Update on CAnet 4 Network Bill st Arnaudcanarie

Update on CA*net 4 Network Bill. st. Arnaud@canarie. ca

CA*net 4 Update > Network is 3 x 10 Gbps wavelengths from different suppliers – Cisco and Nortel Optical/Sonet/SDH cross connects – Cost of wavelengths dropping dramatically > 3 rd wavelength operational in June – Primary purpose to support international layer 1 (and layer 3) transit > Most institutions in Canada connected with metro dark fiber > Long haul dark fiber with DWDM in ORANs ( i. e. NRENs) – 3700 km in Ontario – 2500 km in Quebec – 500 km in British Columbia > Support for e 2 e lightpaths for high end applications to most institutions bypassing campus router-firewall – E. g. 10 Gb. E CWDM to TRIUMF on University of British Columbia campus > Active discussion about terminating CA*net 4 IP network services – Encourage ORANs to directly peer with each other for exchange of IP traffic – CA*net 4 may maintain routers for international peering

UCLP > Uses grid technology to partition and manage CA*net 4 optical switches – Use Globus Toolkit 3. 0 > Allows users to integrate partitions of various switches within their own network > Create discipline specific re-configurable IP networks – Multihomed network which bypasses firewalls with direct connect to servers behind campus router/firewall

UCLP Applications > Korea, Ireland, Taiwan layer 1 transit – Other countries under negotiation > Layer 1 restoral and protections paths for ORANs – BCnet, ORANO and RISQ > Distributed back planes between HPC Grid centers – Westgrid 1 Gb. E moving to 10 Gb. E – SHARCnet 10 Gb. E > Distributed Single Mount file systems – Yotta, Yotta - SGI – Needs very consistent performance and throughput to truly act as a back plane – Frequent topology changes to meet needs of specific applications

UCLP Applications- 2 > HEPnet – High Energy Physics IP network > Canada ATLAS – 980 Gbytes FCAL data once a month from CERN to Carleton U, Uo. Alberta, Uo. Arizona, etc – Will significantly increase to Terabytes when production runs start – Would take over 80 days on IP R&E network > CERN Low level trigger data to Uo. Alberta – Initially streaming data rates 1 Gbps moving to 10 Gbps later in the year > Canadian virtual observatory –. 5 Tbyte per day to Uo. Toronto and Uo. Hawaii – 250 Mbps continuous streaming from CCD devices > Canada Light Source Synchrotron – remote streaming of data acquisition to Uo. Alberta – 2 to 5 Gbps continuously

CA*net 4 is NOT an optical switched network > CA*net 4 is made up of many parallel application empowered or customer empowered specific networks eg: – Computer back planes (Westgrid) – High energy physics network > It extends the Internet 2 architecture of Giga. POPs connecting a small number of R&E institutions to a much finer scale with many parallel “application empowered” Internet 2 like networks connecting individual researchers and/or applications – With added feature that the application or user can dynamically manage their own IP network topology – Application empowered networks peer with each other at Giga. POPs and at optical switches which provides for greater reliability > The CA*net 4 wavelengths and switches are partitioned such that application empowered networks can control their own partition and incorporate alarms, topology and discovery into their IP network – User controlled traffic engineering – New ITU draft standard – Y. 1312 - Layer 1 VPNs

Today’s hierarchical IP network World CAnet 4 ORAN University Regiona l ORAN

Tomorrow’s peer to peer IP network World Anybody can peer with anybody CAnet 4 World ORAN University Regiona l Server World

CA*net 4 == Internet 3? University Dept Ultra. Light CERN Commodity Internet University CAnet 4 Giga. POP ORAN Giga. POP University e. VLBI Only possible with DWDM network

Taiwan Ireland Taiwan control switch directly using UCLP software User controlled topology Seattle NYC CA*net 4 Giga. POP STAR LIGHT

Barcelona - Ottawa Barcelona controls switches in both i 2 CAT and CA*net 4 directly using UCLP software CRC CA*net 4 New York GEANT i 2 Cat Red. IRIS MPLS tunnel (set up manually)