Lighting the Next-Generation Network

Across Texas

presented at the EDUCAUSE SouthwestRegional Conference

Omni Austin Hotel DowntownAustin, Texas

Thursday February 17, 2005Jim Williams

LEARN Mission

LEARN is a non-profit collaboration of Texas higher education institutions that supports their research, education, health care, and public service missions through the innovative development, operation and utilization of advanced statewide networking, access to global resources, and related services.

LEARN Vision

To be the premier organization providing network services for research, education, health care and economic development through advanced communication services throughout Texas. LEARN will be a national model for organizations that serve institutions of higher education. We will provide leadership in creating global networking initiatives.

A brief history

The ARPA Network

ARPANET Logical Map, 1977

ARPANET Logical Map, 1980

NSFNET

NSFNET

NSFNET – in color !

Post NSFNET – the vBNS+ the commodity Internet

Research andDevelopment

Commercialization

Prototype

Privatization

Internet Development Spiral

The Internet

Internet2Source: Ivan Moura Campos

NSFNETARPANET

Commodity Internet+ vBNS

Internet2

Internet2

Research andDevelopment

Commercialization

Prototypes

Privatization

Internet Development Spiral

The Internet

NLR

Source: Ivan Moura Campos

Internet2

NLR

Initial NLR Footprint & Layer 1 Topology

PITPIT

PORPOR

FREFRE

RALRAL

WALWAL

NASNAS

PHOPHO

OLGOLGATLATL

CHICHI

CLECLE

KANKAN

OGDOGD

SACSAC BOSBOSNYCNYC

WDCWDC

STRSTR

DALDAL

DENDEN

LAXLAX

SVLSVL

SEASEA

SDGSDG

JACJAC

Research andDevelopment

Commercialization

Prototypes

Privatization

Internet Development Spiral

The Internet

NLR

Source: Ivan Moura Campos

Internet2

NLR

Proposed LEARN connections

Proposed LEARN Network Topology

LEARN Triangle

Lambda/FiberNLR/ SURA

Texas Optical Options

On the alignment of planets(the enablers)

Dark fiber availability DWDM Technology The NLR “carrot” The Grid Unprecedented Texas

collaboration

Dark fiber availability(from overinvestment)

Dark fiber availability(from overinvestment)

Wave division multiplexing?

The Harmonic Telegraph

On the convergence of great ideas, enormous blunders and able people. In that order.

Harmonic telegraph >>> WDM

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing

Big has limits

An early example of grid computing

Current grid resources in Texas

High performance computing + High performance networking

LHC Data Grid Hierarchy

Tier 1

Tier2 Center

Online System

CERN Center PBs of Disk;

Tape Robot

FNAL CenterIN2P3 Center INFN Center RAL Center

InstituteInstituteInstituteInstitute

Workstations

~100-1500 MBytes/sec

~10 Gbps

1 to 10 Gbps

Tens of Petabytes by 2007-8.An Exabyte ~5-7 Years later.Physics data cache

~PByte/sec

10 - 40 Gbps

Tier2 CenterTier2 CenterTier2 Center

~1-10 Gbps

Tier 0 +1

Tier 3

Tier 4

Tier2 Center Tier 2

Experiment

CERN/Outside Resource Ratio ~1:2Tier0/( Tier1)/( Tier2) ~1:1:1

H. Newman

National Science Foundation selects UTA, Boston Univ., Harvard for supercollider network computing site

The University of Texas at Arlington has been selected from a field of proposals that included the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University and the University of Michigan to receive a $3 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant is one of three given by the NSF to create giant computer clusters which form an international grid connected to a new supercollider built by a consortium of 34 nations in Geneva, Switzerland. UT-Arlington Professor of Physics Kaushik De said adding the computing grid network to the supercollider will enable physicists to take the next important step in the evolution of the Internet and World Wide Web computing.

Unprecedented Texas Collaboration

Baylor University Baylor College of Medicine Lamar University Northeast Texas Consortium

(NETnet) Prairie View A&M University Rice University Sam Houston State University Southern Methodist University Stephen F. Austin State

University Texas A&M University Texas A&M University System Texas A&M University System

Health Science Center Texas A&M University-Corpus

Christi Texas Association of

Community Colleges Texas Christian University Texas State University

System-San Marcos Texas Tech University Texas Tech University System

University of Houston System

University of North Texas Health Science Center

University of North Texas system

University of Texas Arlington University of Texas Austin University of Texas Dallas University of Texas El Paso University of Texas Health

Science Center Houston University of Texas Health

Science Center San Antonio University of Texas Health

Science Center Tyler University of Texas MD

Anderson Cancer Center University of Texas Medical

Branch University of Texas San

Antonio University of Texas

Southwestern Medical Center

University of Texas System

Bandwidth demand >>>>

$/

bit

Leased circuits

“owned” fiber

Changing the “economic architecture”

Bandwidth demand >>>>

Leased circuits

“owned” fiber

TC

O

Changing the “economic architecture”

100Mbps Ethernet

3.7Mbps MPEG-2 CBR VHS

Quality Video Stream

20Mbps MPEG-2 CBR HDTV Quality

Video Stream

64Kbps Phone Line

128Kbps ISDN

600Kbps DSL3Mbps DSL

1.544Mbps T1

10Mbps Ethernet

Work at home

Educational & Medical Applications

ByJonathan Moore

Formerly GC PUD, WA

Bandwidth Comparisons

TransportGrid

DIR?

HealthScience Intranet

?

Internet2

K-20Intranet

?

How do we do that?

Transport

Internet service

Applications you useE-mail, Web, etc.

Transport

Some additional motivators

Source: OECD

Total Broadband Subscribers per 100 Inhabitants, 2003

0

5

10

15

20

25

Perc

ent

Source: OECD 2003

United States: Diffusion of consumer goods and communications services

(5 % onwards)

Total Broadband Subscribers per 100 Inhabitants

Some additional motivators

Oct ‘04

In summary, LEARN will Will connect to NLR Will connect to TTVN, THENet,

NetNet, NTGP, SETGP . . . Can be used to aggregate

Internet2 connectionsCommodity Internet connections

Will contain costs and control (we own it)

Will provide for future capacity Will enhance Texas

competitiveness Will maintain human networks

Current Status Expect the “triangle” up by

end of 2Q05 Initial LEARN deployment

4Q05 Expect contracts for fiber

completed within days Expect $7.2 M from the

State of Texas momentarily

Thanks for your attention

for further information

jwilliams@tx-learn.net

Darn, I almost forgot

You are not all from Austin Heck, some of you are not

even yet Texans Life is short This IS the LIVE MUSIC

CAPITAL OF THE WORLD And we also have GREAT

FOOD!!!!

Jim’s

Picks

Jim’s picks for Thursday 2-17-05 6pm Dinner @ Threadgill’s World

Headquarters 301 West Riverside Drive

Jim’s picks for Thursday 2-17-05 6pm Dinner @ Threadgill’s World

Headquarters 301 West Riverside Drive

7pm coffee @ Jo’s 1300 South Congress

Jim’s picks for Thursday 2-17-05 6pm Dinner @ Threadgill’s World

Headquarters 301 West Riverside Drive

7pm get coffee @ Jo’s 1300 South Congress

8pm Saxon Pub - Carolyn Wonderland 1320 South Lamar

Jim’s picks for Thursday 2-17-05 6pm Dinner @ Threadgill’s World

Headquarters 301 West Riverside Drive

7pm get coffee @ Jo’s 1300 South Congress

8pm Saxon Pub - Carolyn Wonderland 1320 South Lamar

Then for some hot new artists – Momo’s 618 West 6th Street Upstairs Above

Katz's

Rachel Loy Ryan DeSiato Stephen Clarke

Jim’s picks for Thursday 2-17-05 6pm Dinner @ Threadgill’s World

Headquarters 301 West Riverside Drive

7pm coffee @ Jo’s 1300 South Congress

8pm Saxon Pub - Carolyn Wonderland 1320 South Lamar

Then for some hot new artists – Momo’s 618 West 6th Street Upstairs Above

Katz's If ya gotta dance – Broken Spoke

until 1am3201 South Lamar

       Broken Spoke

Best Honky-Tonk in Texas

The venerable Broken Spoke has

always reigned supreme as Austin's

country music palace. When you

need your Lone Star cold, lots of

sawdust on the floor, and the ghost

of Ernest Tubb on your shoulder, the

Spoke is it. And don't fuss about

getting any whiskey dings on your

car. That's part of the charm.

TonightChapparal with Jeff Hughes

Have fun y’all

www.tx-learn.net

And thanks again on behalf of

Baylor University Baylor College of Medicine Lamar University Northeast Texas Consortium

(NETnet) Prairie View A&M University Rice University Sam Houston State University Southern Methodist University Stephen F. Austin State

University Texas A&M University Texas A&M University System Texas A&M University System

Health Science Center Texas A&M University-Corpus

Christi Texas Association of

Community Colleges Texas Christian University Texas State University

System-San Marcos Texas Tech University Texas Tech University System

University of Houston System

University of North Texas Health Science Center

University of North Texas system

University of Texas Arlington University of Texas Austin University of Texas Dallas University of Texas El Paso University of Texas Health

Science Center Houston University of Texas Health

Science Center San Antonio University of Texas Health

Science Center Tyler University of Texas MD

Anderson Cancer Center University of Texas Medical

Branch University of Texas San

Antonio University of Texas

Southwestern Medical Center

University of Texas System