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LambdaGRID the NREN (r)Evolution

LambdaGRID the NREN (r)Evolution. Kees Neggers Managing Director SURFnet Reykjavik, 26 August 2003. SURFnet. Provides the Dutch National Research Network Not for profit company, 50 employees 160 connected organizations, 500.000 users Turnover (2002): 30M€ Infrastructure services:

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LambdaGRID the NREN (r)Evolution

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  1. LambdaGRID the NREN (r)Evolution Kees Neggers Managing Director SURFnet Reykjavik, 26 August 2003

  2. SURFnet • Provides the Dutch National Research Network • Not for profit company, 50 employees • 160 connected organizations, 500.000 users • Turnover (2002): 30M€ • Infrastructure services: • innovation paid for by government • cost effective exploitation for higher education and research

  3. SURFnet AUP • Full service for Research and Higher Education Institutes • All others, including industry, test and development activities for advanced applications

  4. Research Networking is the innovation engine between research and market introduction of new services Over the last 5 years SURFnet’s innovation engine is powered by: • Budget 1999-2003: 70MEuro • Partnership with industry

  5. GigaPort results • SURFnet5 10 Gbit/s lambda based network up and running since mid 2001 • Fiber to the dormitories: 20,000 students via 10/100 Mbit/s switched Ethernet • GigaMAN: Development of market for managed dark fiber in The Netherlands • Access pilots/ mobility/ middleware • NetherLight: International testbed for lambda networking • Playground for new applications

  6. SURFnet5 • Partners BT and Cisco • 15 PoPs connected by thirty 10 Gbit/s lambdas • Dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 since 2001 • 500,000 users • 60% customers connected at Gbit/s level

  7. What did we learn • Lambdas are an excellent basis for IP networking • Dark fiber and gigabit Ethernet is an excellent way to connect customers • Researchers are interested in direct access to lambda’s for high bandwidth, low jitter, low latency point tot point connections • Incumbent operators were reluctant to sell dark fiber • Added value of network operators in NG NRENs is limited • International cooperation in developing lambda networking is essential

  8. NREN challenge • Accommodate needs of scientific users for higher speed, higher quality networking • While protecting the performance of the network for current users • And keeping the successful end-to-end model of the internet

  9. Paradigm shift SURFnet6 network • Next generation NREN is no simple extrapolation of current networks

  10. NetherLight An optical Internet exchange point in Amsterdam built and operated by SURFnet to experiment with light path provisioning concepts for high-bandwidth, high quality internet traffic in a multi domain environment

  11. NetherLight network 2001 • 2.5Gbit/s lambda between StarLight, Chicago, USA and NetherLight, Amsterdam, NL • Lambda terminated on Cisco ONS15454 muxes, • WAN side: SONET framed: OC48c • LAN side: GbE interfaces to computer clusters NetherLight StarLight GbE GbE 2.5G lambda GbE GbE

  12. NetherLight Network 2002 • The iGrid2002 event brought many lambdas to Amsterdam 10 Gbit/s Tyco New York 2.5 Gbit/s Amsterdam NetherLight Dwingeloo ASTRON/ JIVE 10 Gbit/s Level3 DWDM SURFnet CAnet 2.5 Gbit/s SURFnet Chicago StarLight 2.5 Gbit/s SURFnet 2.5 Gbit/s CERN CERN

  13. ATLAS Canada Lightpath trialTRIUMF Vancouver CERN Geneva CANARIE 2xGbE circuits NetherLight StarLight SURFnet 2xGbE circuits “A full Terabyte of real data was transferred at rates equivalent to a full CD in under 8 seconds and a DVD in under 1 minute” Wade Hong et al

  14. NetherLight Network August 2003 Emerging international lambda grid New York City Stockholm NorthernLight 10 Gbit/s Tyco/IEEAF 10 Gbit/s NSF Amsterdam NetherLight Dwingeloo ASTRON/JIVE Canet 10 Gbit/s SURFnet DWDM SURFnet 10 Gbit/s NSF Chicago StarLight 2.5 Gbit/s CESNET 10 Gbit/s SURFnet London UKLight Prague CzechLight Geneva CERN 2.5 Gbit/s DataTAG

  15. 10GBase-LR (SM fiber, l = 1310nm)1000BaseT (copper)1000BaseSX (MM fiber, l = 850nm)1000BaseLX (SM fiber, l = 1310nm) NetherLight setup at SARA Ethernet switch(Cisco 6509) Lambdas to Chicago, Geneva, Prague etc DWDM to JIVE DWDM line terminal(Cisco ONS15252) L1 multiplexer(Cisco ONS15454) optical cross connect(Calient PXC) Computer clustersUvA/NIKHEF

  16. What did we learn • Point to point lambdas is a powerful service • Current Optical-Electrical-Optical equipment is capable of allocating sub-lambdas to individual applications • Management is still cumbersome • Hybrid network architecture seems to be the only valuable NREN option for the future: • Packet switched internet for regular many-to-many usage • Light path switched internet for new high speed few-to-few usage • LambdaGRID is needed

  17. LambdaGrid • A grid is a set of networked, middleware-enabled computing resources. • A LambdaGrid is a grid in which the lambda networks themselves are resources that can be scheduled, like all other computing resources.

  18. TransLight • Emerging Global-Scale LambdaGrid for e-Science • Hub and spoke model, initially around StarLight and NetherLight • Will not replace current best efforts networks • Major initial funding • GigaPort Project (SURFnet) • US National Science Foundation (Euro-Link award to University of Illinois at Chicago) • Canada's CANARIE • “bring us your lambdas”

  19. TransLight fabric • Red Lines: TransLight Lambda Links, Funded • Blue Lines: TransLight Lambda Links, Donated Courtesy of Tom DeFanti UIC

  20. SURFnet plans to continue innovation via Next Generation Network

  21. Scope GigaPort NG Network

  22. Scope GigaPort Next Generation

  23. Design principles GigaPort NG Network • Realization of a next generation network with seamless end-to-end communication: • Integration of lambdas in the IP network • Multi-domain networking • Ethernet services as part of the WANs • Intelligence of networks and the associated responsibilities at the edges • Paving the way to a ubiquitous and scalable Services Grid

  24. SURFnet6 overview • Congestion free transparent end-to-end IP transport • unicast and multicast; IPv4 and IPv6; all at wire speed • 1 Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s and beyond • Lambda services to eventually all connected organizations • Layer 1: DWDM equipment • Layer 2: Ethernet equipment • Layer 3: Small routed core at 2 to 5 locations

  25. SURFnet6 will be based on Dark Fiber • Over 3000 km fiber pairs already available, average price paid for 15 year IRUs is 7 Euro/m per pair. • More than 25 co-location facilities in use. • Managed dark fiber infrastructure will be extended with new routes

  26. SURFnet6 Call for Proposal for industrial partner(s) • In June 2003 a Contract Notice has been published in the Official Journal of the EC to invite industrial partners to contribute to the final design of SURFnet6 and take responsibility for supplying, implementing, maintaining and supporting transmission, switching and routing equipment for SURFnet6

  27. Timelines SURFnet6

  28. Conclusion • NREN users need new services that current networks will not be able to support • Telecommunication infrastructures will become part of the grid and will be intergrated in scientific instruments • NRENs do need to react carefully and timely to these developments. • Lambda networking is not a revolution

  29. Kees.Neggers@SURFnet.nl www.surfnet.nl www.gigaport.nl

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