Thomas A De Fanti Maxine Brown Principal Investigators

Thomas A. De. Fanti, Maxine Brown Principal Investigators, STAR TAP/Star. Light Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Alan Verlo, Caren Litvanyi STAR TAP Engineering Joe Mambretti, Tim Ward Star. Light Facilities

STAR TAP and Star. Light • STAR TAP: Premier operational cross-connect of the world's high-performance academic networks 45 -622 Mb • Star. Light: Next-generation cutting-edge optical evolution of STAR TAP connecting experimental networks 1 -10 Gb • Funded by USA National Science Foundation grants to University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University, and USA Department of Energy support to Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science Division

Who is Star. Light? Star. Light is jointly managed and engineered by: • International Center for Advanced Internet Research (i. CAIR), Northwestern University – Joe Mambretti, David Carr and Tim Ward • Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois at Chicago – Tom De. Fanti, Maxine Brown, Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh • Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS) , Argonne National Laboratory – Linda Winkler, Bill Nickless, Caren Litvanyi, Rick Stevens and Charlie Catlett

What is Star. Light? Star. Light is an experimental optical infrastructure and proving ground for network services optimized for high-performance applications View from Star. Light Abbott Hall, Northwestern University’s Chicago downtown campus

Star. Light Infrastructure Star. Light is a large research-friendly co-location facility with space, power and fiber that is being made available to university and national/international network collaborators as a point of presence in Chicago

Star. Light Infrastructure Star. Light is a production Gig. E and trial 10 Gig. E switch/router facility for high-performance access to participating networks

Star. Light is Operational Equipment at Star. Light • Star. Light equipment installed: – Cisco 6509 with Gig. E – IPv 6 Router – Juniper M 10 (Gig. E and OC-12 interfaces) – Juniper T 640 (on loan from Caltech) – Cisco LS 1010 with OC-12 interfaces – Data mining cluster with Gig. E NICs – Visualization/video server cluster (on order) • SURFnet’s 12000 GSR • Multiple vendors for 1 Gig. E, 10 Gig. E, DWDM and Optical Switch/Routing in the future

Commercial Providers @ Star. Light • • • SBC/Ameritech Qwest Global Crossing AT&T and AT&T Broadband Level 3

USA Networks @ Star. Light Do. E ESnet NASA NREN NSF v. BNS+ (coming soon) UCAID/Internet 2 Abilene Metropolitan Research & Education Network (Midwest Giga. Po. P)

OMNInet @ Star. Light UIC 8 x 1 GE Application Cluster Northwestern U 2 x 10 GE Optical Switching Platform Passport 8600 Application Cluster CA*net 3/4 --Chicago Star. Light 8 x 1 GE Optical Switching Platform 8 x 1 GE 2 x 10 GE Optical Switching Platform 8 x 1 GE Passport 8600 Application Cluster The Optical Metro Network Initiative (OMNInet), a 10 Gig. E technology trial by Nortel Networks and SBC/Ameritech with partners Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago and CANARIE/Canada, has one of its collocation points at Star. Light.

I-WIRE @ Star. Light I-WIRE, the $7 M State of Illinois dark fiber initiative that connects major universities and government laboratories in Illinois, has its hub located at Star. Light. Starlight Argonne (NU-Chicago) 18 pair 4 pair Qwest 455 N. Cityfront UC Gleacher 450 N. Cityfront UIC 4 pair 4 10 pair 12 pair Level(3) Source: Charlie Catlett 12/2001 151/155 N. Michigan Doral Plaza James R. Thompson Ctr City Hall State of IL Bldg 2 pair IIT Mc. Leod. USA Illinois Century Network 111 N. Canal 2 pair 4 pair UChicago UIUC/NCSA

Tera. Grid @ Star. Light Tera. Grid, an NSF-funded Major Research Equipment initiative, has its Illinois hub located at Star. Light.

Nether. Light @ Star. Light The Netherlands (SURFnet) has a 10 Gb link to Star. Light. Cees de Laat, U Amsterdam @ Star. Light, USA Tom De. Fanti, UIC and de Laat @ Nether. Light, The Netherlands

International Research Networks @ Star. Light • SURFnet, The Netherlands • CA*net 4, Canada • Data. TAG, European Union-funded Trans-Atlantic Grid 2. 5 Gb network • NORDUnet, Nordic countries • Trans. PAC/APAN, Asian-Pacific countries • Nauka. Net, Russia • AMPATH, South American countries • CERN, Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva • UK-Light, United Kingdom (planning stages)

Star. Light Engineering Partnerships • Developers of 6 TAP, the IPv 6 global testbed, notably ESnet and Viagenie (Canadian), have an IPv 6 router installed at Star. Light • NLANR works with STAR TAP on network measurement; the NLANR AMP (Active Measurement Platform) is located at STAR TAP

Star. Light Middleware Partnerships Forming • Provide tools and techniques for (university) customer-controlled 10 Gigabit network flows • Build general control mechanisms from emerging toolkits, such as Globus, for Grid network resource access and allocation services • Test a range of new tools, such as GMPLS and OBGP, for designing, configuring and managing optical networks and their components • Create a new generation of tools for appropriate monitoring and measurements at multiple levels

Acknowledgments Organizing Institutions The Netherlands: Amsterdam Science & Technology Centre Giga. Port Project SARA Computing and Networking Services SURFnet Universiteit van Amsterdam/ Science Faculty United States of America: Argonne National Laboratory/ Mathematics and Computer Science Division Indiana University/ Office of the Vice President for Information Technology Northwestern University/ International Center for Advanced Internet Research University of Illinois at Chicago/ Electronic Visualization Laboratory

Acknowledgments Participating Organizations CANARIE Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF) Global Grid Forum Globus Project GRIDS Center National Lab for Applied Network Research, Distributed Applications Support Team (NLANR/DAST) Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) TERENA UCAID/Internet 2 University of California, San Diego/ California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2]

Acknowledgments Sponsors Amsterdam Internet Exchange Amsterdam Science & Technology Centre Cisco Systems, Inc. City of Amsterdam GEOgraphic Network Affiliates–International Giga. Port Project Glimmerglass Networks HP IBM Juniper Networks Level 3 Communications, Inc. National Computer Facilities (NWO/NCF), NL National Science Foundation, USA Royal Philips Electronics SARA Computing and Networking Services Stichting FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter Stichting HEF Stichting SURFnet Tyco Telecommunications Unilever NV Universiteit van Amsterdam

Star. Light “Bring Us Your Lambdas” Tom De. Fanti, tom@uic. edu www. startap. net/starlight

Star. Light Thanks • • • Star. Light planning, research, collaborations, and outreach efforts at the University of Illinois at Chicago are made possible, in part, by funding from: – National Science Foundation (NSF) awards ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, EIA 9802090, EIA-9871058, and EIA-0115809 – NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to the National Computational Science Alliance – State of Illinois I-WIRE Program, and UIC cost sharing – Northwestern University for providing space, engineering and management Argonne National Laboratory for Star. Light and I-WIRE network engineering and planning leadership NSF/ANIR, Kees Neggers of SURFnet, Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, and Olivier Martin of CERN for global optical networking leadership; NSF/ACIR and NCSA/SDSC for DTF/Tera. Grid opportunities UCAID/Abilene for Internet 2 and their International Transit Network (ITN) CA*net 4 and CENIC/Pacific Light Wave for planned North America and West Coast transit