How High Performance Ethernet Plays in RONs, GigaPOPs & Grids

1. How High Performance Ethernet Plays in RONs, GigaPOPs & Grids Internet2 Member Meeting Sept 20, 2005 www.force10networks.com

2. Speakers Today • Brian Savory • Southern Light Rail (SLR) - Exec. Director • Southern Crossroads (SOX) GigaPOP • Georgia Tech • Matt Davy • Indiana GigaPOP - Chief Network Eng. • I-Light Optical Fiber Initiative • Indiana University & The Global NOC • Debbie Montano • Force10 Networks, Dir. of Research & Education Alliances • dmontano@force10networks.com

3. Ethernet has an Essential Role • Even with optical networking & new network designs on the rise, Ethernet - GigE / 10 GigE - has an essential role to play in network architectures of: • Regional Optical Networks (RONs) • GigaPOPs (state/regional education advanced networks) • Grids/Clusters. • High Performance Ethernet plays into new network designs and service definitions and offerings for RONs, GigaPOPs and Grids – will be discussed today. • Ethernet is continuing to grow and take over! • LANs and campuses • Metro Ethernet • Ethernet on the Wide Area Networks (WAN), both for traditional carriers and R&E networks! • Grids / Clusters / Supercomputers • New support for: WAN PHY, High Densities (90-port card), etc.

4. Grid example: TeraGrid • TeraGrid: Impressive National Resource • 2/3rds (+) of TeraGrid computing facilities using high performance ethernet -- Force10 E-series switch/routers -- for interconnect to users/WAN.

5. Grids / Clusters • System Interconnects • CPU-to-CPU: Inter-processor Communication (IPC) • Management Network • I/O to users, outside world (campus, LAN, WAN) • Storage, servers & storage subsystems • IPC Interconnect Technology – GigE now #1 • Top 500 Supercomputers • Ethernet Rapid Growth • Favored in Clusters • Other System Interconnection • Major reliance on Ethernet

6. CERN Deploys Force10 • Announced yesterday – 9/19/2005 • CERN will deploy the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers as the foundation of its new 2.4 Terabit per second (Tbps) high performance grid computing farm • The TeraScale E-Series will connect more than 8,000 processors and storage devices • Also provides the first intercontinental 10 Gigabit Ethernet WAN links in a production network • Force10 TeraScale E-Series also will provide 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections to CERN's multiple campus-based experiments, which are similar to individual computing clusters • CERN was looking for a partner that could provide and support a very high performance networking solution – selected Force10.

7. RONs, GigaPOPs & Ethernet • Regional Optical Networks (RONs) growing • Using existing fiber or laying fiber • More ownership of fiber • More dedicated lambdas deployed • But that’s not the end of the story… • Ethernet – 1 GigE / 10 GigE • Layer 2 service • Sub-divide and share those hefty lambdas • Access to multiple networks & projects on 1 lambda • Dynamic control of paths and interconnects • GigaPOPs embracing more Ethernet / Layer 2 services

8. New Architectures: HOPI NLR 10 GigE Lambda NLR OpticalTerminal NLR OpticalTerminal OPTICAL Regional Optical Network (RON) OpticalCrossConnect Force10 E600 Switch/Router ControlMeasurementSupport OOB HOPI Node PACKET Abilene Network 10 GigE Backbone Abilene Network Abilene core router GigaPOP GigaPOP

9. HOPI - Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure Examining a hybrid of shared IP packet switching and dynamically provisioned optical lambdas Modeling scaleable next-generation networks Force10 Ethernet switch, 10 GigE ports Dynamic Control of Ethernet VLANs to allocate and configure network paths Force10 ParticipationInternet2 HOPI Project Internet2 Corporate Partner & HOPI project partner Five E600 switch/routers at HOPI nodes in Los Angeles, DC, Chicago, Seattle & New York

10. Force10 Networks, IncLeaders in 10 GbE Switching & Routing • Founded in 1999, Privately Held • First to ship line-rate 10 GbE switching & routing • Pioneered new switch/router architecture providing best-in-class resiliency and density, simplifying network topologies • Customer base spans academic/research, data center, enterprise and service provider • Fastest growing 10 GbE vendor, 92% in 1H04 • April 2005: TeraScale E300 switch/router named winner of the Networking Infrastructure category for eWEEK's Fifth Annual Excellence Awards program.

11. TeraScale E-SeriesA New Generation of 10 Gigabit Ethernet • Industry’s best density per chassis • 672 LINE-RATE GbE ports • 56 LINE-RATE 10 GbE ports • Driving down price/port! • FirstLINE-RATE 48-port GbE line card & LINE-RATE 4-port 10 GbE line card • Industry’s best performance • First true Terabit/second switch/router processing 1 billion packets per second • Industry’s most scalable resiliency • ZERO packet loss hitless failover at Terabit data rates • Industry’s most scalable security • No performance degradation with1 million ACLs • Investment protection for 100 GbE E1200 E600 E300

12. First Line-Rate 10 GbE Compact- Size System Shipped E300 First 48 GbE x 10 GbEPurpose Built Data Center Switch First >1200 GbEPorts Per Chassis First Line-Rate 672 GbE / 56 – 10 GbE Ports First Public Zero Packet Loss Hitless Failover Demo Nov 2003 First Line-Rate 10 GbEMid-Size SystemShipped E600 First Line-Rate 10 GbE System Shipped E1200 Sept 2004 April 2005 First Line-Rate 336 GbE Ports Demo March 2005 Nov 2003 Apr 2002 Oct 2002 Jan 2002 Force10 Firsts…

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