Connect. Communicate. Collaborate GÉANT2 (and 3) CCIRN Xi’An 26 August 2007 David West DANTE
Mar 27, 2015
Connect. Communicate. Collaborate
GÉANT2 (and 3)
CCIRN Xi’An
26 August 2007
David West DANTE
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateGÉANT2
• 7th generation of pan-European research network infrastructure
• Project partners: 30 NRENs and over 3500 research and education establishments
• Funded jointly by NRENs and European Commission• Project timescale September 2004 - August 2008
– Extension to Q2 2009– Four year project, GEANT3 planned from Q3 2009 to
Q2 2013
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Current topology 2006/2007
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateGÉANT2 Connect. Communicate. Collaborate
• 25 POPs • 11600 km of fibre + 140 ILA sites• 50+ x (own) 10G lambdas• Additional leased 10 and 2.5 Gbps
circuits • Router tender underway• NREN accesses at up to 10Gbps
(+ backup) + P2P• connections to other R&E
networks: Abilene, ESnet, CA*net4, SINET, TENET, RedCLARA, EUMEDCONNECT, TEIN2
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Wavelength growth across GEANT2 since July 06
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Overall increase of ~50%From 59 to 88 10 Gb wavelength spans
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateGEANT2 operational services
• Basic IP access via the GEANT2 router
• ‘GEANT+’ service: a point to point (P2P) service typically of GE paths within a 10 GE access
• Managed wavelength service: P2P service of full rate 10 Gb wavelength
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateP2P Circuits
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Number of Orders
19-21
22-24
25-27
28-30
31-33
Project Month
GÉANT+
10Gbps Lambda
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GÉANT2 P2P Circuit Orders –by Project
• LHC: – 3 x GE– 9 x 10Gbps
• DEISA– 5 x 10Gbps
• Phosphorus– 4 x GE
• EXPReS (eVLBI)– 4 x GE
LHC
DEISA
EXPReS
Phosphorus
Other
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GÉANT2 P2P User Group 1: Large Hadron Collider
• Providing 10Gbps circuits on the primary Tier 0 to Tier 1 routes: 9 delivered so far
• Additional 1Gbps circuits provided on some Tier1-Tier1 routes
• IP backbone supports further international data transfers
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GÉANT2 P2P User Group 2: eVLBI
• Aim to connect all European telescopes using dedicated 1Gbps wavelengths– Already connected at 1Gbps via GÉANT2
• Medicina (Italy)• Cambridge (UK)• Jodrell Bank (UK)• Torun (Poland)
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Example of new service developments
• Provision of ‘PerfSONAR’ Monitoring services – In an Environment that is:
• Multi-domain• Using multiple transmission technologies
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateProblem space
Point A
PointB
Domain A
Domain B
Domain C
Goal: (near) real-time monitoring (link status) of constituent DomainLinks
(and links between domains) and whole end-to-end Link A-B.
E2ELink A-B
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Point A
PointB
Domain A
Domain B
Domain C
E2ELink A-B
perfSONARMP or MA
perfSONARMP or MA
E2Emoncorrelator
perfSONARMeasurement Point (MP)
or Measurement Archive (MA)
DomainLink and(partial) ID_Link info
“Weathermap”view for users
E2ECUoperators
Connect. Communicate. CollaborateGÉANT3 (from 2009)
• Planning has started!• Building on conclusions of EARNEST foresight study• Exploit and extend dark fibre investment• Focus on improving performance for users:
– further service development– Inter-regional co-operation