I-WIRE Background

1. I-WIRE Background NU / Starlight UIC • State Funded Infrastructure to support Networking and Applications Research • $6.5M Total Funding • $4M FY00-01 (in hand) • $2.5M FY02 (approved 1-June-01) • Possible add’l $1M in FY03-5 • Application Driven • Access Grid: Telepresence & Media • Computational Grids: Internet Computing • Data Grids: Information Analysis • New Technologies Proving Ground • Optical Switching • Dense Wave Division Multiplexing • Ultra-High Speed SONET • Wireless • Advanced middleware infrastructure Star Tap ANL IIT UC NCSA/UIUC Charlie Catlett – Argonne National Laboratory

2. 1 km 45 miles 27 miles 23 miles I-WIRE Layers 0 & 1 Starlight NU @ 710 N. Lake Shore Optical Amplifier DWDM equipment 53 miles Star Tap ANL James R. Thompson Ctr Carrier POP 37 miles 52 miles UIC Existing IIT 58 miles 3q 2001 37 miles UC 4q 2001 63 miles Metro Fiber Costs $25 to $90 per foot Cornfield Fiber $700-1800/strand-mile 46 miles 17 miles UIUC/NCSA 39 miles 41 miles • Next Steps: • Have identified fiber to reach Fermi & potentially Northwestern Evanston campus • Several options for fiber to Indianapolis • 10 GbE to each I-WIRE campus • 4x 10 GbE to ANL and NCSA for proposed Distributed Terascale Facility (partnership with Qwest) 45 miles 33 miles St. Louis GigaPOP 900 N. Walnut Charlie Catlett – Argonne National Laboratory

3. I-WIRE Layers 2 & 3 Starlight NU - 710 N. Lake Shore I-WIRE Hub Starlight Starlight Router Router DWDM Starlight Starlight Router Router 6 x 10GbE 151 N. Michigan Ciena DTF Hub CoreStream Switch/Router McLeodUSA OA Kankakee 111 N. Canal 455 N. Cityfront McLeodUSA OA Rantoul DWDM DWDM NCSA DTF ANL DTF Border Border Switch/Router Switch/Router Proposed DTF NCSA ANL Interconnect UC Border IIT Border UIC Border Border Border Router Router Router (4 x 10GbE) Router Router Argonne NCSA/UIUC UC IIT UIC Charlie Catlett – Argonne National Laboratory