quan%fying wacren performance gains with perfsonar

Quan%fyingWACRENperformancegainswithperfSONAR

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WACREN—CTO30May2017

Plan

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•  perfSONAR•  Exis%ngdeploymentsinAfrica

– KENET– SANRENandtheSKAproject– SmallNodeswithGÉANTintheWACRENregion

• MeasuringtheWACRENnetwork– Inthecore– Ontheaccesslinks– Performanceimprovement

perfSONAR•  perfSONARisatoolto

– Setsnetworkperformanceexpecta%ons– Findnetworkproblems,focusonsoYfailures

• Mul%-domains,R&Ecommunity– 2000measurementpointsaroundtheworldonmanydifferentnetworks

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perfSONAR•  perfSONARismadeof

– Measurementtools(latency,throughput,paths,…)– Ascheduler(repeat,nonconflic%ngtests,...)– Webinterfacetoconfiguretests– Measurementsarchiving– Resultsplobng,dashboard,aler%ng

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Exis%ngdeploymentsinAfrica•  KENET(Kenya)

– Monitoringperformanceoftheirownnetwork– Anduplink– About10nodesintheirnetwork

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Exis%ngdeploymentsinAfrica• SANREN(SouthAfrica)

– Monitoringperformanceoftheirnetworkanduplink– About10nodes– Publicdashboard

• theSKAproject– Longfatnetwork,intercon%nental(Europe-Australia)

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Exis%ngdeploymentsinAfrica•  GÉANTSmallNodesproject

– DemoperfSONARonlowcostdevices(~200€)– 3nodesinWestAfrica(Ghana,Nigeria,Senegal)– MainlymeasureperformancetoEurope(GÉANT)– Butalsobetweenthese3countries(whennodesonline)

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Senegal–Ghana•  Longlatency(goingthroughEurope)•  Highpacketloss

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Inter-NRENmeasurements•  WhatdoesthistellusaboutWest-Africanconnec%vity?

– Allgoingthroughuplink(Europe)– RealneedforaRegionalREN

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MeasuringtheWACRENnetwork•  Corenodes

– Powerfulmeasurementpoints(10gbpsNIC)– Centralstorageanddashboard

•  NRENaccessnetworks– MPinaccessPoP– LowcostdevicesinNREN

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MeasuringtheWACRENnetwork•  ComparingcommercialuplinkandRegionalR&ENetworkperformance

– BetweenAfricanNRENs– IntheRENcommunity– Withtheworldatlarge

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Quan%fyingWACRENperformancegainswithperfSONAR

AIS2017—NairobiOmoOaiya—omo.oaiya@wacren.net

WACREN—CTO30May2017