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National LambdaRail (NLR): Progress Report

National LambdaRail (NLR): Progress Report. Tom West President/CEO, CENIC. NLR Implementation Schedule (as of 2/03/04). Chicago to Pittsburgh 12/03 Sunnyvale to Seattle 4/04 Pittsburgh to Washington DC 3/04 Washington DC to Atlanta 6/04 Atlanta to Jacksonville 8/04

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National LambdaRail (NLR): Progress Report

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  1. National LambdaRail (NLR): Progress Report Tom West President/CEO, CENIC

  2. NLR Implementation Schedule (as of 2/03/04) • Chicago to Pittsburgh 12/03 • Sunnyvale to Seattle 4/04 • Pittsburgh to Washington DC 3/04 • Washington DC to Atlanta 6/04 • Atlanta to Jacksonville 8/04 • Seattle to Denver 7/04 • Denver to Chicago 8/04

  3. CENIC Pacific Northwest Gigapop Pittsburgh SC Duke Univ./NCLR MATP/Va. Tech Cisco Systems Internet2 Florida LambdaRail Georgia Tech CIC LEARN (Texas) Pending: UCAR/FR/IM/LLC Cornell/NYSERNET Current Members and Associates

  4. Many different perspectives • “NLR… … aims to reenergize innovative R&D into next generation networking technologies, protocols, services, and apps.” … is a virtual laboratory.” … will contribute to the (NSF) Cyberinfrastructure that is critical to progress in every field of science & engineering.” … will help fuel the growth of the TeraGrid and computational science in general.” … motivates our planned regional optical network.” … is a hedge timed to hit the trough of the Internet/telecom economy.” … is both an experimental facility and a complex, multi-dimensional experiment in and of itself.”

  5. Distinguishing features - I • Largest higher-ed owned/managed optical networking & research facility in the world • ~10,000 route-miles of dark fiber • Four 10-Gbps ’s provisioned at outset • First & foremost, an experimental platform for research • Optical, switching & network layers • Research committee (with 2 board seats) • Advance reservation of  capacity for research • Experimental support center

  6. Distinguishing features - II • Use of high speed Ethernet for WAN transport • 1O Gigabit Ethernet LAN PHY is primary interface • Traditional OC-192 SONET available, too • ‘Sparse backbone’ topology • Each participant/node typically commits $5M • Concurrent responsibility for developing optical networking capabilities and sustaining performance in nodal region

  7. Distinguishing features - III • Unprecedented level of self-capitalization for national networking initiative by higher ed participants • ~$80M budget for full national backbone (CapEx + 5-yrs OpEx) • Each contribution assumed to be ‘sunk cost’ • Additional ’s (up to 40 on a given segment) can be provisioned with pricing tied to incremental cost

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