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National Networking Update
Basil IrwinSenior Network Engineer
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SCD Network Engineering and Technology Section (NETS)
January 27, 1999
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Summary of Topics
• Review status of Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative
• Review status of NSF’s vBNS Network
• Review status of UCAID’s Abilene Network (Internet2)
• Review the Gigapop concept
• Review Front Range GigaPop (FRGP) status
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NGI Initiative Review
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What Is the NGI Initiative?
• The NGI Initiative is a plan to implement the President's Oct 10, 1996 statement in Knoxville, TN of his "commitment to a new $100 million initiative, for the first year, to improve and expand the Internet . . .”
• The Next Generation Internet (NGI) IS NOT a network
• It’s a Presidential funding initiative
• The next step in Federal funding for seeding the evolving US networking infrastructure
• Goal was to provide $100 million annual initiative of money for 3 years
• Plan is at: www.ccic.gov/ngi/concept-Jul97
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How Will The NGI Initiative Work
• Federal research agencies with existing mission-oriented networks to take the lead
• Built on Federal/private partnerships:– Between advanced technology researchers and advanced
application researchers
– Between federally-funded network testbeds and commercial network service and equipment providers
• Requires substantial private-sector matching funds.– Two to one ratio of private to Federal funds
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FY1998 Funding
• $85 million:– $42 DARPA
– $23 NSF
– $10 NASA
– $5 NIST
– $5 National Library of Medicine/National Institute of Health
• DOE to be added in FY1999
• $109 million proposed for FY1999
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Three NGI Initiative Goals
• Main NGI goal is to advance three networking areas:– Goal 1: Advanced network technologies (e.g., protocols to
transfer data that is being browsed)
– Goal 2: Advanced network infrastructure (e.g., wires and boxes that transmit the browsed data)
– Goal 3: Revolutionary applications (e.g., Web browsers)
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Goal 1: Advanced Network Technologies
• Advanced technologies:– Quality of service (QOS)
– Security and robustness
– Net management, including bandwidth allocation and sharing
– System engineering tools, metrics, statistics, and analysis
– New or modified protocols: routing, switching, multicast, security, etc.
– Collaborative and distributed application environment support
– Operating system improvements to support advanced services
• Achieved by funding university, Federal, and industry R&D to develop and deploy advanced services
• Done in open environment, utilizing IETF, ATM Forum, etc.
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Goal 2: Network Infrastructure
• Subgoal 1: Develop demo net fabric that delivers 100 Mbps end-to-end to 100+ interconnected sites
– Accomplished by collaboration of Federal research institutions, telecommunications providers, and Internet providers
– Interconnect and expand vBNS (NFS), ESnet (DOE), NREN (NASA), DREN (DOD), and others (such as the Internet2/Abiliene)
– Funds universities, industry R&D, and Federal research institutions
– Subgoal 1 fabric generally expected to be highly reliable
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Goal 2: Network Infrastructure
• Subgoal 2: Develop demo net fabric that delivers 1000 Mbps end-to-end to about 10 interconnected sites
– May be separate fabric with links to the Subgoal 1 fabric, and/or may include upgraded parts of the Subgoal 1 fabric
– Would involve very early technology implementations and wouldn't likely be as reliable as Subgoal 1 fabric
• Federal agencies would take the lead
• Commercialize advances ASAP
• Utilize IETF, ATM Forum et. al. to foster freely available commercial standards
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Goal 3: Revolutionary Applications
• (Note: Real revolutionary applications are never found in a government-generated list)
• Some possible "revolutionary" applications:– Health care: telemedicine
– Education: distance ed; digital libraries
– Scientific research: energy, earth systems, climate, biomed research
– National Security: high-performance global data comm
– Environment: monitoring, prediction, warning, response
– Government: better delivery of services
– Emergencies: disaster response, crisis management
– Design and Manufacture: manufacturing engineering
• "NGI will not provide funding support for applications per se"; will fund addition of networking to existing apps.
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NGI Initiative Expectations
• Fund 100+ high-performance connections to research universities and Federal research institutions
• 100+ science applications will use the new connections
• 10+ improved Federal information services
• 30+ government-industry-academia R&D partnerships
• NGI program funding leveraged by two-to-one by these partnerships
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NGI Initiative Proposed Mangement
• NGI Implementation Team
• Under LSN Working Group
• One member from each directly funded agency
• (Not clear to me what say-so this Team has over expenditures)
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JET: Joint Engineering Team
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JET
• Affinity group of:– NSF (vBNS)
– NASA (NREN/NISN)
– DARPA (DREN)
– DOE (ESnet)
– UCAID/Internet2 (Abilene)
• Group that is engineering the NGIXes
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NGIXes: Next Generation Internet Exchanges
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NGIXes
• NAPs for Federal lab neworks to interconnect
• Layer 2
• ATM-based
• Minimum connection-speed is OC-3
• Replace FIXes (really FIX-W, FIX-E already gone)
• Three of ‘em– West coast: NASA-Ames
– East coast: NASA-Goddard
– Mid contintent: Chicago (at MREN/STARTAP)
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Final Thoughts
• The NGI isn't a network: it's the improved network infrastructure that presumably results from the NGI Initiative
• The NSF’s vBNS does benefit from NGI funding.
• The Internet2/Abilene is an activity independent from the NGI Initiative, and does not really benefit from NGI funding
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vBNS Review
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vBNS: History
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• vBNS goals– jumpstart use of high-performance networking for advanced
research while advancing research itself with high-performance networking
– supplement Commodity Internet which has been inadequate for universities since NSFnet was decommissioned
• vBNS started about 3 years ago with the NSF supercomputing centers
• vBNS started adding universities about 2 years ago
• Currently 77 institutions connected to vBNS– 21 more in progress
• 131 institutions approved for connection to vBNS
• NSF funding for vBNS ends March 2000
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vBNS: The Network
• Operated by MCI
• ATM based network using mainly IP
• OC-12 (622-Mbps) backbone
• OC-3 (155-Mbps) & DS-3 (45-Mbps) to institutions
• 77 institutions currently connected– 21 more in progress
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STAR TAP
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STAR TAP
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• Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point
• NSF-designated NAP for attachment of international networks to the vBNS
• Colocated with MREN, NSF/Ameritech NAP, and mid continent NGIX
– Is really just a single large ATM switch
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vBNS and NCAR
• NCAR was an original vBNS node
• 40 of 63 UCAR member-universities are approved for vBNS (at last check on 8/1998)
• Major benefit for UCAR and its members– greatly superior to the Commodity Internet
– example: more UNIDATA data possible
– example: terabyte data transfers possible
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Abilene Review
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Abilene: History
• First called the Internet2 Project
• Then non-profit UCAID (University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development) was founded
– UCAID is patterned after the UCAR model
– UCAID currently has 130 members (mostly universities)
• Abilene is the name of UCAID’s first network
• Note: Internet2 used to refer to:– the Internet organization, which is now called UCAID
– the actual network, which is now named Abilene
– the concept for a future network, soon to be reality in the form of Abilene
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Abilene: Goals
• Goals: jumpstart use of high-performance networking for advanced research while advancing research itself with high-performance networking (same as vBNS)
• But to be operated and managed by the members themselves, like the UCAR model
• Provide an alternative when NSF support of the vBNS terminates on March 2000
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Abilene: The Basic Network
• Uses Qwest OC48 (2.4Gbps) fiber optic backbone– grow to OC192 (9.6Gbps) fiber optic backbone
– Qwest to donate .5 billion worth of fiber leases over 5 years
• Hardware provided by Cisco Systems and Nortel (Northern Telecom)
• Internet Protocol (IP) over SONET– no ATM layer
• Uses 10 core router nodes at Qwest POPs– Denver is one of these
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Abilene: Status
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• Abilene soon to be designated by NSF as an NSF-approved High-Performance Network (HPN)
– puts Abilene on an equal basis with vBNS
• Abilene reached peering agreement with vBNS so NSF HPC (High Performance Connection) schools have equal access to each other regardless of vBNS or Abilene connection
• UCAID expects Abilene to come online 2/1999– UCAID expects 50 universities online on 2/1999
– UCAID expects 13 gigapops online on 2/1999
• Abilene beta network now includes a half-dozen universities
– plus exchanging routes with vBNS
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Abilene and NCAR
• 48 of 63 UCAR member-universities are UCAID members (at last check on 8/1998)
• NSF funding of vBNS terminates March 2000
• Same benefit for UCAR and its members as vBNS– greatly superior to the Commodity Internet
– example: more UNIDATA data possible
– example: terabyte data transfers possible
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The GigaPop Concept
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GigaPops: What Good Are They?
• Share costs through sharing infrastructure
• Aggregate to a central location and share high-speed access from there
• Share Commodity Internet expenses
• Essentially statistical multiplexing of expensive high-speed resources
– at any given time much more bandwidth is available to each institution than each could afford without sharing
• Share engineering and management expertise
• More clout with vendors
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Front Range GigaPop (FRGP)
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FRGP: Current NCAR GigaPop Services
• vBNS access
• Shared Commodity Internet access
• Intra-Gigapop access
• Web cache hosting
• 24 x 365 NOC (Network Operation Center)
• Engineering and management
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FRGP+Abilene: What Should NCAR Do?
• Why should NCAR connect to Abilene?– Abilene gives NCAR additional connectivity to most of its member
institutions
– fate of vBNS is unknown after March 2000
– 48 of 63 UCAR members are also Internet2 members
• Why should NCAR join a joint FRGP/Abilene effort?– combined FRGP/Abilene effort saves NCAR money
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FRGP: Why NCAR as GP Operator?
• NCAR already has considerable gigapop operational experience
• NCAR is already serving the FRGP members– Abilene connection is an incremental addition to existing gigapop
– doesn’t require a completely new effort from scratch
• NCAR already has a 24 x 365 NOC– at no extra charge
• NCAR has an existing networking staff to team with the new FRGP engineer
– at no extra cost
• NCAR is university-neutral
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FRGP: Membership Types
• “Full” members– both Commodity Internet + Abilene access
• Commodity-only members– just Commodity Internet access
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FRGP: Full Members
• University of Colorado - Boulder
• Colorado State University
• University of Colorado - Denver
• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• University of Wyoming
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FRGP: Commodity-only Members
• Colorado School of Mines
• Denver University
• University of Northern Colorado
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FRGP: Possible Future Members
• U of C System
• NOAA/Boulder
• NIST/Boulder
• NASA/Boulder
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FRGP: But!!!
• This is far from a done deal at this time!
• Members still have funding issues
• No agreements have yet been decided
• Etc.
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FRGP: Why a Denver Gigapoint?
• Much cheaper for most members to backhaul to Denver instead of to existing NCAR gigapoint
– U of Wyoming, Colorado State, UofC Denver
• UofC Denver has computer room space that’s two blocks from Denver’s telco hotel.
• But also don’t want to re-engineer NCAR gigapoint– wanted to preserve vBNS backhaul to NCAR
– wanted to preserve MCI Commodity Internet backhaul to NCAR
– wanted to minimize changes to the existing gigapoint
• Incremental addition of Denver gigapoint is most cost-effective engineering option
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FRGP: Routing Engineering
• Must deal with so-called policy-based routing– that is, IP forwarding based on packet source-IP-address
– example: some schools can use Abilene and some can’t
• Without high-speed source-IP-address routing, requires one forwarding-table (router) per policy
• FRGP has three identified policies at this time, for:– Commodity Internet only institutions
– Commodity Internet + Abilene institutions
– Commodity Internet + Abilene + vBNS institutions
• Use ATM and PVCs to construct the router topology to implement these policies
• Note: distributed gigapoints require care to site routers optimally
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FRGP: Abilene+Commodity Budget
• $851,000 total annual recurring costs– $133,000 per Full Member (5)
– $62,000 per Commodity-only Member (3)
• $150,000 one-time Abilene equipment costs
• This includes the following costs:– existing FRGP costs
» existing Commodity Internet access costs
– new Abilene costs
• Does not include vBNS costs, campus-backhaul costs, or other local campus costs
• (Reduced per-member costs if more join)
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FRGP: Annual Expenses
• Abilene + Commodity expenses
• Generic UCAID/Abilene costs– $25,000 UCAID annual dues (per full FRGP member: 5)
– $20,000 per-institution Abilene fee (per full FRGP member: 5)
– $110,000 per-gigapop Abilene fee (shared by 5)
– $12,000 per-gigapop Qwest/Abilene port fee (shared by 5)
• Costs specific to FRGP– $56,000 shared Boulder-Denver OC-3 link (shared by 5)
– $27,000 shared Denver-Qwest OC-3 link (shared by 5)
– $281,000 shared Commodity access fees (shared by 8)
– $140,000 other operational costs (shared by 8)
» engineer’s salary
» hardware Maintenance
» travel
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FRGP: Abilene Implications for NCAR
• New annual expenses of about $110,000 for NCAR
• Plus NCAR’s $50,00 share of startup costs
• NCAR employs & manages new FRGP engineer
• NCAR manages additional network equipment– including new off-site equipment in Denver
• Increased engineering responsibilities for NCAR
• Increased administrative/accounting responsibilities for NCAR
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Summary of URLs
• www.ngi.gov– www.ccic.gov/ngi/concept-Jul97
• www.vbns.net– www.vbns.net/presentations/workshop/vbns_tutorial/index.htm
• www.startap.net
• www.internet2.edu
• www.ccic.gov/jet– pointer to NAPs, major Federal networks, etc.
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