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Internet2 Network of the Future

Internet2 Network of the Future. Steve Corbat ó Director, Backbone Network Infrastructure CUDI Tampico 25 de abril 2002. This presentation. Abilene Network today Emergence and evolution of optical networking Next phase of Abilene. Networking hierarchy.

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Internet2 Network of the Future

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  1. Internet2 Network of the Future Steve Corbató Director, Backbone Network Infrastructure CUDI Tampico 25 de abril 2002

  2. This presentation • Abilene Network today • Emergence and evolution of optical networking • Next phase of Abilene

  3. Networking hierarchy • Internet2 networking is a fundamentally hierarchical and collaborative activity • International networking • Ad hoc  Global Terabit Research Network (GTRN) • National backbones • Regional networks • GigaPoPs  advanced regional networks • Campus networks • Much activity now at the metropolitan and regional scales

  4. Abilene background & milestones • Abilene is a UCAID project in partnership with • Qwest Communications (SONET & DWDM service) • Cisco Systems (routers, switches & access) • Juniper Networks (routers) • Nortel Networks (SONET kit) • Indiana University (network operations) • ITECs in North Carolina and Ohio (test and evaluation) • Timeline • Apr 1998: Project announced at White House • Jan 1999: Production status for network • Oct 1999: IP version of HDTV (215 Mbps) over Abilene • Nov 2001: Raw HDTV/IP (1.5 Gbps) over Abilene

  5. Abilene – April, 2002 • IP-over-SONET backbone (OC-48c, 2.5 Gbps) 53 direct connections • 4 OC-48c connections • 1 Gigabit Ethernet trial • 23 will connect via at least OC-12c (622 Mbps) by 1Q02 • Number of ATM connections decreasing • 211 participants – research universities & labs • All 50 states, District of Columbia, & Puerto Rico • 15 regional GigaPoPs support ~70% of participants • Expanded access • 46 sponsored participants • 21 state education networks (SEGPs)

  6. Abilene international connectivity • Transoceanic R&E bandwidths growing! • GÉANT – 5 Gbps between Europe and New York City • Key international exchange points facilitated by Internet2 membership and the U.S. scientific community • STARTAP & STAR LIGHT – Chicago (GigE) • AMPATH – Miami (OC-3c  OC-12c) • Pacific Wave – Seattle (GigE) • MAN LAN - New York City – GigE/10GigE EP soon • CA*NET3: Seattle, Chicago, and New York • CUDI: CENIC and Univ. of Texas at El Paso • International transit service • Collaboration with CA*NET3 and STARTAP

  7. 09 March 2002 Sacramento Washington Los Angeles Abilene International Peering STAR TAP/Star Light APAN/TransPAC, Ca*net3, CERN, CERnet, FASTnet, GEMnet, IUCC, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet, RNP2, SURFnet, SingAREN, TAnet2 Pacific Wave AARNET, APAN/TransPAC, CA*net3, TANET2 NYCM BELNET, CA*net3, GEANT*, HEANET, JANET, NORDUnet SNVA GEMNET, SINET, SingAREN, WIDE LOSA UNINET OC3-OC12 San Diego (CALREN2) CUDI AMPATH REUNA, RNP2 RETINA, ANSP, (CRNet) El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso) CUDI * ARNES, CARNET, CESnet, DFN, GRNET, RENATER, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCST, RedIRIS

  8. Packetized raw High Definition Television (HDTV) • Raw HDTV/IP – single UDP flow of 1.5 Gbps • Project of USC/ISIe, Tektronix, & UWash (DARPA support) • 6 Jan 2002: Seattle to Washington DC via Abilene • Single flow consumed 60% of backbone bandwidth • 18 hours: no packets lost, 15 resequencing episodes • End-to-end network performance (includes P/NW & MAX GigaPoPs) • Loss: <0.8 ppb (90% c.l.) • Reordering: 5 ppb • Transcontinental 1-Gbps TCP requires loss of • <30 ppb (1.5 KB frames) • <1 ppm (9KB jumbo)

  9. End-to-End Performance:‘High bandwidth is not enough’ • Bulk TCP flows (> 10 Mbytes transfer) • Current median flow rate over Abilene: 1.9 Mbps

  10. End-to-End Performance Initiative • To enable the researchers, faculty, students and staff who use high performance networks to obtain optimal performance from the current infrastructure on a consistent basis. Raw Connectivity Applications Performance

  11. True End-to-End Performance requires a system approach • User perception • Application • Operating system • Host IP stack • Host network card • Local Area Network • Campus backbone network • Campus link to regional network/GigaPoP • GigaPoP link to Internet2 national backbones • Internationalconnections EYEBALL APPLICATION STACK JACK NETWORK . . . . . . . . . . . .

  12. Optical networking technology drivers • Aggressive period of fiber construction on the national & metro scales in U.S. • Many university campuses and regional GigaPoPs with dark fiber • Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) • Allows the provisioning of multiple channels (’s) over distinct wavelengths on the same fiber pair • Fiber pair can carry 160 channels (1.6 Tbps!) • Optical transport is the current focus • Optical switching is still in the realm of experimental networks, but may be nearing practical application

  13. DWDM technology primer • DWDM fundamentally is an analog optical technology • Combines multiple channels (2-160+ in number) over the same fiber pair • Uses slightly displaced wavelengths (’s) of light • Generally supports 2.5 or 10 Gbps channels • Physical obstacles to long-distance transmission of light • Attenuation • Solved by amplification (OO) • Wavelength dispersion • Requires periodic signal regeneration – an electronic process (OEO)

  14. DWDM system components • Fiber pair • Multiplexing/demultiplexing terminals • OEO equipment at each end of light path • Output: SONET or Ethernet (10G/1G) framing • Amplifiers • All optical (OO) • ~100 km spacing • Regeneration • Electrical (OEO) process – costly (~50% of capital) • ~500 km spacing (with Long Haul - LH - DWDM) • New technologies can lengthen this distance • Remote huts, operations & maintenance

  15. Telephony’s recent past (from an IP perspective in the U.S.)

  16. IP Networking (and telephony) in the not so distant future

  17. National optical networking options • 1 – Provision incremental wavelengths • Obtain 10-Gbps ’s as with SONET • Exploit smaller incremental cost of additional ’s • 1st  costs ~10x than subsequent ’s • 2 – Build dim fiber facility • Partner with a facilities-based provider • Acquire 1-2 fiber pairs on a national scale • Outsource operation of inter-city transmission equipment • Needs lower-cost optical transmission equipment • The classic ‘buy vs. build’ decision in Information Technology

  18. Future of Abilene • Original UCAID/Qwest agreement amended on October 1, 2001 • Extension of for another 5 years – until October, 2006 • Originally expired March, 2003 • Upgrade of Abilene backbone to optical transport capability - ’s (unprotected) • x4 increase in the core backbone bandwidth • OC-48c SONET (2.5 Gbps) to 10-Gbps DWDM

  19. Key aspects of next generation Abilene backbone - I • Native IPv6 • Motivations • Resolving IPv4 address exhaustion issues • Preservation of the original End-to-End Architecture model • p2p collaboration tools, reverse trend to CO-centrism • International collaboration • Router and host OS capabilities • Run natively - concurrent with IPv4 • Replicate multicast deployment strategy • Close collaboration with Internet2 IPv6 Working Group on regional and campus v6 rollout • Addressing architecture

  20. Key aspects of next generation Abilene backbone - II • Network resiliency • Abilene ’s will not be protected like SONET • Increasing use of videoconferencing/VoIP impose tighter restoration requirements (<100 ms) • Options: • Currently: MPLS/TE fast reroute • IP-based IGP fast convergence (preferable) • Addition of new measurement capabilities • Enhance active probing (Surveyor) • Latency & jitter, loss, TCP throughput • Add passive measurement taps • Support for computer science research – “Abilene Observatories” • Support of Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative • Intermediate performance beacons

  21. Next generation router selection • Extensive router specification and test plan developed • Team effort: UCAID staff, NOC, NC and Ohio ITECs • Discussions with four router vendors • Tests focused on next gen advanced services • High performance TCP/IP throughput • High performance multicast • IPv6 functionality & throughput • Classification for QoS and measurement • 3 router platforms tested & commercial ISPs referenced •  New Juniper T640 platform selected

  22. Two leading national initiatives in the U.S. • Next Generation Abilene • Advanced Internet backbone • connects entire campus networks of the research universities • 10 Gbps nationally • TeraGrid • Distributed computing (Grid) backplane • connects high performance computing (HPC) machine rooms • Illinois: NCSA, Argonne • California: SDSC, Caltech • 4x10 Gbps: Chicago  Los Angeles • Ongoing collaboration between both projects

  23. OC-12 vBNS Abilene MREN OC-12 OC-3 = 32x 1GbE 32 quad-processor McKinley Servers (128p @ 4GF, 8GB memory/server) TeraGrid Architecture – 13.6 TF (Source: C. Catlett, ANL) 574p IA-32 Chiba City 32 256p HP X-Class 32 Argonne 64 Nodes 1 TF 0.25 TB Memory 25 TB disk 32 32 Caltech 32 Nodes 0.5 TF 0.4 TB Memory 86 TB disk 128p Origin 24 32 128p HP V2500 32 HR Display & VR Facilities 24 8 8 5 5 92p IA-32 HPSS 24 HPSS OC-12 ESnet HSCC MREN/Abilene Starlight Extreme Black Diamond 4 OC-48 Calren OC-48 OC-12 NTON GbE OC-12 ATM Juniper M160 NCSA 500 Nodes 8 TF, 4 TB Memory 240 TB disk SDSC 256 Nodes 4.1 TF, 2 TB Memory 225 TB disk Juniper M40 Juniper M40 OC-12 vBNS Abilene Calren ESnet OC-12 2 2 OC-12 OC-3 Myrinet Clos Spine 8 4 UniTree 8 HPSS 2 Sun Starcat Myrinet Clos Spine 4 1024p IA-32 320p IA-64 1176p IBM SP Blue Horizon 16 14 = 64x Myrinet 4 = 32x Myrinet 1500p Origin Sun E10K = 32x FibreChannel = 8x FibreChannel 10 GbE 32 quad-processor McKinley Servers (128p @ 4GF, 12GB memory/server) Fibre Channel Switch 16 quad-processor McKinley Servers (64p @ 4GF, 8GB memory/server) IA-32 nodes Router or Switch/Router

  24. Regional optical fanout • Next generation architecture: Regional & state based optical networking projects are critical • Three-level hierarchy: backbone, GigaPoPs/ARNs, campuses • Leading examples • CENIC ONI (California), I-WIRE (Illinois), • SURA Crossroads (Southeastern U.S), Indiana, Ohio • Collaboration with the Quilt • Regional Optical Networking project • U.S. carrier DWDM access is now not nearly as widespread as with SONET circa 1998 • 30-60 cities for DWDM • ~120 cities for SONET

  25. Optical network project differentiation

  26. Conclusions – Abilene future • Partnership with Qwest extended thru 2006 • Juniper T640 routers selected for backbone • Backbone upgrade to 10-Gbps in three phases • New foci: • Native, high-performance IPv6 • Enhanced, differentiated measurement • Increased network resiliency • Technical design and business model provides for an incremental, non-disruptive transition • Complementary to and collaborative with NSF’s TeraGrid

  27. For more information • Web: www.internet2.edu/abilene • E-mail: abilene@internet2.edu

  28. www.internet2.edu

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