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Implementation of Abilene International Transit Network (ITN) Service

This document discusses the implementation of the Abilene International Transit Network (ITN) service, including its service definition, participants, BGP considerations, and collaboration with other networks. It provides an overview of the ITN concept and its objectives.

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Implementation of Abilene International Transit Network (ITN) Service

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  1. Implementation of Abilene International Transit Network (ITN)Service Steve Corbató <corbato@internet2.edu> Internet2 Fall Member Meeting Atlanta, Georgia October 29, 2000

  2. Abilene ITN service definition • ITN concept developed as some international NRNs moved their U.S. circuit terminations closer to the landing points • By default, Abilene international peers are ITN participants • Non-participating international peers must indicate this intent to UCAID • Abilene ITN service commenced October 23, 2000 • ITN service currently does not extend to U.S. federal research and education networks • ESnet, NISN, NREN, DREN, DARPA Supernet • As an Internet2 backbone, vBNS has become an ITN participant

  3. CA*Net3 CERNET CUDI DFN (via DANTE) IUCC JANET NORDUnet RENATER REUNA2 SINET SingAREN SURFnet TANET2 TransPAC vBNS Current Abilene ITN participants (15)

  4. Abilene ITN implementation • BGP communities for international peers • 11537:2501 – ITN participants • 11537:2500 – non-ITN participants • Abilene ITN participants are tagged with ITN community on ingress (route map: TRANSIT-in) • Abilene ITN participants receive all routes with 11537:2501 community (route map: TRANSIT-out)

  5. BGP considerations for ITN participants

  6. ITN collaboration • Abilene, CA*Net3, and STARTAP are actively collaborating on international peering and transit issues in North America • In particular, Abilene and CA*Net3 have agreed to provide transit among their respective ITN participants • Abilene requires a Memorandum of Agreement and an Interconnection Agreement with the foreign NRN directly connected to CA*Net3

  7. More on Abilene at this meeting • Abilene Update session • Wednesday 10:15-11:15 a.m., Zurich/Sydney • Implications of Expanded Access for Abilene • Other program changes • Network of the Future • Time for discussion

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