FRGP/UPoP/National Updates

1. FRGP/UPoP/National Updates Colorado CIO Council 11/1/11 Marla Meehl

2. Acronym soup • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR; http://www.ucar.edu) • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) • Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) • UCAR Point of Presence (UPoP) • Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) • Local Area Networking (LAN), Metropolitan Area Networking (MAN), Wide Area Networking (WAN) • Regional Optical Networks (RONs) • Questions and discussions throughout please – and as for acronym soup ingredients, please ask if I miss one or check a decoder page at http://bit.ly/acronym-soup

3. Reviews and updates • Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) • UCAR Point of Presence (UPoP) • Bi-State Optical Networking (BiSON) • National networking activities • WRN • Internet2 • NLR • XSEDE • The Quilt, Inc. • Others/misc

4. Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) • 11 years of operation by UCAR Network Engineering and Telecommunications Section (NETS) • 13 Members • Ithaka left • ARTSTOR became UPoP member • Internal UCAR audit in progress • http://www.frgp.net

5. Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) • Increasing traffic • Level3 (2Gbps/10Gbps), TeliaSonera (TSIC) (0Gbps/10Gbps) • Dropped Century Link (Qwest) service effective 10/8/11 due to cost and only 1Gbps • TransitRail (TR)/Commercial Peering Service (CPS) • Moving all TR/CPS to I2 pipes out of Kansas City and Seattle • Akamai Peering – continuing to grow; looking at going from 2Gbps to 4 or 10Gbps • 8 members connected at 10Gbps • 1 planned • DYNES with CU Boulder – pending hardware late 2011 • Merged I2, NLR, and ESnet VRFs so all FRGP/UPoP get all these services • Installed ADVA BiSON switch and Cisco 4900 switch at 910 15th to make it a full collocation facility • Jeff Custard attending Colorado Broadband Round Table" meetings on behalf of FRGP/UPoP

7. FRGP members • Colorado School of Mines • Colorado State University System • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA-Boulder) • State of Colorado • United States Antarctic Program • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research • University NAVSTAR Consortium (UNAVCO) • University of Colorado Boulder • University of Colorado Colorado Springs • University of Colorado Denver • University of Denver • University of Northern Colorado • University of Wyoming

8. FRGP and WRN • Western Regional Network (WRN): a multi-state partnership to ensure robust, advanced, high-speed networking availability for research, education, and related uses through the sharing of network services • Expansion and sharing of network services in support of advanced research and operations • Support of academic, economic development, and inter-regional services

9. WRN members • Pacific Northwest GigaPop (PNWGP) • Front Range GigaPoP (FRGP) • The University of New Mexico (on behalf of the State of New Mexico) • Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) • University of Hawaii – pending • http://westernregional.net/

10. WRN states • Increased potential for shared applications among communities across the west—networking services to the following states: • Alaska • California • Colorado • Hawaii • Idaho • Montana • Nevada • New Mexico • Washington • Oregon • Wyoming

11. WRN for FRGP • Intra-region peering • NLR and Internet2 services shared and backed-up • Back each other up (provide diverse layer 2 and 3 to cover on-net failures) • Efficient and cost-effective TR/CPS • Potential place to land for-profits from CTN, EAGLE-Net, US-UCAN, others?

13. UPoP • UCAR Point of Presence • http://upop.ucar.edu • 4 years of operation • 21 members

15. UPoP members • ARTstor • Auraria Higher Education Center • Colorado Association of Research Libraries • City of Boulder • City and County of Denver • Colorado Community College System • Colorado Telehealth Network • Community College of Denver • Colorado Department of Higher Education • Colorado Mountain College • Denver Health and Hospital Authority • DIA • EAGLE-Net • EDUCAUSE

16. UPoP members • Fort Lewis College • Moving to QMOE from PacketRail (went out of business) • Front Range Internet, Inc. (two school districts) • Metropolitan State College of Denver • 2 additional QMOE connections pending • Open Media Foundation • St. Mary's Academy • Science and Technology in Atmospheric Research (STAR) Institute • University of Colorado Hospital • University Information Systems (UIS)

17. UPoP – future connections • Additional school districts • WICHE - http://www.wiche.edu/ • USAFA • Frequent discussions with a variety of others

18. Colorado Telehealth Network • FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program (RHCPP) • Colorado Health Care Connections (CHCC; from Colorado Hospital Association (CHA)) • Rocky Mountain Healthcare Network (RMHN; from Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council (CBHC)) • CTN has FCC RHCPP funding • CenturyLink (CL) operating network since 6/11 • http://www.cotelehealth.com • Current list of members available on request • Internet2 Health Network Initiative: • http://www.internet2.edu/health/ • NLR: http://www.nlr.net

19. EAGLE-Net • Educational Access Gateway Learning Environment Network • http://www.co-eaglenet.net/ • BTOP round 2 award received • Intergovernmental Agency (IGA) • Rolled out from CBOCES • Board in place • Technical Advisory Committee being formed • Environmental Assessments received summer 2011 • RFIs on the street for fiber opportunities • Meeting with CDOT on I25 and 36 builds • Connect all school districts (178) in Colorado

20. SEGP updates • Intended to allow expanded access to the Internet2 network for regional education networks • through sponsorship by Internet2 university members • State and regional networks connect K-20 educational institutions • The program began in early 2001 andas of June 2011 there are 39 SEGPs • Colorado SEGP provides Internet2 services to all qualified FRGP and UPoP members and costs shared

21. BiSON partnership • Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) • 5 year old partnership between NCAR, NOAA-Boulder, University of Wyoming , University of Colorado and Colorado State University • Goal: create an optical WDM network connecting Denver, Boulder, Longmont, Fort Collins, and Laramie

25. BiSON future plans • Expand dark fiber plant to include NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) • Initially at least four 10G circuits will be active • Expansion to 40G and 100G capability • Direct connections for High Performance Computing to other BiSON members also an option • NOAA NWAVE using BiSON • CSU and Boulder have 10Gbps waves both directions around the ring • UW and CU pending • CU Boulder to Denver upgraded to 10Gbps

27. BiSON Capacity • System is engineered for 40 individual lambdas • Each lambda can be a 10G, 40G, or soon a 100G connection • Independent lambdas can be sent each direction around the ring • With a major upgrade system could support 80 lambdas • 100Gbps * 80 channels * 2 paths = 16Tbps

28. NWSC • NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center • http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/nwsc • Scheduled to be occupied in October 2011 • Certificate of Occupancy received 10/21/11 • Supers RFP out – pending NSF approval - system delivered 12/11 and open to users 3/12 • NWSC datacenter switch/router RFP out – pending NSF approval • BiSON fiber connectivity in progress – north leg in place and active – south leg due by 11/3/11

29. Internet2 • Attended Quilt Member Meeting – 4/11 and 10/11 • US UCAN in progress • Connect Community Anchor Institutions (CAIs) • 100Gbps upgrade to I2 network • Ongoing discussions with RONs on impacts of UCAN on RON business and technical models • http://www.internet2.edu

30. National LambdaRail (NLR) • http://www.nlr.net • Purchased by National Coalition for Health Integration • Class A members now Class B members • NLR network upgrade to 100Gbps in planning stage • Class members control half the capacity – currently 20 north/16 south 10Gbps lambdas • Still working through details of capacity distribution • NLR interested in meeting with researchers and health based entities in Colorado to discuss an oncology network proposal • Cancer Knowledge Alliance Network (CKAN)

32. NOAA-WAVE (N-WAVE) • NOAA building national NOAA research network called N-WAVE • Utilizing I2 and NLR 10Gbps lambdas • Initial sites: NOAA-Boulder, NOAA-DC, GFDL, ORNL • Complete • Secondary sites: Seattle, Florida, Oklahoma • In-progress • Used ARRA funds

33. ESnet • http://www.es.net/ and http://www.lbl.gov/ • ARRA Advanced Networking Initiative (~$62M) • 100G Prototype Network and Testbed • DOE scientists are now generating data at the terabyte scale, and datasets will soon be in the petabyte range • LHC: also a very large networking experiment • Network being constructed on I2/Level3 infrastructure

34. XSEDE • NSF funded • XSEDE is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise. People around the world use these resources and services — things like supercomputers, collections of data and new tools — to improve our planet. • 10Gbps network • Follow-on to Teragrid • Utilizing NLR 10Gbps FrameNet infrastructure • https://www.xsede.org/

35. The Quilt, Inc. • http://www.thequilt.net • 28 members currently • Attended 2/11 and 9/11 Quilt Member Meetings • Non-profit regional network aggregators providing advanced network services in support of research and education • Several work groups, lots of tracking, coordination and strategic planning efforts • GigU and US Ignite • Regional Network New Service Roundtable • FRGP no longer purchases off the Quilt CIS program • Canceled Qwest 9/30/11 • Purchase Teliasonera via NLR - b/w counts toward Quilt CIS and NLR/TSIC is an AQP • Purchase Level3 via WRN - b/w counts toward Quilt CIS

36. Regional Reports • A Vision to Connecting to America’s Future Innovation - Advanced Regional and State Networks as Key Links to our Broadband Future • 9/30/11 • Report from Envisioning the Future of Advanced Regional and State Networks in the Broadband Era • Key points • Broadening the collaboration among ARNS to provide coherence for users • Developing sustainable and coordinated funding models • Strengthening the partnership and alignment between ARNs and national organizations • Expanding the leadership and coordination roles of the National Science Foundation • Increasing collaboration on new and advanced services • Joining forces to inform policy makers at the state, regional, and national levels

37. Regional Reports – Cont’d • Research & Education Networks from a Regional Optical Network Perspective in 2011:Wrestling with Expanding ExpectationsQuilt Paper • Peter O’Neil • September 14, 2011

38. Regional Reports – Cont’d • Over the next several years it will be interesting to observe how RONs balance adapting to the disparate networking needs from a much more diverse spectrum of CAI users. How will the RONs mission, organizational form, staff size and degrees of specialization, governance, culture, and financial stability evolve over the next five years? What will be the impact on RONs of assimilating large numbers of new members in a relatively short period of time? • Will RONs develop a scalable way to address CAI needs in house or view many of the functions as one time and outsource them? • Perhaps it is now prudent for RONs to explore opportunities for new collaborations with the CLECs and telecommunication carriers in their region as one approach to co-existing and minimizing retaliatory actions. • Considerable effort is spent documenting workflow processes and adding data to steps coupled to algorithms to complete individual portions. These workflows are sometimes referred to as data driven applications. Such applications can create new value and are considered products of one kind or another. The question for RONs is how can you use data sets from multiple sources to add value for your community of users? • To what extent are RONs in control of their own destiny any longer? To what degree would RONs naturally reach out to CAIs and those community based networks starting to emerge? • What does this new environment mean for the classical three level R&E networking community of backbone, regionals, and campuses? • What is the proper role for RONs in this new context? Should RONs be involved as a leader in each initiative, a partner, or perhaps remain on the sideline for some? What criteria will be used to assess the potential tradeoffs of each role? • Five to ten years from now, what form of analysis will we use to look back at the choices made and how the consequences of those decisions play out? There is an increasing set of expectations and visibility placed on RONs that require new adaptations and adjustments to survive and remain relevant without as much time to consider what is best before action is necessary. • As I2 and NLR reinvent their missions, organizational structures, network offerings, and pricing models, how will each find ways to align with RONs? • How should we be thinking about the role of RONs and networking today? Innovation, breadth of networking to those who have not enjoyed broadband to help promote economic revitalization? Meritorious application needs of high end researchers? A combination of both? How can we build effective RON organizations to accomplish both functions well? The choices and decisions we make are significant even if we do them in a pressured way with lots of constraints involving funds and lack full information. • What produces a healthy mix of services in a RON while recognizing a range of differences and some disparities amongst Quilt members? How can we produce effective change to enhance the health of US networking? US R&E networking is intimately involved with the assumptions about how US science policy will be implemented. How we participate in such conversations is critical in policy debates. • What standards do we have as RONs? Are there a set of best practices we can hold ourselves and our peers to?

39. Recent Regional Activities • In July, Access Wisconsin, filed a lawsuit against WiscNet, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, CCI Systems and the state Department of Transportation to stop the Building Community Capacity through Broadband project. The case was heard in court yesterday and the judge ruled in our favor, denying the injunction requested by Access Wisconsin. • The Administration of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) has triggered the termination of an $80.596 million broadband stimulus project by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Louisiana Broadband Alliance (LBA) project was slated to support the major academic institutions of the state with expanded optical fiber networking capacity, and to provide middle mile 'big pipes' to numerous unserved communities in rural areas. • http://www.stimulatingbroadband.com/2011/10/jindal-administration-triggers-largest.html • The scenario behind the termination is strikingly similar to that carried out in February by the administration of Jindal's fellow Republican Governor, Wisconsin's Scott Walker when the latter returned a $22.978 million BTOP award. Both administrations chose to turn back federal capital monies awarded for state construction of state university owned network facilities in favor of using private carrier leased lines for academic network expansion.

40. FCC’s USF and Intercarrier Compensation Reform Decision • The FCC approved major changes to the Universal Service Fund (USF) and the Intercarrier Compensation regime October 27, 2011. This decision will transform the way that the FCC distributes about $4.5 billion in annual subsidies for telecom services in rural areas and will, over time, reduce to zero the amount that one telephone carrier pays to another for exchanging traffic. • Affects High-Cost Fund ($4.5B); • Over several years and in two phases, the FCC will shift the funds from the current High-Cost Fund into a new Connect America Fund (CAF), which will focus on subsidizing broadband networks for homes, businesses and community anchor institutions in areas that would not otherwise have broadband. • For the first time, the FCC will also create a new Mobility Fund (under the CAF) for mobile broadband in rural areas. • In the fall of 2012, there will be a nationwide “reverse auction” for an immediate $300M in subsidies to build 4G wireless broadband in unserved areas.

41. Discussion • Any follow up questions or feedback on items covered? • Other items? Thank you!