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TransPAC Engineering 2003-2004

Chris Robb

Indiana University

chrobb@indiana.edu

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Current TransPAC Network

• OC-12 POS from APAN NOC in Tokyo to Seattle

• OC-12 ATM from APAN NOC in Tokyo to Chicago

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Planned upgrade

• OC-48 POS from APAN NOC in Tokyo to US (Los Angeles)

• 2 x GE from APAN NOC in Tokyo to Chicago to participate in TransLight activities

New Network Diagram

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Los Angeles Engineering

•Initially, TransPAC will connect it’s OC-48 circuit directly into the Abilene router on the second floor of 600 W. 7th Street (Qwest colo facilities)

• In the near future (late 2003/early 2004) this circuit will be reterminated into the newly created LA Exchange Point, LaLaLAN

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LaLaLAN Overview

• LaLaLAN Exchange point is a project run by the California R&E network, CENIC

• Consists of three Ethernet switches:• 818 W 7th St - 6th floor (Equinix)• 600 W 7th St - 6th floor (Equinix)• One Whilshire - 3rd Floor

• Switches will ultimately be connected at 10GigE, but at 2x GigE initially

• 1 GigE and 10GigE connection options are available• Colocation services provided by Equinix (negotiation details

TBD)

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LaLaLAN Overview (cont.)

• Abilene will connect at 10GigE when it becomes available (Q4, 2003)

• TransPAC will connect at 10GigE or 2x GigE with 802.3ad link aggregation

• Uninet and Tanet2 have also expressed an interest• CENIC engineers are working to interconnect US Federal

Research Networks via their links to Sunnyvale

• MANLAN should be operational by September, although 10GigE connectivity will be forthcoming

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Los Angeles Engineering Schedule

Qwest (Abilene)2nd Floor

KDDI-A1 Wilshire

600 West 7th St.

2- Wiltel will disconnect the connection to the FMMR from the 6th floor

1- IU will negotiate a connection between the FMMR and Abilene, on the second floor

0- KDDI-A will land the circuit (provided by WilTel) in the FMMR at 600 W 7th St. via the 6th floor

Equinix6th Floor

Meet Me Room5th Floor

3- IU will disconnect the connection from the FMMR to the 2nd Floor

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Chicago Engineering

• We will utilize the protect capacity on the Tokyo-LA portion of TransPAC

• KDDI-A will provide an unprotected, non-preemptible OC-48 from Los Angeles to Chicago

• The Chicago end will terminate at STARLIGHT on the Northwestern campus (710 North Lakeshore Drive)

• Initial plans call for both ends of the circuit to terminate into a 2xGigE-over-OC-48 bridge

• 1 GigE will connect to the STARLIGHT exchange point (Abilene, Canarie, SURFNET, among others)

• Remaining GigE’s fate is up in the air, although we anticipate a connection to the TransLIGHT project run by Tom Defonti

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Chicago Engineering (cont.)

• Initial Hurdle: locating a GigE bridge that is licensed on both sides of the Pacific– If anyone knows of one, please let us know!

• TransPAC will secure a rack at 710 North Lakeshore Dr. – Measurement infrastructure will be deployed with OC-48Mon

optical taps

– Possible observatory-like experiments

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Timing and Opportunities

• We hope to have this infrastructure available on/about 1-October-2003.

• Certainly it will be available for testing and use prior to SC2003.

• The GE links provide for new opportunities for collaboration between Asia, the US and Europe.

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Issues to be addressed

• US Federal Networks– There is currently no Fednet peering at LaLaLAN– TransPAC will receive Federal networks via the non-protected

GigE to Chicago– Abilene has agreed to temporarily provide backup Fednet

connectivity in the event of a Chicago circuit failure

• ASPath changes– During the initial phase, APAN will have two direct connections to

Abilene– Most traffic should traverse the LA link, except for those networks

that can directly peer with APAN at STARLIGHT (with the exception of Abilene, of course)

– After the move to LaLaLAN, there will be an extra AS (AS22388) in the path to Abilene in Los Angeles. TRAFFIC SHOULD STILL PREFER THIS PATH!!!

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Issues to be addressed (cont.)

• Loss of ATM PVCs in Chicago– There should be no loss of IP connectivity to any of the networks

currently connected to APAN via a layer2 ATM PVC– We need to take a close look at what (if any services) will be

dropped with the loss of the direct PVCs

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Additional Areas of Focus

• Global collaborations such as GFarm, Abilene Observatory and PlanetLab. John Hicks is leading this effort.

• Security cooperation. Jim Williams is leading this effort.

• Tool development and sharing. Chris Robb is leading this effort.

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Web sites of interest

• TransPAC http://www.transpac.org

• TransLight http://www.startap.net/translight/

• SC2003 http://www.scconference.org/sc2003/

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Questions??

Chris Robb

chrobb@indiana.edu