Tech for networking leadership