Super JANET Development Network MB MPLS Warrington CPo

Super. JANET Development Network MB MPLS Warrington C-Po. P Leeds C-Po. P Man Reading C-Po. P London C-Po. P UCL RAL Testbed – Cisco GSR 12416 10 Gbit/s Testbed to production link Gigabit Ethernet 2. 5 Gbit/s Super. JANET 4 C-Po. P – Cisco GSR 12016 MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Network links D-Po. P to Sites

MB MPLS Equipment for the External / Edge Domains Gigabit Ethernet 2. 5 Gbit POS 10 Gbit POS Classify packets Qo. S Difserv Generate MPLS frames Test PC 10 Gbit POS Test PC 3 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade Load PC MPLS Multi-loop SJDN Core MPLS Backbone Router 12416 Test PC Load PC 2. 5 Gbit POS 10 Gbit POS 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade Qo. S Marking 2. 5 Gbit POS Out of Band Access Qo. S – WRED MPLS Serial / 100 Mbit MPLS Edge Router OSR Need to collapse ? MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Local site Ethernet

MB MPLS Equipment for the External / Edge Domains Gigabit Ethernet 2. 5 Gbit POS 10 Gbit POS IP Load PC 10 Gbit POS Test PC 3 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade Load PC Test PC 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade Qo. S Marking ? ? 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade Qo. S Marking Test PC 100 Mbit ? ? Load PC 2. 5 Gbit POS 10 Gbit POS MPLS Backbone Router OSR SJDN Core MPLS Backbone Router 12416 MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Difserve router OR MPLS Edge Router ? ? OSR Need to collapse ?

MB MPLS Hardware & Software Tools High Bandwidth High Throughput Protocol Investigations (mainly) Test PC 4 * 1 Gigabit Ethernet blade Qo. S Marking NIC 2. 5 Gbit POS NIC • Optical splitter or opto-electrical tap • opto-electrical tap constructed for logic analyser Software use of : tcpdump tcptrace Web 100 MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester Monitor PC

MB MPLS Some Costings (1) u PC – – – 850 -1130 Super. Micro 370 DLE 630 64 bit PCI @ 67 MHz Server. Works Chipset 1 GHz PIII 256 M RAM 20 GB HDD Alteon / Netgear Gigabit NIC 220 Sys. Konnect Gigabit NIC 500 ? u Kit at Po. P 2050 – Keyboard mouse monitor + switch 540 – Servertech serial access + power 1500 – Gig. E cable link to C-Po. P 10 u 3 PC + Kit at Po. P u Kit at Site 5350 640 – Keyboard mouse monitor + switch 540 – Ethernet switch to local ethernet 100 u 4 PC + Kit at Site u Protocol Test Kit (1 site) – – Optical splitter PC Two Netgear NICs Logic analyser Tap u Total 5040 1920 600 630 440 250 33, 170 MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester

MB MPLS Some Costings (2) u Cisco OSR based on 6500 ~Jul 01 List Prices ex VAT u Man and UCL will use Cisco, RAL have Nortel - ? MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester

MB MPLS Some Costings (2 Excel) u Cisco OSR based on 6500 ~Jul 01 List Prices ex VAT MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester

MB MPLS Latency Tests with 64 -bit PCI u Alteon Gigabit NIC u Super. Micro 370 DLE – Server. Works III LE Chipset – 64 bit PCI @ 33 MHz u Request – Response u Transfer rates: observe expect us/B 32+32 bit 0. 0265 0. 0232 -> 108 Mbyte/s 32+64 bit 0. 0209 0. 0211 64+64 bit 0. 0149 0. 0156 64 byte Request MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester 1400 byte Response

MB MPLS Throughput Tests with 64 -bit PCI u RAW Stream u Not using IP stack u Vary time between packets u 1. 6 factor improvement over 32 -32 bit transfers MPLS Technical Meeting Sep 2001 R. Hughes-Jones Manchester