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NLANR and Abilene

NLANR and Abilene. Wendy Huntoon Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Carnegie Mellon University NLANR: Engineering Services September 28, 1998. NLANR Background. NLANR National Laboratory for Advanced Networking Research Full presentation today, 3:30-5:00 in Pacific JK.

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NLANR and Abilene

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  1. NLANR and Abilene Wendy Huntoon Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Carnegie Mellon University NLANR: Engineering Services September 28, 1998

  2. NLANR Background • NLANR • National Laboratory for Advanced Networking Research • Full presentation today, 3:30-5:00 in Pacific JK. • Funded by the NSF to provide: • Applications, Engineering and Measurement Analysis • To • High Performance Network Service Providers (HPNSP) • High Performance Connection (HPC) sites

  3. Engineering Services • What do we do ? Provide engineering and technical guidance in how to connect and effectively use a high speed connection to an HPNSP.

  4. Who Are We • NLANR: Engineering Services • Based out of the Networking Groups at PSC and NCAR. • Staffs have significant networking experience: • Campus (CMU, NCAR) • MAN/Gigapop (Pgh Gigapop, Front Range Gigapop) • WAN (Commodity, vBNS) • Support High Performance end-to-end applications (i.e., PSC, NCAR)

  5. How Can We Help • Provide campus/Gigapop perspective on Abilene • How to connect, configure and manage the connection along with other connections. • End-to-End Performance • Bottlenecks typically not backbone specific. • Backbone providers not responsible for end-to end connectivity. • Optimize network infrastructure. • Tune Host configurations.

  6. Infrastructure Plans • Install Abilene Connection ASAP • Augments existing vBNS connection. • Seeking funding from the NSF for the connection. • Received cost-sharing commitment from UCAID. • Connection pending: Local loop availability (OC-12) Qwest PoP availability

  7. More Plans • Sharing Trouble Ticketing information • With Abilene NOC and CANARIE • Will help identify and track problems • Work with Abilene Partners • To understand, document and provide engineering support for technologies used by the Abilene backbone.

  8. Plans • Work with HPNSP’s on interconnect issues: • How to support end-to-end performance across provider boundaries • Already worked on these issues on vBNS/Esnet applications • How to support Intelligent Networking Services across provider boundaries • Ex: Multicast, QoS, IPv6, etc.

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