MAX Fall Member Meeting

1. MAX Fall Member Meeting Peter O’Neil Executive Director poneil@maxgigapop.net November 29, 2007

2. Update Outline • MAX Member Relations • Participant changes, TAC, & Newsletters • Optical Refresh • Layer 1, 2, & 3 service offerings now available • IWT installed at McLean • Research Funding Status • Disaster Recovery Planning • Non-Merger • VRF options

3. Member Relations • MAX staff • Several participants upgrading their bandwidth • Strong interest in joining from 2 schools and 2 federal agencies • Lost US Census Bureau • Requests for more ala carte service menu • Technical Advisory Council • Monthly newsletter • Baltimore & College Park Research Centers • Petascale & Clinical Translation solicitations • New Service Initiatives (particulars later today)

4. Fujitsu Optical Refresh

5. High survivability Clear separating of Left/Right DWDM Physical separation between shelves (up to100m) Redundant shelf processor Non-banded, self tuning network Robust rapid response system Architecture for triple play service Voice, Data, Video Rich service delivery options End-to-end service protection Performance monitoring (PM) for all levels Advance operation features Full compliment Operation Support (OS) Systems Fujitsu craft tool, EMS, and network planning & design tool FLASHWAVE 7500 Advantages

6. R&E Nets Old Abilene Qwest ISP National LambdaRail Internet2 NewNet Qwest ISP Cogent ISP Baltimore pops 1. Original Zhone dwdm over Qwest fiber 6 St Paul 660 RW 2.Fujitsu dwdm over State Md fiber Prod Ring 4 New Res fiber 3. 10G on HHMI dwdm over Abovenet fiber 4. 10G on Univ Sys Md, MRV dwdm 10G lambda Level3 pop, Mclean VA CLPK NGIX Ring 2 T640 MCLN CLPK T640 10G backbone UMD pop, College Park MD CLPK MCLN 10G lambda Ring 1 Ring 3 DCGW DCNE ASHB ARLG Equinix pop, Ashburn VA GWU & Qwest DC pops, ISI/E Arlington VA pop

7. Multi-Layer Services • MAX now can provide Layer 1 and Layer 3 services • L1waves & L2 VLANs enable dedicated experimental & research services • Supplements to L3 common bearer routed IP service • Allows for redundancy and diversity options • Evolution of DRAGON service as “Production” service • Meeting with Fujitsu next week to explore control plane enhancements

8. Internet Wind Tunnel PacificWave 1000 Denny Way (Westin Bldg.) Seattle StarLight Northwestern Univ Chicago Level3 1360 Kifer Rd. Sunnyvale MAX GigaPoP U of Maryland Washington DC Equinix 818 W. 7th St. Los Angeles CalIT(2) San Diego IWT core PoP 10GE wave on NLR, and CENIC

9. Atlantic Wave

10. Research Funding Status • Research staff funded through MAX “core” and • DRAGON no-cost extension until August • HOPI TSC until June 30th but uncertain now • ATDnet/NRL letter of intent to renew January • LTS through June 30th, perhaps longer • NSF funding crucial up through this point • Shift towards fiber and optical infrastructure to be self supporting

11. Disaster Recovery Planning • DRP written and submitted to University of Maryland for further review and comment • State of Maryland auditors expected in January so need for MAX to be compliant with State guidelines and requirements • Useful process (but certainly not fun) thinking through business, architecture, and service impacts • Our mission is to enable and ensure you meet your missions • In discussions with MIT that has fiber at Level 3 in Baltimore for backup wave to NYSERnet for NLR, I2, and MANLAN

12. External Activities • Quilt - Officially independent Jan. 1st as 501c(3) • Continuing to hold workshops on optical networking & ops • Role of RONs and Quilt growing in importance • Key to strengthening regional technical, scientific, and economic development • RFP for fiber and wave pricing from carriers • SeRON - Southeast RONs - coordination calls & meetings • RONs pursing gateway agreements with backbone providers • Atlantic Wave coordination and engineering support • NGIX engineering support and services • NSF GENI Initiative

13. Global Environment for Networked Innovation (GENI) http://www.geni.net/ • Focus is on project risks and “how prototyping efforts will (need to) drive down risks in building and operating GENI” • Technical Risks • Getting arms around beast • Keeping up with technology and research • Funding Risks • Congressional funding of NSF • Impact on other areas • Getting the Scope Right • Narrow vs broad participation • What communities of researchers to be served

14. GENI Approach • Aiming for clear achievable starting point and envisioned long term goal • Begin prototyping trials • Gain experience and increment wish-lists and requirements, adding new features and complexity over time • Repeatedly assess current risk level, usefulness of efforts towards goals and adjust • Spiral development process of planning, design, build out and integration • Working groups: substrate, narrow waist, experimenter workflow & services, end-user opt-in, OMIS (ops, mgmt, integration & security)

15. GENI Solicitation Process • Academic, non-profit, for-profit or individual • Academic & industry teams strongly encouraged • Subcontracts NOT research grants • Concrete, near-term results • 3 to 24 month awards; $30K to $750K • Tech merit, management realism, practical problem understanding • Specific deliverables with monthly milestones • Funding cut if progress not sustained • Solicitation issued mid December, due mid February, award decisions mid May • Analyses & papers, prototypes, integration efforts

16. MAX Involvement in GENI • Jerry & I attended the 1st GENI Engineering Conference at the University of Minnesota • Followed this up with a visit to BBN to meet with GPO staff on DRAGON work in general and Application Specific Topologies in particular • Meeting with Fujitsu next week to explore alliance • Expecting to submit two proposals

17. No I2/NLR Merger • Maintain existing agreements • Status quo for now • Grateful for our relationship with MATP for NLR access • Question is how much longer R&E community can afford to pay for two backbones? • While they may look the same they are not • one owned and one leased • profound differences in cultures and ways of working with RONs • Concerns if I2’s GNC represents REAL change • Are we “waiting for Godot” (who never arrives) • MAX will participate in I2’s “free” 2008 DCS offering • MAX BoD meeting with Doug & Ana this past Tuesday

18. Virtual Routing & Forwarding MAX Infrastructure Cogent VRF I2 & NLR Blended VRF Qwest VRF NLR VRF I2 VRF Participant vLANs

19. Fiber Based RON facilities

20. Expected Outcomes • Convey to all of you a sense of where we are • Highlight short term proposed directions and hear your feedback on their usefulness & value • Enlist your participation in a series of discussions to firm up our long term business and technical directions to better serve your needs and missions

21. Questions?

22. RONs and Backbone Providers • Current Abilene agreement outdated • Flat fee for gateway port - no additional fees for SEGP, Rural Health, universities, research labs to have routes accepted • I2’s projects, working groups, activities unbundled from network connectivity fees • RON members can pay I2 for participation in those projects & activities they value - “stand on own bottom” or sunset those that don’t pay their way • RONs are “primary” connector in their geographical area • Commitment to network research, AUP free, and pass all traffic without any additional charges