NSF-SCI: IRNC Translight/PacificWave

NSF-IRNC-KICKOFF-TLPW, 2005.03.11

NSF-SCI: IRNCTranslight/PacificWave

John SilvesterVice-Provost, University of Southern CaliforniaChair, CENIC


IRNC Translight/PacificWave (TL/PW)

• Cooperative Agreement under NSF IRNC Program– PI John Silvester (USC)– Co-PI Ron Johnson (UW)

• Other Key Partners– CENIC, Jim Dolgonas– PNWG, Jacqueline Brown– University of Hawaii, David Lassner– AARnet, George McLaughlin

• Approx $1M per year for 5 years• Awarded March 1, 2005• Primary Objectives

– Facilitate international R&E connections on US Pacific Coast– Build out PacificWave exchange capabilities to provide Engineering, Technical, and

Operational support for International R&E networks participating in Pacific Wave Exchange– Assist in the termination of AARnet SXTransport links to SEA and LAX– Assist in buildout of Hawaii connectivity to Telescopes– Assist in operation of IEEAF link Tokyo-Seattle– Assist in operation and support of other International R&E networks participating in PW– Develop and operate advanced capabilities to support optical interconnect and exchange

needs of R&E network


What is Pacific Wave?

Pacific Wave is a state-of-the-art international peering and lambda integrated facility designed to serve advanced research, education, development, and high-tech networks throughout the Pacific Rim and the world.

Goal: enhance networking capabilities by increasing network efficiency, reducing latency, increasing throughput, reducing costs and provision point-to-point lambda services to meet the short and long-term needs associated with advanced application and network development and implementation.


Who Operates Pacific Wave?

A joint project of CENIC and Pacific Northwest Gigapop

In collaboration with University of Southern California and University of Washington


Pacific Wave

• Extensible peering exchange and lambda integrated facility• Nodes (currently) in Seattle and Los Angeles Seattle, connected by a

10GbE wave provisioned over National LambdaRail (2,241 kilometers)• AUP free• Supports IPv4 and IPv6; multicast enabled• Based on Layer 2, Ethernet connections (for layer 3 peering)• Provides 24x7 NOC support.• Priced consistently from node to node • Allows participants to self-select their peering• Allows participants to connect to one-location and access participants at all

Pacific Wave nodes• Supports advance applications• Welcomes any research or development network that can meet the

minimum network configuration requirements (connect with a router; support BGP; support jumbo-frames)

• Support GLIF connectivity as participant in Global International Optical Exchange development


Global R&E Network Pathways

PacificWave

DISCLAIMER - This network map was a best estimate of expected connectivity for 2005, several changes in connectivity and planned connectivity have happened since it was created


Pacific Wave International Partners: January 2005


IRNC TL/PW 2005 Pacific Connections

CA*Net4 POP

TλEX Tokyo PW-Seattle

AARnet POP Sydney

Hawaii

OahuPW-LA

CLARA, CUDI POPs (Tijuana)

AARnet-SX Transport

IEEAF Link


TL-PW – West Coast Detail

AARNet-SX(N)To Kahe Point (HI)

Los Osos(CA)

SLO(CA)

Hillsboro(OR)

Portland (OR)

PW-SeattleNLR link

PW-Los Angeles

Pacific WaveN-S link

AARNet-SX(S)To Spencer Beach (HI)

SEA

LAX

Santa Barbara(CA)

SNV

(NLR)

(CalREN-XD)

Optics to carrynew lambda

over CalREN-XD from SLO to LA


TL/PW – Hawaii Detail

SCCNOC-192

SCCNOC-192

AARNet-SX(S)To Sydney

Spencer Beach(Big Island)

Mauna KeaMKOCN (Summit)

Hilo

AARNet-SX(S)To Los Osos

Waimea

Kahe Point(Oahu)

Hawaii Gigapop(Oahu)AARNet-

SX(S)To Sydney

AARNet-SX(N)To Portland


Mauna Kea Observatories Communication Network

CSO Gemini IRTFJCMT SMA UKIRT UH-2.2 UH-0.6 VLBACFHT Keck

CSO

Gemini

JAC

Subaru

SMA

CFHT

Keck

VLBA

UH IfA Hilo

UH-Managed Shared Network for All Observatories

Verizon Summit

Verizon Hilo

VerizonHumuula

VerizonWaimea

U N I V E R S I T YU N I V E R S I T Y

UH Hilo Campus

Subaru

DS3

Leased Private Links

Carrier Infrastructurefor leased shared & private links

Leased DS3 (shared)

UH managed fiber links

56kb

Hilo Base Facilities

Waimea Base Facilities

Proposed New GbE


PacificWave Seattle

Seattle WestinFoundry BigIron

10GE NLR Lambda to LAX (via Sunnyvale)

AbileneAARNet

CA*NET4

GEMnet

SingAREN

TANET2/TWARENATTBI/Comcast

DREN

KREONet2

ESnet Microsoft

PNWGP

10GE NLR Lambda to STARLIGHT

IEEAF(to TLEX)

1 Gigabit

10 Gigabit

planned

planned


Pacific Wave - Los Angeles

10GE

1 Wilshire6509

600 W 7th6509

818 W 7th6509

10GE 10GE

CENIC (HPR)

10 GE NLR LambdaTo Seattle PWave(via Sunnyvale)

Abilene

TWAREN

TRANSPAC

Los Nettos

Qatar Foundation

NII/SINET AARNet

(3)

1 Gigabit

10 Gigabit

planned

planned


Detailed Plan for Year 1• Develop detailed subcontract statements of work with CENIC and PNWG for engineering and

technical support for the project.• Develop a memorandum of understanding with AARnet for use, support and operation of the links.• Develop agreement with the University of Hawaii for acquisition, location and use of the equipment

to be located in Hawaii.• Procure and put into service equipment to enable the Australia-Hawaii-Seattle link. Estimated

operation within 3 months of award.• Procure and put into service equipment to enable the Australia-Hawaii-Los Osos (California) link.

Estimated operation within 3 months of award.• Procure and put into service equipment and waves from Los Osos to the PacificWave exchange

point in Los Angeles. Estimated operation within 3 months of award.• Work with AARnet and University of Hawaii to enable desired peerings in Seattle including peering

with Abilene.• Work with AARnet and the University of Hawaii to enable desired peerings in Los Angeles,

including peering with Abilene. Reengineer these peerings as needed.• Provide NOC service and interaction with other NOC entities (including AARnet NOC and Abilene

NOC).• Pursue cooperation with TRANSPAC for LA PacificWave PoP• Explore collaboration with Gloriad and work to help them secure appropriate links and Pacific

Wave landing and interconnection.• Both AARnet and PacificWave have extensive measurement capabilities in place. We will work

with the NSF-designated measurement project to provide these measurement as part of the overall TOPS measurement effort.

• Attend and contribute to TOPS meetings; attend Internet2 and APAN meetings (international).


Near term Schedule and Challenges

• Los Osos landing– Challenges in getting space to implement Los Osos – SLO link– Testing to see if SX-Transport can go direct to SLO– Investigating alternate strategies

• Equipping and configuring Northern Link (migration from Procket to Juniper requires extensive engineering and design). Juniper routers leverage form other activities not funded from grant.

• Technical and Engineering Design for Southern Link – in a dynamic technical requirements environment. Meeting with AARnet to develop objective for Southern Link scheduled for 2005.03.20

• Local connectivity in Hawaii. Need to get better definition of strategy, depends on availability of funds. Very limited resources available from this grant.

• Leveraging limited funds to acquire needed equipment and technical (engineering) support

NSF-SCI: IRNC Translight/PacificWave

Documents

irnc tlpw

pacific connectionsnsfirnc

pacific wave exchangeassist

pacific rim

us pacific coast

network development

development network

gbe wave