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What’s MAX Been Up to Lately? Presentation to MAX membership

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.

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What’s MAX Been Up to Lately? Presentation to MAX membership

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

  2. 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 vBNS connecting 4 univs. • 2000: Built regional dark fiber network lit by dwdm lambdas connected to Abilene/Internet2 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 10G network in the DC, suburban MD, N Va, Baltimore metro areas. • Doubled network size in 2-3 years, continued growth!

  3. 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 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 Internet2 DC office Local and State Government DC-Net I-Nets intercounty network Network Maryland rev. 10/27 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 Participant Consortium of 45 Directly Connected Higher Education, Federal Agency, and Non-Profit Institutions

  4. MAX Production Network Services • IPv4 unicast, IPv4 multicast, and native IPv6 unicast. • Internet2 (Abilene network) regional aggregation • ISP resale (Qwest DIA, just added Cogent) • NGIX/East FedNet 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, & Level3 pops • Network monitoring and uptime/usage reporting

  5. 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 low-cost 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, AboveNet, Verizon, ATT, Comcast.

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

  7. NGIX/E R&E peers today • Abilene (10 gb), Newnet in progress (10G) • GEANT2 (OC192 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 (1gb) • Still have vBNS (barely) (1 gb) • AtlanticWave distributed peer fabric, (10G)

  8. Equi6IX Cogent NewNet Qwest Qwest R&E Nets Abilene MAX Production dwdm rings State of MD pop, Baltimore 1. Original Zhone dwdm over Qwest fiber BALT M40E 2. Movaz dwdm over State Md fiber 3. Gige on HHMI dwdm over Abovenet fiber Ring 4 4. USM dwdm over State Md fiber Level3 pop, Mclean VA CLPK NGIX Ring 2 T640 MCLN CLPK T640 UMD pop, College Park MD CLPK MCLN Ring 1 Ring 3 DCGW DCNE ASHB ARLG Equinix pop, Ashburn VA GWU & Qwest DC pops, ISI/E Arlington VA pop

  9. Next-Generation Internet2 Network Buildout in Progress!

  10. “Newnet” Node details

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

  12. The Quilt Regions

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

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

  15. For regional connectivity, MAX tries to encourage Redundant Peerings for participant protection (high-9’s) LVL3 T640 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. CLPK T640 Movaz dwdm USM NLM NetWVa

  16. MAX is More than Production IP Networking MAX Activities Production Net Activities ResearchActivities Layer 3 IP Network Services Layer 1 Optical Services Internet2 HOPI Test Bed support DRAGON Experimental Networking NGIX/East FedNet peer point Related Strategic Activities AtlanticWave, Quilt, ATDNet-V2 Research Technologies Additional Funded Research

  17. 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)

  18. 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

  19. 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, inter-domain 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

  20. The DRAGON Testbed University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) MAX MIT Haystack Observatory (HAYS) U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO) CLPK DCNE (Qwest) ATDnet DCGW ARLG HOPI / NLR MCLN (Level3) DCNE Univ of Southern California/ Information Sciences Institute (ISIE) National Computational Science Aliance (NCSA)

  21. 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

  22. Fiber bundle Cross-connect Primary site Ancillary site Qwest fiber Fibergate fiber Govt supplied fiber 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 SMF28 ECK DARPA WNY DIA DISA NRL

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

  24. HOPI Testbed Support Activities

  25. Jodrell Bank UK Onsala SE Kashima JP Westerbork NE StarLight UKLight NetherLight JGN2 NorthernLight 4 MIT Haystack Observatory Seattle Chicago 4 3 Los Angeles DRAGON Washington, DC HOPI Washington Westford MA Greenbelt MD The 30,000 foot view: DRAGON + HOPI iGrid Demo Global Application Resources… Dynamic links across HOPI and DRAGON Static links to Chicago …(for now) Two network domains...

  26. 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.

  27. 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

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