How the Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) serves UCAR and the NWSC

John HernandezNetwork Engineer IV

NCAR/CISLNetwork Engineering & Telecommunications Section

Overview

• Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) Partnership

• UCAR’s footprint on BiSON

• What BiSON does for us

• Work in Progress

• My other projects at NCAR

• Questions?

BiSON Partnership• Current partners are NCAR, NOAA-Boulder, CU-

Boulder, University of Wyoming and Colorado State University

• Original fiber network connected Boulder, Denver, Laramie, Fort Collins and Longmont in a ring.

• Cheyenne build incorporated the NWSC in 2011

• Adva is our vendor for Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) equipment

• Capacity of 80 x 10G channels in 2010, support for 100G circuits

UCAR’s BiSON Footprint

•60 Gb/s - Boulder campuses

•50Gb/s - NWSC

•50 Gb/s - Denver

•40 Gb/s - Front Range GigaPoP

•10 Gb/s - XSEDE

BiSON facilitates…

• Movement of large data sets between Boulder and NWSC

• Scientific collaboration within the CO-WY area

• Dissemination of data to peer institutions, nationwide and abroad

• Access to National Research and Education Networks and shared, XSEDE, high capacity, commodity Internet connections

Work in Progress…

• Linear expansion Denver to Golden for Colorado School of Mines

• Technology refresh

• Some components end-of-support in 2015

• Additional circuits for partners

• Leasing new / replacement fiber paths

• Relocation of existing path between Ft Collins and Laramie

What else I do at NCAR

• Security & engineering services for UCAR-Net

• Engineering services for the GigaPoP network in Denver

• Wireless point-to-point links in the Front Range

• Maintain network statistics

• Operate a Nagios monitoring environment for our networks

Thanks and Q & A

• Thank you

• Questions?