lambdagrid the nren (r)evolution
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LambdaGRID the NREN (r)Evolution. Kees Neggers Managing Director SURFnet Reykjavik, 26 August 2003. SURFnet. Provides the Dutch National Research Network Not for profit company, 50 employees 160 connected organizations, 500.000 users Turnover (2002): 30M€ Infrastructure services: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
LambdaGRID
the NREN (r)Evolution
Kees Neggers
Managing Director SURFnet
Reykjavik, 26 August 2003
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SURFnet
• Provides the Dutch National Research Network• Not for profit company, 50 employees• 160 connected organizations, 500.000 users• Turnover (2002): 30M€• Infrastructure services:
– innovation paid for by government– cost effective exploitation for higher
education and research
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SURFnet AUP
• Full service for Research and Higher Education Institutes
• All others, including industry, test and development activities for advanced applications
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Over the last 5 years SURFnet’s innovation
engine is powered by:
•Budget 1999-2003: 70MEuro
Research Networking is the innovation engine between research and market introduction of new services
•Partnership with industry
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GigaPort results
– SURFnet5 10 Gbit/s lambda based network up and running since mid 2001
– Fiber to the dormitories: 20,000 students via 10/100 Mbit/s switched Ethernet
– GigaMAN: Development of market for managed dark fiber in The Netherlands
– Access pilots/ mobility/ middleware– NetherLight: International testbed for lambda
networking– Playground for new applications
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SURFnet5
• Partners BT and Cisco
• 15 PoPs connected by thirty 10 Gbit/s lambdas
• Dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 since 2001
• 500,000 users
• 60% customers connected at Gbit/s level
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What did we learn
• Lambdas are an excellent basis for IP networking• Dark fiber and gigabit Ethernet is an excellent way to
connect customers• Researchers are interested in direct access to
lambda’s for high bandwidth, low jitter, low latency point tot point connections
• Incumbent operators were reluctant to sell dark fiber• Added value of network operators in NG NRENs is
limited• International cooperation in developing lambda
networking is essential
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NREN challenge
• Accommodate needs of scientific users for higher speed, higher quality networking
• While protecting the performance of the network for current users
• And keeping the successful end-to-end model of the internet
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Paradigm shift
SURFnet4 project GigaPort
DWDM
Lambdas
POS
1995
GigaPort NG
20041999
SURFnet4 networkSURFnet5 network
ATM
2008
• Next generation NREN is no simple extrapolation of current networks
SURFnet6 network
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NetherLight
An optical Internet exchange point in Amsterdam built and operated by SURFnet to experiment with light path provisioning concepts for high-bandwidth, high quality internet traffic in a multi domain environment
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NetherLight network 2001
• 2.5Gbit/s lambda between StarLight, Chicago, USA and NetherLight, Amsterdam, NL
• Lambda terminated on Cisco ONS15454 muxes,
– WAN side: SONET framed: OC48c– LAN side: GbE interfaces to computer
clusters
StarLight NetherLight
2.5G lambdaGbE
GbE
GbE
GbE
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NetherLight Network 2002
• The iGrid2002 event brought many lambdas to Amsterdam
2.5 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s SURFnet
2.5 Gbit/s SURFnet
10 Gbit/sLevel3
10 Gbit/s Tyco
2.5 Gbit/sCERN
DWDM SURFnet
ChicagoStarLightChicagoStarLight
New YorkNew York
CERNCERN
DwingelooASTRON/
JIVE
DwingelooASTRON/
JIVE
AmsterdamNetherLightAmsterdamNetherLight
CAnet
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ATLAS Canada Lightpath trialTRIUMF Vancouver CERN Geneva
CANARIE2xGbE
circuits StarLight SURFnet 2xGbE
circuits
NetherLight
“A full Terabyte of real data was transferred at rates equivalent to a full CD in under 8 seconds and a DVD in under 1 minute” Wade Hong et al
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NetherLight Network August 2003 Emerging international lambda grid
10 Gbit/sNSF
10 Gbit/s SURFnet
10 Gbit/sSURFnet
10 Gbit/s Tyco/IEEAF
DWDM SURFnet
GenevaCERN
GenevaCERN
DwingelooASTRON/JIVEDwingeloo
ASTRON/JIVE
PragueCzechLightPrague
CzechLight
2.5 Gbit/s CESNET
10 Gbit/sNSF
New York City
ChicagoStarLightChicagoStarLight
AmsterdamNetherLight
AmsterdamNetherLight
LondonUKLightLondonUKLight
StockholmNorthernLightStockholm
NorthernLight
2.5 Gbit/s DataTAG
Canet
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10GBase-LR (SM fiber, = 1310nm) 1000BaseT (copper)1000BaseSX (MM fiber, = 850nm)1000BaseLX (SM fiber, = 1310nm)
DWDM line terminal(Cisco ONS15252)
Ethernet switch(Cisco 6509)
optical cross connect(Calient PXC)
L1 multiplexer(Cisco ONS15454)
Lambdas to Chicago, Geneva, Prague etc
DWDM to JIVE
Computer clusters
UvA/NIKHEF
NetherLight setup at SARA
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What did we learn
• Point to point lambdas is a powerful service• Current Optical-Electrical-Optical equipment is
capable of allocating sub-lambdas to individual applications
• Management is still cumbersome• Hybrid network architecture seems to be the
only valuable NREN option for the future:– Packet switched internet for regular many-to-many usage– Light path switched internet for new high speed
few-to-few usage• LambdaGRID is needed
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LambdaGrid
• A grid is a set of networked, middleware-enabled computing resources.
• A LambdaGrid is a grid in which the lambda networks themselves are resources that can be scheduled, like all other computing resources.
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TransLight
• Emerging Global-Scale LambdaGrid for e-Science• Hub and spoke model, initially around StarLight
and NetherLight • Will not replace current best efforts networks• Major initial funding
– GigaPort Project (SURFnet) – US National Science Foundation (Euro-Link award
to University of Illinois at Chicago)– Canada's CANARIE
• “bring us your lambdas”
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TransLight fabric
Red Lines: TransLight
Lambda Links, Funded
Blue Lines: TransLight
Lambda Links, Donated
Courtesy of Tom DeFanti UIC
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SURFnet plans to continue innovation via
Next Generation Network
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Scope GigaPort NG Network
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Scope GigaPort Next GenerationF
un
cti
on
Civilinfrastructure
Generic application
services
Industryapplications
Networkinfrastructure
Grid Services
GigaPort NG Network
Virtual Laboratory
for e-Science
GigaPort NG Applications
e-Science e-Business
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Design principles GigaPort NG Network
• Realization of a next generation network with seamless end-to-end communication:
– Integration of lambdas in the IP network– Multi-domain networking– Ethernet services as part of the WANs– Intelligence of networks and the associated
responsibilities at the edges
• Paving the way to a ubiquitous and scalable Services Grid
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SURFnet6 overview
• Congestion free transparent end-to-end IP transport
– unicast and multicast; IPv4 and IPv6; all at wire speed
– 1 Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s and beyond• Lambda services to eventually all connected
organizations • Layer 1: DWDM equipment• Layer 2: Ethernet equipment• Layer 3: Small routed core at 2 to 5 locations
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SURFnet6 will be based on Dark Fiber
• Over 3000 km fiber pairs already available, average price paid for 15 year IRUs is 7 Euro/m per pair.
• More than 25 co-location facilities in use.
• Managed dark fiber infrastructure will be extended with new routes
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SURFnet6 Call for Proposal for industrial partner(s)
• In June 2003 a Contract Notice has been published in the Official Journal of the EC to invite industrial partners to contribute to the final design of SURFnet6 and take responsibility for supplying, implementing, maintaining and supporting transmission, switching and routing equipment for SURFnet6
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Timelines SURFnet6
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Conclusion
• NREN users need new services that current networks will not be able to support
• Telecommunication infrastructures will become part of the grid and will be intergrated in scientific instruments
• NRENs do need to react carefully and timely to these developments.
• Lambda networking is not a revolution