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UKLight Multi-Service Networking Coseners House - 8 th July 2004

UKLight Multi-Service Networking Coseners House - 8 th July 2004. David Salmon UKERNA. Overview. Background What is UKLight ? Architecture UK National Access Governance Status Projects Futures. Background. Towards optical networking International activities

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UKLight Multi-Service Networking Coseners House - 8 th July 2004

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  1. UKLightMulti-Service NetworkingCoseners House - 8th July 2004 David Salmon UKERNA

  2. Overview • Background • What is UKLight ? • Architecture • UK National Access • Governance • Status • Projects • Futures

  3. Background • Towards optical networking • International activities • StarLight – evolved from Startap • International exchange point – “bring your lambdas” • Joined by NetherLight • “Lambda” workshops • Sept 2001, 2002, 2003, (2004 – UK) • TERENA • Initiative attempted with Flag Telecom during 2002 • Interest within Grid Network Team – UK e-Science programme • UK activities have evolved from these over last 2+ years • Internal meetings and papers during 2002 • UKLight bid to JCSR – Nov 2002 • Funding approved March /April 2003 • 29 months & we are here…

  4. What is UKLight ? • Facility to provide national and international “bandwidth channels” for use by research and e-Science projects • Cross-discipline initiative • JANET community • Network research • e-Science applications • optical (photonic) communications research • UKERNA – manage and develop JANET • supporting the community • advanced service-network development • Components: • UK point-of-access and links to international facilities • UK national photonics facility/infrastructure • UK national R&D network infrastructure • extending access within JANET

  5. Funding • Funding – SRIF - £6.5M total • From HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) • Via JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) • Sub-committee for Support of Research (JCSR) • International Point of Access • Circuits, equipment, housing, NMS, staff… • UK Access and photonics infrastructure • Equipment, housing…

  6. What is UKLight ? – Infrastructure perspective • Infrastructure to support the UK part of an International facility (GLIF – Global Lambda Integrated Facility) for Network and Advanced applications R&D • Eg international Gigabit ethernet ‘channels’ • UKLight will apply to join Translight and contribute “lambdas” • Implemented with: • Telco Wavelength services • Transmission equipment providing Multiplexed channels (SDH) to carry Gigabit ethernet • Ethernet switch/es

  7. Local Research Equipment UK Researchers International Point-of-Access Extended JANETDevelopment Network Existing connections Proposedconnections CA*net UKLightLondon StarLightChicago 10Gb/s 10Gb/s 10Gb/s Abilene CERN 10Gb/s 10Gb/s NorthernLight 10Gb/s NetherLightAmsterdam CzechLight GEANT UKLight – showing connections to selected International peer facilities

  8. UK National access to UKLight

  9. Development Network Extension Model • Uncommitted backbone bandwidth in MCI contract for SuperJANET4 • 10G for current production backbone • Additional 10G available but uncommitted • Parallel to existing core • Upgrades to Regional Network access points also included • Presented as SDH • not dark fibre … • But it still opens up interesting options…

  10. Principles • Use SDH multiplexers to partition this bandwidth on a link by link basis • e.g. 10Gb/s  4 x 2.5Gb/s • Configure end-to-end paths using the partitioned links - channels • Projects will run VLANS / IP etc. over their channels • Operating transmission equipment, will bring telco style provisioning issues • Links to concepts for SuperJANET5

  11. Model for Extension of the SuperJANET Development Network S T T Core Point of Presence C-PoP Backbone Access Router R-PoP T S T T T T T S S T UHI Network Northern Ireland AbMAN Clydenet FaTMAN EaStMAN C&NL MAN NNW C C NorMAN Glasgow Edinburgh North Wales MAN YHMAN C C Warrington Leeds EMMAN MidMAN Reading EastNet London Kentish MAN C C TVN Bristol Portsmouth LMN C C Key for components. C-PoP C Extension to 2.5G BAR S Extension to 10G BAR T South Wales MAN SWERN LeNSE

  12. Core Point of Presence C-PoP Backbone Access Router R-PoP Figure 1: Extended Development Network – Stage 1 Manchester Warrington Cambridge London UKLight International Point of Access London - ULCC

  13. SDH Mux SDH Mux SDH Mux SDH Mux SDH Mux SDH Mux Extended development network: Phase 1 Manchester Warrington Cambridge LondonSt Pancras Reading ULCC UKLight PoA StarLight NetherLight SDH Multiplexer Production GSR

  14. SDH Mux GE/FE Sw/Router JANET production Access “Local” External Sites – eg UCL Extended Development Network US ‘X’Light NL ? UK Dark Fibre Co-Lo UKLight PoA - ULCC

  15. Project facilities at ULCC • Equipment Co-location • Up to 4 racks total • UKLight projects office • 3 desks - telephones • JANET access • LAN access to co-located project equipment • Bring your laptops…

  16. UKLight projects’ office

  17. UKLight Status

  18. UKLight Procurement status • Procurement announced Mid-July 2003 • 4 Modules • Wavelength Service London – Chicago • Wavelength Service London – Amsterdam • SDH Multiplexing/Switching Equipment • Gigabit Ethernet Switching Equipment • Reconsider – 10GE switching requirement • Wavelength services – awarded to Level3 – Dec. 2003 • SDH equipment – awarded to Pinacl/Ciena – Jan. 2004 • Commissioning now complete - US & NL links operational • Manchester & Cambridge – July to September

  19. Ciena Core Director • CDci (the small one) • Backbone / high density device • Up to 16 STM-64 • Switch matrix with STM1 granularity

  20. Ciena Metro Director • Used as an edge device (so far) • 2 STM-64 (10Gb/s) • G Ethernet • 10/100 Ethernet • Switch matrix with STM1 granularity

  21. Rina Samani & Jonathan Couzens with the UKLight equipment at ULCC

  22. Core Director

  23. Metro Director

  24. UKLight International and Phase 1 ULCC - LAB WarringtonC-PoP NNWManchester Leased Bandwidth EastNet Cambridge St Pancras 10G 10G 10G 10G ULCC Amsterdam Chicago 10G

  25. C&NLMANLancaster Leeds C-PoP YHMANLeeds ReadingC-PoP CLRC-RAL UKLight International and Phases 1 & 2 ULCC - LAB WarringtonC-PoP NNWManchester Leased Bandwidth EastNet Cambridge St Pancras 10G 10G 10G 10G ULCC Amsterdam Chicago 10G

  26. UKLight Governance • Steering Committee (SC) – JISC established • covers policy and funding issues • Hugh Pilcher-Clayton (EPSRC) will chair • International representatives • Bill St Arnaud (Canarie) and David Williams (CERN/TERENA) • Community representation • Peter Clarke (UCL), Dave Deroure (Southampton), Brian Gilmour (Edinburgh), David Hutchison (Lancaster), Guy Rickett (PPARC), David Salmon (UKERNA), Lesley Thompson (EPSRC) • Plus JISC & UKERNA attendees • Technical Advisory Group (TAG) – UKERNA established • operations and project-feasibility assessment • David Hutchison (Lancaster University) will chair • Community representation • Tim Chown (Southampton), Lionel Sacks UCL), Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex), Ian White (Cambridge) • John Graham (ULCC) – UKLight engineer • David Salmon (UKERNA)

  27. Use by projects • Projects expected to be funded by Research Council or other programmes • Central funding covers equipment interface at backbone edge • Projects discuss options with UKLight project manager & submit written connection proposal • UKLight TAG will assess feasibility & provide a report • Use as part of research proposal • Existing projects can also make a case to connect • Will need endorsement by original funding programme • In some cases may need to consult the UKLight steering committee

  28. Future Expansion • Build to meet requirements of approved projects • Phase 3 – still speculative • Remaining budget would allow equipping access to about half of the Regional Networks) • JISC/Research Council will call for expressions of interest to connect to UKLight • Steering Committee will prioritise responses • Commit funds during 2004 • Use budget to give projects working time during 2005 • Beyond this leads into SuperJANET5 ! • Incorporate these concepts from ground up • Flexible transmission platform • Fibre / wavelength service based

  29. Overview of SuperJANET5 architecture requirements Requirements to be served Network R&D Service Dev. Commodity Teaching & Learning e-Science IP production network Test – bed(s) Test – bed(s) Special purpose bandwidth Flexible transmission platform

  30. Flexible Transmission PlatformDesign characteristics • Transmission channels configured and managed at our control • Scalable to higher bandwidth at controllable cost • A range of options exist telco. provides bandwidth services telco. provides “wavelength” services telco. manages fibre and the light only UKERNA leases fibre and also lights it UKERNA owns, manages and lights fibre

  31. Projects

  32. Projects approved • ESLEA partners • Peter Clarke co-ordinated • ULMAS **– measurement at many scales • Lionel Sacks & colleagues • 46PaQ ** • Others are interested… • (NB ** there will be posts with these projects)

  33. ESLEA • Many project partners • Capabilities • Network resource allocation • High througput transport protocols • Prorocols for hybrid networks • Particle Physics • high performance data transfer

  34. ESLEA - ii • Radio Astronomy • very long baseline interferometry (near-real-time data transfer) • Distributed HPC & visualization • E-health • Remote cancer diagnosis • federated databases & visualization

  35. MASTS • Measurement and Analysis at all time scales • UCL – E&EEng & CS • Loughborough – E&Eng & CS • Cambridge – Computer Lab

  36. MASTS - ii • Instrument UKLight to: • Record data-flows and topologies • Time-scales: sub-second to years • Large data-repository • Develop monitoring and analysis algorithms • Interfaces for community access to data (web-services &…) • Data-acquisition • Cambridge GridProbe • passive optical taps on STM-64 links (10Gb/s SDH)

  37. 46PaQ • IPv4 + IPv6 Performance and QoS • UCL • Peter Kirstein, Saleem Bhatti • Cambridge • Andrew Moore, Ian Pratt • Not originally proposed for UKLight, but interested in exploring a connection

  38. 46PaQ - ii • Examine • behaviour of QoS mechanisms • diffserv, ECN, decentralised reservation working together in high-capacity v4 & v6 environments • How applications use QoS mechanisms • in a real network environment (not a lab) • Network instrumentation for performance and operational data • for both operators and users • APIs & monitoring equipment (GridProbe)

  39. First path configured • UCL to FermiLab • PP Data Transfer • Looking forward to more !

  40. Further Information • UKLight • www.uklight.ac.uk • Projects – will be linked from web-site • UKLight-Announce@jiscmail.ac.uk • D.Salmon@ukerna.ac.uk • Town Meeting – NeSC – 9th September • SuperJANET5 • www.ja.net/SJ5/

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