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I-WIRE: Illinois State-Funded Dark Fiber Infrastructure for Research and Education

I-WIRE is a state-funded project that provides dark fiber infrastructure to support networking and research applications. It offers advanced technologies like access grids, telepresence, and media, as well as computational and data grids. The project has received a total funding of $7.5M and has established fiber networks across various research institutions in Illinois.

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I-WIRE: Illinois State-Funded Dark Fiber Infrastructure for Research and Education

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  1. I-WIRE (Illinois Wired/Wireless Infrastructure for Research and Education) • State Funded Dark Fiber Optical Infrastructure to support Networking and Applications Research • $7.5M Total Funding • $6.5M FY00-02 (in hand) • Additional $500k in FY03 and FY04 • Application Driven • Access Grid: Telepresence & Media • TeraGrid: Computational and Data Grids • New Technologies Proving Ground • Optical Network Architecture • Dense Wave Division Multiplexing • Optical network control and management • Advanced middleware infrastructure • Timeline • 1994- Governor interest in Internet to schools • 1997- Task Force formed • 1999- I-WIRE funding approved • 2002- Fiber in place Starlight International Optical Network Hub (NU-Chicago) UIC Argonne National Laboratory IIT U Chicago 40 Gb/s Distributed Terascale Facility Network Chicago U Chicago Gleacher Center UIUC/NCSA James R. Thompson Center – Illinois Century Network Commercial Fiber Hub

  2. The TeraGrid: A National Infrastructure For more information: www.teragrid.org

  3. NSF TeraGrid: 14 TFLOPS, 750 TB 574p IA-32 Chiba City 256p HP X-Class 128p Origin 128p HP V2500 HR Display & VR Facilities Caltech: Data collection analysis 92p IA-32 HPSS HPSS ANL: Visualization SDSC: Data-Intensive Myrinet UniTree HPSS Myrinet 1024p IA-32 320p IA-64 1176p IBM SP Blue Horizon 1500p Origin Sun E10K NCSA: Compute-Intensive

  4. TeraGrid Network Architecture 2200mi Los Angeles Chicago Starlight I-WIRE 140mi 25mi 15mi 115mi Caltech Cluster SDSC Cluster NCSA Cluster ANL Cluster

  5. ANL Starlight / NU-C UChicagoGleacher Ctr UChicagoMain UIUC/NCSA UIC IIT ICN Commercial Fiber Hub I-WIRE Geography Northwestern Univ-Chicago “Starlight” I-290 UI-Chicago • Status:Done: ANL, NCSA, StarlightLaterals in process: UC, UIC, IIT • Investigating extensions to Northwestern Evanston, Fermilab, O’Hare, Northern Illinois Univ, DePaul, etc. I-294 I-55 Illinois Inst. Tech Dan Ryan Expwy (I-90/94) Argonne Nat’l Lab (approx 25 miles SW) U of Chicago UIUC/NCSA Urbana (approx 140 miles South)

  6. 18 4 Qwest455 N. Cityfront 4 10 4 McLeodUSA 151/155 N. Michigan Doral Plaza 4 12 12 Level(3) 111 N. Canal 2 2 2 I-Wire Fiber Topology Starlight (NU-Chicago) Argonne UC Gleacher Ctr 450 N. Cityfront UIC UIUC/NCSA State/City Complex James R. Thompson Ctr City Hall State of IL Bldg • Fiber Providers: Qwest, Level(3), McLeodUSA, 360Networks • 10 segments • 190 route miles; 816 fiber miles • Longest segment: 140 miles • 4 strands minimum to each site FNAL (est 4q2002) UChicago IIT Numbers indicate fiber count (strands)

  7. I-Wire Transport TeraGrid Linear 3x OC192 1x OC48 First light: 6/02 Starlight (NU-Chicago) Argonne Starlight Linear 4x OC192 4x OC48 (8x GbE) Operational UC Gleacher Ctr 450 N. Cityfront Qwest455 N. Cityfront Metro Ring 1x OC48 per site First light: 8/02 UIC UIUC/NCSA McLeodUSA 151/155 N. Michigan Doral Plaza State/City Complex James R. Thompson Ctr City Hall State of IL Bldg UChicago IIT • Each of these three ONI DWDM systems have capacity of up to 66 channels, up to 10 Gb/s per channel • Protection available in Metro Ring on a per-site basis

  8. I-WIRE Economics • Up front cost of ~$4M for fiber • 20-year IRU Fiber (existing fiber) • $700 to $5,000/strand-mile • New construction (for ‘last mile’) • $30 to $100/foot ($160-530k/mile) • Up front cost of ~$2.5M for equipment • Annual costs • ~$100k for fiber maintenance, small number collocation spaces • ~$250k for equipment maintenance, staff effort

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