Whats MAX Been Up to Lately Presentation to

What’s MAX Been Up to Lately? Presentation to MAX membership Dan Magorian Director of Engineering & Operations

For new folks: A Brief Background & History • Founding consortium: Georgetown U. , George • • • Washington U. , U. of Maryland, & Virginia Tech. UMD hosts MAX’s administration. 1997: 155 mb atm network to v. BNS connecting 4 univs. 2000: Built regional dark fiber network lit by dwdm lambdas connected to Abilene/Internet 2 at 2. 5 gb. Evolved into a rapidly-growing group of universities, federal agencies, and commercial and non-profit institutions emphasizing advanced networking. Currently operating optical 10 G network in the DC, suburban MD, N Va, Baltimore metro areas. Doubled network size in 2 -3 years, continued growth!

Participant Consortium of 45 Directly Connected Higher Education, Federal Agency, and Non-Profit Institutions • • Higher Education • • Baltimore Education & Research Network (BERnet) • Catholic University • Georgetown University • George Washington University • Johns Hopkins University • Montgomery College • National Consortium for Supercomputing Applications ACCESS • Network Virginia (aggregating State of VA) • Southern Universities Research Association (SURA) • University of California, D. C. campus • University of Maryland, College Park • University of Maryland, Baltimore Co. • Univ. System of Maryland (11 campuses) • University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute / East • Washington Research Library Consortium • Johns Hopkins APL campus • • Internet 2 DC office Local and State Government • DC-Net I-Nets intercounty network • Network Maryland Federal Labs and Agencies • Library of Congress • NASA / GSFC • National Archives and Records Administration • National Science Foundation (NSF) • National Institutes of Health (NIH) • Nat’l Institutes of Standards and Tech. (NIST) • National Library of Medicine (NLM) • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin (NOAA) • Naval Research Lab & ATDnet • U. S. Census • USDA, Beltsville Agriculture Research Ctr • U. S. Department of State (through GWU) • U. S. Geological Survey • U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum • Lab for Telecom Science (LTS) • Health & Human Services (parent of NIH) • Smithsonian Institution Corporate and Non-profit • Howard Hughes Med. Institute • Fujitsu Labs of America • Northrop Grumman • The Institute for Genomic Research • Windber Professional Services, Inc • World Bank • Inter-American Development Bank • Venter Institute

MAX Production Network Services • • • IPv 4 unicast, IPv 4 multicast, and native IPv 6 unicast. Internet 2 (Abilene network) regional aggregation ISP resale (Qwest DIA, just added Cogent) NGIX/East Fed. Net peer point operation National Lambda Rail (NLR) aggregation and fanout Lambda transport on MAX dwdm optical network MPLS tunnel transport in MAX IP network Participant Colocation at UMD, Qwest, & Level 3 pops Network monitoring and uptime/usage reporting

Strong Carrier Partnerships • With 7 MAX pop locations around region, participants can connect at one or more locations via dark fiber or lit services via aggressive lowcost carriers, as well as traditional telcos. • 90% of participant circuits ethernet. • Strong partnerships with carriers (10 & growing!) • Qwest, Level 3, Fibergate, Starpower/RCN, Yipes, Allied Telecom, Above. Net, Verizon, ATT, Comcast.

National/International Peering Networks Qwest Cogent Regional Network Participants Abilene GEANT ESnet DREN v. BNS NREN NISN Mid-Atlantic Crossroads GIG-EF Univ System Md NGIX-East MAX Regional Infrastructure Institutional Connectors DRAGON Network Virginia

NGIX/E R&E peers today • • Abilene (10 gb), Newnet in progress (10 G) GEANT 2 (OC 192 from Frankfurt via WANphy) Energy Sciences net (ESnet) (10 gb) Defense Research & Edu Net (DREN) (1 gb) NASA’s NISN and NREN (1 gb ea) USGS/DOI net (1 gb) Still have v. BNS (barely) (1 gb) Atlantic. Wave distributed peer fabric, (10 G)

MAX Production dwdm rings 1. Original Zhone dwdm over Qwest fiber 2. Movaz dwdm over State Md fiber 3. Gige on HHMI dwdm over Abovenet fiber 4. USM dwdm over State Md fiber BALT M 40 E Ring 4 R&E Nets CLPK New. Net T 640 Ring 2 MCLN NGIX CLPK MCLN Ring 3 ASHB Qwest T 640 Cogent Equi 6 IX DCGW Ring 1 ARLG Qwest DCNE Abilene

Next-Generation Internet 2 Network Buildout in Progress!

“Newnet” Node details

National Association of Giga. Po. Ps • MAX is a member of The. Quilt, a national association of Giga. Po. Ps • Provides collaboration on projects to benefit the individual Giga. Po. Ps • E. g. , Leverages multi-state buying power • ISP services with pricing based on aggregated national bandwidth tiers • national pricing for commodity ISP services

The Quilt Regions

Atlantic Wave over NLR lambda CHI NYC LON STK SEA WDC TOK LAX ATL A-Wave AMS CER MIA AUS Sao Paulo (SPB) East Coast confederation of Network Exchange points -Production level IP peering -Experimental “Light Path” services

Atlantic Wave Distributed Peering Topology Initial East Coast NLR 10 G A-Wave Backbone Future backbone Extensions within NA & EU To South America To Europe & Canada, MIA ATL Miami, FL Atlanta, GA NGIX Washington, DC MAN LAN New York City, NY 10 G ethernet via NLR Ethernet fanout

For regional connectivity, MAX tries to encourage Redundant Peerings for participant protection (high-9’s) LVL 3 T 640 CLPK T 640 USM Movaz dwdm NLM Net. WVa Movaz dwdm Approach is to have 2 participant routers peer with 2 MAX routers over diverse fiber paths. MAX can provision lambdas to help accomplish this.

MAX is More than Production IP Networking MAX Activities Production Net Activities Research Activities Layer 3 IP Network Services Layer 1 Optical Services Internet 2 HOPI Test Bed support NGIX/East Related Strategic Activities ATDNet-V 2 Fed. Net peer point Atlantic. Wave, Quilt, Research Technologies DRAGON Experimental Networking Additional Funded Research

So, what is the DRAGON Project? • Dynamic Resource Allocation over GMPLS Optical Networks • DRAGON is a four year project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) • Testbed deployed in the Washington DC metro area • Purpose: • To develop/integrate network hardware and software technologies that can support dynamic, deterministic “light path” services. • To demonstrate these “light paths” services with real applications and over real network(s)

DRAGON Participants • • • Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) USC/ Information Sciences Institute (ISI-East) George Mason University (GMU) MIT Haystack Observatory NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) University of Maryland (UMCP) Movaz Networks (commercial partner) NCSA ACCESS US Naval Observatory

Project Features and Objectives • • • Utilize GMPLS protocols for dynamic provisioning of Light Paths • Addition of CSPF Path Computation algorithms for wavelength routing Inter-domain service routing techniques • Network Aware Resource Broker (NARB) for service advertising, interdomain ERO generation, AAA All-Optical metro area network • Eliminate OEO in the core, allow alien Waves in. Application Specific Topology Description Language • Formalized means to describe the application topology and network service requirements Integration with real applications: • E-VLBI • HD-CVAN

The DRAGON Testbed University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) MAX Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) MIT Haystack Observatory (HAYS) U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO) CLPK DCGW DCNE (Qwest) ATDnet ARLG HOPI / NLR MCLN (Level 3) DCNE National Computational Science Aliance (NCSA) Univ of Southern California/ Information Sciences Institute (ISIE)

MAX – GIG-EF Cooperative Project • Previously ATDnet (Advanced Technology Demonstration Network) is a high performance networking test bed • Established by DARPA • Enables collaboration between defense and other federal agencies • ATDnet comprised of federal research labs • NRL, DIA, DISA, LTS, NASA, DARPA, MAX • MAX managing a research test bed network in collaboration with ADTnet • Primarily used for optical research activities

GIG-EF Ring Topology GSFC LTS MIT-LL UMD ~700 km GWU All routes are 2 strands fiber Qwest routes are Lucent Truewave Fibergate routes are SMF 28 ECK DARPA WNY DISA DIA NRL Fiber bundle Cross-connect Primary site Ancillary site Qwest fiber Fibergate fiber Govt supplied fiber

Internet 2’s Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure Project (HOPI)

HOPI Testbed Support Activities

Kashima JP The 30, 000 foot view: DRAGON + HOPIJodrell i. Grid Demo Bank UK Westerbork NE Star. Light UKLight JGN 2 Nether. Light Global Application Static Dynamic links to Chicago across Two network domains. . . Resources… HOPI …(for and DRAGON now) 4 Seattle Onsala SE Northern. Light MIT Haystack Observatory Chicago 4 3 Los Angeles HOPI DRAGON Washington, DC Washington Westford MA Greenbelt MD

MAX networking efforts are directed toward extending the services & performance of the national high performance backbones into the region and to leverage the resources of MAX for the good of all participants.

http: //www. maxgigapop. net mailto: //magorian@maxgigapop. net Contacts: Executive Director, Anthony Conto: conto@maxgigapop. net Director of Engineering & Operations, Dan Magorian: magorian@maxgigapop. net Director of Research Initiatives, Jerry Sobieski: jerrys@maxgigapop. net