indianauniversityindianauniversity hpiis performance review october 25, 2000 jim williams
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HPIIS Performance Review
October 25, 2000
Jim Williams
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The Global Research Network Operations Center (Global NOC) at Indiana University manages the international network
connections from advanced research and education networks in the Asia/Pacific, Europe, Russia and South America to the
Science Technology and Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP) and the leading US high performance research and
education networks.
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Global NOC
• Benefits– Cost efficiencies
– Leverage
– Project cooperation
• NOC specifics– NOC Web pages
– NOC functions
• Future plans
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Cost efficiencies
Given the existing 24x7x365 IU and Abilene NOCs…
• Global NOC operational model is based on:
– offering a template of services
– assigning an area specialist for each network
– cross training for all staff on all shifts
• Both fixed and marginal costs to add a new network are limited and quantifiable
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Leverage
• Leverages NSF investment in HPIIS Program funded connections to provide a single integrated source of NOC support
• Ability to access the best technical personnel from Indiana University, STAR TAP and Abilene and the partner networks.
• Efficiencies of common NOC personnel
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Project Cooperation
• Common HPIIS external appearance– Coordinated reports– Coordinated Web pages
• Shared tool development
• Cooperative engineering interaction
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Tour of Global NOC Web pages
• TransPAC http://noc.transpac.org/
• STAR TAP http://noc.startap.net/
• Euro-Link http://noc.euro-link.org/
• MIRnet http://noc.mirnet.org/
• AMPATH http://noc.ampath.net/
• Abilene http://www.abilene.iu.edu/
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Global NOC Functions
• Problem reporting, monitoring, resolution
• Report generation, distribution, archiving
• Web page development, maintenance
• Tool development, maintenance
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Illustration of NOC functions
• Network Performance
• http://globalnoc.iu.edu
• Network Reporting
• http://globalnoc.iu.edu
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Global NOC Future Plans
• Continued Web page development
• Packaging and deployment of MIRnet traffic analysis tool
• Deployment of Abilene multicast tools
• NOC process analysis
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Global NOC Future Plans(continued)
• Closer linkage between other NOCs (vBNS, ESNET, Canarie, APAN) to increase tool sharing and process cooperation
• Closer linkage with national tool and measurement efforts
• Development of NOC Knowledge Base