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Jan Eveleth, Mgr. Gigapop Services University of Washington & Pacific Northwest Gigapop Internet2 Fall Meeting Los Angeles, CA USA October 28, 2002. Pacific Wave Seattle, Washington USA. International Network Peering Services
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Jan Eveleth, Mgr. Gigapop Services University of Washington & Pacific Northwest Gigapop Internet2 Fall Meeting Los Angeles, CA USA October 28, 2002
Pacific Wave Seattle, Washington USA International Network Peering Services Opportunities for high-speed, efficient exchange of IP packets without using commercial Internet services Pacific Wave is a recommended exchange point for international research and education networks peering with Internet2's Abilene network. A service of the
Features of Pacific Wave • Accessible from all submarine cable landing sites on US Pacific coast • Located in incumbent telecommunications carrier grade hotel • Many colocation options • Easy access to fiber-meet-me-room • Redundant environmentals (DC power, HVAC) • Multicast enabled with PIM-SM snooping • IPV6 traffic between IPV6 capable peers supported • 24 x 7 Network Operations Center
Pacific Wave Architecture An ATM free zone! Redundant Gigabit Ethernet switch architecture provides two subnets and 128Gbps throughput. Abilene Switch PNW Router CA*net3 . . . Switch PNW Router AARNet
Research & Education Networks at Pacific Wave • Abilene/Internet2 International Transit Network (ITN) • Serving APAN • Australian Academic & Research Network • Canada’s Advanced Research & Education Network • TANET2 – Taiwan Research Network
Networks via Abilene ITN at Pacific Wave Europe-Middle East Asia-Pacific Americas Argentina (RETINA) Brazil (RNP2, ANSP) Canada (CA*net4) Chile (REUNA) Mexico (CUDI) United States (Abilene, vBNS) Austria (ACOnet) Belgium (BELnet) Croatia (CARnet) Czech Rep. (CESnet) Cyprus (Cynet) Denmark (UNI-C) Estonia (ESnet) Finland (FUnet) France (RENATER) Germany (G-Win) Greece (GRnet) Hungary (HUNGARnet) Iceland (ISnet) Ireland (HEANET) Israel (IUCC) Italy (GARR) Latvia (LATNET) Lithuania (LITNET) Luxembourg (RESTENA) Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway (UNINETT) Poland (PCSS) Portugal (FCCN) Romania (RNC) Slovakia (SANET) Slovenia (ARNES) Spain (RedIris) Sweden (SUNET) Switzerland (SWITCH) United Kingdom (JANET) *CERN Australia (AARNET) China (CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET) Hong Kong (HARNET) Japan (SINET, WIDE, IMNET, JGN) Korea (KOREN, KREONET2) Singapore (SingAREN) Taiwan (TANET2) Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN) More information about reachable networks at www.internet2.edu/abilene/peernetworks.html Slide Courtesy of Internet2
Additional Participants at Pacific Wave • DREN – Defense Research and Engineering Network • ESNet – Energy Sciences Network • AT&T Broadband Cable Internet • Microsoft Corporation • Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation (Pointshare) and more…
Pacific Wave Peering with PNWGP ______________________________________ Microsoft Research NOAA Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Plus Major Research Universities of Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana; and Portland Research & Education Network
Partnerships, Memberships, & Affiliations • Asia Pacific Advanced Networks (APAN) • IEEAF/GEO/Tyco Telecommunications • KEXP Radio • Pacific Lighthouse • Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) • PAIX Seattle Peering Interconnects • ResearchChannel • The Quilt • University of Washington • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology • Worldwide University Network (WUN)
Futures • 2003: Fiber facility expansion along U.S. Pacific Coast—National LightRail • 2003: IEEAF/GEO/Tyco Telecommunications 10-Gbps from Japan to Seattle • 2003: 10GbE connections at Pacific Wave • Additional Peering Partners focusing on Pacific Rim Research & Education Networks • Continued support of advanced applications (e.g., streaming media, LSR, HDTV applications)
Optional: PNWGP Commodity Internet • Upstream service providers Cable & Wireless Level3 NTT/Verio • Geographically diverse vendor connections • Diverse geographic connection options for participants • 3Gbps total throughput structured over 3 independent, fully burstable Gigabit circuits
For More Information Email: gigapop-info@pnw-gigapop.net Web: http://www.pacificwave.net Phone: +1 206 934 5588