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Partnering for Success

Partnering for Success. MAX – Qwest Alliance Builds a High Performance Network in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area Tony Conto, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) Scott MacCloy, Qwest Communications, Inc. Brief Background & History.

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Partnering for Success

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  1. Partnering for Success MAX – Qwest Alliance Builds a High Performance Network in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area Tony Conto, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) Scott MacCloy, Qwest Communications, Inc

  2. Brief Background & History • Founding consortium: Georgetown U., George Washington U., U. of Maryland, Virginia Tech • 1999 had an OC-3 circuit to carry traffic to Abilene • Mission: to deploy a high performance network to enable the research and education missions of MAX participants • Build partnerships with the commercial sector to further the development of MAX

  3. Partnerships Extend GigaPoP Infrastructure • Partnership with QwestLink to provide dark fiber ring within the Washington beltway • Connects Qwest PoP in DC to GWU, UMCP (MD) and ISI-East (VA) • Developing commodity offering for MAX membership • Partnerships with Juniper and LuxN to populate the network nodes with M160 routers and WDM switches • Partnerships with Fibergate to provide some participant dark fiber connections to MAX • Co-location with: • Qwest, Yipes, ATT, Verizon,

  4. Qwest Collaboration • Cooperative in working within the budget constraints of the MAX • Supported Internet2 from its beginnings • Understands the importance of corporate support for the educational infrastructure • Support of educational initiative integrates with the Qwest business model

  5. Partnership Success • MAX evolved into a cohesive group of universities, federal research labs, and non-profit institutions • focused on the common goal of building one of the most advanced regional networks in the nation • Partners make connection options and networking equipment available to members • Partnership with Qwest makes available a variety of additional services to its members

  6. USM ETC KKI BALT (UMB) NGIX MAX Network Overview OC3 OC48/fiber (pending) UMCP UMBC GWU GT NLM NIH GSFC NSF UCAID SURA NOAA DCGW (GWU) CLPK (UMCP) OC48/WDM DCNE (Qwest) ARLG Abilene ARLG ISI East NCSA ACCESS RSTN (tbd)

  7. WDST Target Core Optical Network OC3c POS Baltimore ATM Router NGIX Router OC48c POS (Pending) UMCP College Park OADM Router Router GWU QWST Washington Qwest ISP OC48c POS OC192c POS (future) Abilene OC48c POS ISIE Northern Virginia Router

  8. MAX Focus • Focus has been on getting the network operational • Emphasis now is to promote and enable applications that will push the limits of the network’s capacity • Currently involved in muticast applications with several participants • IPv6 will be implemented between Fujitsu labs of America with universities in Japan

  9. DREN Abilene VBNS ESNet NREN Supernet NISN ISP ATDNet MAX Regional Infrastructure National/Inter-national Peering Networks Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Regional Network Participants NGIX-East net.work.Maryland Network Virginia Institutional Participants The Catholic University of of America George Washington University Georgetown University Howard Hughes Medical Institute Kennedy Krieger Institute NASA/Emerging Technologies Center NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center National Consortium for Supercomputer Applications/ACCESS National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Science Foundation Southeastern Universities Research Association University Consortium for Advanced Internet Development University of Maryland University of Maryland, Baltimore County University System of Maryland U.S. Geological Survey

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