NORDUnet 2000 Commercial Pan-European Networks Helsinki, 29 September 2000 Frode Greisen, GTS fg@ebone.net.

NORDUnet 2000

Commercial Pan-European Networks

Helsinki, 29 September 2000

Frode Greisen, GTSfg@ebone.net

European fibre networks five years ago

• DT + FT

• BT + KPN

• Telia + Telecom Finland

• …...

European fibre networks today

fibre km sdh citiesGTS 17,500 53Carrier 1 11,000 20Viatel 8,700IAXIS 8,000 25Teleglobe 7,700 15KPNQwest 6,200 15Telia Viking 4,000 10Level 3 3,100 5UUNET ?

Internet backbones

• Built over fibre networks

• Ebone as an example

Ebone history customers and points of presence

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20

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60

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120

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160

'92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00

customers

PoPs

Ebone history capacities and volumes, logarithmic scale

-1

-0.5

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

'92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00

volume/Mbps

backbone

GTS - The Backbone of the Internet in EuropeEbone IP Backbone

2.5 GbpsSub 2.5 Gbps

Backhaul Connection

IP Node

IP Node and IX presence

European ISP

Madrid

Bilbao

Barcelona

Toulouse

Bordeaux

Marseille

Lyon

Turin

Geneva

Dublin

Milan

Budapest

Bratislava

ZurichBasel

Strasbourg

Munich

HamburgAmsterdam

Warsaw

Luxembourg

Stuttgart

Berlin

Prague

Copenhagen

Gothenburg

Oslo

Vienna

DresdenFrankfurt

Nuremberg

Stockholm

Dusseldorf

Hannover

Moscow

Brussels

Lille

AntwerpRotterdam

New York

Cologne

London

Bracknell

Paris

Bucharest

St Petersberg

Pennsauken

Valencia

Heidelberg

12 x STM-1

6 x STM-1

Sprint

SprintGTE

Sprint NAP Sprint NAP

European fibre networks today

fibre km sdh cities IP cities commentGTS 17,500 53 38Carrier 1 11,000 20 8Viatel 8,700IAXIS 8,000 25 admin?Teleglobe 7,700 15 9KPNQwest 6,200 15Telia Viking 4,000 10 end '99Level 3 3,100 5 5UUNET ? 14

Backbone historyprices

mkEUR/Mbps/year

'92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00

mkEUR/Mbps/year

Typical service level agreements

• Availability (99.x%)

• Transit times (20 ms Europe, 60 ms EU-US)

• Packet loss/queue length (0 - 5%)

• Jitter ?

• Rest of the world (off-net) ?

External ping 20000901 - 20001001

Company TargetAvg.RTTms

Jittermedian

ms

JitterIQRms

Loss%

Availability%

Altavista

www.altavista.com 194 2 5 0.26 99.86

ns1.altavista.com 194 2 2 0.07 100.00

Above

www.above.net 192 3 4 0.23 100.00

ns.above.net 183 3 6 0.14 99.93

UUnet

www.uu.net 119 4 7 3.13 99.79

auth00.ns.uu.net 124 2 5 0.07 99.93

Network Solutions

www.networksolutions.com 129 3 6 0.27 99.93

ns1.netsol.com 118 3 6 0.21 99.93

Yahoo

www.yahoo.com 121 2 4 0.07 100.00

ns1.yahoo.com 201 2 4 0.79 99.03

External ping 20000901 - 20001001Cybercity

Www.cybercity.dk 73 7 13 0.45 99.72

World Online

www.wol.dk 56 8 15 0.05 99.79

MSN Internet Access

msn.co.uk 47 6 31 0.25 99.93

UUNET

www.uk.uu.net 56 6 8 0.19 99.17

France Telecom

www.francetelecom.fr 54 3 4 3.11 98.61

Germany.net

www.germany.net 31 2 3 0.14 99.93

The future ?

Borderless networks

• National telecom dominance has nearly disappeared (on the long haul routes)

• Competition and lower prices on the popular routes

• Less difference between national and international prices, if any

Bandwidth growth factors

• More users

• more time on the net

• higher demand on response time

• more web browsing

• new applications (e.g. digital photos)

• new devices on the net (e.g. mobile)

• streaming applications

Bandwidth growth factors

• last mile upgrades – cable, dsl, fixed wireless, MANs, fibre to the

kerb/home

Backbone growth options

• Add parallel links

• upgrade from 2.5 to 10 Gbps

• finer mesh ??

• add parallel links

• new technical developments

No end in sight !