Driving your Grid destinyDriving your Grid destiny

April 9th, 2003

Benoit Fleury

VP, Product Management and Marketing

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Agenda

• Ceyba: The company

• The Grid Environment

• Bandwidth Trends

• New Optical Directions

• Driving your Grid Destiny

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Ceyba: The company

World class team

Unique long-haul solution

Optical equipment vendor

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Agenda

• Ceyba: The company

• The Grid Environment

• Bandwidth Trends

• New Optical Directions

• Driving your Grid Destiny

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Bridging the gaps

• Terascale scientific applications• astronomy, physics, genomic, meteorology ….

• Applications need geographically separated resources• compute, data/storage and instrumentation intensive

• With inadequate bandwidth, scientists either need their own massive resources, or must travel to other resource sites

• Grid must couple and integrate geographically separated computing, storage and instrumentation resources

• Optical bandwidth is an enabling technology for the Grid

Optics overcome the ‘tyranny of distance’

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Key Grid communication requirements

High capacity‘back-plane’

User control

Data centric

Operational simplicity

End-user ability to reconfigure network

capacity and connectivity Scheduled and partitioned network capacity

for user separation and security

Terabit capacity, easily added incremental capacity, low latency

Transport native Ethernet traffic and any other data protocols in a transparent manner

‘Self-running’ infrastructure:auto-discovery of network resources, auto power balancing, integrated diagnostics

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Agenda

• Ceyba: The company

• The Grid Environment

• Bandwidth Trends

• New Optical Directions

• Driving your Grid Destiny

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Optical capacity… no limits

Staying ahead of bandwidth demand

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* Ref: adapted from: Nortel NFOEC 2002 paper B.5.2 & presentation chart, RHK NFOEC 2002 presentation chart for paper F.8.1, Bell Labs-Lucent IEEE Com. Mag. Paper Dec. 2002, p.75

** Ref: adapted from: Nortel NFOEC 2002 paper B.5.2 & presentation chart

Transport system

capacity *

1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005

Interface rates and transport system capacity

TDM interface rates **

LAN interface rates **

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Keeping up with the Moore’s

Transport system bandwidth (kb/s) *

65% av. growth per year

Doubles every 17 mths

Storage density (bits/cm^2) **

39% av. growth per year

Doubles every 25 mths

Resource amount

* Ref: Ref: adapted from: Nortel NFOEC 2002 paper B.5.2 & presentation chart, RHK NFOEC 2002 presentation chart for paper F.8.1, Bell Labs-Lucent IEEE Com. Mag. Paper Dec. 2002, p.75

** Ref: IBM & Intel, in IEEE Spectrum, Aug. 2002, pp.38

Processor density (transistors/chip) **

39% av. growth per year

Doubles every 25 mths

1.E+02

1.E+03

1.E+04

1.E+05

1.E+06

1.E+07

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1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005

Optical amplifiers give huge boost to core capacity

Bandwidth keeps pace with Grid technologies

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Agenda

• Ceyba: The company

• The Grid Environment

• Bandwidth Trends

• New Optical Directions

• Driving your Grid Destiny

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New optical directions

Existing core optical networks• Discrete, point to point WDM links• Regenerator intensive• SONET rings

Frequent regenerators

New-gen network differences • End to end connections (ULH)• Edge transponders only• Optical mesh

Optical amplifiers

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Lowering connection cost

Relative Cost per Gbps*km

No regens

Regen every 500 km

Connection cost per Gbps*km versus distance

Optics19%

Regensup to 68%

Transponders13%

Optics50%

Regens0%

Transponders50%

Cost breakdown

Motivation to eliminate regenerators

500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000

Connection length (km)

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Rapid bandwidth additionsExisting point-to-point networking

Regenerator intensive

New Gen networkingStreamlined core – less inventory & maintenance

regenerator sites

= regenerator

= amplifier

= client transponder

Simpler operations, faster provisioning

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“Virtual fiber” networksChicago

San Diego

Los Angeles BostonDenver

Dallas

• Scheduled and partitioned network capacity

• User separation and security

Direct, dedicated connections via optical bypass

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End-user network control

Inherent ‘hard’/secure partition of network to different sites and users

User owned and operated circuits

A band of wavelengths per site, a wavelength per user

Greater user choice:Carrier or 3rd party owned and operated common infrastructure

Electronics (transponders) now mainly at user sites

Easy to add new capacity, rapid wavelength turn-up, network reconfiguration

Empowering users, promoting innovation

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Rate transparency 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, 100G, etc.

Data centric

Protocol/Service transparency Ethernet, FICON, ESCON, SONET/SDH, etc. 1GE, 10GE LAN PHY native support

Control-plane transparency clear channels for user control plane signaling

across the network

Future proofing the network

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Agenda

• Ceyba: The company

• The Grid Environment

• Bandwidth Trends

• New Optical Directions

• Driving your Grid Destiny

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Implementation options

Carrier leased servicesBuy/lease

Hybrid network Private optical networkBuild/own

Carrier maintains network and services

Own core network, leasing BW where cost prohibitive to build

Network built on dark fiber

Lower initial cost Limited staffing requirement O-VPNs allow visibility into

status & performance of services

Ability to outsource different levels of management/ maintenance

Ability to expand network sooner with lease option

Economic flexibility – incremental wavelengths are inexpensive

Fast network reconfiguration Keep pace with

technological advances

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Rise of private data networks in 1980s

Private optical networks

Enablers: Availability of leased T1 private

lines T1 data multiplexing gear, and

network management software

Drivers: Expanded use of PCs and

LANs Cost Control, security

Enablers Availability of dark fiber Substantial price reduction of

optical equipment Enterprise targeted operations

Drivers Shift to data applications Cost Institutional control

Back to the future

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The bottom line

Optical technology keeping pace

New optics ideally suited for Grids

New implementation options

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