4CNet Update June 30, 1999 Dave Reese Director, Network Planning & Development “Building tomorrow’s networks today”

4CNet Update4CNet UpdateJune 30, 1999June 30, 1999

Dave ReeseDave ReeseDirector, NetworkDirector, Network

Planning & DevelopmentPlanning & Development

“Building tomorrow’s networks today”

The New Backbone

QANH

BAK

QFRE

QSTO

QSD

SAC

QCHI

QSV

QSAL

SLO

WE

Why?

Current DS-3 (45 Mbps) backbone nearing capacity - need more bandwidth

Community College video project - need more bandwidth

Research projects at some campuses - need more bandwidth

More Bandwidth

Most current Sprint/AT&T DS-3 circuits being replaced by OC-3 (155 Mbps)

OC-12 (622 Mbps) between Los Angeles and San Diego

New vendor: Qwest (http://www.qwest.net/)

More Reliability

Most of the backbone will move off CSU campuses into Qwest points of presence (“POPs”)

Telco-quality facilities: UPS, generator, etc. Campuses will connect to Qwest POPs

“It has to be done when?”

Western backbone: July 1999 Northern backbone: October 1999 Eastern backbone: October 1999

In the metro areas

Pacific Bell providing OC-48 (2,400 Mbps) SONET rings in LA, SF, SD areas

Connect CSU campuses, Qwest POPs at OC-3c, OC-12c

Some campuses (LB, SB, POM, SON, HUM) are too ‘far’ from the rings to be included

What’s SONET?

High-speed optical (fiber) networking Ring topology means that circuit failures

don’t cause outages -- traffic re-routes around the ring in less than a second

SONET rings

OC-12 OC-3

Nx OC-3

OC-3

In the LA area...

WE

QANH

FUL

LA

NOR

DH

To QSD

To SLOTo BAK

SB

POM

LB

To BAK

CO

CI

And in San Francisco...

QSV

SJ

SF HAY

To QSAL

To QSTO

To QCHI

HUM SON CMA

And in San Diego

QSD

SD

SM

To QANH

SDSC

“It has to be done when?”

LA Ring - July 1999– Northridge, Los Angeles, Dominguez Hills,

Fullerton SD Ring - July 1999

– San Diego, San Marcos, UCSD/SDSC SF Ring - September 1999

– Hayward, San José, San Francisco

“It has to be done when?”

Pomona, San Bernardino, Long Beach - September 1999

Sonoma - already at OC-3 Humboldt - OC-3 pending telco facilities

Connecting 4CNet to CalREN-2

At UCSD/SDSC - July 1999 At Anaheim - October 1999

– Caltech, JPL, USC, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, USC/ISI

Possibly at Sunnyvale - November 1999– UC Davis, UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley,

UC Santa Cruz, Stanford

Related Upgrades: Abilene

Abilene is a NSF-recognized High Performance Network Service

CalREN-2 is connecting to Abilene in 3 locations

Abilene fees (per institution):– UCAID annual membership of $25K– Abilene annual fee of $20K– Pro-rated gigapop access fees from CalREN-2

The Big Picture

We’re building the biggest university network in the country

And making it better, faster, more reliable

What’s next?

We would like to hear from you on how we can help you…– Dave Reese, Director

• dave@csu.net

– Mark Crase, Senior Director• mcrase@calstate.edu

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pair of shoes is pair of shoes is worn out”worn out”

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