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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

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• 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

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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