Why Optical Networks Are Emerging as the 21 st Century Driver Scientific American, January 2001.

Why Optical NetworksAre Emerging as the 21st Century Driver

Scientific American, January 2001

CONTROL

PLANE

Clusters

DynamicallyAllocatedLightpaths

Switch Fabrics

PhysicalMonitoring

Apps Middleware

A LambdaGrid Will Be the Backbone for an e-Science Network

Source: Joe Mambretti, NU

Example: OptIPuter Project (LambdaGrid Living Lab) Draws From Many Layers

Materials and Devices

Networked Infrastructure

Interfaces and Software Systems

Environment and Civil Infrastructure

Intelligent Transportation and Telematics

Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine

New Media Arts

Policy, Management, and Socioeconomic Evolution

EducationPreuss School

Sixth College

Visualization

BIRN

EarthScope

Middleware

OpticalNetworking

ClustersStorage

MEMS/NanoPhotonics

New StorageDevices

CENICCalREN-XD

NSFExp Networks

NetworkProtocols

OptIPuter NSF Proposal Partnered with National Experts and Infrastructure

Vancouver

Seattle

Portland

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Diego(SDSC)

NCSA

SURFnet CERNCA*net4

AsiaPacific

AsiaPacific

AMPATH

PSC

Atlanta

CA*net4

Source: Tom DeFanti and Maxine Brown, UIC

NYC

TeraGrid DTFnet

CENIC

Pacific LightRail

Chicago

UICNU

USC

UCSD, SDSUUCI

NSF Experimental Network Research Project The “OptIPuter”

• Driven by Large Neuroscience and Earth Science Data– NIH Biomedical Informatics Research Network – NSF EarthScope (UCSD SIO)

• Removing Bandwidth as a Constraint– Links Computing, Storage, Visualization and Networking– Software and Systems Integration Research Agenda

• NSF Large Information Technology Research Proposal– UCSD and UIC Lead Campuses– USC, UCI, SDSU, NW Partnering Campuses– Industrial Partners: IBM, Telcordia/SAIC, CENIC

• PI—Larry Smarr; Funded at $13.5M Over Five Years– Start Date October 1, 2002

www.calit2.net/news/2002/9-25-optiputer.html

Providing a 21st Century Internet Grid Infrastructure

Tightly Coupled Optically-Connected OptIPuter Core

Wireless Sensor Nets, Personal Communicators

Loosely Coupled Peer-to-Peer Computing & Storage

Routers

Routers

Metro Optically Linked Visualization Wallswith Industrial Partners Set Stage for Federal Grant

• Driven by SensorNets Data– Real Time Seismic– Environmental Monitoring – Distributed Collaboration– Emergency Response

• Linked UCSD and SDSU– Dedication March 4, 2002

Linking Control Rooms

Cox, Panoram,SAIC, SGI, IBM,

TeraBurst NetworksSD Telecom Council

UCSD SDSU44 Miles of Cox Fiber

½ Mile

The OptIPuter Project is Allowing UCSD to Develop a Futuristic Optical Networking Fabric

SDSC

SIO

Medicine

Phase I, Fall 02

Physical Sciences

Arts

Engineeing

Preuss School

Sixth College

Phase II, Jan. 03

Cal-(IT)2

Phase III, Dec 04

CENIC and CISI Have Partnered on Optical Network Which Links to All Counties

CENIC/Carrier POP

Carrier OpAmp Site

Backbone Carrier Fiber

Campus-MAN Demark

Campus

Campus Network MPOE

Campus Fiber

Last Mile Fiber

Future Last Mile Fiber

Backbone 10Gig

Optional Carrier Fiber

Pacific Light Rail 10G

Santa Fe

Los Angeles818 W 7th

Santa Barbara

SDSC

Anaheim

Qwest SD

UCSB

USC

UCR

HillcrestHospital

SPAWAR Pt Loma

1.5 Miles est.

4 Miles est.

CalTech

Thornton andVA Hospitals

SDSUUCSD

ISI

UCI

JPL

UCLA

UCSFMission Bay

NASA Ames

UCD

UCD Med Ctr

UCB

Emeryville

San Francisco

PaloAlto

Sacramento

LBNL

LLNL

SunnyvaleResearch Park

Stanford

SLAC

Denver

SeattlePortland

Planning for Optically Linking Crisis Management Control Rooms in California

California Office of Emergency Services, Sacramento, CA